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

supercede necessity for his own exertions.
This mistake is common and fatal one
The huu1best man has his sphere ofinhuence,
and no duty which belongs to man individual
ly TO execute, is discharged by a lazy Deepen
dence upon the efforts Of others. Each one of
you should regard himself as committee of
vigilance, or organization,a and as an important
engine to the success of the common cause
And thus having calmly and wisely effected
organization, prudently following it up. with
an omnipresent sense ofthe importance OF in
dividual exertion in this work-casing away,
as too contemplate to be entertained, all
jaundiced feelings of rivalry moving with
equal zeal in the lead or in the column, sue
cess is ours, it must be ours for truth is with
us. 1t is but for us to unfold the D ige of our
political hisiory-to revive before the people
the lessons oftheir own experience Ito meet
the adversary through The press,on the stump
whenever and wherever the public ear is
chailenged-io boldly compare profession
with practices-theores with observation
sophstry with honest plain sense, and to strip,
with firm hand, the false disguise from his
limbs, and all that we contend for is safe in
the hands of our vinuous people. We have
but to write upon our hearts and to live up
to it in our daily intercourse early organi-
zation-thorough OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ing personal iatauence-and ride dissemiaa-
ton 81 political truths and victory is Ger
tain, 1t has thus been won--and il can thus
be won again.
| The great contest of 1910 teaches but one
lesson-the triumph of truth, because truth
,Das erery 'rhere difused. There was then
no stint of exertion or of necessary means tc
prosecute the camplign; nor was there, il
The glorious end, any stint of triumph.
Young Wings of Indiana, field of noble
exertion is before you; fearful responsible
! ny rests with you. You have been the lv.
ing Witnesses of much that appeals TO your
hearts and you are the slcred depositarieS
ofthe pltriotic exhortationS ofyour ancestors
Your lot has been cast in Republican land
and as yet the Genius of Liberty presdes
over and defends it. One by one the link.
which lock you 10 the fathers of the revolu
ton have been sundered. One by one have
those venerable men gone down 10 the grave
and few years only will have swept by,and
upon you ALONE will devolye the desiinie:
of this great Republic. fyou have learned
the lesson which every American you'll
should learn. il remains not now to teacl
you that, next TO your God, your counlr,
axiom impressed upon your hearts, and act
ed out in your lives, and enforced by you up
Oh your descendants that constitutes the sol
reliance of those, now passing away, tina
!, this beautiful fabric of free government
shall exist while time endures. Surve
your country-its length--its breadth-ii
: immense interests glorious institutions
t is advancing progress Its height above tn,
D thrones of nations, if you would catch new
f! fervor with which TO set out in the labor
: patriotism, SO fast devolving intirely upo
: yourselves. The history and the exampl
of our revolutionary fathers fix the limits c
/ your political action. To these, as the me-
riner to the compass, will you turn your eye
for light and guidance. Their example
v and teachings arc deeply fixed upon you
: minds, and you, ofall others, can we'll com
: pare the shifting political events since tina
t period, andfrom their pure light direct you
: own and footsteps of others. You have reat
ofand witnessed strange departures from til
n pTecedents which they Established 1t wa
/ not the spirit of those ancestors that contemI
d ed the authority of Congress, and first rude
d y shocked the monetary system of the II;
;. topt 1t was not the spirit of those ancestoi
II which swept over the people when their hor
II est but misudged devotion to man. col
= solidated in one arm the checked and bailnt
: ed powers Of the Constitution! 1t was nc
J. the spirit of those ancestors that, running rio
= in executive wantonness, spurned the wi.
Il dom of the judiciary; that distributed offic
Il as spoils; that encouraged the embezzlemen
? of the public treasury, thar created chang
r, experiment, partisan rancor, private and pu
le lie confusion, where honesty, economy al