The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-05-23


naturalization laws may be defective ; but
were it not for these demagogues, and the
hateful, reckless, partizan feeling which they
create, in order that, like scum, they may
rise TO the top amid a prevailing agitation,
we should not feel those defects, nor the
alarm we do at the increase of the foreign
vote. The alien has no baser foe-the
country no direr curse. sgt
Nor is this all. Though the evil of their
action is felt Just now more wildly in this Sc
condary cause, yet i is by no means confin-
ed to the aliens among us. Our breath is
rank with the foul poison of a lawless parti-
Fan spirit-the very spirit on which dema-
goguism breathes and lives. For what's the
condition ofthe public feeling, in conse-
quence, at this time? Why, for the last
twelve years this partizan spirit has been
growing and swelling, until now it has
i spread in every state, and fills the halls of
Congress and the State Legislatures, con-
verting our Government into a mere ma
chine to uphold and advance the interests,
not of the country, but ola particular set of
men or of a partyi This is the effect oft.
Laws are made or set aside-measures passed
or relected-the tariff, the currency, slave
ry, anything and everything tempered with
as they may promise to advance some
p%artizan end. The real business of the
State or of the nation is not cared for. Bust
ness men at home and abroad do not feel
that there is safety, or stability, or practical
wisdom in our legislation. Nay, so far has
this spirit been carried, that the present
House of Representatives of Congress, a fit
educator ofmobs, has dared to violate a law
which every sane reasoner must regard as
constitutional, and the present Executive to
sell the patronage of Government TO the
highest bidder, and solemnly propose to the
Senate the violation of a treaty, the sacred
ness of which no honest man can DISPUTED
Here is lawlessness and corruption at the
fountain head. That it should be spread
wide and deep need surprise none. Yet
mems c~ountenances are filled with horror at
the story of the Philadelphia mob--only one
symptom of wide spread disease-as narrat-
ed, and lip forth their d~enunciations as if be-
hind that-at the heart of our nation Itself
the excess of party spirit--THE RULE OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES not the source of that
evil, and Of all the evils, moral and political,
which have beset and borne us down for the
last twelve years.
We speak that which every man knows,
The root of our State and national difficult
fties-of reputation, of mobs, of reckless
Legislation, of the want of honest business
, men in our legislative halls, of the growing
, immortality whichso shocks parents and pa.
; triot-lies in the extreme partizan temper O
our people. Moral essays, preaching, pro-
tests, advice will do no good, unless the PEG.
{ pie themselves have sense enough and hon.
esty enough TO look as they do in all priv
/; ate matters, to the character of the individ
, ual voted for-to spurn the miserable
!, spawn who flatters them, and promises then
5 largely, to get fat Offices, and high place.
i and to brook no set ofmen who seek to blow
up their prejudices and passions in order tina
j they may ride them booted and spurred whel
and where they please. Were they thu.
r%esolute, was this their temper, could W.
e have party legislation? Were this their spir
it could the Executive, or Congress, or the
d State Legislatures make playthings of The
business Of the country? Could there be
r in such a condition of the public mind ,mobs
lawlessness, or inability in legislation, o
such widespread immortality? The remed,
then, is with the voters of the country. LIE
IS them elect honest, capable men, and w,
shall have good laws, a good public system
II a good administration of the affairs of the
State and the Nation, a good spirit anon!
the people and progress as well as perma
nency. This is what we want, and all tina
S. we do want, TO make all classes in this Ian,
" smile with content, and alien alike and ma
ID tive know our Government only througI
ut IFS protection and lis blessings.
n THE TEXAS TREATY.
r In THE SENATE OFF THE UNITED STATES
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