Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-08

sat IN their tents ana caHyassed the tu-
1 ture, which they thought lay before them.
They asked each other, "what If We
! should succeed and establish our iude.
! pendence2 What will become of usf
I Shall We cling together, as nov, aud be
come great and united people3' Their
1 conclusions were always respondent
they could gather little hope from the
prospect; that crushed element Of seces-
sion and division was implanted in The
! Constitution for which they were con.
tending, and it cast dark cloud over
all that lay before them. e -.4t
He wanted no deception for the future.
He wanted the people to understand what
they fought for, (if they did so foolish q
thing |. and not again to teligtheir lead
ers, You deceived us with this pretense
of 'peaceable secession.
From the remarks Of o,her speakers
we quote the following: aal
Mr.. Hudson said be had always de-
MED the right of secession; that there
never vas greater amount Of humbag-
gerry in any two words than in those tW o
-'Peaceabls secession y 17.aA
The war had shown that. Like slave
ry, it was dead forever, and be hoped
the Convention would bury it face down
ward, and write on its back, mo resur-
recIion." ;" 1t was said of Billy Patter-
sons pig: nm s
When be llsea, be lived on el3var s
- When he died he died al ovsr."
But Of secession he would say:
"wben it lived, il lived In trouble; e
When It di. d, it died like abubb.s''
Still he hoped the Convention would
not employ, the words "n1ll and veid, ;.
since that would imply that the conven-
ton of 1861 we're nothing but trefrac,oty,
revoIniionists- in short-and be
wished to spare the feelings of all. The
act Of secession wassnotbihg butrubbish
in the great book of ordinances; SO LEI
it stand, and let it be- passed oVer3in 81
lence.
Mr.. Peyten said, that .the.aues:ion as
to the actualitya of the rebel Governs
menl, and the utility of the accession,
were quite distinct. Any rebellion might
establish de .facto Government if it
maintained Itself sufficient length of
time, bat tha: would not clear the oFigi-
nators Of it Of the charge Of treason.
The Government of the United States
had been compelled to treat the rebel
Government as DE- fdcto, and exchange
prisoners, in order TO protect lis own
soldiers; but that did not by any means
! acknowledge the validity OF secession.
One was purely a military question,
while the other was constitutional in its
nature.
He hoped the convention would kill
this ancient hsresY--he 'eouId call il
nothing else-as effeetually as they had
slavery. The advocates Of it had delu-
ded thousands Of ignorant men into
secession, who would not have gone into
IL if they bad expected war His whole
county (Copiab) went into the rebellion
under the hypoeriticsi pretense OF
"peaceable SECESSION" while he was
confident that not q corporafs guard
would have seeded if they expected
war-not corporaPs guard-he knew
it. They had been deceived, previously
deceived. They had said to their lead.
ers and public speakers, "You know
| better about these things than We do
you have studied them; aud, If you think
we'll establish our independence, and
get along without war, well go with you" !"
and they went
The Convention rejected the subsii
tute by vote of 48 to 46, after which
the ordinance reported by majority of
the com mittee was adopted by q majority
vote of 81 to IA.
Thus did the State of Mississippi
place the ban upon the extreme doc
trine Of State rights, which had long
been maintained by her Influential poll
ticians, and in support of which they had
ventured upon the horrors Of civil war
We may reasonably anticipate that tht
other Southern States will follow tbs
State Of Mississippi, ih which event ths
favorite Democratic hobby of State
rights, with a notification and secession
construction, will be discarded BY all ex
cept faction of Northern Coppegheads
who are too stolid TO be Convinced b,
reason and argument, and who, from
want of opportunity or pluck, did no
test their opinions in the crucible through
, which the people Of the South haY'
passed. -
This southern reputation Of the poll
tics of Calhoun and JEFF Davis viii IN
volve the necessity OF reconstructinG
Democratic platforms, or the party vii
soon become so small that a moderatl
sized platform can furnish standing room
for all its member 1EAAA41U