The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-09-30
National Dem c cratic party.

enough 10 BRING the DIush OF shame TO every
honest Americans cheek, when he thinks
that the eyes of the whole civilized World
are upon US, and that all our sins and alb.
surdities are marked and will be treasured
up against US. A feeling of humiliation and
dread rests upon the breast of every true pa
triot when he looks back and remembers
with what bright promises of the future the
country came from out the hard struggle OF
the Revolutions; how for years it has gone
on fulfilling these promises, and realizing
the hopes of the world, and sees now sp-
rit abroad that is forgetting all the glorious
antecedents that are stamped upon our his
tory; casting away with scorn the promp-
tings of truth, and honesty, and patriotism ;
trampling upon National honor, all high
philanthropy and christianity, and rushing
along upon road that leads right upon dis
grace and destruction. That such is the
fact, who can deny that looks at all upon
the political aspect of things! The devel-
opement OF the evil is so large that none can
help but see. It stares US all in the face,
and there is warning going out fromit to
all good and true men to beware lest it work
out its end and in that accomplish our ruin
1t is spread all o, er the country, from North
TO South and from Feast to West. No
place however secret, is free from it. 1t
flourlshes over the bones Of Washington,
around the fields of Marshfield and beneath
the shades OF Ashland. Inscriptions, I'M
compromising, brazen and brutal, devoid of
honesty, devoid of truth, without one single
pure impulse, it stands ont dangerously
strong and calls itself the National Demo-
cratic party"
Its vitality is strong because its prin ciple
is self agyrandiscmcnt; It's inducements are
great because it panders to a selfish ambi-
ton; its influence is dangerous because it
uses depraved tastes and evil passions as its
allies. With the Jesuit motto "the end JUS
tilted the means" upon their flag, this party
hesitates at nothing in its struggle for pow.
err. Seeing nothing, careing for nothing but
self elevation, it plunges blndIy on, disre.
gardng all things sacred, all thing honest,
and all things of good report. With slavery
under one arm and free whisky under the
ether, it drives ahead, tramplrg under foot
the Church, National faith, and American
interest, and if, as a curse from Providence,
it should gain power, it will seat slavery
upon its right hand, and in,emperance upon
its left. To gain power it resorts 10 means
the most corrupt aud shameless. II brides
men to peIure themselves and damn their
sous-it spies in the dark, and listens at
key holes, like the robber in the night time
it pays men for their votes, and steals pa
pers that it may get at secrets. 1t proclams
itself the only Union party. " hen its NEST
recent, and most boosted act cast into the
very heart OF the Nation, the terrible bomb
she'll that has so often almost blown the Re-
public into atoms. 1t cries out that it is the
only christian party, when every day it
pours out the bittereet condemnation or the
Church,a the vilest calumnies against the
Ministers appointed it. 1t calls itself The
only moral purity when one of its recognised
foundation pillars is uncompromising oppo-
sitiOn to system Of reform that is 10 drive out
of the land the most fruitful source of i'm
morality. IL styles itself the only National
party, when its motives are no higher than
self, its aims not loftier or more patriotic
than to get into its own hands the patron
age of power, and its nationality no broader
than the White House. Its high priest,
he who wears its scarlet robes and gold.
en- tiara and ministers at its altar, he
who absolves its sins, and sprinkl es il with
holy water of pure Democracy, is an Amer
lean, who, standing at the second post of
honor in the land, tore up by the roots the
plghied faith OF the country and cast it TO
the dogs; cast stain upon our nationali y
that none of us will ever live TO see wiped
out; gave the lie to the spirit of the consti-
tuition, which he was sworn to defend. and
all for the sake of paltry ambition that
manhood should blush to own. With des-
potism equal to that of a Russian lord ov err
his seris.he has made this his shame full act the
test Of Democracy aud even patriotism, and
denounced all who refused TO bow down to
his great golden imrge as traitors, and call
ed upon his followers TO cast them into the
furnace of their Indignation heated seven
times hotter than before. Without any DO.
litical integrity or wisdom, he has become
the great Mogul, the Grand Lama, the Su-
preme Brahmin OF large party in the coun-
Try which oboys his command like the hound
that come at the whistle of his master. He
has Embossed his "dogs of war" and with
loud tongue they are securing the land
snarling and swapping at the best men and
the best measures, without discrimination