The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-10
1t won't do.

The Republican in abiding editorialy, and
with not very commendable good humor, to
the letter which appeared in the Journal
signed H. w. L., does marked and wiliul in
justice to an old subscriber merely because
he saw fit, as a good citizen and neral man,
to withdraw his name from the subscription
list CT the Republican and accompany
his action by little sound advice. 1t init
mates or charges directly there was colIu-
sion between Mr.. Lauer, who was the author
of the letter, and ourself. We will not sup
pose the editors Of the Republican SO igno-
rant Of the character Of Mr.. L. or OF our
own, as to say that when they made this
charge they did so honestly. Not so. On
the contrary they knew perfectly well Mr.. L.
was acting as he did, in handing them the
letter, without our knowledge. He came to
our office and gave US letter. which he said
was a copy ofone he had handed to the ed
itors OF the Republican, and Of which they
had taken no notice. We told him notice
should be taken of it IN both papers, and it
has been DONE He said he had subscribed
for the Republican and paid six months in
ILlebt llO was llDCic i III pOAltlCSi elAld
wished to read both sides-but that he would
not read nor have in his house such a sheet
as the Republican had descendeddo be with
in the last few weeks, and although but a
short period of his subscription had been ia
ken out, he would freely present the@4Eb
fishers with the balance, if they would di-
rect their paper to him no more. THIS was
L. .-.H Al
which certainly was a bitter Pill for those
gentlemen to swallow, and calculated TO spoil
even the best temper.
Now who is Mr.. Lauer-tIiis man who for
honestly expressing his opinion Of such ed
itors as these and openly to their faces, has
been ridiculed abused and called a slick
spittle, " "soft," and charged with Disgrace
lul conspiracy2 Who is this man we ask,
that for doing as we have said should be
thus submitted to the abuse of two young
men who have not yet established characters
for themselves in the community? He is
German Minister, OF respectable standing,
an upright, straight forward man. who rep
resents a large class of Germans in this vi
cinity. And this man has been fidicaled be-
cause he cannot 'plainly articulate,' and can
not write the English language with that
ease and grace which mark some writer's but
which in no manner distinguish these crit
les. Because he is a German by BIRTH his
pronunciation is to be ridiculed. Thus the
Germans may expect when they presume to
admonish or advise the Republican men, that
if they do not speak in exclusively refined
English, they will be made subjects of ri1i-
cule because they do not "plainly articuate."
This sounds peculiarly rich after their attacks
on a certain candidate for being linked with
a Native American clique.
Hereafter when a subscriber leaves the Re
publican, and chooses 10 inform the publish
ers of the fact, he must expect abuse and
defamation. All the abuse that could be
thrown out however, against such men as
Mr.. L., from the Republican source will on
Iy injure the editors themselves; at least thus
far, it has injured themselves alone.
We reply to the Republicans article only
to place Mr.. L. correctly before the public
He had the honesty to speak his mind, and
the boldness to sign his name to that which
he wrote. For this, he a respectable Ger
man citizen, and good man, is publicly rid
iculed and DETAINED. IT'S true he hit them
hard, and he spoke as no doubt many sub
scribers Of the Republican, if it have many,
think Truth hurts always more than falsity,
when both are disagreeable at all For in
stance, some truths we have Stated relative
to cur respected contemporaries of the Repub-
hcan, strike much harder and sharper, than
all the falsities it can hatch against US.
As to US wishing clear field for the Jour-
nal, we never have had yet in Evansville any
difficulty in keeping clear field, and when
we do, we shall follow the Republicans adj
vice, and "pull up stakes" The opposition
editors thus far have pretty much saved US
the task of writing them down. They do it
for themselves most efTectualy. The Re
publican is not the slightest opposition to US
in business, and it is much better for us that
it should remain than to sink, for in such case
it might fall into the hands of those who bet
ter know how to render it an opposition.
A Word OF Advice.
The attention ofour city authorities should
be turned to a perfect cleansing OF every
thing in the city, calculated by It's impurity
to affect the atmosphere. Complaint has
been made us, that Several allies are in a bad,
filthy condition. This should be remedied