The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-04-12
Progrc.. of the American parry.


1t must be apparent to every observer 'iia'
political revolution is steadily progressing
throughout the Union, and that IL Is Is GER
tain in its successful strides as 1t Is over
whelming against all opposition. The prln-
uciples of the new organization appear tol
commend themselves to the judgment and
approbation of the great mass OF the Ameri-
canized population of the country, whatever
may be their nativity, or whatever may have
been their former political proclivities. The
recent iriumphs of American principles in
the Northern and Eastern States, against all
the powers of sectionalism; OF religious pre-
JUDGES kindled by the incendiarism of
venai press, aided by waning federal ad.
ministration--gi evidence that the Ameri-
can people are fully aroused to just sense
and proper exercise of their own sovereign
q power. 1t is not turbulent outburst of pas
sion or desire for domination, that has thus
induced this effort on behalf of the Ameri-
can people to re-establish the principles of
their fathers upon sound republican basis.
r. They have re-asserted in their energetic ac-
alienable right of self.government, and that
no class has the paramount right to govern
America over Americans themselves. The
new and peaceful revolutionary spirit has
found warm response in the hearts of the
% citizen voters, i'm the precincts of Bunker
Hill, of Saratoga and Lexington, and the
struggle now going briskly on, promises an
other "final victory at Yorktown" AS the
GREAT CLAY once remarked, revolutions
never 60 backward" -and in this view, en-
couraged as it is by the auguries and politi-
cal omens in Virginia, Kentucky and Louis:-
ana, we see nothing but the most gratifying
hopes for rich harvest of American triumphs
in the coming autumn. The principal oppo.
sition now offered to the progress of the Am
erican party, arises from the old dilapidated,
sore-headed fungi of the administration par
ty. They assume to possess all the patriot
ism, love of country, liberty and religious
federation remaining extant. They are strlv-
ing to gather sufficient strength to keep upon
their swollen legs, by their fawnng, syco-
phantic, hollow-hearted appeals to the pas
sions and prejudices of our foreign popula-
= ton.
These political nuts ances, who vauntingly
boast of American nativity, and profess the
profoundest admiration and regard for their
foreign allies, are indeed their very worst en-
emies. They have no moral attributes ex
cept their own selishness and puerile ambi
ton, and to this end the adopted citizens o.
the country are beginning to awake to fine
themselves only to have been the willing bu
blinded instruments in the hands of these
creatures who set themselves up for leaders
Is it believed by any sane adopted citi
zens Of Evansville, that the leaders of tina
party, with which they acted in the late mu
nicipal election, the fgure-heads and presid
3 ing geniuses OF its conventions, have high
er social regard, a more affectionate esteem
for them as citizens or as politicians, thar
the great mass of those citizens who sup
ported the American party, and publicly ant
privately advocate its principles! We Sc,
men govern and direct political conventions
in our midst, whose trade it is to inveigle thu
more honest and unsuspectng of the masse
into their support. We see many of the hon
,al est and the intelligent Of their associate
i, writing in disgust at their dictation, yet tn
rigor of party discipline compels them L
succomb. The rottenness and corruption O
such leaders will not be long in its certain
decay, till it becomes as great stencil il
the nostrils of its present followers, as it is
pest to human society in the eyes of an in
telligent community.
Connecticut Elections.