Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-20
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS, &c.

NC llouSc UeI1S IH OOHlmltteS Vi the
Whole on the bill making appropriations for
the civil and diplomatic service, and Mr.. FEA
THEREON having addressed the committee,
las already pubIished.)-
Mr.. STEWART, in rising, said he did not
propose TO answer the remarks just made by
the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Feath-
eron) upon the subject OF slaveIy-a sub
ject OH which he never had made, and per
haps never would make speech upon this
floor. II was an evil, and an evil without
remedy, on that portion OF The country where
| ii existed; but II was an evil TO which he was
opposed TO extending to any country or ter
riory now free. He thought the discussion
of this question had the tendency 10 give
rise TO geographical lnes," which would
divide the great parties of the country, and
might in the end snbveri our happy Union.
| lie regre tied the drawing of such lines; he
thought them dangerous to the harmony and
perhaps the integrity OF this great confedera
| cy. They were divisions against which we
we're warned by that great and good man, the
| Father of his country. in his farewell address
10 the people of The United States; whose
voice he could ne yer hear with Indifference,
and TO which he trusted The people of This
country would never turn deaf ear.
There had, however, been introduced in
TO the present discussion another great ques-
tion--the Presidential question; a question
which he regarded al this time as more i'm
portant than any question OF The kind which
had ever been presented TO the decision Of
| The American people, involving momeniuous
consequences 10 the welfare of the country,
present and prospective. 1t involved this
question, among others: Whether, under the
Government il was now ad ministered, all
power was 10 he cOncent red in the hands of
, one man, or whether, under other auspices,
under the administration of another lluStrious
man, whose name was before the country,
2 we were TO be brought back TO the purer and
better principles and policy Of the fathers oil
The republic? Ii was question whether all
power-ihe power of The pulse and sword,
the power of peace aud war, was TO be exer-
j cised by the President, whether with the
veto pOwer in his hand, he was to become
Supreme in this country, more arbitrary and
f despolic than any crowned head in Europe
D save Nicholas Of Russia, and Congress and
the people were 10 dwndle into perfect in
igulficaDce or whether, under the policy %
that other great and good man, Gen. Taylor
;, :, the people and Congress were to be restored
10 their Legitimate powers, just rights and
proper influence, whether the voice of the
people was TO be heard, and they 10 be treat.
: ed with respect, or whether we were to be
g controlled and governed by "ORe man ?'-
: Was it 10 be tolerated that, when across the
waters, in Europe, the old world was engag
ed in putting down the ''one man power, We
:. were 10 be putting il up here, by giving al
" power to the Executive; and that whilst Eu
e rope was engaged in building up and esiab
fishing republics, We were 10 be employed il
tearing down our neighborng republics o
l. the South? He trusted that we should take
lie different course, that under the auspices o
s. that illustrious man whom The Wing part,
n had presented TO the country, we shoult
J. give an example 10 tho world not of war ant
,e conquest, but Of pcace--ofa people united
II prosperous, peaceful, happy. That was the
example we owed to the world, and ii a wa
: the example which we would soon sci L
the world under different Admin stra,ioI
from this. But going OH as we nor are, un
lg der the head oil the zone man power" party
is we mus soon become warlike people, g
a, ing on conquering and TO conquer. Not on
II, ly Yucatan and Cuba, but Canada, too, an
is all other territory we should happen TO fl
70 our avaricious eyes upon, must be conqnete
and Swallowed" under the great chlefai
. whom the Progressive Democracy had seec
ed as their leader.
Was this to be The policy which was 10 b
sustained by the people? No, never!
a different result was approaching; the mis-
y, named Democracy had selected a leader
S. and so had The Wings; the former genera
Io that always suuenders, the latter gener;
ID that never surlenders. Under such leade,
RI could the result be doubted? No. it Wa
certain; the contes, had in fact been CIV e
up. The Union, the "organ" of the Admin
isration, Father Richie himself, had give
or it up. VIVA; did the Union tell Us?
&c headed recent article with ''Wili the peopl
10, endure the chedts?" He went on throug
nd half a column telling how they were cheae
on by the Wings; and in other columns it ";
ilv cheated, cheated, CHEATED! Now, he wou
, like to know what man OF patty ever erie
'icbeatedn that was not beaten? "Chea
meant 'beat" In 1910, when the Viii.
beat the Locos, they cried out "cheaed;"
on 1913, when the Locos beat, that was Il
% cry of the Wings; aud so when the Unic
= cried "cheated" il admitted they were beate
un Cheated was the language of the lose
~ never Of the winner.
Mr.. HAMMOND wish to PROFOUND que
,cb lion 10 the gentleman, but
Mr.. STEWART declined 10 yield for wa
al of time. lie proceeded 10 read from one
as the articles referred TO in The Union, in whi
Ter 1t was said tina il was unfair for the Wigs
re take Tay lor. If they had taken Clay, We
ster, Scott, Mclean, or any other know
Wing, he would have been satisfied; but til
at had selected Old Z1ck, ''no party man
lis and they (lhe Democracy could not ke
ex- their men in the ranks; that they could n
stand fire; that, like the Mexicans, they we
not only relocating but going over 10 Ia
lor, in companies aud regiments; that tn
''n had not only Barnbuners in the North,
ru- B ,rnburners in The Souih-the Van Bur
'ro- men and the Yancey men, the ''Alabar
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