The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-04-01

Consistency Again,

For the Journal.
Consistency Again.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I was much pleased yes
terday that friend " Consistency" out ofpure
love to the Sons of Temperance, and not
wishing to influence single vote, pro or con,
gave certain Temperance men a rap which
they must feel. But, as his rap was gentle
too gentle entirely for the occasion, | wish
to add to it. I admit that it is Inconsistent
for men in this republican government to be
devoted to any set of principles, and then to
signify determination to abide the will of
the majority, should it be against them
They should determine to carry out their own
views at all hazards, ifthey dieby it. Should
they be at a loss to know the viii Of the peo-
pie, let them submit the question to a direct
vote, and then have the question so stated as
to be ambiguous. Should the question be
carried against them, if they would be con-
sjs,ent, they should then take the advantage
Of the ambiguity and construe the vote in a
sense not intended by five, if by one Of the
voters, after first awaiting themselves of the
plea that the majority was obtained by fraud.
Who ever knew an election conducted fairly
which defeated a CHERISHED measure? Then
should their constituents have the unwar-
rantable presumption to petition them against
their favored views, even though two thirds
Of the largest vote ever taken in the city,
should be on the memorial? To be consistent
men said memorials should be contemptuous-
" laid under the table, because the scners
did not know what they were asking. They
must be, orcourse, an ignorant set Of fanatics,
to think that they understand plain English,
and especially to think that d set of consist
eat men will sacrifice their own views to ac-
commodatc the majority. Why some of the
sIgners were Germans, and some Irish
What do they know about the RIGHT of peri-
ton or the meaning Of the words used in a
memorial? Consistent men must inf r, first,
that they are ignorant, and thus that they
have no right to petition. Now, herein these
candidates are at fault. They ought to be
either nlunl, and thus by accident, slip into
Office, or they ought to pledge themselves to
obey the majority, at the same time assuring
the people that it will be as impossible fol
them to understand that majority to vote OF
petition understandingIy against their a7deaL
wishes, as it is to convince an abolition mag
istrate in New England, that a fugitive slave
is such, even though a score Of witnesses
testify TO the fact Hit them again, Mr.. Con
sistency.
Again. like his effort to array all the party
feeling against these men that he can because
there has been a paper controversy which
has ended. believe, to the mutual satislac-
ton of both parucs, adding subscribers to the
Journal and members to the Sons. Again
he has paid those temperance men who do
not belong to the Sons, (and there are scores
Of them in the city, a mcritcd compliment by
ntimating that none but Sons are agaius
license, albeit l am afraid that we license
consistent men, will find, on election day, thai
there are more of them opposed to license
than will be comfortable tor u.s. For there
are Temperance men who haye private rea-
sons for not being Sons who as well know
that the license system has failed to prevent
the evils Of drunkenness, as do the Sons, ans
who are quite as unwilling as they to form {
partnership with those who wish to max,
drunkards Of their boys, aud who are quit,
at q loss to know why tipping house keeper.
and visitors should be SO clamor0us lorlicense
lift is the best way TO prevent the evils which