The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-02-24
A New Party.

The Henderson Reporter says Hon.
Archibald Dixon and several leading
members ofthe Old Wing party, in Ken
lucky, have recently issued an address
to their fallow-citizens Of Kentucky, and
to the people ofthe Union, setting forth
the necessity for the formation ola new
party, that shall unite all conservative,
honest and patriotic men in an effort to
stay the present destructive course OF
political eyents-one that shall Danish
sectionalism--heal the dissentions be-
tween the North and South-expose the
political prohigacy of party leaders--and
avert the extravagance and eorruptions
in the Administration of the General
government If there were any power
in honest, purposes and patriotic wishes
without personal sacrifices and labors
to accomplish these great ends we should
have unbounded faith in the influences
Of such an organization to effect great
public good. But the days Of disinter-
ested patriotism are past. Men will not
now labor for the good Of the country
without personal object. There are
millions who have ardent wishes to be-
hold the regeneration of the government
and desire that it may be reformed and
returned to its early Republican purity,
but there are none to labor for it. Our
political affairs are shaped and directed
by those that live upon the public, and
manage its affairs to promote their per-
sonal interests and aggrandizement; the
personal sacrifices required to oppose
them, is greater loss to the citizens, as
individuals, than TO submit to the abuses
therefore no one rises up against them
There are no remedies but to suffer
things to progress until they are intoler
able, till the evil becomes more irksom,
than the labor ofreform, then the peopl
will rise in their strength and put then
right.
The resucitation of the old Wing part,
or the organization of any new party
upon q mere platform Of honest princi
Piles, will be an abortion; for there will b
no workers in the party,-unless you OF
fer them the spoils of victory; and whel
that policy is adopted, the new part,
will be invaded by horde Of mercena
ries who will Guido, in depravity ant
corruption, the Goth and Vandals VIII
may have gained possession of the CAPT
toll. The wisest course for all homes
and patriotic citizens, who deplore tn
present degeneIacy in politics, is to unit
with the Dominant party-whatever
may be-the masses Of which are homes
and true-and endeavor to amend wha
they cannot change;--help relieve til
people from the reign of unprinciple
leaders whose power has been consol
dated and confirmed by an indiscriminat
opposition to all that was associate
with the name of the opposite party
Instead of seeking for issues on whic
TO fight them, let all patriotic and homes
men seek to avoid combinations, whic
separate the people into violent faction.
and enable the leaders to marshal thei
forces under their banners and, lea
them, at will, by exciting their passion
and prejudices. The most judicous ste
for the period is-instead Of forming
new opposition party. to be banded an
arrayed against the supposed enemies
the country--to dissolve party organic
tions-bring the people together as fe
low-citizens-nota as hostile partizans-,
decide every question as it may ari:
upon it's own merits. There is not
question before the country---nor h
there been one in ten years-that Il
people would not have speedily settle
in the right way, ifrelieved from the d
minion of party leaders and party di
eipline. By abolishing the latter W
distroy the power of the former.