The Evansville Daily Journal

A Frank Confession.
The Southern Illinoisan, a strong Democratic paper, has raised the name of Sam. Houston to the head of its columns, for the next Presidency. The Illinoisan thus discourses on the delightful position of its own party: Our readers are fully aware of the present unfortunate and lamentable condition of our party throughout the Union. We are dissevered, disjointed—and defeated in almost every State where elections have taken place within the past year—the fruit, doubtless, of political, personal, and sectional jealousies arising between members of our common household, and the introducing of new and foreign tests of democracy, never heretofore known or recognised by a National Democratic Convention, as well as a thousand and one new isms which are engendered in the brains of inconsiderate politicians, often mere camp followers, and thrown without judgment or discretion, into the boiling and hissing political caldron of the day, before the people, and their adoption or rejection urged with vehemence and violence by their respective advocates or opponents. It is not our purpose, at this time, to say more of the present prostration of the democracy, or of the causes which have brought it about.