The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-08
The real Issue
The Washington Union has at last pro-

The true issue, not only in Illinois, but
in every other state in the Union, is the Ad-
nsinistration of Mr.. Buchanan as the repre-
sentative of the Democratic party, against
all opposition, whether as open enemies or
false friends
Yes; the only real issue now insisted
upon by Mr. Buchanan is an fndiscriminate
defense, an unfaltering support of all his
measures. This is the test of Democracy.
which the adherents of the Executive intend
to enforce Mr. NibIack has at hast adopted
it, and put on the badge Of servitude, and
confessed himself an INSCRIPTIONS defender
of all the cerruptions the proaigacies, and
usurpations of the present Administration.
In his speech at Princeton he made the bold
avowal; and said, "The President had TAX
matter, and that he endorsed the entire
course Of the Administration"
He approves of all the President has done,
and with the true funky and subservient
spirit that he has manifested, his constitu-
ents may be sure that he is ready to Gp-
prore IN ddUdRce all that the dictator may
do. He has performed his servile part in
the attempted outrages of LecomptoniSm
he now approves the extravaganza that has
carried the public expenditures TO $780,
O00,000 he sanctions the Fort Smelling
swindle and all the unchecked and infamous
populations Of Floyd in the War Depart
ment. He justifies the outrageous interior
ence Of the Executive in local elections and
goes with the President in his tyrannical
prosecution of every official that dares differ
with him in opinion and he joins the Ex-
ccutive pack who are pursuing with unre-
lcnting rancor and savage thirst a Demo-
cratic Senator, who has had the courage
and manhood to resist Executive dictation.
He joins in the plot of the Executive to
transfer the power of the govern ment and
the succession of the Presidency to the null
lifiers of the South, and to prolong the
Southern domination in the government
The true issue is at last admitted it is
Buchananism-with its corruptions, profit
gacies, extravagancies, its Lecomptonism,
and Federalism on one side; and the cause
of the Constitution and the rights and inter-
ests of the people in the government on the
other.
The question has been made extremely
simple and easy of determination, by Mr..
Niblack, in the First Congressional Dis
trict- He is entitled to the credit of bold
ness and fairness He asks his constituents
to sacrifice what no other Democratic nomi-
nee in the State has dared to ask of the peo-
pie he has confessed a subservience to
Presidential control an acquiescencc in
executive encroachments, that no other re-
preventative from this State, or any other
part Of the Union, as far as we have heard,
has dared to admit to the people. Niblack
heartily approves of the entire course Of tho
Administration. He follows il, blind-fold,
through all its glaring inconsistencies; its
shameless self contradictions-its treason to
its principles-and its infamous treachery to
its own friends. Nothing in all its iniqui-
ties is too monstrous for his elastic con-
science to embrace; and if its sins were
sufficient to choke the passage to the infer
nal regions he still could swallow them
No being has o capacity like base minion
OF uasurper, to gorge political sin and cor
corruption.
Mr. Hiblaek having approved, in unquali-
fed terms, the conduct of James Buchanan,
asks the people to endorse him and his GER
tiicate of appreciation. viii they do it?
Will the Democratic party stultify itself and
wreck all its future hopes of power by an
unconditional approval of the Administra-
ton of James Buchanan, who has betrayed
and violated every article of its platform
who, with the strongest Democratic Con-
greSs ever elected, has been unable to obtain
its sanction TO a single measure of his policy.
Does Judge Niblack expect to obtain from
the independent and honest voters Of this
District, what Buchanan, with all the powers
of corruption at his command, could not OBJ
tain from subServient members of Congress
IL the Democratic party of this district or oil
the country but once give its unconditional
sanction to Buchananism, it will tie a
mill stone about its neck that will sink il
in sea of infamy so deep that no sound
ings of political plummet will reach it,
lift wishes to 60 into a retiracy and oblivion
as profound as that which awaits Niblack
lei the party follow his example, and give
Buchanan the certificate of its appreciation
by electing Hiblack. There would surely b,
no hereafter for it. But strong in its Origi
pal principles by adhering to them, De
mecraey will survive the delinqueneies o
Buchanan as il did those of pic
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