Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-18
To Correspondents.
JOURNAL COMPANY,



We have been an interested observer
of the political controversy now pending
in Kentucky. Upon the issue of thai
contest haugs most important conse-
quenees. ShozldJ the friends of the
Constitutional Amendment prevail, Ken
lucky will take asE lease on life, and
move forward with steady stride on
the road to wealth end greatness Our
city, of necessity, will share in that
great result. Our location makes as the
commercial capital of the southwestern
part Of that State, and any measure that
will benefit that section of the Common
wealth cannot fail to benefit US. The
adoption of the Constitutional Amend
ment settles the slavery question. The
settling of that distracting and exciting
controversy wiz be the signal for rush
of immigration and business to khtucky
which will astOnish Aot only Rer own
citizens, bat the whole couRtry. On the
other hand, should the opponeEts of the
amendment succeed at the August cleo
tion, they will have saeceeded in blasts
ing the prosperity of their State for years
TO come. It will be the scene of con-
stant and bitter warfare. and peaceful,
quiet aRd honest immigrants will avoid it
as they would.a country afflicted with
the Russian Plague. Should the oppo-
nents of the amendment succeed, our
city will be but an Outpost on the Dor.
ders of civilization; frontier garrison;
d pent up, narrow, and contracted en-
campment, annoyed with endless alarms,
and deserted by industry, manufactures
and commerce. These are not exaggera
tons With Kentucky forever in tur-
moil, Evansville cannot expect TO pros
per. Therefore, We repeat, we are inter
esed observers of the political contro~
versy now raging in our neighboring
State.
We are surprised to see, however, that
the friends of the Amendment fail to
comprehend the designs of their antsg-
onists. They seem not to understand or
fail to comprehend the true reason why
the Amenament should be so bitterly
opposed, or what its opponents expect to
accomplish by their opposition. On this
point the Louisyille JoaErnGI of Satur-
day last uses the following language, in
speaking of an address recently issued
to the people of the State by the oppO-
nents of the Amendment:
+" The object is to defeat the Constitu-
tional Amendment through the election
in this State of majority of the Legis-
lature opposed 10 it. The address as
4 sumes that, if this be effected, the
| Amendment can be defeated finally and
slavery retained in Kentucky! Other
wise, it has no sense and no relevancy
| whatever to the thing discussed Yet
every intelligent man in Kentucky and
/ out of it knows perfectly that We might
as well attempt to roll back the revolu
ton of the seasons as to try, after the
events of the late war, 10 make slavery
durable in any part of the United States
Suppose the signers Of this address and
their friends succeed in obtaining q ma
jority of the Legislature opposed to the
-Anendment: What then? A humiliat-
ing, square back-down, or a crash and
civil war again in Kentucky Again we
say to the people Of this State, Fore
warned, foreaFmedl" "
Again, in another article, the Journal
has the following paragraph:
With the Frankfort Commonwealth
we ask, in all frankness and eandor,
what do the people of Kentucky expect
to gain by sending persons to Congress,
who entertain the sentiments of such
gentlemen as Mallory, Harding, Ward
+ Shanklin, Grider, and others2 VIII
either Of them have that sort of infu-
ence, either in Congress or with the Ad-
nainistrationy which will enable him to
: obtain anything that Kentucky or Ken
. ltuekians may desire to be done2 In our
!, humble Judgment it were far better for
J. the great interests of the State thai
= Kentucky should be unrepresenteda at all
than to send men to Washington whose
influence viii be deleterious to her in
terests snd-that of her citizens. People
: of Kentucky think of these things be-
fore you cast your votes for these gen
: tlemeu.
> Whist seems so mysterious and enig
4 matical 10 the Journal and Common
acealA appears perfectly plain to Us
The object of the Conservative party
Of Ken,ucky-the opponents of the Con
!. stituional Amendment a5ohshing slave
ry-is to compel somebody to pay for thr
negroes in that State who have beer
kemancipated By the war, or are to be Sc
:. free BY the action of the Constitutions
. Amendment. Their plan of operation
Q is simple First secure the State Leg
I islature and send strong delegation t
? Congress. Next, defeat the Amend
ls ment by the Legislature. Then, if
q is ratified BY the required number {
y y States in spite of Kentuckys protes
q q 7isrnan5 of Congress psy tor tie slave
ss liberated II that aemsnd is disrc
a. garded then, as tbs last resort, eempe