Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-20

could do so with propliety. Yes, (said Mr.
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 r;sked hisslife in fight
ing the battles of the country. The honest,
unsophisticated people, not the politicians,
but the PATRIOTIC people of the country fell
and said, 1--WE owe Old Zlck debt of graft
Jude, and we are not like Mr. Polk, General
Cass, and the parry 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, loo, without Mr.. Bass's disgraceful pro,
yiso attached 10 his vote of thanks for his
glorious victory at Monterey" You might
as we'll 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;
be starts in time. He knows old Z1ck and
Capt. Bragg are sharp shooters, and he no
doubt feels a Ii Tile like CrOckeu's coon, who
from the Top OF atree see well known mark
man raising his unerrug rife, said sis that
you Capt. Scott? If ii is, don't shoot; III
come dozen" So said Mr. Richie: sis thai
you, Old Zlck9 II it is, don't shoot: Ill
come down. Much laughier.]
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-"et tn BrUter This rem
dered the old gentleman quite frantic, and in
his next paper we may expect to sen him adj
dress MIR. Polk in. the language of a certain
celebrated song, lately applied to distinguish
ed Senator from New York.
'.Oh, carry me back to old yirginny
70 old Virginnys shore.'
And never, never will come back to this place any
| nlorei
| ILaughter.l That was the kind of music he
expected soon to hear on the organ, now
so yillainously out of tune. But enough Of
this.
Sir, we have been repeatedly told during this
debate that the Democrats in their Convention
at Baltimore had laid down platform, and
they complained that the Wings had adopted
no platform whatever. But he would tel
gentlemen the Wings had a platform, and they
had it in Gen. Taylors Allison letter of the
22d April; and he would proudly contrast tha
broad, noble, American platform, withthe mar
now, contracted, party platform adopted a
Baltimore. Contrast, sir, these Platforms
Ours, like its author, great and national; theirs
strictly in character-a miserable party con
Germ. How did Mr.. Stevenson, the Presiden
of the Baltimore Convention, himself charac
terize this platform in his letter conveying t
Gen. Cass the notice of his nomination? HI
said 'sFhe platform we present you is broat
enough to hold all Democrats, but narrow
enough to exclude all Others 1t was broat
enough for the Locosocos; broad enough for thu
party; it was party platform, and nothing
else, and so represented and so accepted b.
Gen. Cass, who pledged himself to carry it out
But look al Old Zach's platform, it was broaC
enough for-the whole country. He nobly says
go for the whole country; for the whole PEG
pie; | submit to no pledges; | make no bar
gains; submit TO no party dictation; if elect
!. ed, l will administer the Government foI tn
benefit of the whole American people, An
: sir, if he could be induced 10 come down iron
that high, noble, patriotic, and national plat
form, to this contracted, degraded, miserab
platform of party, he would sink, greatly sinl
in my esteem, and would justly forfeit the sup
port of thousands and tens of thousands of tn
: patriotic and honest of all parties, who wer
now rallying TO his standard. No; Gen. Tay
J lor would ut yer come down TO such mlser
able, narrow platform of party as that laid dow
! by the Baltimore Convention, but would hon
estfv and faithfully administer the Government
: for the benefit Of the whole people, and accord
/ ing to the principles of the constitution, a
constituted and administered by the earl
2 Presidents of the Republic. The first thin
\ they put forth in the Baltimore platform wa
"Democracy"-they had the name without on
of the principles. Gen. Cass, and the Who'll
of them, talk about sJeffersonian democracy;
and while they talk about democracy an
Il about Thomas Jefferson-while they retaine
5 the name, they repudiated and trampled unde
$ foot-every principle of Jefferson, every primo
n pie adopted and prac:ised upon by the earl
l. Presidents-every one Of them, without a
u exception; they preach one thing and practis
/, the opposite. Their democracy the Jefferson
= an democracy! Why, they went for the VET
! poaoer. the great conservative power Of putin
u dolcn the will of the people, and putting u
q the will of the President; this one-mldn polUci
Is that which, as had been we'll said, was ntenC
d ed as s'the extreme medicine of the constitl
d tion," had now become the daily bread ii
;. President feeds upon. Thomas Jefferson an
,s his illustrious compeers never exercised II
, veto; he never exercised 1t IN single lnStan(
u in the eight years of his administration. d.
e ring the first twenty years of the administratio
N of this Government there never was veto e.
q. cept in one or two inimportant cases by Gel
r, Washington; but vetoes, uetoes, vEToEs, hs
now become the order of the day. We've
9 now governed By vetoes, and nothing but W
toes At the last session Congress passed Il
river and harbor bill, and sent it to the Pres
d dent, who afraid to veto it, put tin his breec
Of es pocket; but, at this session. he sent it BAT
h with his reasons against it, and this House hi
TO voted down those reasons by vote of 1873
b 54-a vote of thirty more than two-thirds! Al
IN yet it was no law-it was defeated by the w
- Of one man. And this was the power Ge
!, Cass and his party advocated!
What was Gen. Taylor's position in this
p spect! He held, like a true republican, tn
ct with regard to questions of domestic policy
re was for the people and the peoples represent
v tives to prescribe the law, and it was the din
CIV of the President to respect their will and car
-, it into effect This was the doctrine OF lie
-, Tay lor-that il was with the people, the del
:" ocratic people, to govern themselves. Yet,
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