The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-02-01

(every other consideration, disordered the
currency, crushed the business, de6ed the
suffrage, and oppressed the people, and, fin
ally, staked It's desperate fortunes upon last
struggle which arrayed the oficeholders,
office-seekers and subsidized press on the
one hand, and the people, heralded by the
good HARRISON on the other-a struggle
fought nobly and terminated glorionsly-ihet
last campaign of the Hero who never lost a
battle.
And while these, their acts, now history,
are the living witnesses of the fidelity of our
portrait of modern democracy, point not
their political dogmas to the desecratlon of
The constitution which we have denounced?
Opposed 10 home protection, falsely, and the
better 10 delude the people, they plead the
constitution! Insisting upon the Sub-treas-
ury, they falsely plead in its behalf he Con-
stiiution! Wrestling fom the STATES the
public lands and forcing our burdened peo-
pie 10 the resort of direct taxation, or dishon-
or, they falsely pield the Constitution! In
voking the omnipotence of the veto power.
they presumpiuously shelter themselves with
the cry of-Consiitution! The foes of cred-
it, of commerce and of the advance Of the
age, the unblushing cry with them still is
Constitution! Pushing forward before the
people for the third time, a candidate for the
highest Office, who having been well tried,
has been justly spurned from station, their
untrue defence is that he, of all others,is the
especial friend of the Constitution! And the
moral portrait of this ''democracy" is yet be-
hind. Descending TO the most dungeons arts
of demagogueisms, under the guise of dem
ocracy and exclusive friendship for its follow
ers, many Of these leaders seek to upturn
our social dependences-to cultivate preiu-
dice among the poor against the rich-among
the dissolute against the moral-among the
foreign born against the naiive-among the
irreligious against the religiOus-io array
country against towns. In short, with few
honorable excepiions,) the party tactics Of
of their leaders seem 10 be rash resort te
any and every temporary shift, no matter
what its consequences in the end, which can
array enongh fptss!on or of prejudice 10
| fost them into momeniary power. And who
f has not deploled-deeply depIored, -the IA
: tional, the social, The individual effects which
these incessant and corrnptng agitations
have entailed upon the country!
Fellow-Whigs, warm as has been our Ian
a guage, you, TO whom this Address is especi
: ally directed, feel, for you have experienced
: the force Of the truths that we have uttered
: You feel and you know that cloaked with
e specious and falsely assumed name, and IN
II der the profession of holy devotion TO tht
it constitution, the virtuous mass of the Amer
+ lean people have been honestly deluded int
o the support of men whose political practice
: and dogmas merit the apprehension here be
e slowed npon them. You know that the pub
e lie confidence has been thus abused, and tina
n thus it is again sought to be won, again t
+ be outraged You know that thousands c
IS our citizens, whose pursuits forbid their scru
10 tiny into the motives of public men, have hor
E. estly ministered TO ends and been deceived
a into the support ofindviduals at which AM
: from whom, with fuller light, they woul'
x, have recoiled with horror. Our duty-you
pit duty-then is plain one-it consists in a fe,
IS words-SPREAD LIGHT BEFORE TIL
re PEOPLE! Go among the honest yoeman
is Ty of Indiana, at the fireside, in the field, d
lg the Convention, the township meeting, in pc
1t, lltlcai associations, from the public stand
We and through the press; go among young me
ny like yourselves-go as the organs ofthe ole
of er and more experienced-set calmly an
h. earnestly about the task of selecting an
= Spreading political light among the peopl'
ed Form ID Chain of organized action through0l
in indiana which, starting from the centre sha
~ extend to its renotest borders; and let ev.
ny man among you throw what light he pos
Sc sesses upon the hedeous features of that p
he itical pestllence which stalks abroad, dece
hrs ing behind the mask of democracy LIZ
we The light burn, until lis united rays sha
is shine with such volume upon the many d
ce tormities of that arch political deceive
ar that the old, the middled aged and Il