The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-02-01
Address Of the Young Men.

T. ]. BARNETT, ESQ.,, on behalf of the
committee appointed for that purpose, re-
ported to the Convention the following Ad-
dress:
Fellop-C itizens-The Young Wings of
Indiana, as you are aware, the more efficient
ly to aid in the important presidential can
vass upon which the country is about enter
ing, have adopted distinct organization, as
collateral and auxiliary TO the main urgani-
zation OF their party. They have held pri-
mary meetings and a State convention, and
ha We appointed this committee, on their be-
half, to address their brethren in the good
cause.
In the prosecution of this task, Young
Wings Of Indiana, the committee deem it
unnecessary to discuss principles in detail
and this for the reason that these have been
amply set forth in the co-temporaneous adj
dress of our elder brethren, whose conven-
ton has just transpired.
especial appeal to those whose principles
sud views are fixed, we shall, without strict
reference to the order OF our sentences, pre-
sent such general views and facts and incen-
ives TO exertion as most strongly present
themselves to our minds.
We cherish as our life-blood the cardinal
measures of the Wing party, and not with
the least fervor the establishment of a settled
revenue policy, afording ample protection
to the agricultural, mechanical, laboring and
Manufacturing interests of our people-tht
building up of settled national currency
9 regulated by the will and authority of thu
nation, which shall guard our industry ant
commerce against monetary fluctuations
which shall protect them from the crushing
march ola contracted hard-money medium
that, reducing every interest to its Own nal
row circle, must entail bankruptcy, reduc
property, destroy credit and beggar labor:
policy that shall finally secure peace 10 tn
disturbed avenues of trade, and substitutin
permanent fiscal Legislation by the genera
government, for the shifting experiments {
demagogues and the uncertain action
State Legislatures, shall, by its effects, ono
" the right to expect such important al
from their rulers, but that the monarchc
edict once announced from the-Execuiive Sc
that the government and the people, bell
isolated in interest shall be divorced in pra
tice. has been buried beneath the feet of il
dignant freemen forever 1t is our polite
creed, in this respect, that the government W
devised for the whole people: That the illu
trious men whose wisdom gave 10 US our
valuable Constitution, as with the eye
phrophecy, saw down the vista of time TO 4
period, when, az by an enchanier's mag
the forest should become the city; VIII
the mighty rivers Of our country, bearing
their bosom The canoe ofthe red man and
rude barges of our forefathers. should hea
proudly beneath nobler fabrics; when t
sites of rude forts and dwellings should
come the foundations for mighty manufdc
ries, tributaries TO commerce, aud alive WI
honest and well paid American operative
when the thick wilderness. the scenes th
but of border strife and eminent peril, sho,
eroan with ample crops, and be tenanted
peace by great, virtuous, Prosperous,f
and greatfal yeomany; and that while TIN
venerable men, in the generous contemp
ton of such great results, felt more than
paid for the hazards, in which they were
actors, which had laid their foundation.
thai the crowning consolation of all oihel'
them was the joyful reflection ibatfhey w
leaving behind them, 10 those generations
blessed of God, volume of laws whose y
dom and universally should be sufficient
take hold of, uphold and hand down fore
every interest of the American people; Ia
whose effect should be, as an ample