The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-08-05
The Future or De M del acy.


"Now is the winter OF discomfort" with
the once great Democratic party, or rather
that combination Of factions or fag.ends
which secured the election of General
Pierce. The ever boastful party 10 now
shaken from center to circumference with q
fatal intestine malady, which threatens a
sure and speedy diss ,lution as fnal'ty. The
administration Of General Pierce which has
proven only sad series of stupid mistakes,
with no redeeming acts whatever, has hung
incubus like upon the once powerful giant,
until its unity and vitality mas departed. and
Democracy is more than ever distorted
mass of incongruous elements. The ema.
ciaied and haggard oracles which remain to
tell its fate, gored to desperation, are indulg.
ing in the widest fancies OF denuncia,ion,
against the vpercus factions which the giant
party SO fondly Rugged and embraced, but
two shor. years ago. AboIitionis,s, Free
sellers, Hards and Solts, and oil the other
isms aud ilks, were then known and hailed as
good Democrats, simply because they voted
with the Democratic party and for its un-
known candidate.
Nov, the remnant Of the party, which
holds the rens Of government, AMI meas
uses out the spoils, in its fits of mani-a-apatu
beholds these once beloved allies with the
utmost terror and DISCUS. Now their breath
and touch are more deadly and whitening to
the shattered frame OF Democracy than the
the Upas tree itself. The factious allies Of
Democracy in so have now turned into its
bitterest enemies, and Capt. Pierce has no
longer the power to concilate or control
their vindictve assaults.
The Democratic papers have long since
abandoned the advocacy OF their old prin-
ciples, and are attempting to bully through
the coming campaign, making their only is
sue the abuse and denunciation of all opPo-
siton. In their phrenzied visions they see
everything which opposes Democracy, turn
into Federalism, Niggerism, and latterly
Know Ncthngism, and seem to quake in
their shoes lest some worse fatality than that
which they have passed through, yet awaits
them.
The unfortunate party has worked out its
own destruction, and will soon have little
else to do but mourn over its past tollies.-
The Pierce administration has abandoned al
else and spent long session Of Congress in
wrangling over The vague idea Of "populaI
sovereignty" This Pierce administration
makes sad illus,r alton of self government
1t Is now FORMULATING theory Of self gov
eminent for territories, while it has proven
itself incapable of administering an old ant
well defined government. with the prece
dents of nearly four score years to 60 by.
The future of the dissolving Pierce an
Douglas party BODIES no good; all 10 darkness
and doubt before il. The hob-goblins which
appear to it, and harass its meditations ar,
only the legitimate consequences of tn,
guilty consciences of those who have defie,
the popular will in the consummation o
their own selfish desires. The worst drea,
which the Douglas Democracy now feprs, il
the peoples mouth Piece-the BALLOT BOX
which will soon speak out its thunder tones
when the oblivious veil of Democracy viii
be forever drawn.