The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-03-20

same answer was gwen TO the second Divls-
ion. We consider the lengthy letter address
ed us by the committee MS more like a law
yer's quirbling in case where he is bound
10 talk, than document intended 10 correct
our mistakes and misapprehensIons," and
appealing 10 our own conscience to set the
Order right before the public as II pretends.
The committee pretend to tell US, common
sense individual, that weacted under wrong
impulse OF duty in not giving up the names
of the offenders. With our word pledged to
others that we would on no condition give
them up--with common sense, justice, duty,
everything that can stay wrong action in a
man. telling US not to give up these names
this committee would urge us TO do thus
The writer need not deny that this would be
placing us in the position of spy and in
former TO his Order. He knolcs it would and
quibbling will not make the public believe
otherwise.
An intimation which we despise has been
thrown out in this letter, evidently intended
by the trriter, not by the Committee, to force
from US the information they have failed 9TH
erwise TO otain. The letter reTinds us that
| if we do not like to offend the thirteen, we
should remember Z" that there are among US
more than thirteen of your personal and polit-
lical friends who are also your patrons" In
l. H.. b,l LII, @f,;
teen and lose their patronage, than to lose the
patronage of all our personal and political
friends in the Order We hope the writer
may imagine our feelings OF contempt for this,
but indeed we have not words to speak them.
Withdraw their patronage! If there be one
patron in the Order who is such bigOt in the
cause of Temperance as % be wiling TO OBJ
struct the course of IA paper which is seeking
to benefit the community. and which has done
more to make known and advance Evansville
its Editor is thought by a te10 TO have been
guilty of an error, when the mass kno1U he
has not-he will not be happier in withdraw
ing his patronage" than we in dissolving
the disgraceful connection. The hare insin-
uation that personal and political friends :"
in the Order will thus Withdraw their patron
age. is an insult to their understanding and
honesty.
In conclusion the committee says-'If it
was any part Of your business to make the ac-
cusation at all, we submit whether it WAS not
also your business to say when politely re-
quested TO do so. who are included and who
are not included in that accusation. We
now leave the matter with you. trusting thar
your magnanimity and sense ofright will lead
you to set us right before the public" In
reply, we say under the circumstances it 1cds
part of our business TO make this accusation
or AT least our proper privilege 10 do so and
it is not our business TO give up the names. =
We hare set you right before the public
The public know that as an Order you are re-
spectacle aud have accomplished much good
but the public know just as well that some
OF yonr members have broken their pledges
and our declaration of the fact told them no.
thing but what they did know. We set you
right by telling this. You set yourselves
wrong in the first Pin by attacking us and
afterwards by placing construction upon the
article which neither its language nor spirir
would justify. In our humble opinion. led on
by few ultraistr, you have been making a
mountain Of mole hill.
We now leave the subject, and hope what
ever action may take place. l0e at least will
hear no more of 1t. The attention we have
given the affair has been owing wholly to the
responsibility of those gentlemen who have
called upon US as committees. Hereafter.
! they will be perfectly welcome in their indi-
vidual capacity. but SO far as this matter is
concerned, all committees that may come,
have been answered through those which
already have honored us with their presence.
Further Particulars.
The steamer J. B. Porter, the sinking of
which we noticed Yesterday was owned nv