The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-04
Communicated
Progress.

BE ii reso7ved, That none can by
any law be prohibited from the liber-
| ty Of enjoying himself, be it publicly
or privately, and according to his own
desire, on any day Of the week, pro-
vided that by it the public order or
the respect due to prOpriety or to the
service of God, be not violated; and.
| that any excise or other law contrary
to this be modified accordingly. -
Resolutions Of the Republican Con-
vention of New York assembled at
! Syracuse.
Thoughswe may attempt to check
| refOrmatOry movements, and by de-
crees restrict them TO. certain limits.
yet what success can we hope, for?
Time, moves forward, and events pro-
gressive in every respect follow
la his train. Years passed before
the abolition of slavery could be at
tempted Our wise men Started as
from a specter, whenever it. became
the object of their musings; the time
came, and the stigma at which the
monarch of Europe would point when
more liberties were demanded by
their subjects, was removed from cur
country Scarcely have we passed
through the crisis occasioned by that
great reformatory movement, when
borne forward by resistless time,
another equally great is placed before
US. Long since has our country sui
fered from intolerance, becoming
daily more unbearable to the people,:
felt the more because our country was
supposed to be the dwelling place of
liberty, and therefore of free princi-
pies, of freedom of the one as long as
the public good was not interfered
with. What wonder then that
when it was announced that
certain liberties already restricted
SO as TO be the mere SEM
blance, must be withdrawn; that.
principles the very basis of freedom,
would be trammeled and shackled, a
cry went out from the whole country,
.pFotes sing against such sacrilege. n or
was that cry hushed when it became
known that foremost among those
advocates Of morality" were some
who Lad been. and still are, among
the leaders of2that party which struck
of the letters from the Southern,
black. and that these demanded this
party 10 loan its authority to their
foul undertaking. Sadly would the
party, which hold for its maxim
Liberty to all, have stained its lau-a
rels, had even an iota been conceded
to these fanatics. The proposed Goa
lition was rejected, and issue joined
with them. s;
3 Read anew the words preceding our,
attempt; they proclaim new era to
America Through them the Repub-.
lican party has again stamped itself
as the party of Progress, and to
the State of New York belongs
the honor having first cast
off the influence of misled fanatics,
But, it may be asked, will the Repub-
lican party acknowledge those senti-s
ments as its own, when for years 1T
has opposed them? We see what
that opposition has cost the party. for
its defeats in Maine, Pennsylvania. z
iowa and California; eanipainlg be at
Vor popuH. roc del, and truly the
people have spoken plainly enough
they t0iU be obeyed. Progress is nee
essary, and only the progressive party
can hope to be in favor. This We
have seen during the last seven years,
this again has-bee shown by the late
eIecJlOnS, ana II HOb UaUe wise Dy 0A-
perience, and it still refuses to yield it's
partial sentiments, let it be gathered
! to its fathersE Passing Through the
streets one morning, we were met by
friend, one of the leaders of the
party. A few words brought US to,
the temperance topic; instantly he
became all fame. We remarked that
part, OF our community would not
posed 10 their Social liberties. Coa,z
strung my remark as pointing to tFfea
German element, he exclaimed, % IF
the Germans wish to forsake their
party OF account of these sentiments.
let them go. the sooner the better,d
We can do without them as we have
done before.p9 This case does not
stand alone; similar opinions are ex-