The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-15
The Immortal nemoeraey.

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Press, (Which lively sheet il now pub
lished at Columbus, Ohio draws the
following graphic portrait Of the inn
mortal Democracy;
lit ia the fate of the immortal De
mocracy never u, learn anything; and
one would suppose from the way they
cling 10 the resolutions Of 90, that
they are doomed never TO forget any
thing.
Year after year they 60 through the
ceremony of an election, and year after
year they suffer the same Notifying
defeat. Last years disaster leaves 40
encouragement, and the coming can
vass sees them preparing with enthI-
siasIn for the same result,
One would suppose the contest late
ly closed would weaken their conf
dence. They never before entered the
field with such prospects. The people
were weary of strife and willing TO
close the war upon almost any terms.
The acting President with his i'm
menee power consolidated by patron.
age, went over 10 them, and yet the
yerdiet IL conclusive. The masses will
have none Of them upon any terms.
And why? 3r 81
The people can not, in the first
place, forget that this organization at
the South made war on our. govern
ment, and at the North eyrnpathized
with our enemies And in the SEQ
ond place the Democratic Lenders
persist in making the political fight
on the same issue that gave rise to the
war. i4
They lack the sagacity to perceive
that the cheapest philanthropy is
that which frees some other mans
negro, and the most popular PROPOSE
ton is that which looks TO the pun
ishment Of men who shot down or
starved to death our sons and broth
ers.
Like the tabled hero Of antiquity,
the Democracy rises from each fall,
if not stronger, at least more vicious,
plucky, and infinitely dirtier. la
We concede to the Democracy It's
much vaunted Immortality, We diff |
fer from the venerable Porient in the |
assertion that error dies amid her
worsiiippere. To err Is human, and a
party built upon the passions, prejua
dices and weakness Of humanity, has
stronger vitality than one made up
Of abstract propositions of right. Ma
pole4p. once said, let lie live twenty
four hours and IL becomes, history.
And another clever fellow comforts
US with the assurance that tile most
difficult thing 10 kill is a lie. Wei
run itdown, we chase il into q cor |
ner, beat il over the head, chop il in
pieces and suppose the thing dead
and disposed Of, when lol the next |
day we meet our lie in good health
and active circulation.
The Democracy, under that or some
other equally significant name, is i'm
mortal AT the. Great Day, when the
Lord closes the polls for the last
time, we expect the party to come to
Judgment declaring an abiding faith in
the resolutions of '99, and detern-
ination to vote the ticket, the whole
ticket, and nothing but the ticket,
amid the unextinguishable laughter Of
angels and fiends. l.
Born Of Jacobins and reared by
revolutionists, the Democracy claims
to be a Conservative party; and based
upon equal rights, il It's name means
anything, IL il the fierce advocate of
the meanest caste known TO humanity.
50 Jar as any conviction, principle
or opinion is concerned, why the De- Il
mocracy goes TO. the pains of existing,
or existing SO furiously, puzzles the
will Land confunds the understanding.
There IL no shade Of doctrine one may
not possess, and not be one Of the i'm
mortality family, so that he entertains
proper " despiseY for the person of
African descent. u N eEHs <'4Y
1t UNCONVENTIONAL, however, to sup
pose that all this Democratic turmoil p
is without cause, We commit a com
mon error IN believing that n differ 4
ence of opinion causes different mr.
ties. Parties originate more In an an
tagonism of feeling then ono of on;n-
ion, and we suppose hatred for the
negro, and fear that he will he snc-
sessful in his poor struggle for life,
are as potent TO create and keep up n
party, as was the anti Masonic furorr.
or the Know Nothing excitement.
In most free communities, the polit-
zeal elements generally resolve them
selves into ultra and Conservative or.
And this is matter Of
feeling. The poor man, coming into
the world and finding no place to sit
down and nothing TO wear or eat, is
disposed to better affairs by a change;
while a man born with all the tender
appliances Of wealth about him, is dis
posed, to be conservative. He wishes
to Keep things as he finds them. A
man generally, as he grows old, and
gathers about him the worlds gear,
gets conservative and timid. The
young are generally ultra. This ultra,
progressive element we used to call
the Democracy ut was, as we shall
shortly demonstrate, always a misno-