The Evansville daily journal., 1857-04-06
The Election,

hcers, may be one oil deep consequences to
the city; it may decide our future policy, and
determine whether our career shall be pro-
gressve and commensurate with our great To-
cal advantages; or governed by ideas. that
shall be reproach to us, our course shall be
Iaggered and feeble, till at last our young and
thrifty city sink into contemplate insignifi-
cance. In the beginning, the contest prom
ises to be one between Young America and
elder Fogyism; between the young and hope
ful, with all the bright visions of life before,
them and those who cling to the past, and hold
on with selfish grasp to what they have got,
IS if hey had no hope of getting more;-be-
tween those. who are for a bold and liberal pol
icy OF public improvements, planned and exc
euted upon the principles by which other
communities have achieved great results and
praspered, and those who think all money is
in silver dollars that must be cribbed before
au enterprise is undertaken, and whose policy
IS for man to work, at day wages, ten years
to gain $500 to buy farm, rather than give
his note for it, and pay the purchase, from its
products in two years, as he will thereby save
the payment Of interest. 1t was to be strug-
gle between those who think taxes a good in
vestment when applied to public improve
ments, and those who deem them violent alb
stractions by law, of so much of their personal
possessions.
1t was to have been a contest between new
and old ideas; between those who think labor,
rs the paramount interest Of society, and the
great and sole creator of all wealth, has some
rights to control its own future interests, and
70 exact from property fulflment Of its
dutes to labor, as the former has heretofore
exact ! the like from the latter. Between
thes who looking to the future, behold the
davH Of new era, and those, with faces
tara to the past, are blind to the coming
lighs But This fair Geld for the trial of the
strength Of genuine, legitimate young democ
racy, with old privileged conservatism, has
been marred by the intrusion Of the bastard
offspring of the dcrnagogue. The Enquirer,
that first proclaimed truce, and professed a
desire for the election Of progressive men with
out distinction of party, has after all the can
didates were announced, with treacherous in
consistency, made On appeal to the adherents
OF old lineism to adhere to q strict party vote
for two Of the most valuable and prominent
Offices. We do not believe Democrats will
respond to the appeal, in violation Of compact
if they do, the opposite party will take care
OF their own interests, and the Enquirer will
find that its German adherents are not to be
numbered in their ranks like flock Of sheer
to be transferred at will, to this or tha,
candidate; and to prescribe one Of their owr
countrymen at the bidding of any clique
OF political tricksters. Such Know Nothing
ism as Mr. Wolfln entertains is no scare crow
70 his countrymen, and he is not man they
will allow to be cut down to the knees at the
behest of any demagogue. This violation o
an honorable implied contract, to ignore party
politics in this election, will injure more thar
benefit the candidates whom it was intended
to subserve. All fair men will condemn it
With a faulty that is alarming, and which
causes great grief to his sncerest friends, Mr.
Ingle still persists in his injudicious assault.
upon the advocates Of the Straight Line Road
he has descended from newspapers aud pam
phlets to handbills; and at each step sink.
deeper, and daily grows more angry with his
friends, because they will not stultify them
selves-yield their honest convictions, and be
convinced by his inconsistent statements and
inconclusive reasonings. He persists in in.
consistencies that are manifest to every one
but himself, or those who are afflicted, BY
passion, with like judicial blindness.
There has been no truer friend to the
Journal than Mr.. Ingle. There is no gentle.
man to whose opinions the Journal would
have conceded more. He had the unstinted
use Of its columns for three weeks to make
out his case. Its corps yielded their sleep till
they were worn down in deciphering his man.
uscript and correcting his proofs to crafty
him, in cause originally against their own
convictions, and which each number Of his
Expose" instead of removing, served to con-
firm. And because when the last sad fzzle oil
remedy" came out, they were disappointed
and mortified, and grieved that an old friend
should have so legibly written himself down
an he becomes intolerant, and will allow
no one to question his infalIibility; and turns
upon US, and assails us as bitter foe Having
no interests in the controversy, but as a citi-
zen-no personal predictions, but those for
Nr lngle-and seeing his articles produced
a hound more dangerous to himself than to
che road, we have had no disposition to ag-
gravate his defeat, by parading his palpably
weak points before the world.
We have in no way assailed Mr.. Ingle, per-
sonaly, as our readers all know, nor have We
spoken Of him in disparagins terms; yet with
Eantoa recklessness Of assertion, he traduces