The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-06-17
ro,n. C;,,zrns of PIKE County.

Enquirer. Having in yesterday 'ou'"ai
replied to a very respectful letter written to
rs By a gentleman of Pe'ersburgh, who feel
ing perhaps quite as strongly as Mr. Glezen,
at the same time knows how to express his
feelings in gentlemanly language, and is too
much Of a man 10 ascribe to unworthy mo-
tives that which might have resulted from
Measurements made to us-we do not now
feel called upon to take serious notice OF a
communication, which has none of the char
scteristics Of the letter alluded to, no more
than the writer Of such communication can
possess the higher attributes of character be-
l,nging to the author of the letter. II Mr.
Glezen, honestly believing our article did
injustice to the citizens Of Pike county, had
as great desire to correct the Measurements
in a proper manner, as he had ambition to
figure in the columns Of a newspaper, or i'm
pudent presumption liz taking it upon himself
to speak for the citizens Of Pike county, he
would have seen the propriety Of correcting
the errors in the paper in which they appear
ed. and in the language and style Of gen.
tleman, instead Of using the columns of an
other paper, and in a spirit not at oil called
for by the occasion, ascribing to US motives
which we dsown and contemn, and calling
simple errors, "unmitigated falsehoods." The
communication from beginning to end, ex-
hibits more disposition to injure the Jour-
nal, and to gain popularity among the citi-
zens of Pike county by the display of vir-
tuous Indignation in their behalf, and an over
weening desire in Mr.. GIezen to figure in a
newspaper-than any laudable and honest
purpose of correcting errors, calculated, al
-4hnnch as he knops not intended, to injure the
character
So much for this commu ncation, for no.
ticing which at all, we apologize to our read
ers. As to the article complained Of, we
have already said prominent point to which
objection is made, has been entirely misun-
derstood. We stated that the kdnapper
Brown. for running away certain slaves had
received two hundred dollars from nes'o
:, TIE r;cipif.. r. r'---~~''0". we did not
ms we have been accused of saying,
that he received this reward from a negro in
the vicinity Of Petersburgh. So far as we
knew. there might not have been negro
in Pike county. So much for that. Mo-
the only other part of the article to mich
objection could be made by the c'''1ens oil
Pike county, is the following sentence:
One Of those background Railroad"
conductors ci--en of Henderson, Ky,
passed thr--sn our city night before last. on
hi. rain from delivering, per contract, four
Iemale slaves at the Canada depot in Peters
burgh, Ind.
Now then, we are ready to prove, and have
the evidence at hand, that Brown contracted
to deliver these slaves at Petersburqh, for
which services he was to be paid $500 and a
horse. We had a right to suppose that a
kdnapper making a contract for the delivery
OF four slaves TO that place, there must be a
kind of Canada depot at Petersburgh, not
thinking however for a moment, that the
citizens of Petersburgh, would at all per-
nit their town to be made this kind of
depot, it they were aware of the fact. All
such underground Railroad" operations are
conducted with the greatest possible secrecy.
1t is not to be supposed that in a community
opposed to all such negro stealing transac-
tons, more than two or three persons in the
community would be participators in the bust
ness-therefore it is nonsense to presume
we had any intention of slandering the peo-
pie of Petersburgh as mass by the above
remark, or that we intended to hold them re.
sponsible for the secret acts OF one or two alb.
olitonists in their midst.
The whole Indignation Of the people of
Petersburgh has arisen from two facts. In
the first place, they entirely misapprehe nded
our statement about in uhat yicinityt the free
negro lived who contracted With Brown for
kidnapping these slaves. Secondly, they ap-
pear TO think we had been msinformed rela-
i've to any contract for the delivery of fugi-
i've slaves at Petersburgh by kidnapper,
anu therefore were utterly uDjusti6able in
speaking oil "Cauada depot" at that place.
Ii this contract be questioned, We shall bring
forward indisputable evidence that sueh a !
contract was made. And if such a contract
existed, we had right to suppose, that al |
though unknown to the citizens. there ,oos
kind of "Canada depot" in that place or Vi
entity. We are happy to be informed the
contrary, and of the excellent feeling which
prevails In Pike county against all such n.-
gro stealing operations-although we were
pretty well aware of that fact before. nj
after this explanation, our friend. in Pill.
county think We have been guilty of what
Mr. Glezen calls "groundless and un provoked
denuociatlons"(Do of them, he is undoubtedly
very proper representative of their intelIi.
gencs, justice and honest fairns.s-other.
wise he ISLANDERS them. when he pr stends TO
represent anything else than his own dema-
gogue desirss, or anybody else than Joseph
= Glersn.