The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-09-21
Gen. Lane, Judge Law and Col. Todd
The Country il Safe!


The Country - Safe!
If last Tuesday night had nothing remar-
kable in itself, it was truly made an aston
ishingIy memorable evening by the great po-
litical gathering and its momentous conse-
qlences, at Apollo Hall. Gen. Lane, the
Marion of the Mexican war;" had arrived
in town the evening previous. AS our anna.
BILE neighbor remarked, the people not know
ing he was expected, didn't give him public
reception at the depot! But General Lane
was at once advertised and posted Gin hand
bills not with 1.-The documents') to make
speech Tuesday night at Apollo Hall. The
General has many warm friends here, and
Apollo Hall was well filled, but as crcum.
stances afterwards proved, his friends were
greatly in the minority at the meeting.
Gen. Lane is but a very Indifferent speak
er, but oily as a whale. Any ordinary speak
er following such rigmarole as the Gener-
al made that evening, would have knocked
him sky high in every position he assumed.
Probably it iOas done-but we shall see.
Gen. Lane set out by telling how long he
had lived here, what the people had done for
him, how thankful he was, &C., &c. We
may here say, that during his two speeches
before the meeting closed, he probably told
all this over at least half a dozen times.
Start where he would, he generally got back
to the same stale trick, which he has practic-
ed here SO often before, to win sympathy and
respect. But he finally got on politics. He
alluded to the two great parties which had
heretofore occupied the feld-and the ma
tional Wing party was every thing in his
eyes. No one would possibly have taken
him to be the same man who was accustom.
ed SO short time since to abusing this par
ty for all that was wicked and infamous, and
who even abused and scandaized his old SUI
perior officer, the lamented Gen. Taylor,
merely because he was the Wing candidate,
when before he occupied that position, he
had lauded him to the skies. Yet here was
Gen. Lane all sugar and smiles to the Wing
party. He had always honored and loved
them, &C., and regarded them as good as the
Democracy, although he had been compelled
to differ with them, &c. But this Wing par
ty was no more. He then spoke of the abo-
iitionists, and finally brought it about tina,
all the Wings had turned abolitiousts, and
that now the two parties were the same old
Democratic party and the Abolition party
And this came from the great Gen. Lane!-
Bah! He knows that abolitionists are mol
known nor recognized in the first district o
Indiana. He knows that Wings and al
anti-Nebraska men, are not particle more
abolitionists for their position on this slavery
question than he is-and above all, that they
are not dOughfaces, a name all honest North
ern men should despise quite as much. Blu
We have no idea of treating the General!
speech seriously. Nothing ought to be treat
ed seriously connected with that meeting.
The General devoted some little time t,
the Nebraska bill, in which he did not com,
up to DIR. Fitch or Col. Moy, if he will for
give us for speaking thus as disparagingly o
his effort as human reason could conceive.
He alluded to the "Know Nothings."-
Here there was tremendous and prolonged
applause showing that this body was large
ly represented in the meeting, or else hat
the meetings warmest sympathies He wa
very indignant at them, and made a warn
appeal to foreigners, founded on the fac
(probably not quite facD that they were
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from foreigners, and even preventing then
coming to this country!
But the warmest appeal Of all, and the
main point of his speech, and evidently it
main object, was made to Democrats, to vot
the whole Democratic ticket. That is thu
principal object OF all these Machine Dem
ocrats' speeches, and to have this appea
answered, is the object Of bringing so many
Machine Democrat speakers into this district
They are very fearful many Democrats in
tend thinking and acting for themselves OF
this Nebraska question, and are not to b,
made roting machines Of by those who worl
the machinery. This fear is we'll founded
Hundreds of Dem ocrats in this district. an
thousands in the State, are now doing Mei
0wn thinking, and they will do their own vol
ing' in spite of the appliances brought t.
bear IN every shape and form, to whip then
into the traces, and make them act contrar,
to their own convictions of right. Tn
General thought that the Union was in i'm
mense danger-that the aboltionists (anti
Nebraska men) were only intent upon re
Pealing the compromise of 1850! To do tina
would be to dissolve the Union. The Gen
.eral can rest easy on that score. They hav
no such designs in view. But we sha