Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-07-01

From the Missouri Democrat
National Democracy.


bankrupt government, violated aag.
6 conquered West. desOlsted terri
tory. an imbecile President. drunken
governor. and corruption permeating
evory department Of the public service.
We publish to-day the speech OF the
Hon. John Sherman. Of Ohio. upon
the subject of national finances. NJ
reader of the Democrat should lsy
aside his paper until be has perused
that mastery exposition from begin
ming to end. The mercantile commu-
nifty are sometimes prone to arrogatc
to themselves the exclusive right TO
Judge of financial administration. In
ST. Louis there are many merchants.
and we doubt not they are as able ~
appreciate such matters as those OF
their class elsewhere. To oil such.
especially. we say, in justice to your
selves, to your own intelligence. to
your own business, to your own right
action-read that speech without fa.l
and then say whether you can longer
uphold such an administration OF our
national affairs. From the East comes
news of the anticipatory disavowals OF
the English government in the matter
of the gulf cruisers. 1t is what a
manly nation. knowing its officials to
be in the wrong. should have done.
But it is done of their own motion.
and the present administration has
only displayed its timidity in refusing
to resent the injuries on the spot. ana
its vascillation. in delaying Its de-
mands until the great question OF N
ternational search has lapsed and been
avoided by the alertness of England.
From the dispatches. and from news
published heretofore. it will he seen
again that the whole West is treated
only as a conquered province. Con
gress has closed its session. and our
manifold demands have been ignored.
our claims set aside, our foremost rep
resentatiyes denied hearing. Rivers
and harbors are excluded from all ap-
preparations; the central highway To
the Pacific is denied even a coIsidera-
ton; the public lands. that should be
the homes of the pioneers. are made
the spoil of spectators. From Utah
we have still further panorama OF
fleeing nations, deserted cities. aban-
doned fields, and an army of soldiers
starving from negligent provisions. as
well as conflicting orders at the War
Office. Gov. Cumming is ct Salt
Lake. surrounded by a thousand ten
antless houses--a Marius amid the
ruins. Forty thousand men, all citi
zens. who might by timely action have
been repressed. are to be now concen-
trated as a hostile nation upon our
southern border. The domestic dis
pute has been elaborated into future
international difficulties. These things
taken together constitute but a small
nart of the imbecility which has char
acterized the action OF the present
chief magistrate of the United States.
In every branch of the civil service he
and his minions have not only shown
themselves incompetent, but likewise
animated by policies that are utterly
at war with the very fundamental
principles Of all republican institu-
tions. Fresh from Europe. he has at
tempted the introduction into this
country Of the systems of espionage. Of
expenditure. OF ezterminotioa. which
have established there the most des-
potic sovcreigns on earth; and yet
withal he has evidenced at the same
time the most lame, inefficient. discon-
nected, and incoaclusive courses of
government that have ever been wit
messed in America. Shall we add to
this the matters of home disgrace. en-
tailed upon us by this same national
democracy. Did not our own citizens
witness the scenes of the last week in
which the Governor of Missouri fig
ured as drunken brawler IN our
: streets-the detsils Of which%er only
; kept ont Of the public journals by a
repugnance at plscarding abroad the
disgrace of Missouri. Have not the
prints of the interior overfown with
accounts Of his orgies at the State cap
ital. as well as his pugilistic contests.
in which be came of the vanquished
party? Lastly, turn to the records Of
the country. the archives OF Congress.
the accounts OF officials, the swindling
of steamships. the fraudulent sales OF
public property, the rascally transsc-
tons Of the land Offices. the partial
contracts Of transportation. and sup
plies for public service. and the thous-
and-fold ramifcations OF the plunder
, interest which were before latent. but
which are now openly countenanced
: by the federal executive at Washing