The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-29
Organization and Disorganization.

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perary relief We rear fabric, stamp on it I
"Esto pespetua" and at once set about remodel
ing until the whole structure presents an
sntirely new appearance. {
There is class of people whose weakness it
10 to fancy themselves the only changeless and
nnchanging part of the worlds population, and
whose short sight edness, prevents, their seeing
far back into the past, consequently they inn I
agine that they are as political body co-exis-
tent with the very nation Of which they foim
but al integral part; the grand centre of
system of parties, which are eventually to be
absorbed by their one common centre, brought !
in by their own centripetal force
Those who represent this class or party must
assume degree of self complacency which
viii be proof against ridicule; must be unspar-
/. Ing in the bestowal Of villainous ephthets, in
genious in their manufacture of flsehoods and
IS inexhaustible as the imagination itself in
their fund of fiction, to be framed as occasion
require. They must be immensely inflated
with a conviction of their own yastness and
must feel huge enough to swallow-as Aarons
rod did those of his adversaries before Pharaoh
all who are in antagonism with them They
must be great whales among little fishes. Could
the film but be removed for moment from
tn eyes Of these infatuated beings, they would,
in taking retrospective view of their history
see that they had beginning, and that too Of
no very ancient date. Let them count the
years from the Jefferson Administration down
To the present, and they would have their age.
They would find that they sprung from inadel
soil; and that they have made the term
Democracy almost synonymous with corrup-
ton.
To contend that either of the great parties
which have heretofore held the struggle for
ascendancy still exists, would to declare the
Ohio river yet a river, though its bed be as
dry as the aid sands of Arabia, and its foun-
sains closed for all eternity.
The Wing and Democratic parties were
based upon questions, now entirely obsolete,
questions through which, being their origin
were essential to their existence. Other issues
are now presented out of which must neees-
sarily spring new organizations The Wing
party stood firmly by its ancient landmarks
until its time was accomplished. Not so with
the Democratic party; they chung with des-
perate tenacity to a name while the airy sub
stance was constantly changing adapting Itself
TO circumstances; actually differing in the va
rious portions of the country, and broken and
patched up until, like the old fiddle there re
NAMED nothing of the original material, ant
even now while disintegration, dismembermen
and decay marks its decline we see the passion
still strong in death manifested in it's clingins
with forlorn hope to the name. The rul'
laid down by the leaders Of that party, has
been implicit obedience and ask no questions
for candid investigation would prove immedi
ate ruin, consequently they avoid discussion a
they would the deadly Upas. However al
expedients to sustain vitality have failed. Tn
crazy old wreck is fast sinking. She on longe
exists as a party, few floating frangments
are her only remaining restiges. An Eas
wind has swept over the valley Of dry bones
new life is infused into the body politi
adapted to the exigencies of the times. w
hear its strengthening voice from all parts G
the country we feel its pulsations throbbn
in every wien. The effects of the poison in
viduously infused into the different legis
latures, have become too evident, and an in
dignant American people demand in imperiou
towns restoration of their nationality.
The American party has taken conserva
tive position among the conflicting element;
with platform plainly defined; leaving stat
institutions to the states themselves; imbibin
its very nature from theConstitution; recognize
ing State and individual sovereignty to tn
full extent guaranteed by that instrument
holds sacred the Union. 1t repudiates ultr
and indiscriminate prescription; extends fieel
the blessings of our government and institu
tons to the oppressed worthy of ever.
nation but claims peremptorily for Amer
leans the right to control those institu
tions. 1t processes no hostility for andtUid
Uals who are amicably disposed toward GU
government, but proclaims an eternal diyorc
of church and State, and an unrelenting oppo
sition to ecclesiastical influences, as connecte
in ever so slight degree with our, civil polity
Lying demagogues may defame US. an,
brand us with being cut threats, dark lantcrl
party, Irish slayers and assassins generally
This is intended to operate upon the foreigner
and will probably have its effect for while
but the world was not made in day, and &C
tual experiment is all that is necessary to con
vince who everis willing to consider the mat
ter dispassiorateiy, that American policy,
the only policy calculated to secure and pro