The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-10-04
PEOPLES TICKET.
CITY OF EVANSVILLE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. ::::::::OCT. 4

form-GetIing FerOcious.
We can always tell when our neighbor OF
the Enqirer gets in tight place. When.
ever he gets 'hard up'' for an argument to
support his Nebraska srindLe, he "pitche in
fercely to the Methodist Preachers and the
Know Nothings. His columns of yesterday
will be found, as usual, destitute of a sing e
political argument or idea, but abound in the
fiercest denunciations of Methodist Ministers,
Know Nothings, &c, without discrimina-
ton. We know that this is all the .sthun.
der" the poor Douglas organs have left, and
their fierce use of it proves the utter barren
ness of their cause. The old arguments
about popular sovereignty" and other poll.
teal questions, upon which the Douglas
party opened the present canvass, have be-
come so "stale and unprofitable' that they
have all been abandoned, and the Know
Nothings and Methodist Ministers will be
he theme and burthen of their song, both
from the stump and the tripod, during the
few remaining Gays of the Campaign. We
aliude to our neighbours course. only to show
the 6eggarry to which the Douglasites have
been reduced. They did not start into this
campaign with single position, connected
with the great issue before the people, (the
Nebraska Bill,) but has been repeatedly and
totally exploded and refuted. The people
would not swallow the "swindle," and policy
now dictates that it better not be further fore
ed upon them. Hence they abandon the chief
plank in their platform, just as their friends
in Maine, New Hampshire, Iowa and Mis-
souri, have done, and unless the des of the
approaching elections belle their own augu.
ries, Indiana and Illinois is soon to follow in
their lead. The mouths of the Dougastes
are as close as an oyster respecting the re-
suits of the elections in those States where
the "swinlle" was made the chief and only
controlling element in the canvass.
To these States the Democratic party have
ever pointed it'll pride and confidence, for
their firm adhesion to Democratic principles.
Now, if this Nebraska bill embodies so much
Democracy and popular sovereignty" as
the Douglasites claim for il, why is it that
these States, the Gibraltcrs of Democracy,
repudiate it!
Why is it that New Hampshire, the home
of the President, repudiates her own son for
his connection with and endorsement of this |
Bill! Why is it that every town and ham, !
let in Illinois, the home of Senator Douglas,
repudiate him as vile traitor to his country
and to them, his constituents!
Let honest, rejecting Democrats answer
these questions for the mselves, by the light
which an intelligent public sentiment has al.
ready passed upon the Nebraska Bill, where
ever it has been made an issue before the
people, and received their judgment, and
like conclusion is irresistible. The, De-
mocracy of Maine and New Hampshire, say
to their brethren of sister States, most EN-
through the ballot box, that they
regard the Nebraska scheme "a suiRdte and
fraud apon the American people," and its au.
thors and abettors as TRAITORS to their
country and to freedom.
One short year ago, New Hampshire and
Maine were pillars of Democracy, Gas i'm.
mutable as their Granite Hills" their poll.
tics were "the cry and the watchword'' of
Democracy throughout the Nation. What
then has produced this revolutions, Have
the people of those States forsaken their
principles, and forgotten the Democracy in
which they have been schooled their whole
lives long! Are they less capable of decid-
ing upon Democratic principles now than
they ever have been! If not, why then this
wide difference of opinion with the Demo-
cratic Douglas Administration and its fol-
lowers!
We again appeal to Democrats who do
their own thinking and their own voting, to I
answer these questions intelligently for them
selves, and settle the question in their own
minds, whether the Democracy of Maine and
New Hampshire are ,crong in their antsgo.
nistic position TO the Douglas Administra.
ton, or whether Pierce and Douglas and their
Nebraska satellites are in error, in attempt.
ing to lead the honest democracy of the
country by the nose into the support. of a
measure, which, from Democratic free states
nave already repudiated, as Infamous, treach-
erous and dangerous to the we'll being of
the Country. These are the questions which
the true interests OF the country, and its Re-
publican institutions demand of every Dem.
Ocrat TO decide before he casts his vote ON
Tuesday next. Decide them for Yourselves
and your country has nothing to fear.
Don't let any Douglas Organ grinder de.