The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-07-13

defeated, and could, he supposed, defeat
again. This would have been fair; but %
take up"OId Zack," no-pariy man, The We
ry man who had fought their battles and
gained their victories, and saved their Ad-
ministralon from infamy and disgrace, how
could the Wings vote for him? Democrats
could do so with proprieiy. Yes, (said Mr. I
S.) and that is exactly what they are going
TO do. Democrats would vote for him, be-
cause he was an honest, true, patriotic, faith
full old man who had risked his life in fight
ing the battles Of the country. The honest,
unsophisiicaied people, not the politicians,
but the patriotic people of the country fell
and said, ave owe Old lack debt of graft
Jude, and we are not like Mr. Polk, General
Cass, and The party in the House, who pay
him with kicks and cuffs; we are honest men
we will pay our honest debts; we have no
money, but we will pay him in paper; we
have little bit of a ticket, which we will
deposit at the polls for him in November
next. We don't care what you say, Mr.
Richie, or what your politicians say to the
contrary; he has served his country long and
faithfully; and we are going TO thank him and
that, too, without Mr.. BASIS disgraceful pro.
viso attached TO his vote of thanks for his
glorious victory at Monterey" You might
as well attempt to stop The Mississippi river
as TO stop these honest men from voting for
Gen. Taylor.
But prudence is the better part Of valor,--
Mr.. Richie is not going to wait to be shot
no starts in time. He knows old lack and
Capt. Bragg are sharp shooters, and he no
doubt feels Ii Tile like CrOcketl's coon, who
from the top OF a tree see we'll known mark
man raising his unerring rifle, said: sis that
you Capt. Scott? If il is, don't shoot; III
come dolcn." So said Mr.. Richie: sis that
you, Old Zackf II it is, don't shoot: I'll
come down." Much laughter.
But, to make bad worse, the next day after
this candid confession and surrender, out
comes his old friend Van Buren, against Mr..
Cass. Horrible-"ct tn Brutcr' This rem.
dered the old gentleman quite frantic, and il
his next paper we may expect TO sen him adj
dress Mr. Polk in the language of a certain
ebrated song. lately applied to distinguish
ed Senator from New York:
"0h, carry me back to old Virginny
TO old Virginnys shore"
Anu never never Will come back 10 this place am
more,
lLaughter.l That was the kind of music h,
expected soon TO hear on the organ, nov
SO villainously out of tune. But enough o
this.
Sir, we have been repeatedly told during thi
! debate that the Democrats in their Convention
at Baltimore had laid down a platform, an
| they complained that the Wings had adopte
| no platform whatever. But he would tel
, gentlemen the Wings had platform, and the
had ii in Gen. Taylor's Allison letter of tn
22d April; and he would proudly contrast tina
broad, noble, American platform, with the mai
now, contracted, party platform adopted a
Baltimore. Contrast, sir, these Platforms
: Ours, like its author, great and national; their
strictly in character-a miserable party con
i Germ. How did Mr.. Stevenson, the Presiden
of the Baltimore Convention, himself charaC
terize this platform in his letter conveying {
Gen. Cass The notice of his nomination? II
u said: 1.-The platform we present you is broa
u enough TO hold all Democrats, but narro
e enough TO exclude all Others" 1t was broa
{ enough for the Locoiocos; broad enough for Ii
y party; it was a party platform. and nothir
4 else, and so represented and so accepted
! Gen. Cass, who pledged himself TO carry il on
!, But look al Old Zachs platform, il was broa
d enough for the whole country. He nobly say
e | go for the iohole country; for the whole pc,
IS pie; submit TO no pledges; | make no ba
"a gains; submit to no party dictation; if cleo
n ed, will administer the Government fol Il
, benefit of the whole American people. Al
. sir, if he could be induced 10 come down fro
y that high, noble, patriotic, and national pla
u form, TO this contracted, degraded miserab
a. platform of party, he would sink, greatly sin
10 in my esteem, and would Justly forfeit the SUI
tx port of thousands and tens of thousands Of Il
ID patriotic and honest If all parties, who we
in now rallying TO his standard. No; Gen. Ia
!, lor would nt yer come down to such mise
able, narrow platform of party as that laid dow
By the Baltimore Convention, but would ho
'e esily and faithfully administer the Governmel
for the benefit OF the whole people, and accoI
s. ing to the principles of the constitution,
II, constituted and administered by the ear
al Presidents of the Republic. The first thir
al they put forth in the Baltimore platform WI
- "Democracy"-th had the name without oil
. of the principles. Gen. Cass, and the who
d. of them, talk about "Jeffersonian democracy
IN and, while they talk about democracy al
n about Thomas Jeflerson-while they retain,
IN The name, they repudated and trampled und
II foot every principle of Jefferson, every primo
le pie adopted and prac:ised upon by the ear
RI Presidents-every one of them, without
81 exception; they preach one thing and practi
81 the opposite. Their democracy the Jefferson
as !, an democracy Why, they went for the We
~ poper. the great conservative power of putti
ed dopn the will of the people, and putting
I" the will of the President; this one-mon pOct
cs that which, as had been we'll said was Inten
in ed as "the extreme medicine of the constit
bo tion," had now become the daily bread {
~ President feeds upon. Thomas Jefferson a
:" his illustrious compeers never exercised I
H. veto; he never exercised ii in single instan
Dr., in the eight years of his administration. ID
ring the first twenty years Of the administrati
&C. of this Government there never was veto G