The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-06-15
Democrattc RESERVATIONS.

some persons feel little interest, although no.
body can be enlightened by them. They
are a set of wishy-washy, mean nothing,
negative resolutions--oply positive when in
favor of things nobody will dispute and to
which nobody is opposed--and in all other
cases using words which may mean one thing
or or another, according to fvho is the transla-
'10 tor, in what part Of the country it may be
translated. ..,,.ssr ,ei,i. ,If 81.
AS an Eastern Contemporary remarks of
these resolutions, the reader cannot fail to
haveremarked the negative, backward-look
ing, destructive, do-nothing character of this
whole series of resolutions. They are all
"can't" and 'smusn't," and decidedly OPP
posed" or else mere wind and nothing. No
=, where do they recognize any obligation rest
ing on the Government to do anything for the
s.sa People-and any attempt to foster Industry
ss. or promote Internal Improvement is treated
= as party scheme for personal or local adj
vantage at the expense of the whole body
The flag raised by the Convention is that of
distrust, of despair, of denial, and want of
faith If all that it distinctly proposes were
30 done, the sum total would be just nothing
- g We cannot believe the American people can
- be induced, by ever so fulsome fattery and by
s,ls name even so popular as Democracy, to
Turn over the Government to party whose
creed is soemptyof aught save negations.
- p Yesterday we copied an editorial from the
ss,e Louisville Journal, referring to the compro-
s''1 mise portion of the resolutions Below we
q. make some extracts from the New York Tri-
- bune, in review ..of some of these precious
-lsz articles of creed. ss1 lsslseA ssssa ssss.oB
-. There is one resolution against the right of
30 Congress to carry on any general system of
Internal Improvements, by the Constitution.
AS the N. Y. Tribune asks, does the Con-
ssssstitution authorize Congress to prosecute spe-
cial works of improvement, or any works at
lssssall! Surely if Congress may do anything in
the premises it may be something general
. - that calculated to benefit all sections of
2 = the country. Does the resolution mean to
ssas controvert this, or what does it mean!
The Resolution marked 4, is thus alluded to
az by the Tribune: s9 ,se-j +, ses.. ,ss -.
= - els not this a most sneaking and cowardly
) :. resolution! Who ever maintained that Con-
,5ossgress has power to foster one branch of in
dustry or cherish the interests Of one sec
20 ation. to the injury of others! The dastards
&c &c, who first concocted this resolve doubtless
- chuckled over the idea that they had devised
Iss mode of saying to Freetraders that protec-
ton does foster one branch of industry, does
favor one section, at the expense of others,
without alarming or alternating Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, &c. But why not speak man.
fully! Why not say-"Protectve duties,
~ L xT.~I - IT.
Madison, j. @. Adams, and even Jackson
commended, do foster one branch of industry,
A. do benefit one section, at the expense of 9TH
sseib ersi" The true answer to this question is:
- ssThat would be committing the party to
distinct declaration of principle, and what
we seek is roundy worded declaration which
- may be Interpreted to mean anything or moth
. y ing - - afla ~ -. i.la a. .sa
And while the Tribune is before US, we
had better let it talk in relation to this res
go olution. yssstls 81 1liYctfEf 81 f =
- pi"7. That the separation Of the moneys of
the Government from banking institutions is
~ indispensable for the safety of the funds of
q the Government and the rights of the peo-
ple.' rfTrrsr.flr
ss.nI- We say these men don't believe what they
vgs have asserted, and we prove it by their own
80, acts Here is our own State, and three
fourths of all the States, subject to their con-
90 troll and management, as every State but Yer
8, mont has been, at some time since the 'inde-
q pendent treasury was enacted. Now if it
be true with regard to the Federal Govern
Al. ment that "the separation of moneys of the
la Government from banking institutions is in
2 ,dspensable," &C., it is manifesty true with
- regard to the State governments also. Yet
sioes every one of these Democratic States, with
tine possible exception of Arkansas, Texas,
and California, collect their own revenues in
-, bank notes, deposting them in banks, and
ssFsaare at all times borr owing of banks, trust
,ls' ing them in hundred ways. Nothing could
well be more intimate and confidential than
80 the intercourse between the governments
and banks of the Democratic States as we'll
$3.50 as others. ..-sssl ssfi sea u ~ -'ts|
80. Time and again have we called their atten-
80 ton to this glazing discrepancy between their
professions and their acts Yet they neither
- justify the former nor amend the latter
.1ir1 While they SO grayely resolve that the di-
-as vorce of Bank and State is indispensable,
81 they yet uniformly persist in and profit by
80 their union in every State where a decent
n bank is to be found. Either their principles
are ruinous or their acts are rascally.-
Which is the fact! -Aa ai-l
sahss But we need not proceed with these er-
= : tracts. Better resolutions were offered to
~ and snothered in the Convention, than the
majority of those passed. If the Wing Con-
- yention does not do better in this particular,
- they viii belle the character of the party.
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