The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-03-25
EVANSVILLE. March 10Th. 1850.

IL II. OANDERS, ESQ.j GOtIOF o. JOUfHOL
SIR-We yesterday received your commu-
nication Of the 18th inst, and on the same
evening Submitted it to our Division, and the
Division thereupon instructed US to reply to
your letter. and correct sundry misapprehen-
Sims and mistakes into which you have fall
len, and to present to your consideration our
grounds Of complaint, and appeal to your own
judgment and conscience,t to set us right before
the public. In the performance Of this duty
we now address you, and you will be kind
enough to bear with US whilst we recapitu-
late the facts as they have transpired. They
are as follows:
For some time before and ever since you
becaE.e the Editor Of the Journal, a Temper
ance ass0cis ton has existed in this city call
ed The Evansville Temperance Union. 1t
holds its meetings monthly in public, is COM
posed Of young and old, male and female, and
has no connection with the Order of the Sons
of Temperance, except that some OF the Sons
are members of and take part in the proceed
ings of this association. At the last regular
meeting of this Temperance association, GER
tain remarks or illusions to your paper were
made by one or at most two of its members,
(whoare also Sons to which you took excep-
tons In your paper Of the 9th inst, you
published an editorial article in relation to
this meeting, in which you say. that if you
were to convert your sheet into Temperance
paper, your first blow would be CATER doing
certain other things which do not concern our
Order) ITO strip from the shoulders Of certain
Sons Of Temperance the garb ofhypocrisy
and expose them in their true mental defor-
nlity to their honest minded brethren This
you continue would be beneitting Temper
ance, &c. You then threaten in certain
contingency to perform this stripping process
and remark, that if you do perform it, the per-
sons of whose conduct you complain and GER
tain of their brethren, had better stand from
under for you 1riU sholoer a catalogue o
names upon their heads that may moral,
crack some of their crowns. You further
stated, that not few Sons of Temperance
had awaited themselves of the private en-
trance to certain drinking establishment il
than eating.** Two days after this, YOU
published in the Journal of the 9th inst. an
other editorial article headed "All Right
in which you conveyed the impression tina
your former article was generally approved
by both temperance and anti-temperanct
men.f The tendency of these articles wa
unmistakable: it was such as was we'll cal
, culated t. bring our Order into public odiun
and contempt among those who do not know
the men who comprise it in this city.+ Unde
these circumstances our Division, feeling tina
they owed it to themselves and to the com
munity to investigate the charge, unanimous
" passed the preamble and resolutions ap
pointing US a Committee to wait upon yor
and give GU list of our members, and re
, quest you TO say if any of them were obnoz
! and by whom it could be proved; and instruct
Sat tnoo orihese meetings we and our pape
e were the object ofremarks, and at the frs
p aIlusion was made to US in our private as we
as public capacity. To repel these attacks
which formed the original aggression, and t
prevent such illusions hereafter were til
objects of the editorial to- which objection
have been made.
: **Whch is true. Are we to be persecute
for telling the truth?
$50 far as we could learn by conversatio
and inquiries, this was correct.
I'll this be SO, we regret it. Such resul
was certainly not intended. If the telling Q
D the truth-the declaration of the real facts c
= the ease-were calculated to have this effect
they should not have been forced from US.