The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-24
The Evils brought upon US by the Democratic

The Evils brought upon US by the Democratic
Party.
A christian cotemporary very we'll remarks,
that when "a good deed is done, it is right
that the world should know the virtuous doer,
that it may reward him. When an evil deed
is per2etrated, it is also right that the world
should know the author. that it may reward
Inn" just so, and we do not see why this
may not be carried into politics. When any
great national good is performed, the world
should know the vrtuouS doer, that the party
or administration or political power, may be
rewarded by the gratitude of the people.
When national evil is perpetrated, it is right
that the world should know its author, and
that the people Immediately affected may
crush the doer with its condemnation.
This land, four years ago the happiest under
the sun, smiling in the plentitude of its bless
ings, and self-contident in che consciousness OF
its own great, undivided strength is now torn
by struggling sectional factions, rife with dis
senSions, the theatre Of angry disputes, and
bloody conflicts. Who is responsible for all
this? Who brought the storm-clouds Of a
sectional strife over this peaceful land, to dar-
ken the calm sunlight ofharmony which bath
ed its smiling harvest fields and giided its
busting cities? Who threw the apple of dis
cord into the national family where all was
concord, fraternal feeling and friendly forbear-
ance. and set the members Of that family quar-
relling and wrangling. and fighting? Who
has made the virgin soil of rich new Terri
tory the theater of fratrlcda war; array ed
brothers against brothers on its peaceful pra-
ries; and made its hills re-echo with the hor-
rid reports of hostile cannons and rifles, or
with the dismal clank of the chains of viola
tors of law? Who has instiled into the veins
ofmen that maddening fire Of sectional hatred
which makes the Federal capital the scene OF
daily incendiary speeches, and almost daily
fighting? Who has turned the North against
the South, and hurried the two sections TO the
very brink of general civil war? All, what
party has been guilty OF these great national
evil? Need we answer? Does not every man,
woman and intelligent child, know that the De-
naocracy, falsely SO called, did all this? Let
that party be known as the perpetrator OF
these evils, that the people may crush it with
their condemnation. This same party to OBJ
tain power pledged itself against any further
agitation OF the slavery question. 1t went
into power with this pledge upon its lips. 1t
found the country a. the glorious administra-
tion Of Willard Fillmore had left tin the enjoy
ment Of perfect peace. A holy calm rested
upon the people and the country, thrice bless
cd from the dangerous agitation which had
Immediately preceded it. This party, coolly
and premeditatedly, in violation of its public
pledge, and with the basest motives, cruelty
supplanted that peace by the most furious
slavery agitation which ever endangered the
permanency Of the Union, and the happiness Of
the people. All the evils narrated above, and
thousands Of lesser ones as their direct Sc
quence, it has inflicted upon the country
Who denies this? Yet in this face of these
facts, that party has had the unparalleled i'm
pudence to repeat, word for word in its Gin
cinnati PLATFORM the pledge it made in 1852
and now boldly asks that upon this pledge il
shall be again placed in power! And will the
American people again trust that party with
power? Are it's pledges worth the breath
wasted in making them? Is it not sufficient
to know ,0ho are the evil doors, to crush them
with public condemnation?