The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-12-25
The seventv-Four-.

The organs Of the foreign Pierce party have
b,1s denominated the members of the thirty
ourth Congress who have hitherto persisted
IN voting for Wm.~H. Richardson, OF ILLINOIS,
for Speaker of the House of Representatives.
With a complete knowledge of all the facts, ,
fully aware of the neEarious recklessnes OF the
inglorous seventy four, their Willingness and
evident determination to sacrifice the best in
terests of the country rather than give mp the
"public plumber" these revilers of American
ism and apologists of foreign and Roman Cath
ole aggresSions have impudently attempted to
cast upon the National American members OF
the House the blame of having hitherto pre-
vented an organization.
All the members of the House are alike in
diyidually responsible for its organization, but
the blame, the whole blame, of having hither-
to precluded the possibility Of any organlza-
ton ress alone with the seyenty-iour Richard
son men They have from the very outset,
proceeded with an unprecedented unfalrness,
insolelce and illiberaIity. Although it was
perfectly evident from the beginning, that
without the aid of the National Americans,
they could not overcome the Freesoll party
vet eyc:l in their preliminary meeting, IN the
caucus in which their candidate was selected,
they commenced by heaping upon the Nation
al American Representatives eontumely and
insult; they denounced this party of conserva-
tive patriots in the vilest, coarsest, and most
abusive terms; they protested in advance a
gainst any union with its Representatives for
ans purpose whatever; they manifested a.de-
termination to give the Speakership, the FORM
alton of the committees, the clerkshlp, the pub
lie printing all and every thing dependent up
on the organization, to the sectional Black Re-
publcans, rather than permit any particle of
/ fall fhp han nf
the National Americans. They have pursued
such course during this contest as to make
it very probable, that if any considerable por-
ton of the Banks men were now to come over
and vote for Fuller, the American candidate,
these seventy-lour American hating Represen-
tatives of the foreign Pierce party would at
once give their whole strength to the rankcst
abolitionest in Congress, so they could thus
prevent the Speakership, with its accruing ad-
yantages, from being attained by Represent
alive of the National American party.
1t is now almost impossible that the Nation
al Americans can so far humilate themselves a.
: to make any advances toward union witt
men who have thus unjustifiably denounc
| ed and insulted them and their party and scorn
fully derided their principles; nor do we be
lieve, that, under any circumstances short o
actual necessity for the preservation OF our re
} publican liberties the conservative Nationa
} Americans would or will consent to the cleo
tim ofan abolitionist, one OF the sectIona
Black Republican party; and although Their
, is in the housc clear majority opposed to tn
anti-slavery faction a union of this maJorlt.
has been completely cut OF by the indiscree
D and illiberal action Of the Antl-American sew
. enty four, unless they choose to recede fron
the defiant insolence which they have seel
proper to assume. These self clarifying seven
sy-four have thus by their own act taken upo
Y themselves the sole responsibility ofpreventin
an organization; they raised up between them
: selves and the National Americans an insupel
: able barrier of insult insolence, and contumely
u which its builders can alone remove. Upo
e the seventy four alone rests all the blame
e having hitherto delayed the organization. The
. have manifested recklessness Of the best il
terests ofthe country, a disposition to sacrific
II the South and even the whole Union to the
g deprayed thirst for the spoils of office; the
! carried their insane hatred of yerythlng trul
! American so far as to imply avery decided PR
9 ference for the most fanatic sectionalist, tn
&c rankest abolitionist before a National Amer
y can. They have manifested so much politics
Y depravity and unfairness as to almost warral
the bcliefthat even if the little band of patriot
National Americans, in a spirit OF selfsacrif,
r ing devotion to the welfare of the country wei
IF to overlook the vilenesS of the administrator
,t party, were to overleap the barrier ofarrogaI
contumely and abuse with which it has bee
confronted, and to vote for an administratiO
candidate the seventy-four would actually d.
sert their own candidate and lend their aid
at the abolitonists. 1t is useless for their organ
to pirate and gable about responsibility for tt
organization The wrong is at their ow
3 doors. By reeeding from the outrageous pos
in ton with which they commenced the strugg
e. they may open the way for a union of tt
Anti-Freesoil majority; otherwise upon then
selves must remain all the censure for thu
bringing the machinery of the government
a dead halt Louisville journal.