The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-02

shame that ought to. follow SO foolish an
act IT re
'-s-- THE Douglas Ratification. go
| Last Saturday night the Democracy, ae-
oording to weeks announcement, ratified
the nomination of Douglas and Johns( )on
| At dark, aceupIe Of bonfires were kindIed
in front of the Washington House, and the
faithful began to- gather he gloomy
smoke of the tar barrels typifed- the des-
pair written in the hearts and onzsthe faces
of the terrified Democracy there Assem- mbled.
Tie scene broagh vivid dly to mind 5shs de-
sefiptson Of the burial Of Sir Ohm Moore;
- Not gun was heard. nor a funeral / dfe, - k
!; As his c6rse tofha famparts We hurried. -
s4t7Was the corse of Sham Democracy ogcr
which its friends were holding "walse9
a. When an audience had gathered the
next thing in order was speaking. l, The
crowd was addressed bv ;Messrs. Whit
tlesey, Shanklin, and Willard, for half an
hour or so, when the meeting adjourned to
the Court House, in order to hide from the
Lincoln .furor which prevailed all around.
After the small crop of Democrats gath
cred this year were safely housed, Major
John Wesley Hughes was called to, the
chair, and Messrs. Willard and 'Kirkpat-
rick were chosen Secretaries.
Judge John Law, Democratic nominee
for Congress- was then called out. The
Judge responded, and stepped firmly up into
- e
the judges desk, with the air of martyr.
His actions put us in mind of the e4serip-
tions we have heard of old John Browns
demeanor when ascending the fatal scaffold
They both suffered in the same cause-that
of the " irrepressibie Niger" The Judge
declared himself distinctly for Douglass
The Douglas Convention was that of the
National Democracy !. it had all the, ele-
ments in it of the National Democratic
party, Indiana Democrats must 80 for
Douglas The irrepresSible crisis had ar
rived. The Democracy were divided, but
will come tes=..tl1or. - He had faith in Proy-
idence. He wanted by-gones to be by-gones,
and all to unite against the terrible Black
Republicans. Shall this Thermopyle-thi
10Th legion of Indiana-give way !? The
Judge was evidently badly scared for this
district, and sweat like Douglas did in the
campaign of So He tried to- be awfolly
severe on the Black Republicans, and in
stigmatizing them, called to his aid several
thread bare stories, some of which ELECTED
audible smiles from his hearers. During
his search after odious epithets for the B.. R.
party, the President suggested white black
birds " as proper designation. This brill
liant idea-eaused Il profound sensation
After the Judge had charged abolitionism,
amalgamaton, and other ISLANDERS on the
Republican party to his hearts content, he
left the stand in the midst of three faint.
cheers. His whole speech was tissue OF
Interpretations and abuse of the Oppo-
stion party. 1t was made in rambling,
reckless way, entirely in keeping with
Judge LIS loose aud Inconsistent, political
record. The speech was worthy of cross
roads declaimer, but not of seeker-after
Congressional honors. ,--.a~=
Judge Hovey was the next speaker called
out. He was under great excitement, and
evidently felt riledn at the splendid dis
play of the Lincoln men and 'sthe beggarly
account of empty boxes in the Court
House. He came, he said, to hear Cows
Willard and Dixon, and was sorry they
were not there. His voice was for Douglas.
He had. intended to retire from politics (it
is about time), but dark cloud is over the
country, and he meant to exert himself
There were only. two national parties
those of Bell and of Douglas. Non-inter-
vention was the Democratic doctrine, but
Douglas, WAS not the father of it. Harrison
in l82I-W ebster IN l84O-had advocated
it, 1t was the old WAig doctrine. Parties
were all mixed up. He gave the Breckin-
ridge men some hard hits, saying Yancey
led the seceders, and he was Il disunioniSt.
He said be, preached the Slme dectrine
year and half ago as now: How is it,
then, that he and Judge Law differed then
and agree now? They both swear they
haven't changed u He desired no office, he
said, and according to his own story. was a
very pure and ,disiuterested patriot. He
took occasion to pitch into the Journal very
venomously. We. ean't lilame him. This
paper has done something toward exposing
his shameful desertion of principle, and his
betrayal of the friends who voted for him
in 1858. His whole object then was to get
office, and now he is attempting to sneak
back into party which contemned him
then. He was then advocating spurious