The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-18
THE LABOR QUESTION.
Views Of the Reconstructed Rebels.
Slavery Co-Existent with Civiliza-
ton.
Thoughts for Our Laboring POpula-
ton TO Ponder.
LFrom the Mobile tAla.l Tribune.


The Southern cause is lost-so ir-
retrieyably that there remains no
Southern man insane enough to hone
to see It resuscitated. We submit in
good faith to the new order of things
surrendering to the power of the
sword those dogmas to which we
chung in former days. The conquer
ors have won that for which they
tOught-the power to construe the
Constitution of the fathers in anv way
that suits them-nay, more, to give Il
up to the itching hands of their states
men $50 called) to be hammered and
tinkered on and amended till nothing
OF the old instrument be left but the
name. The celebrated frigate Consti-
tuition is good illustration of what
the instrument promises to become.
The present vessel contains only
small portion of the keel of the old
one, But in her amended form she
Is decided Improvement, and in that
respect the comparison no longer
holds good. We are no longer inter
ested IN that Instruments is dead
past;the help of galvanism. We are
conquered provinces simply, and the
sooner we acknowledge the fact and
act IN accordance with it the better
for us. The memories of the past
the tracks of great events In the sands
OF time, are the common property of |
which the conduerors can
no more wrest from us than they can
the air we breathe. When we sneak |
of these things in the spirit of the his I
terrain, and not of the partisan, we
oplne that the most bitter among the /
conquerlng party will not accuse US of
disposition to break the oath we
have taken to sustain the new order
of. things. -.
There has come to our hands a lee
ture entitled the "Great Lesson of the +
Var, delivered by one Mr.. Clinton
Lloyd, clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives, before the Union League
of Washington, ID. G. We do not
pretend to discuss the main object of
this lesson, for in that the lecturer
places himself above discussion bv
assertions which nothing short
OF divine inspiration can authorize
that the word negro was the "open
sesame that controlled all the great
events of the war-that victory or de-
feat attended the Federal arms in ac-
cordance with the respect or neglect
which this word received in the
Government councils. But in his
rotary motion about this point the lee
turer throws off more tangible matter,
and 1t is of this that we propose to
make partial analysis.
He discusses two peculiarities as at
tending the late rebellion" 9 that
make it sui generis. :"
First. " Its authors have never been
agreed among themselves as to the
causes which produced it, and may
never give to the world any statement
Of the grievances which induced them !.
70 attempt the overthrow of Govern
ment which was as much their creation
Is ours" +
Second. "The other popularity of
he American rebellion is to be found ,
n the fact that it is the first in human
history against established govern ,
nent directly and professedly in favor |
If human slavery"
1t seems to us that the only infer |
,nce that can be justly drawn from
he latter assertion is a refutation of t
he first. The Southern people ere '