The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-06-01

ouiy Uecu Poios uut IL was Poiu OeIOIe oue.
The Etna has the name Of being prompt
paying company.
The American Party has dome well.
The New York Herald thus speaks Of the
influence of the Virginia election:
Whatever may be the actual figures. the
result is substantial triumph to the Know
Nothings. 1t will give a new and powerful
impulse to this American movement, and the
mighty political revolution involved IN it,
The fact 10 established that this new politi-
cal movement possesses in the South as
much vitality as in the North, if not more;
and the organization Of q great, overwhelm.
ing national and homogeneous American
party is perfectly possible.
The Old Line Democracy are very far
from believing ltheir own Cannon when
they say the result Of the Virginia election
will seriously affect the prosperity and pro-
gress Of the American party. In this con-
nection, we cannot refrain from extracting
the following sensible article from the Louis.
Vile Journal. We ask every man to read
il. The American party has indeed done
molly in Virginia:
TIE VIRGINIA ELECTION. American
party has been defeated in Virginia. This
result has by no means disapp ointed us. Our
readers are aware that we have at no time
expressed the op inion that this party would
carry Virginia at the recent election. We
have at no time entertained that opinion,
and of course we could not express it. We
have hoped for victory in the Old Domin.
ion--hoped for it earnestly; but we have not
expected it. A long political experience had
taught as not to be sanguine; and we could
not feel confident, that a party, which had
been in existence scarcely twelve months,
would be able, in the very first encounter,
to carry the Oldest and staunchest Demo
cratic State in the Union, State whose
deep.rooted and widespread Democracy the
present generation has never seen overturn-
ed or shaken.
If the American party had succeeded In
carrying Virginia the doom of anti. meri-
canism would have been sealed not only in
that State but throughout the Union. In
that event the American party would have
had nothing to do but to sweep onward from
victory to victory. But its defeat, although
an event to be deplored, will not damp the
courage or quell the high hopes of any Of it's
ltrue-hearted friends. Fit has not exhibited
might enough to beat down the powerful
phalanx ofthe Virginia Democracy at the 6rst
blow of it's young arm, it has at least mani.
tested degree Of strength. which consider
| ing its infancy, is not merely prodigious but
almost miraculous. What il has failed TO
perform at the tender age of one year it will
accomplish at the maturer age Of two most
triumphantly and eloriously.
We all know that the American party Of
Virginia, in the election now just closed, has
labored under the greatest possible disadvan-
tages. The Administration, fully under.
standing that defeat in Virginia would be
instant and eternal death, has for weeks and
months been concentrating its whole vast
power of money and patronage and promises
and threats upon that single State. 1t has
been struggling not merely as for life,
but actually for life. Besides this, the
course of some of the Northern States,
| in which the American party 10 repu-
ted to be strong, has exerted a most in
furious influence in Virginia. It has afforded
| to the Administration organs plausible pre-
text for the charge that the American party
of the North is unsound upon the subject of
slavery; and this charge has been shouted
in the ears of all the Virginia voters every
day and hour. The Virginia mind is deeply
and even morbidly sensitive upon the sub
ject of abolition; and this charge, false and
caluminous as all intelligent and well-in-
formed men know it to be, has deprived the
candidates of the American party in Vir-
ginia of thousands and tens Of thousands of
votes which would otherwise have been cast
for them, and which will be cast for the re-
personalities of the principles of their party
whenever the truth shall be made manifest.
II the American National Convention,
which is to meet in Philadelphia in June,
had met month ago and adopted and pro.
mulgated truly national set of principles,
fairly and wisely and justly adapted to ali
sections Of the Union, the party would have
carried Virginia on Thursday last by q ma
Iiority of least fifteen thousand votes. And
IL the convention, when it does meet, shall
do it's duty prudently and periodically and
rightly, if, casting aside all sectional issues,
it shall plant itself firmly upon the platform
Of broad and comprehensive nationality, il
will thereby win to itself at once strength
which no party in this country can resist.
/ or Counterfeit two dollar bills, very neat
~ engraved and bearing close resemblance
to the genuine bills, on the State Bank Of
Ohio, are in circulation in Madison.