The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-14
From the Cincinnati Times
The Great Ontery as 10 the Downfall of the
American Party.

1t is really amusing TO listen TO the great
outcry and portensous forebodinss of theaOld
Liners as 10 what in their estimation viii be
the result Of the late election in Virginis.-
The dreadful fate that awaits the American
party, and which they say is prestiged by
their defeat In state where none but the most
incoSiderate could have hoped for . triumph:
all this is laid down as the first step toward
that ruin that awaits the party. Yet all this
serves to show the great dread the Old Liners
felt OF the new organization.
Having witnessed its great triumphs. and
felt its sweeping power in other States Of the
Union, they shrunk and covered away from
before lis presence like guilty and sbashed be-
ings. Having found their strongest holds
torn from their grasp,-having been cast head
long from the high PAGES, they felt that moth
ing could withstand the power of the con-
queror, and dreaded his approach in every
section. They felt. in the proximity OF an
election. nothing save the sure certainty of de-
feat They had witnessed every ana,hema
they had hurled against the American cause
drop harmlessly beside il or rebound to their
destruction.
Expecting nothing bu: defeat they felt re-
joiced if they escaped short of entire annihila
ton. In this frame of mind they engaged in
the Virginia election. Even there, in the face
of a fifteen thousand majority, in State that
had never, save on one occasion. given any
other than an Administration majority they
quaked with fear for the result OF the election.
It came and passed. Finding that they still
llved, though in manned and crippled con-
dition, they struggled to their feet and filled
the air with their shouts OF triumph and vic
tory The timid plucked up their courage,
those who doubted began 10 hope. the despon
ding plucked up confidence, and with brazen
throats they raised the war cry of ''unerrlhed
Democracy" Unnumbered seers and proph
cts sprang life-size into existence, and. found
ing their predictions the fact that Ameri
canism had been defeated where it had never
expected to conquer, they took bold ground,
and stated that race was run.
The fact is. their rejocings have no other
tendency than 10 convince the American Par
tv of It's strength. From them they CLEAN
more Just ideas of their power, than dozen
elections lost to them under the same circum-
stances could overthrow.
But the American party do not feel as keen
lv as their enemies with the great uictory of
the. Old Liners in Virginia. They scarcely
dared hope to gain it. Almost an infant in its
existence it found itself brought into combat
against the most powerful coalation ever form
ed in the State. Yet it battled nobly for the
right
The American cause was defeated in Vir-
gina, What of it? 1t will be just as ineffi-
cient in retarding the onward course of the
American party were the efforts that were
made by Nerxes to chain the sea. Scarcely
a barrier in Its progress, the true American
cause will sweep onward and over it as pig
my in its path Those who boast thus loudly
over the defeat of Americanism in Virginia
and foretell its final overthrow. should look
elswhere and tell US on what they base their
hopes or found their predictions.