The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-07-19
Williams md r-illard.

Williams and willard.
The Nashville Republican gives the follow
ing faithful account of The speeches OF
Messrs. Williams and Willard when they ad-
dressed the citizens of that place. 1t seems
that there, as well as here, willard wNs
FUSED up man."
Dir. William opened the discussion He
spoke an hour and ten minutes He made
no pretensions to oratory in his introductry
remarks. He might have used the language
OF Mark Antony, and said in point Of preten-
sion:
am no crater, as Brutus is.
But lie spoke fright on" and so pointcdly
and forcibly OF some Of mis- Oponcnt's public
acts, and the acts of the leaders of modern
Democracy,he 50 RUFFLED UP his antagonists
feelings that he could neither sit sill nor hold
his peace.
lie took up the Georgia land swindle, and
~lowed the connection which bir. Willard
had with tbs nelariQus transaction. ami by
which lands that cost the State tgo hundred
and fory thousand dollars were bestowed
upon leader Of ''the party as a gratuity,
and the people defrduded cut oftheir interest
in them. He showed that Paris G. Duning,
democratic" Governor of Indiana, sold these
Il
tor, without notice, and when Il larger price
was offered, and even that small rittgnce has
never found it's way into the State Treasury!
He further showed that after Willard, as
member of the Legislature, had insisted that
his iraudulant sale was valid aud binding in
law and equity, aud voted for a bill 10 con-
firm the sale, he had introduced bill to
pay $4,000 back taxes Ucon the lands
which he had maintained, by speech ana
votes, were Green's lands, out of the State
Treasury, thereby plunaering the people
not only OFT OF their lands, hut fox three thou
sand dallars Of their money Of the benefit OF
Martin II. Green and Paris c. Cunning, two
distinguished leaders o."the party"
But he showed worse plundering upon the
part of Willard than that which Wiili.rd
aided even Green andDunning to accomplish.
The State built some 40 miles of the n. Al
bany and Vincennes Turnpike, expending
DOLLARS on the work. Toii-gates wer.
erected upon the road, and Willard admit
ted that there had been more than fifty thou
sand dollars of tolls collected upon it by til
State, which hld been expended in repair,
&c. Wen, a winter or two since, Mr. VIII
lard succeeded in getting bill passed though
the Legislature, entitled an act to incorporate
aplank road company, and by which the State
surrendered her interest (3700,0UO) Ia the
road to company, and by whicA he had be.
made one OF the corporators! No only So;
he published Il letter in cle New Albany pa
pers. IN which he stated that the state Aad
right to redeem or take back the yyo.!, ~
ANY TINE; that the Law Was not puDiisaed;
that with this letter before the pubic, VII
lard grsH MT b.. /
subscrl rtlon OF stOc6 ami tlaI Willard,
without having copy OF tnc law III d IN the
clerks Office or made pu5lic subscribed tn,
principal amount o. the stock niiasel, while
others were norant of the provisions Of The
charter. That in iealiy, Willard ind MS ac-
completes, by making six miles of plank road,
will have the abso.u,e cont-o, aid eHjoy IN, ut
o. the road and theDuneft ii theSLat 5 eApen-
dture OF 100000 for twenty collars, without
any right or power in the Site to get back
the road, or the control OF it any way, lor
that period. He legslated seven hundred
dollars, Of the peoples money, into his own
pocket. Let use see. Suppose the tolls
should pay six per cent, upon the invesI ment
(and most plank roads pay more), OF what
amount has Willard, by his duplicity und
! scheming, pluudered the people! The intc-
rest on 100000 per anum, at per cent, is
$4,000. In twenty years this will amount
to EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY
| THOUSAND DOLLARS! There is some
inducement TO Democratic leader, if the
p ople Will sanction such populations as this,
and reward the EeInderer with next to the
highest Office in the State for dishonesty
But we find we are occupyinytoo much space
Mr.. Willard secured the defeat Of the bill
authorizing the sale of the States interest in
the Madison road for Sl,2OO,OOO but voted
for one at the next session disposing Of it at
S6O0,00 He fnancierS much better for him
self than he does for the State! In one case
he pocketed 100000 dollars of the States cx-
pendlture, and in the other was the means of
depriving the State of600,0OO dollars more by
delay.
Mr.. Williams briefly explained his position
on National politics. We think his views OF
the Compromise were satisfactory. lie would
not have voted for the Fugitive Slave Law, in
its present shape, but he was willing to acqui-
esce in the Compromise demonstrating to
try them-but he was not willing to pleacc
them above the Constitution and say they
were a ''fnality.