Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-18
A BIaanheming Politician.

New York politics. With Q fund of
ready wit, readiness and sbrewdness as
a speaker, a popular turn, aud no con-
scientioua scrupIss to deter him from
uttering the .meanest falsehoods and
the best Of men, be serves
the political gatherings of New York
Democrats a needed favor which they
could not obtain from any other member
Of their party. Everything by turns
and nothing Iong-one day . hardshell,
the next q softsheIl--to-day an aboli-
ZIONIST, to-npuoe eopperheadg-=ssls
year denouncer Of Southern men and
principles aud the next their fawning
euIogist and spolog ist.-he is an eni.
nently Ct representative CT a political
organization tina, has frankly abandoaed
all its principles that it may obtain and
retain Office. This John Van Buren-
the great political clown Of the State
of New York--bas recently made =
speech 10 Albany, the capital Of that
State. There is nothing strange IN this
announcement, because be 10 in the hab-
It Of doing thatthinz. But there 10 some
thing In his speech TO which We desire
to call The attention Of our readers.
The point to which We invite their clo-
sest scrutiny In that 10 which, with the
malignily Of e damned spirit, he exults
over the deaths of those Presidents who
were elected in opposition to the Demo-
cracy. We copy his languages on tEis
point e aAAt1 ,aee4 II
In regard to President johnson him.
self, IL is often said that be may die.s My
answer TO that is, ''if be is Democrat
he won't die" Nc, De.1ocrat ever died
in the Presidential office, and tits
very curious fact that during the last
sixty. I've years eli the Presidents elect
cd have been elected By the Democratic
party, or portions Of il, not even except
Ing John Quincy Adams, who had been
for a long time q member o: the Demo.
cratic party, aud only three federalists--
General Harrison, General Taylor and
Mr. Lincoln--haVe been elected; each of
them died 10 the Presidential Office, and
the Vice President who succeeded adj
ministered the office upon Democratic
principles, and the results have been,
during that whole time Democratic
principles have been IN the ascendant
Now wonder that some Of these cleri.
cal Republicans, who are always looking
for the finger Of Providence, do not see
what peculiar dispensation THE Is that
no Democrat ever died In the Office, and
no federalist ever lived 10 IL. Bx.raor
binary aa has been thc9wEfehful care OF
Providence over the United States, from
the fret germ Of the reyolutioa 70 the
last sign Of the rebellion, IN no way has
that Providence been more conspicuous
than in the care and presidency with
which the people have been savedlfrom
the progress Of federalisl dominion.
The blaspbemeus wretch who can gloat
over the death OF ZACH wiSs aud good
men as Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln
for in our minds there IL bat little doubt
that the 6rst two fell victims 10 base
conspiracy as we'll as the lssl7-and an.
nonnee their taking of, 10 a drunksn
mob, as direct dispensation Of Proyi.
dence in behalf Of tbs Democratic par
~, should be kicked out Of decent so
cietY, aud be scorned and reF udiated by
tho good ia NIL parts Of che country.
That Albany speech OF John Van Barren
will add thousands Of votes to the y MON
ticket in November. The people in the
interior of New York are accustomed
to other food than the political garbage
That is fed to the mentally half-s,arved
dvsllers of the Five Points aud Mack
ereIville. Van Buren's ribaldry will ELL
the Intelligent people Of that Safe with
modification and Indignation, and they
will manifest their detestation of the
man and his sentiments at the polls
It is most unfortunate for President
johnson that his administrAtion and
policy should be furnished BY the en-.
dorsenent and approval of such man
as Van Buren,. 1t naturally Awakens
suspicious in the minds Of the good.
who elected and have heretofore sustain.
cd him, that something is wrong. They
cannot conceive that Van Burep has any
affinity for good man, irne patriot,
and his party, any more than the desif
has for Christ and Hin church. van Ba-
ren's nomination of Mr.. Johnson as
the next Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent indicates either that the Democracy
hope TO prostitute the President to their
base plans and purposes, or. ike whipped
spaniels, they crouch st the feet of the
aaaa they have heretofore slandered,
that they may recaise such eramhs Of
Office as be is willing 10 toss tothem.
In either case, the President ia neither
honOred nor strengthened BY their sup
port nrrrf eYwguH 0WA 81
OF course Democratic papers like the
New Albany Ledger who make some
pretensions TO decencys rush toward 70
apologize for Van Bsren. because they
see that apologies are greatly eeeded.
and endsavor to explain away his atro-
cious sentiments But their efferss are
vain. How futile they are, is shown up
by the Indianapolis Journal in tae fol.
lowing paragraphs: o &c 8.
The New Albany Ledger has BEEN
disturbed by our remarks upon that in-
famous portion of John Van Bnren,s
Albany speech in which be referred in
terms Of exultant satisfaction, to the ain
gular fact that Presidents Harrison,
Taylor and Lincoln had al died before
their official term had expired, while ev-
cry Democrat bad lived beyond mis- term.
The Ledger undertakes to justify the
blasphemous jos Of Van Barren, on the
ground that certain Abolition preach
ers incuIcated the idea that the assas.
sination Of President. Lincoln was prob
ably permitted by Providence for wise