The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-12

down upon you from their starry
spheres and pity you, feeced men of
Shelby Shades of Haskell pray for
you'll Your. throats are near the
fangs of the Puritans, who like a
willy serpent crawls over the land,
sapping your birth-right and destroy
ing your Inheritance Shall his pro-
gress continue and your shame grow
blacker?. That's the question. Shall
you put,an obstruction in his path, or
shall you allow him to crawl on to
the end of his glory and the inevitable
humiliation of your liberties? The
sword has given him strength try the
ballot box Don't be afraid. 1t was
the weapon which gave him Kansas
and Nebraska. Shall it not enfran
1chise you from the shackels of his
laws? Shall it not set you free to
make bargain with your laborers, to
cause your fields to produce again. to
turn the wheels of commerce, inspire
confidence in trade, and change the
dull stagnation prevalentinto cheer
full aspect? Dare you grasp the boon
that will achieve such a victory !?
Dare you combine, as the anti
slavery hosts combined. to overthrow
what you consider Oppressive? Dare
you join hand in hand, as the eman-
icipationists joined, TO GUST from power
the kidnappers of white labor, and
give perishing millions plenty to eat
and drink? Dare you do this and
prosper, or remain inactive and van
ish by degrees, as grass vanishes from
an island encroached by the sea?
Your resolutions to employ but this
body and that body are chaff; they
will blow away easier than scared
leaves in October. An Immigration
Society is your only means of saliva
ton from tyranny 1t cannot be
called proscriptive,D because it is in
accordance with laws of the late Leg
islature of your State, which makes
no provision as to aohOnl you shall
employ, or what countrymen you in
vite to your assistance to
restore former prosperity, lib
erty of speech and freedom of
the press" The snarling mischief
makers Of the North embraced with
willing minds the evil ideas of Gar
rison and Thompson, emissaries of
British capitalists, and to day the ag-
ricultural industry of the South lies
PROSTATE, while John Bull laughs in
his sleeve as he cultiyates his Indian
and Australian cotton, and puts his
thumb to his nose in derision of your
poverty. Will you not stop the sneers
of John Bull by calling to your aid |
thousands of the peasants of Ireland |
who would be willing to till your
acres and enjoy with you the fruits of
honest labor? IF so, organize at |
once your immigration society, and |
make way for host of loyal hearts,
whose patriotism is not tinged |
with the sable element of Pu-
ritanism, higher-lawism, or the
deeper stain of Radicalism that |
blots the Constitution of your country
and your State. Provide for the en- |
ployment of those hardy sons of toll |
before you invite them to your soil.
Let him who has hundred acres
give ten, and he who has fifty acres |
give twenty, to be parceled out liz lots
for homesteads. Let them, who can,
start factories, and them who have re-
ceived contracts for public works |
offer remunerative wages, and you will |
soon see what a tide of Conservative
voters will be here at the election to |
wash away forever the ocean of rotten
apples now floating obnoxious to your
sight and smell. Remain inactive
aud content yourselves with discharg-
ing few misled negroes, and fake after
fake of miseries will drop down upon
you, leaving blisters and sores more
painful than the ulcers Of job.