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

the nation who daringly insults the people
by attempts TO force reversal of their DELHI
crate yerdict-the man, in short, whose end
and aim is the advancement Of himself By
trick and fraud and whose character, from
first TO last is but the breath of political eau
cusses, Need we appeal to the Young men
of Indiana to know which Of these charac-
tiers most challenges their admiration arldex-
ample?
Young Whigcf Indiana, twice have the CO.
horIs of Martin Van Buren, been driven fom
the borders. Your fathers and brothers re-
sisted their advances when the banner ofthe
Hero of the Hermitage waved over them;
and again were they signally defeated, though
fortified by place and power, when ledby our
ancient commander, and on our old battle
fields, the Hooser militia, in 1910, rose up
10 do fight with the palace troops. The
US to action against the same political foe.
Above the adversary's legions waves the
same banner trampled then beneath your
feet; the same s,ve in ihis---ihaf lie bIacA-
ness of its folds is rendered yet darker BY :
the sombre hues oil TREASON! Our flag is
the same-as pure aud as bright as the Hero
of North Bend bequeathed it to US; 'not
stripe polluted nor a star erased" And
though he who led us on to triumph be-
meath it now Sleeps the sleep of death, yet
his memory-the dearer because shining
above the cloud of calumny-still lives, and
his mantle has fallen upon a leader worthy
to be his successor. The valley of the Mis-
sissippi still furnishes the champion of our
forces, and the monument erected 10 him
whose parting blessing was with US, rises
from mound in our midst, The living and
the dead alike appeal for exertion in the
coming contest, and to you, young spirits of
Indiana, is the call most loudly spoken. Else
where has this appeal been answered with
shout that has come over US as a regener-
ating and reinvigorating spell. Tennessee,
Ohio, Georgia, Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina and Maryland are the camp
grounds of our victorious allies, and the en-
blem of triumph waves there, ere the contest
has fairly begun. The young Wings of the
North and East send their notes of challenge
over the mountains. A banner, the work
of the fair hands of the beautiful women OF
Baltimore, supported by staff cut from the
woodlands of Ashland by the hand Of Henry
Clay, is the prize to be won by these young
men who, proportion to the distance from
that city shall send the largest comparative
delegation TO the Convention of Ratification.
The South has thrown bacl, the gauntlet
Kentucky is eager for the honor, and our
sister Ohio is girding up her energies tor the
race. Young men of Indiana, roll back
upon your brethren of the East, the North,
South, and of the adjoining States the tide
of generous emulation which gushes from
their midst! Throw brand from the FIRE
on your altar which shall bid theirs to bura
yet more brightly. Soldiers of 1910, awake
the remembrance Of that campaign in the
conflict of 1914. ALI your former laurels
are at stake. The same foe whose threats
of defiance and whose colunnies upon your
selves and your old commander yet live in
your memories, insultingly defy you again
by attempt 10 set aside your most deliberate
verdict. And again, as in the onset of that
memorable year, again are heard the clarion
notes. Again are the clans gathering in
highland. and far and near come up. as The
roar of waters, the old tidings of eager pre-
paration. The sons of Indiana cannot be
recreants in the coming war. The spirits
who lead the van beneath the departed Har-
rison, will be foremost now to protect
his memory and his principles from the last
invasion of his calumnators.