The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-20
The Day of Political Humbuggery Is
Past.


think the people are igporamuses, and
can be bamboozled and humbugged without
limit They imagine that they can deceive
and betray the public with impunity, and
that an outraged people will keep them in
Office indefinitely, to fatten off of their sub
stance, with never a word of rebuke to
their unfaithful servants.
OF this class, the great head and front is
! Stephen A. Douglas. All others sink into
insignifcance beside him for deception,
double-dealing, political fraud, and hrazen-
faced impudence. Others that occur to us
on the moment are Fernando Wood,
Henry A. Wise, Caleb Cushing, John G,
! Davis Ashbel P. Willard, DanI w. Voor-
hees, Thomas A. Hendricks, George E.
Pugh, John Law, and, to descend from
| large to small potatoes, a. P. Hovey, Jos.
| P. Edison, John S. Gavitt, A. T. Whittle-
sey, Royal s. Hicks and David T. Laird.
These individuals and others like them,
in various localities, are professional politi-
clans, practiced demagogues, and unscrupu-
lous experts in the use of means to sub
serve their own selfish ends. They are en-
tirely regardless of the welfare of the pub
lie when it comes in conflict with their own
comfort and aggrandizemeGt. Their motto
is "Take care Of No. every one for him.
self, and the Devil take the hindmost. y
They do not recognize the correctness of
the Jeffersonian test for official aspirants-
| C,ft f,,1, nd
for the rule of conduct observed by every
good citizen who does not depend on office
seeking for a livelihood, viz, "Neyer to
seek nor decline office" they move to
amend this wholesome regulation by strik-
ing out "seek nor," SO that the amended
clause shall read "Never to decline office
Such partizan adventurers suppose that
they can one year occupy one platform and
the next year another that they can break
political pledges and promises at pleasure
that they can sacrifice everything at will
for the good of the party 10 which they
happen for the time being to belong ; that
they can remain in office continuously dur
ing life drawing n sinecure and fattening on
official pap that they can pack conven-
tions and foist themselves into comfortable
positions that they car fatter, bribe, or
bully the community into their support
that they can draw to an unlimited extent
on the public treasures to which they may
have access for the support of their mon
strous pretensions--they actually take it
for granted that they have a prescriptive
right to do all these things, without that
supposed right being questioned. And
sometimes when their success in euchering
the public is considered it does really seem
that their high flown notions are not SO
very unfounded after all. The American
people noted for their extreme gullibility
the world over. If a person from another
country wishes to palm off consummate
humbug of any kind and make a fortune
with it, he or she comes to the United States
of America.
The day has been when mbuggery could
be carried on here without limit The
Prophet Daniel says, Many shall run to
The American people of late years have
begun to traDel and to see the world, and
the consequence is, their exceeding green
ness is passing into ripe wisdom. As this |
wisdom becomes perfected, all kinds of hum
buggery-pohticaJ humbuggery with the
balance-must cease to control the country [
Hence the prospects of these political mount
ebanks are on the wane, and approaching /
the sere and yellov~-s4f.' Their power /
over the people is departing, simply because /
knowledge is increasing, and ignorance is
being dispelled by the sun of high civiliza-
tion.
October and November will be a season .
of great mortality amongst these false pre-
tenders. The great chief of the tribe
Douglass fast sinking into the Lethe of /
oblivion, and Hendricks, Law, Voorhees,,
Hicks, Laird, Gavitt Whittlesey & Co, will
accompany him.
DEMOCRATS ArrENTIoN.-Company J, of .
the Union Guards, will meet this Thursday /
evening in the Union Engine House at u /
o'clock
A general attendance is requested, as