The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-29
From the Vol sbote, translated for The Journal
WHO IS \ DEMOCRAT?

From the Vol sbote, translated for The Journal
WHO IS \ DEMOCRAT?
Let no one imagine that he has any claims
to the honor of being Democrat, if he can
no. base them on anything but a faithful adj |
herenceto the principles Of the Cincinnati Plat
I'm; let no onesEope that he may enlist { II |
this PLATFORM if he is arrogant enough to
require an honest and conscientious exccu-
ton of its principles. Just as if we did
not live in an age OF prescription, in an age
where a clique of ambitious power seeking
politicians, and horde OF contemplate
vagabonds, who sell themselves from all
but pure motives to put through their plans,
and try TO institute government sitter their
own liking. Whoever ventures 10 utter his
own views Of right and juStice-whoever
permits himself 10 doubt the inh,llbility of
President--alaS for him. He will be eject
cd from the ranks of the ''chosen'i-will be
brandedaS "Republican. and know Moth
ingS" he will be slandered and illuminated
all for the purpose of disabling him. What
the Enquirer hintei to after more or
| less directly. he ventures also to utter dis
| tinctly.. ''Nobody," he tells us, can be
| Democrat who has other opinions, than the
| administration" Pure, beautiful Democra-
cy, where the President preScribes to the
people how they shall construe the platform
which they themselves erected, and the
principles of which they wanted to be APP
piled BY him, as they themselves understood
them.
Whoever does not 60 with Buchanan for
this Leconlpton swind,e through thick and
| Eisenhower doe, nor endorse this hum
bug, which was begotten in sin and born in
| iniquity-he is no Democrat, he is a traitor
and scoundrel. But let us console ourselves,
il can be of no moment TO us. if We shall
not be appreciated, We may be proud not TO
be- Democrat, if Democrat must be a
slave of the administration. We will then
envy nobody who calls himself Democrat,
but will deplore that things have gone so
far that an honest man must blush, if he
should be called Democrat.
Lecomptonitcs alone are Democrat. and
thes. Democrats ask spitefully and defiant
lv, that their views be recognized IS the
only correct ones, for the purpose of procur-
ing the Harmony Of the Party. Ii is in
deed impossible TO decide, whether one
should I've more astonshed at the impudence
or the stupidity herein displayed; where
two individuals fall out, il is natural that that
party s'.ould yield for the purpose Of recon-
Citation, which has called forth the diSsen-
sion, in case both parties should not have to
make mutual concessions. But who bears
the responsibility for the rupture in the
|. Democratic party? Surely, none but those
who now clamor the loudeSt, for the Ell
dorsemeut of their ubiquitous doings.
OH They must be sorely troubled for that
harmony for which they Cry SO voicefcrous-
| ~. They want us to consider the Lecomp-
. ton question dead, and yet they will hear
nothing of anti-LecomptoniSm we are re-
quired to act hand i'll hand with them, and
, yet they only strive to let LecUmpton tri-
umph; we are required to subject ourselves
to conventions, and yet the most casual OBJ
, server can see that conventions are tools in
their hands; they cannot justify their plans
and vices, therefore, they come before YOU
in the most shameless manner, and put on
an air, as if their words were oracleS, and
as if they alone could decide what is right
and what is wrong; they can reproach ho-
vey with nothing, founded on facts; what
then is easier than 10 Sclander and abuse him;
{ they can win no thinking, sincere man over 70
! their side, therefore, they Seek to render him
suspicious as an opponent of Democracy
This is politics, Ia Leconbton.
Who authorizes the Enquirer TO throw
himself up as judge over the mass of the
Democratic people What authorizes him
: to say, "you, who do not sing to the tun,
of Bright, Buchanan and us, are no Demo-
Gratis! kneel before us, or be content with
I. kickS? What authorizes him TO call an i'll.
D dependent candidate traitor, when the adj
ministration party in Illinois, could hold 9
! bolter convention, the action Of which wa:
condemned by their own organs? Has tn,
; Enqurer the power to say who is a Demo
d crat, he, who with more prOpriety might
5 call himself slave Of a deSpotc minority
than an organ of Democracy. If the ips
Dirt forms the catechism of Democracy
u what do we dream then of liberty equal
i ity, and popular sovereignty? II Demo
Il crat must blindly follow the Presidents, VIII,
: do we not elect a King who will think 70
US, and save us the tronble of self govern
ment. People! be firm, remain true Il