The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-16

its author of either deliberate falsehood
or objectionable ignorance. Not only did
the State party Conventions endorse it, but
almost every one of the free State Legisla-
lures passed acts similar to the one first
quoted. In order that our neighbor may
not unwittingly repeat his statement, we
copy the resolution of the Democratic State
Convention of Ohio in 1913:
Rcsolved, That the people of Ohio now,
as they hare aIeays done, look upon the in
stitution of slavery as an evil unfavorabe
to the full development of our institutions,
and that entertaining these sentiments they
will feel it to be their duty to use all the
powers consistent with the national compact
to preUcnt Its increase, to mitigate, aud finally
ERADICATE IT," What does this word
" eradicate" mean Il, the classical mind OF
our neighbor does not suggest the full force
of the meaning, let them turn to Webster'5
Unabridged, which will inform them that it
means to tear up by the ROOTS" " to extir-
pate &" What has democracy gone thus far?
Tear up slavery by the roots-extirpate
it! Isn't that a step beyond free oilism-
doesn't that border upon Abolidonism?
Whatever may be said Of the State, GER
tainly no one can breathe aught against
the party subserviency and party attach
ment of the Democracy of Vermont, the
early home of Douglas. Read the deliver
ance of the Democratic State Convention of
Vermont:
ResoLVed, That liberty is a right inherent
, and inallenable in man, and that herein
all men are equal.
Resolved That we claim no authority in
the Federal Government to abolish slavery
in the several States, but we do claim for it
Constitutional poa0er perpetuaiLy to prohibit
/ the introduction of SLAVERY into territory noqg
free, and ABOLISH it qChereger under the
! Jurisdiction Of Congress, 1t EXISTS.
I ReSoIUed, That this power ought immedi-
/ ately to be exercised in prohibiting the in
! PRODUCTION and existence of slavery in New
Mexico and California, in abolisAinq SLAVERY
and the sLdUe- trade IN The District Of C0luns-
bia, on the high seas, and aohereper else, an
der the Constitution, tt can be reached
! RESOLVED, That no more Stare States should
be admitted into the Federal Union.
ResoLUed, That the Government ought TO
return to its ancient policy, not to extend,
nationalize or encourage, but 10 LiRslt, local
ize and discourage sLaUery.
Should not the Enquirer editors hide their
faces for shame? Was ever ranker Black
Republicanism avowed than this? And
this, too, by the subservient Democracy Of
Vermont
1t will be remembered that at that time
the Legislature of Indiana elected Governor
Wbitcomb L. S. Senator, requiring of him
before the election a pledge for prohibition.
Old Wings also will recolIect now the Dem
ocracy of Ohio coalesced with the Free
Sellers and elected Salmon P. Chase, defeat
ing a true and tried Wing. Well do we
recall the manner in which the Democracy
of Massachusetts united with the Free Soil
ers and defeated Robert C. Winthrop for the
Q. S. Senate, and that, too, with the Free
Soil Wing, Charles Sumner. And even
George W. Julian, whom they now denounce
as an Abolitionst, was elected to Congress
through the aid of the Democratic party
We could refer our neighbors to the action
of their own Illinois Democracy, but our arti
Gle is already TOO lengthy. Will the Eaqaar.
er now deny that the Northern Democracy
in 1889, had Free Soil tendencies