The Daily Evansville Journal

An Infamous Speech.

The success of the Democratic party in New York has made John Van Buren delirious. He acts and talks like a madman. He shouts and claps his hands like a child who, having set fire to its own home, rejoices in the blaze it has kindled. Van Buren's heart's desire seems to be to get arrested and thrown into prison. If he had the moral courage to attempt what he artfully tries to persuade others to do, his desires for arrest would be more than satisfied. His childish talk about going to Washington to beard the President and his Cabinet, shows that he is not only a traitor, but a fool. We copy a portion of his speech, both on account of the doctrine promulgated and because it was enthusiastically cheered by one of the largest Democratic meetings ever held in the city of New York. The speech is significant of the revolutionary schemes indulged in by the leaders of the Democratic organization.

We commend this extract to the careful attention of the reflecting farmers and business men of this portion of the North-west, and ask those who assisted in achieving success for these leaders, if the banquet to which Van Buren invites them is just such an one as they anticipated. Mr. Van Buren said:

"This city stands now, with all its intelligence, enterprise, activity, and wealth, beside the Union, in opposition to Abolition, and with our solidity a force and power that terrifies these people who are opposed to us, that puts an end to this idea of arbitrary arrests, and teaches the Government that their real danger lies in the act of overstepping the Laws and the Constitution. So long as they go in strict conformity to the laws they may be allowed to linger out a sickly existence to the close of their official term, but the moment they depart from well-ascertained principles of right they resolve society into its original elements, and they give notice to us, who have physical force, not only that physical force rests with the governed, but that resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." [Great applause.] The real security of Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet, and the men who are now administering the Government of this country, lies in their faithful obedience to the Constitution. Good. The moment they depart one line from it, they resolve society into its original elements and make it a question of physical force, and in this community, and in New Jersey, with its fourteen thousand majority for the Democratic ticket, and in portions of New York State, if they transcend in one line the letter of the written Constitution, I would not answer for the personal safety of any man connected with the Government who should set his foot on our territory. [Applause.] They have talked of arresting prominent men on our side. They have spoken at times of arresting me. [Laughter.] Not to me; they would not tell such nonsense to me, but to sick relatives, women, and children. [Renewed laughter.] I told them that they did not dare arrest me in New York City. The physical force was too strong. They thought they would arrest me in Philadelphia, where they had a majority, and I went there to see if they would. [Laughter.] They did not do it there, and I went to Baltimore, and as they did not do it there, I went to Washington, and into the President's house. [Laughter and applause.] And as my business there has been a subject of considerable conversation, I now state that I had no business on earth there except to see whether they wanted to arrest me; but they did not dare to so long as I kept inside the Constitution and the Laws: for though a very moderate lawyer, I know the law enough not to violate it, while I knew perfectly well that they did not dare arrest me as they had arrested women. And I know this, that if any man connected with the illegal arrests that have been made in New York State sets his foot upon the soil of New York State, I will arrest him. [Cheers long continued.] And, so help me God! he shall be brought to such punishment as the Constitution and the Laws of this country admit. [Renewed cheers.]