The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-08-06
Enquirer ON Elections.

The Enquirer INDUCED itself again yester-
day, in another of its brainless illusions, in
which it discourses upon the result of the re-
cent Kentucky elections; the origin of De-
mocracy, Adam & Ewes politics, &c. &c. Our
Junior, fully aware of the responsibility, and
the vengeance he may call down upon his de-
voted head, most respectfully, begs leave to
make few comments, upon the "Enquirer's
leader of yesterday, hoping that no offence
will be taken, as there certainly is none in.
tended.
Noticing that the article alluded to, con.
tans several misstatements, calculated to
mislead the Democracy, and make them
think that the Wings are largely IN the ma
jority in all the large cities, We will call their
attention to the matter which the Enquirer |
either ignorantly or willfully neglects to state.
We do not mean iby this to insinuaie that i, |
has uttered and published a fal<ehood.
In speaking of the Wing victory in Louis
vile, the Enquirer man says; ''we are proud
to confess that the Democratic strength does
not reside in tie low haunts Of dissipation or
the gorgeous private residences of ov ergrown
towns" While we accord the full measure
of intelligence to our neighbor, which the
law allows, we cannot help thinking, that
he knors the very contrary ofwhat he states
to be the truth. Of all large cities in the
Union, Boston alone excepted, wherein vice
and dissipation stalks and staggers abroad in
daylight, and at the dead hour of night,
where crime of every grade is daily chronicled
to an extent truly horrible to contemplate
.here are large Democratic majorities. The
very sink-holes of corruption in our large
cities are the very places that roll up these
majorities. We would ask him, or rather in
form him, that the very human filth which con-
stitute such democratic organizations as the
''Miami Tribe" of Cincinnati, the around
Heads" of Baltimore, the "Short Boys" of
Philadelphia, the empire Club" of New
York, is scraped up out of the sewers and pot
houses, of these cities.
1t is this same class that swell the demo-
cratic msjorities, cherish and propagate this
"Heaven-born principle of Democracy" as
our Enquirer friend is sacriligiously pleased
to term it.
He boldly asserts that Adam was demo-
ocrat, and that he had his democracy pure
and undefled from Heaven, yet he strongly
intimates that he was "no gentleman" and
does not state whether his democracy sur
vived "the fall' or not. Wonder if the En-
quirer man holds himself personally respon-
sibIe" for calling Adam "no gentleman!" We
would suppose that any man who had moral
sense enough to be accountable to his Crea-
tor, would fear and tremble, lest he should
incur the wrath of Almighty God, in a special
judgement, for thus sacriligiously imputing
the nativity to High Heaven, of such rotten
corrupt and sinking set of principles, as &C
tuate and govern the different cabals of the
locofoco family.
We have no fears that the Enquirer man
will write down the responsibility of Whig-
gerry, or write his own party into considera-
ton, beyond the mere mention of its rotings
in the plumber of their ill-gotten success.
AZ oSSoSiOHoiiy SoHi Pioiho tuuI OuI dlllCleS
contain no argument, which rather evinces
insanity on his part, or a strange inability to
appreciate we'll written common-sense par
agraph.
The Enquirer's article to which we allude
(though we have no desire to criticize IT'D ap-
pears to us to be little the slIiest effusion of
inhamable gas, that we have ever read: but
we are forbidden to censorize, and will there
fore only say, that aside from its sacriligious
reflections, it shows more palpabe destitu.
ton of an idea, or fact, than any article of
its length that ever emanated from an
editors sanctum." For the responsibility
of the profession we hope it is positively the
last of the kind, though we feel bound to re-
ciprocate the editorial courtesy of allowing
the editor of the Enquirer to write as he
pleases.