The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-03-20
TUESDAY MORNING, ::::::MARCH 90


II there n Democratic Party among us!
For some time we have not noticed our
Democrat contemporaries refreshing themsel'
yes in the old way, by charging that the wing
party is dead 1t appears to US they have rather
been engaged of late in holding feathers to
the nostrils of the Democratic party to as
certain whether there is breath of life in
1t or not. After experiencing series of
most deplorable knock-downs last fall, a
large number of good old Democrats seemed
to be impressed with the idea that in all prob
ability the same charge they had been max.
ing so sweepingly against the Wing party,
might apply to their own-and it was not i'm
possible the Democratic party might be dead.
A feather was held to the nose of the party
at the recent election in the Presidents own
State, old Democratic New Hampshire. If
there was no Democratic breath in New
Hampshire TO stir the feather, then well
might it be thought the old party had ceased
to breathe. The result has been heard
The feather has not been moved. Locofo-
coism has been routed thoroughly in the
Presidents State, in spite of all the admin
istration patronage, and the superhuman eff
forts of those who felt what monstrous re-
buke defeat in this State would b. to the
Pierce administration.
Now we don't mean to discuss the ques.
ton of whether the Democratic party is
dead or not. We have that question settled
by high Democratic authority now before us.
The u. s. Review, whose motto is Demo
crocy," just precisely as it was when the Pc
riodical was called the Democratic Review,
and which is as strongly opposed to Wing
gerry as ever the Democratic Review could
have been-this Review had as leading ar
ticle in its last number, an essay on "The
disruption of parties, here and in Great Brit
ain" In speaking of the parties in this
country, the writer says Jackson gave the
Wing party its death blow, when he killed
the U. s. Bank. Well, is little astonish.
ing how hard the dying animal has kicked
since that period, having twice kicked
its enemies out of power. Even the u. s
Bank principle revived so much after being
"killed" by Jackson, that nothing but the
party treason of one man reverted it being
again established il the full bloom and vigor
of life. But it is not with this or with the
Reviews remarks at all about its natural en-
envy, the Wing party, that we have now in
consideration. The U. s. Review, the prin.
cipal Democratic periodical in the Union,
uses the following very plain language in the
article alluded to:
"There is no Wing party proper at the
present day; no Democratic party proper al
the present day. There are Wings and Dem
ocrats; but their parties, as distinctive or
CARNATIONS with regular principles and plat.
forms, are now the legitimate ornaments o.
our grand political museum
That is to say, both parties are very dead
and now belong to our political museum a:
petriGed curiosities. The Review certainly
has the privilege, to think and say what i
pleases about the Wing party, but it woul'
certainly never confess that its own, tn,
Democratic party, had ceased to live, unless
it were an undeniable fact with every intel
ligent mind, and there were no hopes left t
keep up even the semblance of life.
We do not desire our Democratic friend
to think zoe say the Democratic party i
dead, but that the old Democratic r eview say
so, though evidently exceedingly 10th to b
candid. Neither must these sweet Demo
cratic friends of ours think, that the conclu
sion of the Review is any the less true, be
cause they call that bastard, Old Line, spoil
grasping. precious popular sovereignty hum
bug, which they belong to, the "Dsmocrati
party" Why, bless your souls, it is no MGR
like the old Jeffersonian, JAG kson Democrat
ic party, than mud turtle is like an eagle
Look at the trash of political humanity VIII
are leading you, and the trash which thes
demagogues are examining down your throat
as "prnciples," and mark the Pierce admir-
istration made up of thsee trash of me
and principles, then reflect upon the old DEN
ocratic party as it was in its halcyon day
and feel what miserable apology Democra
cy of the present day is, and how unworth
of bearing the same name with the Demt
cracy of olden times. The Review is rigt
and the democratic party" proper ha
ceased to live.
OEBayard Taylor lectured to a crowd,
house, in st. Louis, on the evening of the l3
on his favorite and popular subiect-"India