Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-08-01
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Look backwards.
We desire to ask our neIghbor over the
Post Office. few rather pointed ques-
ions We ask them for the purpose OF re-
reshing his memory. Il is well to look
back on the past occasionally. The pow
-r Of retrospection is one ofthe most glcr-
ious faculties of the human mind. IL Is
faculty which should be cultivated, aud
kept in active exercise. IL it remains un-
used it becomes very obtuse aud uoiver I
sal aud particular forgetfulness oyerclouds !
The individual.
For the purpose therefore of ahoroing
our neighbor the material for exercising
this attribute OF the mind, and keeping it
frightened up. we direct his attention to
the following incidents in the past;
Does he recolect that on Saturday the
Sd day of December. 1889. the Democracy
of this county, held their Convention for
the purpose of sending delegates to their
State Convention. And does he recollect
that one Daniel W. Voorhees, offered, IN
that Convention. t,oo resolutions, --one
highly euogistc of the able admipistra-
ton Of Ashbel r. Willard. aud asking the
Democracy TO endorse the same. The eth
er asserting that the Democracy Of the State Of
Indiana had undated confidence in PTesi
dent Buchanan, that they approved Of and en-
dorssd his administration, and that they be-
iered he tcas aetuated by conscientious and
patriotic motiDes in the discharge Of all his II
fetal duties.
Does our neighbor recollect. how lac oppos-
ed those resolutions,b by saying,a- TO the one
euoyistic Of A. p Willard. He ieOuh neu-
er endorse him, he tcOuid nersr endorse the
man rho petoed The euabtzilement biz Of the
House, aud then held IL from the Senate until
a quorum 70 IS broken in that body. And does
he not recoilect that Daniel W. Voorhees,
in reply to him. said THE Embezzle
ment bill was prepared 10y EmbsSElers and
Col. Cookery is"an ungrateful wretch, -
that be (Cookerly) had accePte ofti &c
from Wilard-that the bread he aud hl'
children had eaten. was the bounty Of
| WIllard--that If he did not like Willard's
administration, he should Immediately re
sign Office under it-that was the course ar
honorable man would pursue--that Viii
lard's administration had been glorious
one. glorious in advancing true Democrat
! 70 nr;nrinIaa
Does Mr.. Cookery reoollect how the ell
oGuent orator sustained on that occasion
the Lecompton policy ofJames Buchanan
How he said that the present Adnnnis
trafiOn 0as a distinguished One-distinguish
ed for haping sustained Democratic measure
at home, and aduaneed the glory and reRouI
At the country abroad That the Presiden
Of the Emitted States was glorious OLE
man, bent with the weight of many years
aud whose sun was about setting, suTroun
ded tcifh one halo Of Democratic glory. an
that il oas base ingratitude in Democrats nd
TO endorse him"
Has oar neighbor any recollection G
these occurrences, and how he oppose
the idea that j. b. was "aefuqte9 by consci
entious and patriotic notices." and ho'
Voorhees,, as the exponent Of the Admins
tration pressed his resolutions through?-
: II your memory is sufficiently refreshed i
relation to these matters, ueighbor. W
would suggest that you can now with do
Y cent propriety retaliate on Mr. v, sine
:. his betrayal of Mr.. Buchanan, and ca
1 him an "ungratefu! rrefeh"-that The brea
r he and his children are eating, is the bouni
$ of James Buchanan, and that II he does nj
S nop like the Administration Of Jams Bueha'
4 he should resign the e6iee he holds under
Q FOR SUCH IL THE COURSE HONORABLE ME
{ PURsuE.
: You can now. neighbor. with perfet
: propriety, adopt the ier taiiOnis, and film
: these little remembrances in the teeth
il that man who has always opposed the pc
n icy you have so ably advOcated-alway
f until within the last few weeks, bitterl
v denounced Mr.. Douglas aud his doctrir
4 OF Popular Sovereignty-alwsys oppose
the Terre Haute Journal, its editor an
e his aspirations, but who now has the vi
. paraileled affrontery to ask to be endorse
by that Journal, by that editor, and by Il
g Douglas men in the Seventh Congression
n District He has turoed his back upo
a his former pstrous-changed his prime
e Piles in the twinkling Of an eye, deserte
r. his friends, cravingly supplicated his el
IS emies. aud POW expects united Democr
2 cy to advance his personal interests.
"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus"