The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-02-22

NrrWe believe the success of a party so
corrupt and villainous as the Know Nothlngs,
would be the greatest calamity that could hap
pen this country.-LoaisUilte Courier, OM Line
Wing.
The State Sentinel thus credits the rascally
sentiment above. louisville Courier, Old
Line Whigs' The Sentinel in days by-gone
abused and slandered the Wing party with
all the venom Of party hatred but it never
uttered more contemplate sheer at living
body or attempted a more cowardly kick at
dead body, than in its present allusion to the
Louisville Courier as an Old Line Wing paper.
We venture to say there are not dozen old
Wings in kentucky, of intelligence and moral
worth, and at all acquainted with the Courier,
who do not detest it from the bottom Of their
hearts. For the last eight months the Courier
has been fighting side by side with the Old
Line Democratic party, sympathizing with ii,
wallowing with it, wrapped in the same gar
ment eating the same food-mutually dirty
and corrupt, mutually trucking to everything
but honor and decency, mutually loving the
base and the groveling, and mutually hating
everything not of themselves. It has been
venomous in its enmity to those very per-
sons and to that very order, which its editor
had taken an oath to support but short time
before he assumed his position with the DEM
ocratic party. Under these circumstances, to
call the Courier an Old Line Wing paper, OF to
say that it possesses single attribute deserving
the admiration or sympathy of an Old Line
Wing, is to offer an insult to him and to the
party of his old love and glorious remem-
brance.
We understand this same Courier is endcav-
oring to revive the old Wing party! Good
heavens! Cannot even the great dead be pre-
served from the loathsome appetites Of political
hyennas? Must even the reputation of the
dead be stained by the touch and familiar
handling of those too politically corrupt to be
worth any living party's owning? The Louis
vile Courier to call upon old Wings to unite
with 1t in reviving the party Of which the I'M
mortal Clay was leader! As well ask old
Wings to Join hand in hand with the par
tcuIar men who stigmatized Clay as black
guard, drunkard, a gambler and a murderer,
and with these slanderers march to Clay's
grave to drop tears to hsmemory. The Louis
vile Courier the reviver of the Whie party
It's course of late has actually disgraced the
very memory of it's old connection with the
Wing party. 1t has made honest men asham
ed that they ever affiliated with the man who
edits the Courier. If the Wing party were
revived again into momentary life, the burning
brand Of the Courier's connection, would hur
it back to its grave, hereafter to be remember
ed with shame, as it is now glor1o&sly enshrinet
in the hearts of tens of thousands. If thu
Courier truly desires Identification of the ole
Wing party let it abuse its memory as It'll
now abusing thousands of old Whigs-let i
tell these old Wings, the Courier will oppos
the Wing party if again revived-let it do any
thing but damn it with the Courier's approval
then it may have some influence in breathin!
life into the nostrils of the dead.