The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-10
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verge Of an important election, it becomes the
duty of political laymen to investigate for
themselves the questions at issue between the
parties and also the merits of the several
candidates for Office. For if we depend upon
the representations Of politicians, we will find
ourselves placed in the same dilemma, with
the Dutch justice, who was ready to decide
in favor of the party litigant who told the
first story, but upon hearing the other side OF
the question, was at a loss how to determine.
The candid discerning mind, whether waver
ing heretofore in uncertainty, halting between
two opinions, or decidedly sympathizing with
the Old Line party, must after having listened
to the speech of James Lockhart, at Apollo
Hall, on last Tuesday, either declare his ut
ter adherence of the doctrines then and there
promulgated, or else acknowledge his readiness
to swallow the vilest compound in political
pharmacy, when prescribed by Democratic
quacks.
Judge Lockhart is the Democratic candi-
date for Congress: not so from their choice,
but by dint of the de sperate efforts ola broken
down forlorn political hack, in packing his
own convention, and thus forcing himselfupon
a party who are disguised with the man,
though bound to support him since nominated;
and we might also add through additional
influences that smell strongly of Marine Hos
pital appropriations. AS to his private repu-
tation have nothing to do with it here, and
BESIDES it is contrary to my principle to dis
turb the dead. He is well known all over the
District. His fame is notoriety. In his
speech on last Tuesday, whether yielding to
the force of ad imperious habit or presuming
largely upon the gullibility of the masses, Che
best knows) he found las usual that gross mis-
representation answered his purpose better
than familiar truths. He made wilful mis-
statement when he declared that the Old
Wing party were with him on the policy pro-
mulged by the Ostend Conference, and in this
as we'll as all the other doctrines engrafted by
the Cincinnati resolutions, he committed him
self as an extremist He bowed mournfully
over the grave of the lamented Henry Clay,
and called upon his shade to bear him out in
his declaration of unanimity, we'll knowing
LIldL JLlS SuOSI vi lLldL IlluSlTlOuS Iuhl WOuiQ
be as dumb to his call as was his own voice
when Intercepted by Mr. Veatch, as to the
right Of the people of territory to exclude sa-
very before the adoption of constitution for
a State government He gives Mr.. Clay's dec
laration that no power under Heaven could
ever induce him to vote for the extension Of
slavery over one foot more Of our territory, a
pretty wide BERTH and then Immediately fol-
lowing his afiliation % as he processes. with
the old Wings on the question of territorial
acquisition Southwark, or in any other direc-
ton; he very indiscreetly proclaimS to his au
dIence that in the event of his being returned
to Congress, he will, should the opportunity
offer, vote men, money and munitions of
war, tc seize Cuba forcibly, if we must."-
These were his own words. Does Judge
Lockhart desire to give his reputation for can
dor and veracity any worse color than it al
ready has, by throwing his fillibustering arms
around the Old Wing party, and calling it at
filation, with the acts Of the washington
Tke'' Fillmore Administration so fresh in our
memories, or shall it be attributed to forget
fitness and imbecility One of the two-ds-
! honesty or weakness-it must be, and | would
ask, does either of these traits qualify him par
ticularly for representing district like ours
in the National Legislature ?
/ And lastly, Judge Lockhart declares that
the Compromise of 1920 has been source Of
evil to the country ever since it was placed on
the records. Now the Judge may be an ex
ceedingly great man, but yet in my Judgment
his expression of opinion, whether candid or
not, grows smaller by degrees and beautifully
less'' in the attempt to ignore those of all the
greatest sages and jurists of the county both
in and out of the United States Senate for the
last thirty five years. | have no doubt but
that he would pass the same sentence upon
the Holy Scriptures and all laws both human
and divine, if he dared, because they restrain
the passions of men. and because the Bible
declares that without the law there is no sin,
producing necessarily conflict between the
kingdom of Christ and the myrmidons of the
Devil. However, that question is not worth
discussing, as their own record but one adj
lminittraton back contradicts and condemns
him. The teachings Of the Bible called forth
the tracts of Paine, Robesperre and Voltaire;
so the Missouri Compromise called forth the
subsequent antagonistic measures of the Dem
ocratic party; they declaring with each meas
ure that it should be considered finally
which, however, with that party, means Moth
ing, as the very nature of the case makes vi
ola tio Of Ill