The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-15

revise the Bible" Now, George ought
to know; he was there, and is wise
man himself. 1t surprising, though,
how great men will differ in opinion.
Here is what the New York Herald,
a Democratic oracle, says on the same
subject:
1t is becoming more and more apparent
Notwithstanding the outcries of the party
press, that the material of the Convention
IS of an exceedingly light Characteristic
low medlocrity in point OF fact. Here and
tain lights, who doubtless are regarded as
Z" great guns" in their localities: but In
the meIropolIs, measured Dy the lntelIect-
ual growth and force which are the result
of social and commercial attrition, they
are nearly ali of them A" small potatoes"
why, we would guarantee TO get up In
day better convention from the beer
shops within the circuit of half mile,
taking Tammany Hall as the centre,
better posted set OF men on politics and
whisky than are nfnety-nine out of every
hundred of those who are deputed to speak
for the Democracy of the Union. Ignore
the presence of Horatio Seymour of New
York, Parsons of Alabama, James A. Bay
ard OF Delaware, Judge Nelson of Tonnes
Pennsylvania, Tom Ewing, Jr., of Ohio,
Rhett of South Carolina, and Judge Sher-
man CT Ohio, and what have we here left
on the sliding scale of statesmanship?
New York is too large for these fellows.
In tn reading its streets their small INTEL
to supply the apartments thus made va
cant in their skulls, they resort TO sttmu-
lants. The result of this excess-the dele
cations seem to prefer . Jersey rif1ed -
and 8 unrectif1ed benZine" even to their
own native drinks-is delay of ordinary
business IN our Police Courts. The police,
| as in duty bound, are necessitated to ar
rest all drunken and disorderly persons
whom they find on the streets, and that
the business of the Convention may not
be delayed for want of a quorum, those
among the prisoners who are delegates
have precedence in the examinations be-
fore the sitting magistrates, who are Kept
busy from SIX O'Clock until nine or ten
every morning, dismissing, hntng and
lecturing them Tor conduct so unSeemly.
And these men would represent the
Democratic party that grand organiza-
ton which, in other times gathered in its
| mighty folds the greatest fntellects of the
republic, tnScribing on its banners q JEFF
ferson, Madison, Monroe, a Jackson.
Van Buren,, q Cass, Calhoun, a Wright,
and a hundred others, whose names shine
like stars on the pages of the history of
so out OF the length and breadth of the
nation only a pitiabie collection such as
we have described could be brought to-
in November of the balIot-boX against the
| Radical hosts, heao ed by such banner
| carers as Ulysses 5. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax.
When DIR. Morgan finds the filter
occasion to define more specifically
his sentiments" a great rush TO
u
been about sixty years in finding out
that his dftnittes are with the intelli-
gent Democracy, all of which time he
has kept up terrible thinking, and
never been known to say anything,
something brilliant may or may not
be expected when he does manage to
get his mouth off. We predict a great
political success In the Doctor.
1 l.
know why Stackhouse and Sam. Jones
were not among the speakists on
Saturday night. Perhaps they are
| held in reserve for the next meeting
of the faithful. With little practice,
it is believed, that they win be no
mean rivals of DIR. Morgan, in elo-
quence. Between them all, the tax
and greenback questions ought to be
thoroughly and lucidly placed before
| the country.
1t is limited that some Republicans,
who vainly imagined that, in some
mysterious way, voting for Pendleton
would fill their pockets with green
backs, have concluded not to vote
for him tIltS time; and as Seymour is
not much on more greenbacks, 4"
they will, no doubt, return to the
path OF rectItude, and support Grant
and Colfax. The presumption is,
that no Republican, who is not knave
or dupe, will vote for Seymour and
Blair.
Colonel DENLY eulogized Chase.
That was right. The Democrats hav-
ing secured him without considera-
ton, the least they can do is to puff
him. Hit him again. Poor Chase!
When Peter Maier suggested that
| Colonel DENLY would do to practice
law, but would not do in a case of
fever, did he mean it as a sly insinua-
ton in favor of the new convert? 1t
has an awful squint that way.
There is no longer any doubt that
the friends ofyoung Richardson know
that he is out.
{" Great trees from little fountains flow,
Great streams from little acorns grow -