The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-09-20
REORGANIZATION, Dodging, &C.

NOncOmmittalism, Dodging, &C.
The usual standard by which men are es-
timated, and the only true one in our judg-
ment is, by what they really accomplish,
either for the benefit of their country, the
community in which they live, or some ex-
traordinary personal achievement which
may tend to elevate them in the scale of
true greatness, over their fellows. This
standard becomes Tstill more applicable in
q political point of view than in any other.
Politically, man is esteemed and valued,
not according to what he is. but according to
the actual amount of service rendered his
country, by advancing her best interests by
untiring and devoted personal exertion.-
While we might give numberless instances
. of the truth of this assumption, in the char
aeter of the most noble of our honored patriots,
we will be content in exhibiting the claims of
a. few individuals who do not, in our estimation,
come up to the standard, yet claim the same
value of those who DO
Democracy furnishes living example in
the character of their candidate for Pr ST.
dent,-as we'll as in their candidate for Con-
gross in this, LIST District of Indiana. Col.
Miller, in q labored L,cofoco speech, in
which he avowed himself in favor of nothing
in particular, but declared nncompromsing
hostility to great many measures which his
Wing competitor advocated, proving himself
one of the most "artful dodgers to which we
have had the misfortune to listen during this
campaign. The Col. fully demonstrated the
"test of Democracy to be nOncommittalisu
SO far as their own principles were concern
ed, and uniform opposition to Wing men and
Wing measures. The Coloners definition
conflicts somewhat with the one recently
given by the Times, but the harmonious De-
mocracy" will easily reconcile any such small
differences of opinion.
Gen. Pierce seems to have gained all his no
toriety by his rigid opposition to such meas
ures as his conntrymen deemed indispensable
to the wants and interests of the nation
When Clay, Webster, Benton, Cass, and
scores of other eminent statesmen, in their
Legislative capacity, enacted measures, which
in their estimation were imperiously demand
Ell, to facilitate commerce, and advance our
agricultural and manufacturing interests.
and such measures too, as met the prompt ap-
PROFIT of Gen. Jackson where was this
man Pierce found to record his vote! Did
he ISLAND By Gen. Jackson?" The records of
Congress furnish the only true answer; which
we have repeatedly given our readers; and
those records show that when Gen. Pierce
cast his uniform No, Gen. Jackson approved
and signed the same measures. When Gen.
Jackson recommended and favored bills, Gen.
Pierce opposed or "dodged" them.
Yet in the face of all these facts the Loco
foco press, their stump orators, Col. Miller
not excepted, shamelessly aver that he ssstood
by Gen Jackson That pas standino b., with
a vengeance! We never employ the locofc
co epithet, lie, but we have no hesitation in
saying that they do tell most caful false
hood whenever they repeat the above state
ment. And what is the best evidence of it,
is, that they cannot, neither do they attempt
to show the contrary except by mere unback-
cd assertion.