Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-06
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wEDNEsDAY............ DECEMBER G.

WEDNESDAY........... DECEMBER g.
The Lebanon (Tennessee) Register
gives us an abstract of what the South
wants, as follows:
1. We want the military removed
ii. We want the Freedmen's Bureau
abolished.
III. We want to be allowed to elect
men to Office who will represent the
wishes of a majority of the people.
~. We want these officers, when
elected, to be allowed to exercise the
functions of their respective offices with
out interference from the central govern
ment.
". We want a general amnesty, and
VI, We want the protective tariff abol'
ished.
Our Southern friends are growing
somewhat unreasonable since the close
OF the war. Previous to and during the
rebellion they had but solitary want,
viz: ITO be let alone" Now their
wants are multiplying with startling
rapidily. When, in other days, these
chivalrous and high-toned gentlemen
would engage in the pleasing sport of
mobbing citizens of other States, who, in
the legitimate pursuit Of a lawful BUSH
ness, CHANGED 70 come into their midst,
because said citizens we're supposed to
entertain opinions ayerse TO the insti-
tuition of slavery, and the South was
asked what shs wanted, the reply inva-
riably came back, {" the South wants to
be let alone"
When females Of worth and intelli-
gence were seized and treated to the
most horrible indignities, because they
had thoughtlessly or Intentionally taught
some little dsrkey his A B Cs, and the
inquiry was raised, what is it the South
wants, the answer was the same-"the
South wants to be let alone"
When border ruffianism was rampant
in Kansas, and murders and outrages
were daily perpetrated upon free State
men, when Lawrence was sacked and
partially burnt, the question was modest
ly submitted. What sit the South wants
the reply at once came back, Abolish
your Emigrant Aid Societies; call the
South wants is to be let alone"
When State after State was organic.
ing rebellion, and holding conventions
for reasonable purposes, the cry still
was, "all the South wants is to be let
alone"
When State authorities and govern
ment officials were robbing United States
mints, pilIaging Jnited States arsenals
and selling United States forts and pro-
perty; to every remonstrsnce came back
the same reply, 'the South wants to be
let alone"
When Floyd was stealing thu national
arms out of Northern ersenals and ship
ping them South; when Cobb was rob-
bling the Treasury and ruining the credit
of the Government; when Toucey was
scattering the navy to the four quarters
of the globe, and Buchanan was chat
tering idiotically that the Government
had no power to coerce State, we werf
still told, "all the South wants is to be
let alone"
When Sumter was bombarded and
captured, when the rebel Secretary Of
War boosted that within few days the
Confederate flag should float over the
Capitol at Washington, and rebel ar
mics were actually marching upon that
city, we were again informed that "all
the South wanted was to be let alone.
When our poor boys were languishing
and dying by thousands in the death
pens at Bell Isle, Salisbury, and Ander
sonville, and the inquiry arose, "wha
is it the South wants that justifes them
in such hellish atrocities ?" we were an
swered again, call the South wants is tC
be let alone"
Now, that treason has been crushed
and the supremacy of the Government
has been INDICATED, see how the South
ern wants have been multiplied | W.
feel sure, were the Government to com
ply with the request Of the Register, and
crafty the six wants it specifies, that We
should again hear the "old want" raise
its Unsuitable and never satisfied com
plant about being "let alone.
We think there is hope for the South
so long as she realizes that something
else is needed besides that one want o
being let alone. 1t is a dangerous
"want," and we trust the Government
will never permit her to get into such {
position again as to want nothing save
"being let alone"