The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-09-18
The Contest.

The accounts from all quarters would in
dicate that the present political campaign is
being carried on with the usual zeal and alac-
rity, generally put forth at our national cleo
tons. The present administration of Mr..
Fillmore, has been one of the most unexcep-
tionable, as we'll as the most prosperous, of
any that has preceded it. Universal salts
faction has been given to both the great po-
litical parties, on all questions of national
concern, upon which the present Chief Mag
istrate has been called upon to pass his
judgment or recommend for the deliberations
of Congress. We are now entering the fourth
Presidential campaign in which we have been
more or less participant, and in every in
stance one of the strongest elements of the
strife has been, the objections to the manner
in which national affairs were administered
by the party holding the reins of govern
ment. We venture to say, that no President
of this. Republic, has ever left his official
station, since the days of Washington, with
having given such universal satisfaction, in
the performance Of his high and arduous du-
ties, as Willard Fillmore will do on the fourth
of March next.
The measures which he has sanctioned and
faithfully executed, are, or at least many of
of them,of great national Importance; and
on the prepetuity of which, depends much of
the happiness and prosperity of our whole
country-and especially the domestic tran
guilty of the several States. The leading
measures of his administration, having
had their origin in the party to which he be-
longs, and found adequate under proper ad-
ministration to NEE the exigencies of the
times, afford an apt illustrationof the pecu-
liar adaptation of Wing policy, to meet the
requirements Of our Government.
Shall this administration be continued
Shall the measures which have queled agi-
tation, and averted the horrors of civil strife
and dissolution of this confederacy, be per.
petuated! Those are the momehtous ques.
tons to be answered in November next, a
the ballot box. Will Wings who have strug.
gled long and hard for the ascendancy o
Wing principles, and Witnessed their benef
cent and salutary influence upon the country
relax their efforts now, when efficient unite,
action will secure the great triumph; tn,
boon of their desires; the establishment o
Wing principles. and the total overthrow o
Locofocoism! Fellow Wings! we have ONLY
to initiate the example of our glorious "Ol,
Leaders in fighting and winning the battles o
his country, to achieve another glorious an,
permanent victory--hundreds of thousand
of soldiers are already eager for the contes,
and we need only to plan well cur battles
and charge the enemy's already broken lin
and the day is ours. Let mo Wing doubt 70
a moment, the ability and determination O
Gen. Winfield Scott, to continue the AID
ministation of this government, by the main
tainance of the same great measures tina
have been so impartially and faithfully ex
ecuted by Willard Fillmore. Without thor
ough organization, and efficient untiring actor
on our part, the election of Franklin Pierce i
possible. The man who stands pledged L
csto every river and harbor bill, every meas