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

steady wind, constantly, ani perseveringly
to push onward TO the climax of national
prosperity every interest, embarked, as pre-
cious freight, in the noble vessel which their
hands had builded amid the perls of terri
bic revolution, and which overshadowed by
the stripes and stars that now flow above it,
they launched upon the sea, and followed
with their tears, their prayers, their hopes
and dying benedictions. Nor do we for an
instant imagine that those venerable men, if
they look down from heaven, their dwelling
place, upon the present condition of our no.
BILE heritage, can regard with complacency
the revolving dogmas Of the leaders of an ex-
isiiag political purity whose fundamental
creed it is that our Constitution is inert as
the stone: that its massive structure is but
the cold, heartless granite, chisselled in
beautiful sculplural proportion, wherein are
Witnessed all the ligaments of life,-perfect
arterial perfection,-livingv vital functions
nobility and power of muscle,--hut yet the
mere granite, the mere sculpture, which, if
used at all, shall be but as the pedestal to
uphold virtual throne, as an onament for a
kingly palace, or as an avalanche to be top
pied down upon, that it may crush the adj
vancing genious of our country! We cher
ish not such belief; but on the contrary,w
do know, that 10 animate with breathing
life every function of that noble proportion;
to give impulse to It's heart, healthful circula-
ton TO its arterial system and full develope-
ment and exercise to its muscular power, is
truly TO interpret The wisdom truly to enforce
the provisions, truly to render useful and to
return an acceptable gratitude for the bless
ed gift of our glorious constitution.
And herein, need it be said, is the dvid-
ing line between ourselves and our political
adversaries-not between ourselves and the
people, when rightly informed-but the line
between us and those designing leaders,who,
wiser and purer than Washington, more viz
tuous than Madison, sager than franklin,
more politically experienced than Monroe,
and high above the volume oflighi which the
Judiciary have irradiated, have, (the better
to suit their own dishonest purpose.) profess
edly Dissolved that the essence of our polii.
cal organic ltion, that Democracy is summed
up in narrowing down the operations o
commerce, the enterprises of skill, the pro
ducts of agriculture, the toll of manufaciur
ers and the wages of labor to hard money
currency; thai il is democratic 10 devise sys
tens of protection for the pauper labor of ;
foreign soil, and TO refuse them to the stur
dy enterprze of our own! That it is demo
cratic to reject the TITLED rights of an in
debted people to common fund, and TO force
! them to the alternative of direct taxation, Q
the debasing crime of repudiation That
is democratic to nurse an executive despo
o ism, which, armed with the bolt of the vet
;. power. shall defy the will Of the peoples re
e representatives., and which, taking hold of th
d ermine of the judiciary, shall make it tn
!. pander of party prostitution. A despotisr
o that, stalking into the presence of the COO
= dinate branches OF the government, usurE
r their functions and creates them but the ech
e of its will; that, marching through the ave
nues of patronage, shoots down virtue, as
le spy, and ennobes and fortifes political vice
70 that, tmid of the power of the ballot ho
al seeks to surround il by garrison of CORFU
Of officials, that, protesting repubIicanism, ask
of to enforce lineal dynasty in the execute,
&c chair, and which, looking abroad over tn
II great, this wide, this Curious nation; lookir
id abroad over this race of noble, inielliger
al enterprisieg, brave, industrious, psogressi'
at people, sees nothing in either which m.
ng not be sacrificed to the subtle purposes
&C. mere corrupt, political am bilion! Sees not
u ing in either but private political chances!-
.al Sees nothing in either that may not be fir,
AS with midnight torch and consumed, if,
,s- The confusion which shall ensue, an orga
in. ICED band may steal into political station!
of Need we say 10 you, young men, who
be eyes have been open to The practice of t
ic, leaders ofthe adverse party, and whose Ell
en- yet retain their political theor es, need
on say TO you that the picture just skeiched
he a faithful portrait ofthat political pestilen
we which designing men have laced up and v