The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-08-15

so comprehensive can De thoroughly DISCUSS
ed, and presented to your readers in all the
lights of which they are capable. All that can
be done at one effort, under the circumstances,
is simply to glance at each item in detail, but
hope that other and ADLER hands will after
wards undertake to keep the ball in motion.
There was time when the Democratic par
ty had healthy vitality and responsibility
which it has not now. For it the age of vir-
tuous politics is past" Then its object was
not altogether public plumber, and the gratifi-
cation of prurient, debased, personal ambition.
Then it was not as it n0l0 is, trucking, Of
fee grasping, mercenary, rotten combination
of all the political merry andrews, tatterde-
malions and vagabonds in the whole Union
Cooper's excellent description, in the Task of
the wretches who made politics their business,
in his time, are admirably applicable to the
chieftains Of modern, model Democracy:
s'When was public virtue to be found
Who loves part? He be the atoms friend,
WHO'S the friend of nc there?
Can he be strenuous in his country's cause,
Who Sights the charities for whose dear sake,
That country. if at all, must be belov'd+''
aims and patriotic aspirations, and was led on
to accomplish them by somewhat noble, able,
virtuous minds. It's course was then meas
urably straightforward, steady, intrepid, frank
and manly but now-''What fall was there
my countrymen Pits aims are inglorious,
sordid, selfish, unworthy, vile-p2ace ! poa0er! :
plumber !! land its leaders, the scum, the
dregs, the Pariahs Of the country We look
in vain among its mighty captains, and it's
Little Giants" for that dignifcd bearing
which ought to characterize the demeanor of
the legislators of mighty nation. We look
in vain among these Admirable Crichtons, -
for that unsullied integrity. that incorrupti.
blllty, those clean hands, and honest hearts,
which ought to inhere in those who aspire to
lead party, which pretends to be composed
of high minded, sensible, patriotic citizens
But instead of the high qualities and impor-
tant qualifications, already enumerated, what
do we find?-passions and principles which re
suit in murder, chicanery, speculation, truck
ling subservency, cowardice and low-lifed
blackguardism. Fellow-citizens, is this an
over drawn, high-colored picture Do not
the actions of the present administration fully
justify it ? And is it not then burning
shame to our great nation, that any person
should be warranted in saying so much, that
is so awfully dscreditable of men whose lives
should be examples to the present and future
generations of every manly and patriotic vir-
tue, and the ends of whose public lives should
be their Gods, their Country's and Truths
How long is this state of things to last? Are
such men to rule us everlastingly ? Are there
not intelligence, resolution and public spirit
left to the people, sufficient to prompt them to
make an effort to drive these miscreants from
the positions they disgrace, and compel them
to seek a retirement such as only felons de-
serve?
Among the many Opprobrious acts of rep
rotated legislation committed by the Demo
cratic demagogues, who have so long misruled
the nation, the Kansas Fraud, stands fore
most and pre-eminent and if any thing were
wanting to thrust those men lower in infamy,
and deeper in the sink of perdition than they
were previous to the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, the Kansas Fraud will more
than serve the purpose. But what is worse
than ALL these men after perpetrating this stu
pendous act of political vllainy, unequalled
BY everything in the history of either men or
nations, have the bare faced, brazen hardihood
to declare that Kansas, if let alone, will come
into the Union Free State o! shame,
where is thy blush Does the history Of the
United States furnish one instance where any
territory which slavery was permitted tie en-
ter, prior to its admission into the Union as a
State, come into the family of States without
the black pail of slavery enshrouding it Is
there single person capable of thought, livisg
in any portion of the Union, so obtuSe witted
as not to perceive that the object which the
Democratic demagogues had in view, when
they repealed the Missouri Compromise, was
to afford the Shareholders Of the South an OPP
portunity to introduce and establish slavery in
that deplorably distracted territory But is
the South to make these political Judases no
return? Yes, as an act Of gratitude, they are
to assist in the elevation Of Ten Cent Jimmy
to the Presidential Chair. But will the peo-
pie. the lovers of freedom everywhere, give
their suffrage to men, whose determination it
is, to assist in the further extension of Negro
Slavery-that living, consuming, blasting re-
proaeh upon US, whose proud but empty boast
it is, that ours is ''the land of the free,'' and
the home of brave men, and beautiful anna
BILE women ? We shall see.