The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-18
Mr., Blythe's Speech.


Mr.. Blythe made cogent and effective
speech to the Old Line Wings, at Apollo Hall,
on Thursday evening. After listening to him
at home, we believe the accounts given of the
strong impression made by his speech at Bal
timore, upon the members of the Old Line
Wing Convention were not exaggerated. In
his address to his fellow-citizens, he made
some powerful cut and thrust strokes upon
the parties on both sides of him; he spared
neither. He told his auditors that Willard
Fillmore as the representative of the conserva-
tive doctrines, advocated by Wings from their
earliest organization as political party-as
the advocate of peace and order-as the de-
fender of the just compromises of the constitu-
ton, was the only candidate before the coun-
try, whom an old line Wing, with consistent
adherence to his former principles, could con-
scientiously support. The Wing Convention
at Baltimore, were therefore, constrained by a
regard for consistency to pledge him their
hearty support. One ultra sectional party had
engendered the other. The paternity of Re-
publicanism was charged upon the Democracy.
The evil spirit of one had brought forth the
diabolical doctrines of the other. Satin had
produced his own imps. The amorous alliance
of Democracy with pro-slavery had begot Abo-
litionism. This element of discord was first
brought into national canvass in 1886 by
Democrats, and they had fostered it, and re-
newed the strife whenever political end was
to be attained by arousing sectional pas
sions on this sore subject; and they had been
the only gamers from the agitation by artfully
allying themselves with the side that would
best serve their purpose. 1t was only upon
agitation and sectional strife that such men as
swayed the two sectional parties, could rise to
power and place. 1t was the boiling of the
cauldron that brought the scum to the sur
face 1t was by deliberate calculation Of
the effects of the present unfortunate agitation
upon the elections, that the measures that have
produced it, were adopted. 1t was in cold
blood and with deliberation-for the basest
and most selfish purposes-they were set on
foot. The party war in Kansas was plotted
and begun, not to make it a slave State, nor to
render it free State, but to raise a whirlwind
of political excitement on the wings of which,
men who have no native powers to rise, may
ride into power, and preserve their illegitimate
sway over the country. Both parties had it in
their power, by adopting the propositions of
wise Union men, to end the strife, restrain the
progress of outrage and bloodshed, and restore
peace; but the rule of peace and reason was
death to political agitators, who gambled for
place and for the loaves and fishes upon dis
traction and civil discord in the country. The
partisan leaders on both sides had therefore
opposed all Cancellation, and denied all justice
to the suffering territory. Substantial citizens
who wished no favors nor honors from the
government, on whom the prosperity of the
country and the burthens of its governments
rested, had too long abandoned its rule to the
demagogues; it was the duty of all conserva-
tive men to unite in the support Of Mr.. Fill
more, and if they did not elect him, they could
preserve their organization, and as a conserva-
tive power in the State they could say to the
mad surges of party strife ''thus far shalt thou
come and no further" and to the troubled
waters of civil commotion ''peace-be STILL"
The speaker boldly avowed that Wing as
he was by birth, association and the convic-
tons of his whole life, if the choice were con-
fined to Fremont and Buchanan, he would, by
the dictates of judgment and his conscience,
be compelled to follow the example of large
portion of the Fillmore men in the election of
this week, and vote the Democratic ticket
sooner than be guilty Of giving his support to
the abolition doctrines of the Republican party.