Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-26
The New York Day Book.

The New York Day Book.
Our expose of the atrociOus doctrines
promulgated by the Day Book during
the political campaign of 1856, in the
name of Democracy, created great con-
sternation among those who were dis
posed to accept and endorse its teachings
as sound Democratic sentiment to-day.
The futtering among the the Third
Street birds shows how we'll directed and
unexpected was the blow. We regard
their confusion as sign full of promise.
To our minds it demonstrates that the
mass of the Democratic party is not
"given ever to hardness of heart and
reprobacy of mind and the leaders
tremble with apprehension lest their fol-
lovers, correctly learning the truths of
the past, will repudiate them and their
disloyal practices. iHe5a
In our former notice we said it was an
insult to every honest, hard working
Democrat, to have the New York Day
Book thrust in his face as the enuncia-
tor of sound political sentiment
We repeat that assertion, adding
that the Day Book has always, and with
satanic energy, laboredin behalf of the ar
istocracy of the rebel States, and against
the interest of loyal laboring men through
out the country. As an evidence of the
extreme to which it aoent in its advocacy
OF the institution of slavery, we copied a
paragraph favoring the passage of law
by the New York Legislature for selling
poor man and his children into bon
dGge That sentiment has stood upon
the records Of the cou ntry for seven
years, and has never, to our knowledge,
been denied. It was not diselaimed in
1856, because, as we said before, it was
calculated to convince the Southern
States Of the soundness of their political
allies in the North. Then, it was re
garded as superior political maneuver.
and met with no frOwn of disapproba-
ton from even the leaders of the northern
wing of the party. A denial now of the
position held by the Day Book in 1856,
will meet with little confidence. 1t
comes too late.
But We proceed further, to show that
the Day Book was in harmony with
Southern Democratic papers in its atre-
eious doctrines relative to enslaving
poor whites; and yet further, that it occu-
pied position in regard to the extern
sion of slavery that is obnoxious to every
friend of freedom in the land.
The Richmond Examiner maintained
that " Slavery is right, natural and neces-
sary, and does not depend upon DIFF
terenees Of COMPLEXION. The laws of
the Slave States justify the holding of
WHITE MEN in bondage"
a leading Democratic paper in South
Carolina declared Slavery is the
natural and normal condition of the
IGboring men, whether WHITE or black,
The Richmond Examiner pronounced
free society insuferable, unnatural
and unchristian," and predicted that it
must give way to slave society.
The Museogee (AIa.) Herald insisted
that the so-ealled free society of the
Northern States was but conglomera-
ton of greasy mechanics, filthy opera
tors, small listed farmers and moon struck
theorists, hardly fit for association with
Southern gentlemen's body servants.
The South Side Democrat, whose Ed
eitor was supported for Clerk of the House
of Representatives by Smith Miller of
this District, hated everything with the
prefix free" free labor, free society,
free ehiIdrea and free schools
The Charleston g. CO. Standard, in
defending Herbert, the Congressman who
murdered an Irish waiter at Washing
ton hotel, said: "If ichite men accept
the offices of menials, it should be ex-
pected that they will do so with an ap-
prehension of their RELATIONSHIP society,
and the disposition quietly to encounter
both the responsibilities and liabilities
which the relation imposes In other
words, if white men chose to perform the
labor that is done by slaves in the rebel
States, they must do so in expectation, of
having their brains blown out by any
chivalric gentleman who chose to take
ofense at any of their actions. IT.
The Alabama Nail thOughtit was time
walters at the North were convinced
that they are servants, and not gentle
men in disguise"
Reynolds, candidate for Congress
from Missouri, insisted that the same
construction of the power of Congress to
exclude slavery from the territories,
would justify the Government in exelu-
ding foreign-bOrn eitizens-Germans
and Irish, az t0eH as ringers. So We
might quote by the column, and the ex-
tract we gave from the Day Book only
accords with the teachings of the South.