The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-05-01

Adolphus Hahn, Sew Louis Richter, ssal.5
Jas. d. Saunders, Jas. G. Hatchett,
Peter Sharpe, sess - John T. Walker,
Richard Raleigh, Henry Altering, 5laa /
John Woodson Hughes, and forty others. |
EVANSVILLE, April 26th, 1855.
GENTLEMEN: Your note of the 28th instant,
was handed to me last evening. In it, you
say THAT as members of the Democratic party
of Vanderburgh county, you would respectful
ly ask whether | would accept the NOMINATION
of the Petersburgh convention, if rendered me,
aud Use all honorable means to secure my cleo
ton, and the triumph of the Democratic par
-tys', You will all bear me witness that / had
no part directly or Indirectly in getting up
this application. That it was not until the
application was signed by the parties, and a
very short tune before it was handed to me,
that had any knowledge whatever that such
a document was circulating. i mention this
as an evidence of the fact that the call was en-
tirely voluntary on your part, and therefore so
much the moro gratifying to me, as an evil
dence Of your regard and esteem, personally
and politically.
| Before answering the interrogatories pro-
pounded, permit me to say. that have no as
pirations whatever for a seat in Congress-
That whatever desire in my younger days |
might havs had to obtain such position, |
have long since given up all wishes or inclina-
ton on that subsequently, or pecuniarily
should / at my period of life be gamer by
such an elevation-I have therefore upon all
occasions when spoken to by my political
friends here and elsewhere, throughout the dis
trict, told them frankly and freely, so far as
! was concerned, should not be a candidate, or
take any steps whatever on my own part to
4 insure the nominatlon-that in fact and truth
| did not desire it, but that in accordance with
the Jeffersonian doctrine of neither seeking or
declining a popular nomination of my own
party, should not, unless under circumstan-
Ices which might occur before the nomination
was made, feel it my duty to decline it. That
my duty and obligations to the Democratic
party was such Cat least | feel it SOY that l
could not decline nomination made by con-
Evention of that party, selected by the people
for such an Office. This, SO far as the nomi-
nation to Congress by the Democracy of the
First District is concerned, it is my present
feeling-and is my answer to your polite and
friendly invitation to accept the nomination if
made.
There are other democratic statemen in the
district who will probably be candidates for
that office, and who would no doubt if nomi-
mated in the language of your letter to me
fuse all honorable means to secure their cleo
ton and the triumph of the democratic party.
| need not say to you, that whoever the nomi-
nee of that convention may be, he will receive
my warm and unqualified support.
Having thus answered the interrogatories
prepounded to me, | cannot close the letter
without expressing briefly as possible my
views upon the present position and duty OF
the democratic party of Indiana. Never did
that party in Indiana, or throughout the Union
stand upon higher. loftier or more noble ground
than they do at present They are the only
true constitutional and conservative party OF
the country, and as it appears to me, no truly
intelligent and honorable man, who loves his
country. who desires the success of our re-
publican institutions, and the perpetuity of the
Unioncan now, whatever his political opinions
heretofore may have been, belong to any 9TH
er. The difference between us and our oppo-
nents at present is that the democratic party
! is unity of persons all over the Union. The
! man who is a democrat here, would be a dem,
ocrat in Maine or California. While the party
opposed to US is but a coalition of Factions
: The latter never did or ever will exist for any
practical purposes. 1t is ephemeral-it may
be triumphant for season, but its very sue
cess is the sure harbinger of defeat. The fac
, tions that compose it, will rend it in pieces
: How can the abolitionist, the native Ameri-
can, the know nothing, the Maine liquor law
6 men affiliate? Each has set of principles as
different from the other as Mahomedisn from
: Christianity. The disciples of these several
| schools are all single idea. The aboIitionist
: says the repeal of the Comp. omise act was, to
use his own gentlemany phraseology, "a Ne
bras cality," though he voted against the ex-
tension of the compromise line to tha Pacific.
r Repeal is now her word-"no moro slave ter
r rILoryn The knov-nothin0 or American mar
= ty south of Mason's and Dixon's line and gem
orally IN the West advocate mo repeaI''-Iet
the people OF the territories say they, be the
, judges of their own municipal in. titutions let
them admit or reject slavery as they deem
best, but down with the Pope-demolsh the
> Catholic Church, and be sure and show the
: foreigner no favor politically or Otherwise
f The Maine liquor law men search,
!, seizure and confitcation" is principle more
vital to the happiness and prosperity of the
! country, question more important to b. set
tied than slavery. popery or foreign emigra-
ton. And these single idead men, will meet
|. at Indianapolis on the first of May next, pro-
: vide plank of their platform for each of these
ideals to stand on make mongrel ticket. and
with but one cohesive bond to unite them ha-
tired of democracy. will endeavor to carry the
State the did in "a, with their State ticket,
f and if they succeed to carry the Presidential
election.
'ForewaTned is to be forearmed, and if the
; democratic party, largely as they are in ma
jority in this State, suffer themselves to be gull
} led by such trickery and legerdemain, they de-
| serve to be beaten.
I trust and believe the first Gistrict-the
"Tenth Legion" of the Democracy of Indiana
! will be as incompatible as they were in 1864,
when they gave nearly two thousand majority