The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-07-23

The Democrats of this city have estab-
lished, or at least done the wind-work OF
q sDemocratic Hickory Club" Now the
idea of calling Club intended to uphold
Con. Pierce, Hickory Club! VIII they
never weary of trying to apply the old Jack
son thunder to restricting worthless politl-
cal carcasses which haven't life enough of
their own to stand upon! Old Hickory
of Western men, who thus set up golden
calf to worship in the person of man who
had opposed the interests of the West every
opportunity afforded in his brief public life.
Now what political point of resemblance is
there between this Gen. Pierce and the old
hero! The West has been most particular
" interested in certain measures before
Congress at different times. She has urged
her Representatives to support those meas
ures. She has placed with Eastern men,
bezs, and has even bargained with them for
their votes-but justice has always been
slow in reaching her. She has seen hun
,--i-e Ell enseq DDS of dollars appropriated to
scarcely cent for her great Inland seas anc
lake shores and harbors. She has.seen men
steadily persist in voting for Eastern appro-
priations, yet just as strenuousy vote against
appropriations to improve our Western Riv-
ers and Harbors, when Gen. jackson ap-
proved the very bill making ,the aPpropria-
tons. Twice did he this. A noble Young
Hickory is he: Democratic Hickory Club!
But at the same session Mr.. Pierce voted
against "the bill to continue the Cumberland
Road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and IL
linois." Three days afterwards Old Hickory
signed that very bill. The Westwent in rap
lures over it-Indiana was filled with rcioic-
ing-and had Mr.. Pierce shown himself with.
in our borders then, an opponent of the bill
he would scarcely have been safe from phys
ical outrage. Yet now-Democratic Hick.
ory Club! Oh hush!
But while we are ON this subjtct, let us say
that afterward, in 1897, directly he took his
seat in the Senate, he recorded himself
oS~Ahos q hoiuOi Dill THAT was voted Tor Dy
Buchanan and Silas Wright At the same
session he voted against bill for the benefit
of the Alabama, Georgia and Florida Rail-
road, which was a measure of such n charac-
ter that even Calhoun and Grundy voted for if
while Mr.. Pierce and fire Others opposed If,
twas enough for him to know the'biil assist
ed internal improvements. He also voted
against appropriating alternate sections ofland
to the Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad.
although the Company offered to carry the
mail twenty years without charge to the GOV
ernment-thus opposing the very principle
for which the West has been so lone con.
tending, and for which our Representatives.
Wing and Democratic, are continually fight
ing. And noe, to no nor this man, and to as
sist in his elevation, WESTERN MEN are
found starting Democratic Hickory Clubs
thus insulting the old hero by an indirect COM
parison of Gen. Pierce to Gen, Jackson
Let them goi. The people of the West viii
recollect Pierce's opposition to their best in
terests. They cannot forget that he l. as op-
posed the West, like a bigot TO his own Sec
ton of country. Such a base counterfeit as
this Gen. Pierce on Old Hickory, wont pass
current.