The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-04
The PurpOse~of the BeIl-Everett
Party In. Indiana,

The PurpOse~of the BeIl-EVerett
Party IN Indiana.
We clip the following paragraph from4he
New York Express '' $50
" VEvAY, Ind, Aug. %, 1860.
To the Editors OF the N 7. Express
The Union fires are burning brightly out
here, and since the formation of our Elec-
toral Ticket large numbers are being added
to our ranks FIVE do no more, i've may at
least give the State to Douglas.
.- tINDIANA.'
We thank you, gentlemen, for the frank
ness of this utterance. 1t is not doubtful
nor capable of miseonstruction. Ii means
simply this :: that the Bell leaders-we do
not say the party-the Bell leaders are ex-
! erting themselves to elevate to power that
rank disorganizer and troubler of the public
| peace, Stephen A. Douglas. ....
1t we do no more, we may at least give
| the State to Douglas If we can't elect
| Bell, who is put forward as the friend Of
/ harmony and peace between the different
sections of the nation, we may give the
! State to the man who has done more than
any other man in the country, Vim. Lloyd
/ Garrison not excepted TO excite the public
mind on the Slavery question. That's what
the Bell leaders say. If we can't throw
water on the fire, we may at least throw
!
There was once a restriction to Slavery
extension in this county. 1t was the result
of the labors of patriots and pacifcators. 1t
was the work of Henry Clay, who to it
brought patriotism unsurpassed in the an
nails of America, an eloquence rare and
! convincing, personal influence unusually
potent and a craftsmanship so wise and ben
Efficient that the wisest of other statesmen
felt their weakness in its presence. This
| restriction was a restriction TO which the
! North and South assented heartily and
| cheerfully. 1t was restriction which both
sections felt to be productive of peace. 1t
was restriction held so sacred that, i'll
1850, Mr.. Stephen Arnold Douglas, then as
now a member of the United States Senate,
pronounced the "haud'' that would disturb
it "RUTHLEss." The wisdom of this Slave
ry restriction, those men who now consti-
tute The Bell party, particularly and espe-
cially Endorsed and Iauded. Hardly less sa-
cred than the Constitution did they deem it,
and that it should always be inviolate did
they most loudly urge. That these men
won obloquy, sometimes, from men who be-
lieved that freedom should not be restricted,
because of their persistent and rigid adhe-
renee to this measure, and that they pro-
claimed the Missouri Compromise the safe
guard of our Union, are facts of history, no
less than of their own personal knowledge
and remembrance.
Well In l854 the Missouri Compromise
was repealed. 1t was pronounced "inoper-
erative and void"
Those honest men who now think John
Bell the only man that can save the Union
were moved at this action beyond measure.
There came political tornado over the
North, and when it had passed, those repre-
sentatives of the people who had been so
faithless to their constituents as to vote fer
this repeal, were found as trees in the forest
where the whirlwind has passed-blighted
) withered, uprooted, leaness trunks, perpetu-
al monuments of the strength of an incens-
: ed peoples wrath Six years later, and we
see the leaders of the Bell party in Indiana
preparing to defeat, in that State, Il man
! whose political opinions were framed in con-
sonance with the spirit that dictated thai
much hOnored Compromise, who believed il
conferred harmony upon the country, anC
venerated it and its author, Henry Clay
And for what? Why that they may "givt
3 the State " to that man whose RUTHLESS
4 hand was "reckless enough to disturb
that % sacred thing" "canonized in the
hearts of the American people "a mar
] who pronounced the author of the Missouri
, Compromise a " blackhearted villain, traitor
scoGndrel, murderer, duelist, gambler, black
) leg and seducer."
7 Voters of the Bell Everett persuasion il
y Indiana, that's the work you are invited
7 to do You are told by one of your leader!
in the leading Bell-Douglas paper of tbs
) United States that if you cant give the
7 State to Bell, you may at least give it Il
1 Douglas You, who venerated the Nilsson
ri Compromise and Henry Clay, are called
Il upon to aid in the election to the Presiden
cy of man who boosted at Providence
r. l., Aug. 3, 1861 that he brought il
the bill to repeal the former" and in Jack
y Sonville, Illinois, rummaged the vocabulary
of personal abuse to find epithets for tht
, | latteTl
!. You are asked to do this, when yon car
: by your votes render the assurance doubly
y sure of the election to the Presidency of a
) man who, with you, respected the Missouri
Compromise, and not only,,respected but loveC
its author.
8 Bell men of IndianaI Your leaders have
) sold you to Douglas Will you cousn
to the transfer Gin. Gaz.