The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-12
Democratic VocabuIum.

by some of the Indian tribes through which |
he was passing, to facilitate his intercourse
with them. He would have succeeded to
his entire satisfaction but for one insuper-
able difficulty, and that was, that they ap-
peared to attach no definite meaning to any
thing they uttered. Under one set Of cir
cumstances, certain symbolic sounds-their
whole language was Northumberland to
indicate one thing, and under others the
same sounds implied something else, per-
haps the very reverse of the former, so that
after fruitless effort to reduce their Ian
guage to writing he was compelled to aban-
don the idea in despair. These poor inlet
teredaborigines might find their parallel in our
own enlightened institutions. The pandects
of the Administration possess wonderful
adaptation to time, place and circumstance;
they are admirably catholic in their applica-
ion. An er edthedra PRONUNCIATION goes
out passes from extreme to extreme Of the
land, enters convention, caucus, and con-
claye: finds the local sentiment Of one Sec
ton in conflict with the local institution of
another; white principles here, black prin-
ciples there lines straight, broken and
crooked; surfaces even and uneven; actions
Numerically antagonistic, yet, without al
tering in the least the physique Of the
parity, the imaculate party, it is received
acknowledgement on to the next neigh
Dor in the same way; and by dovetailing
and moulding its plastic form into every
variety of shape, to harmonic with every
thing that may have been engrafted into
sectional democracy, it returns to head
quarters TO report the party unit, and the
great principle (2) of Democracy immutable.
Even in the national legislature, where ex-
tremes meet, the conservative Democrat of
the North, whose conservatism consists in
conceding everything to the South for the
sake of preserving the Union, works "cheek
by jowT with the conservative Democrat OF
the South, whose conservatism consists in
conceding nothing to the North in consid-
Grafton of his great forbearance in sparing
the Union. The true vernacular of Ortho-
doxy means indefinitely everything every
where, and nothing anywhere.
Water and oil won't mix; pour in your al
kali however, and the non-atfinity is remov-
ed and you produce soft soap-a slippery
substance that facilitates tie passage of OBJ
jects, and quickens the hardness of their
motion. So the truths of the North and
.tacts of the South, tending toward opposite
directions, would initiate sadly against the
progressiyeness of the party the harmo-
Nous unit, out the alkaline catholicon
poured from an empty vial, labelled "De'
mocracy," instantly converts the miscella
neous eements--some of which are very
filthy, like old soap grease-into lubricatins
saponaceous gelatine, and the PARTY glidei
smoothly along over hills and hollows
crooked lines and straight ones, so easily
50 hdrmoniousLy, that the load of office-seek
ers it carries, declare it TO be the most de
lightful vehicle they ever travelled in oil
their road to fame and fortune.
As an instance of the diverse character O
the ingredients which are blended into har
mony by the miraculous virtues of the con
tents Of the empty vial, We select the follow
ing declarations from Northern an
Southern pronunciamento, respectively
Want of space precludes our presentin
more than a mere specimen brick from each
The free and accepted Democrats of Indians
in convention assembled, got off the follow
ing, among other resolutions
RESOLVED, That the Democratic party, i
all its precedents, is pledged against the re
vival of the Slave Trade and that we heart
lily deprecate all efforts to resuscitate this
odium, let them come from whatever sourc
they may. glI.I-L1 sHt
About the same time the other end {
this harmonious unit, souring and fermen
ing under Southern sun in the State {
Mississippi
ResolVed, That non-slaveholding State
should rightly have no voice in determinin
whether il would be to the interests of tn
slaveholding States to have a greater or lie.
number of slaves. This should be purely
question of State policy, and the Generi
Government transcribed its powers, we al
bound TO believe, when it presumed to pre-
vent the importation Of slaves from Africi
Now in Indiana the former resolution en-
bodies portion of the definition Of Demo
racy. In Mississippi the latter resolutio
embodies portion of the definition OF d
mocracy. Yet they are one and the sam
immutable; harmonious unit.
In the name of all the photographers th
ever labored for q pure language in Il
name of the man who couldn't make Il
Indian glossary; what are we to understaI
when we are exhorted to join the p-a-r-r-
and become Democrats? We can concei
of but one remedy for the difficulty; that
TO do like the Almanac makers, have sc
arate Democratic glossary, adapted to Ga
degree of latitude, prefaced with the blal
form of an oath, in which the neophy
binds himself to shut his eyes and open l