The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-07


E6r The vast conservative element Of
the country have become so disguised with
the profigacy and tyranny Of the present
Administration, that they are willing to
submit to almost any compromise OF poiiti-
cal opinion in order to secure union-com-
plete and entire-of the opposition to the
present party in power. Southern papers,
of decided ability, and whose devotion to
the interests of the South have never been
called in question, are taking a stand, and
are trying to secure union of the opposi-
ton ia the Presidential race of 1860. The
Richmond Wing says: We are tired of
Democracy and Democratic misrule. We
are Disguised with its vices, its corruptionS,
its denominations. We want a new and bet
ter order ofthings. And almost any change,
in our Judgment, would be for the better"
This seems to be the prevailing sentiment
all over the country. No one questions but
what the opposition to Mr.. Buchanan's Adj
ministration is largely in the majority.
Their poor success is to be attributed to
their lack of harmony, and in their disor-
ganization. Union once secured, and the Adj
ministration would be swept out of power
as with the bosom of destruction. Why
cannot this state of things be broughtabou
There is no magnetic treasury to attract
hungry Office seekers. The ccntralizng in
fuence that will unite the now discordant
elements of the opposition (if they are unit
ed) must be that love of liberty and justice
that harmonized and animated the Fathers
in &c. Every scheme that wit can devise
or money execute, will be adopted to pre-
vent this union. Base men will be found
who will be used as tools to distract and
destroy. Men of over-nice patriotism
and virtue, will be discovered and fiattered
into assuming position that will divide
the forces Of the opponents Of fraud and
corruption. Young men are taught to be-
lieve that their only hopes of political pre-
ferment depend upon sustaining and fight
ing for the Democratic organization.
Hired demagogues will fit from point to
point Ill-omened birds of passage -
corrupting the weak, and buying those that
can be bought. Were the same spirit to an
innate the masses of the North that speaks
out in the columns of the Wing, the doom
of Buchanan and his satellites would be
sealed. The glory-such as it is-would
speedily depart. Read carefully the fellow
ing remarks of the Wing, in regard to the
election in 1860:
| " Besides, We are not of those who depre-
| cate the election even of q regular Black
Republican ia the year lS60-and for the
reason that such an event must happen, and
we prefer its happening now, when the
South is ADLER to withstand encroachment
| upon her rights than she will be FIVE, ten, or
twenty years hence. The North already has
the power, and will have much greater
power every year. She is bound to elect a
President of her own, sooner or later. That
being so, We would prefer her electing him
now, as we are anxious to see developed the
policy OF Northern, sectional President,
| toward the South. In word, the North
and the South have wrangled long enough.
We want the issue brought on. We want
to meet it nor. And we can only do this,
| by allowing the Northern sectionalists TO
take possession of the government and sec
what they mean to do as regards the South
They are necessarily bound to obtain con-
troll OF the government any way, within q
few years. Let them have it nor, and il
aggression ensue, let the South meet it with
united hearts and arms, and in the spirit OF
freemen, who know their rights, and who
mean to maintain them, at whatever haz-
ard