The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-04-14
The Enquirer, Reform and the Ameri-
tt can party.

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ft can parry.
The Enquirer and Reform Of yesterday
undertake to review an article published IN
the Journal, which referred to the progress
of the American Party. We were aware
that our article would bring IN pleasant sem
timents to the minds Of our Old Line whisky
contemporary, as well as to our Red Repub-
licpn neighbor, whose peculiar astuteness
can discover "the greatest anti-Know Meth.
ing victory of the age" in quiet sale OF
few loads of coal. We were fully aware
that the mere mention of the steady and GER
tain progress, and the unmistaksb,e indica-
tons of the speedy anGoverwhelming sue
cess of the American Party, would rifle our
already bilious neighbors exceedingly, but, if
they are really sincere in the ignorance they
manifest with regard to the onward march
of the great American Civil army, it would
be objectionable to longer Withhold the truth
from them. We had occasion in our article
to allude to the glorious and bloodless VIC
tories recently achieved By the citizen voters
of the northern and eastern States, where
the revolution has not only been a"peaceful
revolution" but overwhelmingly succ sssful.
In the progress of this glorious reform, Old
Line whiskyism and Red Republicanism,
have been made to suffer the penalties which
just and virtuous public sentiment metes
out with unerring retributive vengeance up
on the wicked, the deceitful, and the corrupt.
IT'S the dread horror that they are doomed
to the same death and judgment, that their
fellow demagogues have met elsewhere, that
makes our friends Diestch and Hall fear and
tremble for their own precarious existence .
IT'S not the principles OF the American
party that they really esteem with such holy
horror-that molests them and makes them
afraid-but the certain impending destruc-
ton which threatens the old pira,ical vessel
in which they are now cruising together
They have neither the virtue to repent nor
the courage to turn from their ungodliness,
and in their desperation they give vent to
their wrath by slanderiug their neighbors
who happen to differ with them, calling them
all manner of hard names, abusing and Will
flying the clergy, the temperance reform, and
last though not least The America party
We will not misrepresent our neighbors Of
the press, but as they have adopted the de-
famatory and vituperative mode of political
warfare, we shall generally leave them to
enjoy the fruits of their own labor. They
may, if they choose, charge all the riots oil
the season upon the American party; we
know of no party so able to bear their harm.
less abuse and live down their unscrupolou:
ISLANDERS.
The recent outrages at Cincinnati, which
Messrs. Dietsch and Hall are so ready t.
charge upon the American party, were TIT
work of an infatuated mob, which no party
could restrain or control--and none wer,
more prompt in endeavoring to prevent des
truction and bloodshed than the Americans
themselves. The party and their candidates
in public meeting denounced the conduc
of the mob in the most unmeasured terms
whatever, of the destruction of ballot boxe
or poll lists. We have no objection to sucl
arguments, as they receive the sanction o
no party in the country, but the unquali6e,
condemnation of all.
We spoke in former article of certain
class of "political nuisances," and that they
were the worst enemies Of our foreign popu
lation. We again re-iterate that the au
thors Of the six-months burlesque of nat
uralzaticn law, are the worst enemies tina
our foreign population ever had in the State
We hear adopted citizens by hundreds con
denim this law, and its authors as worse thai
nuisances. These Old Line Whisky leader
have beggared the sacred and glorious boo
of American citizenship to the most abjec
pauperism, and the first to interpose thei
objections to the creation Of this odious Law
were among the intelligent adopted citizen
OF Evansville. These very "nuisances'
have done more throughout the States to ex
cite existing prejudices between the natv
and adopted population, than all othe
causes combined.
Messrs. Dietsch and Hall know this ful
well, yet, as the hireling agents of thes
arch-demagogues, their mission is to vinai
cate the works as well as the character O
those to whom they belong.
o. The st. Louis Mirror thus closes a.