The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-08-04
CITY OF EVANSVILLE.
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The vincenne> Gazette ana It's Folly.
We knew perfectly well when we penred
the articles last week in reply to an exceed.
ingly singular attack in the Vincennrs Ga
zette on the E., l. g. C. Straight Line Rail
road, that the facts and figures contained IN
those articles were unanswerabie. But al
ter TAXI the position the Gazette did, nav
ing attacked this great enterprise without
cause or provocaiinn. and pretend ng TO
perfect acquaintance with all The facts con-
nected with the road, we thought il would
certainly try to coHbdt our positions, or at
least deny what il could NOT dsprove, rather
than by entire silence on the facts gwen,
confess that malice r ignorance alone could
have prompted its unwarrantable attack =.
The last Gazette, however, cUntsins an ar
ticle of half column, which dropping all
argument on the -ubject, and not making the
slightest end-avOr( To- sustain it's former abb
surd positions, endeavors To justify its attack
on the Strsight l. ne r iIruad. by se ting up
the pretence, il was only in it, former ar
ticle defending the railroads Of Yilcennes
against the attacks of Evansville, he Strait
Line Railroad projectors, aud Others. Now
We will not permit the Gazstie 10 make this
false issue, or rather utter misstatement Of
its motives.
The G. zrtte's first article was an un-
founded and unjust attack ON this railroad,
becuse the managers of it saw fit not To Iun
the road thr ugh Washington. The article
contained nothing but Misrepresentation oI
facts, but we imputed the motive Of this ar
ticie to mere dt sire to court favor for tie
Guz-tte in Davicss county, and not partic-
ulariy toa disposition tn iujure the road. The
taken from The Washington Sun, aud we
thought The editor of the Gazette should have
been more cautious in using statements
made By an interested parly. AMI given to
the wori. in II lever OF il dgnation We
wrote our thoughts on the subject, when
feeling agsri-ved perhaps, that we would
not admit he knew me re abuut this subject
and every oil er than most people, The edi-
tor vi the Gazette replied in a long article,
in which he made gross and unwarranta-
BILE attack on this road. and on ons, ee tie.
man at least connected with il. He did not
then in single word, say or insinuatp, that
he made this attack. us lie now asserts he
did. because of attacks made by Evansville,
Strait Line directors, &c. ,on the VIncennes
never dreamed o. such motive then, be-
cause the whole arlicle shows there was no
such thought in his mind The Only excuse
he gave Tor II malicious article, unjust in cv-
erv particular, and even unjust Ia the char.
ncter of the writer for general fairness, con
tanning statements exhibiting as we have
prorsd perfect norance in the author. of the
subject upon. which he was wr.ting-was
that this road would interfere with the z. g.
C. railroad, and was in "bod lnfh" to the
10 the stockholders Of that road. We quiet
ed him on this score SO entirely, that ia the
last Gdz>tte he has not word to say about
this, the only reason he gave for ltlackirg
the Strait Line r iilroad. We told him that
the principal subscribers in the Z. a. e. Il all
road owned mure stock in the railroad he
was attacking than in the other, &c &c.-
But we need M, repeat orr remarks - this
connection. The editor of the G izette al
least remembers them well enomgi. to know
they are uuanswerable.
Nolc. the Gazette pretends to be merely
repel!lng base and jealous attacks on the
Vincennes railroads. We were not aware
before, that these rolds and Vim. ennes i'm
connection. hid been attacked by the citi
zens of ansville or by the officers Of the
Strait Line Ruiiroad, or that this ruad was
made q rival of The Vincennes and Indiana
polls Railroad, ''for the purpo-e of sitting
or breaking down the latter" The Gag tie
is correct in thinking that this fact may not
generally be known in Evansville. We do
not think il can possibly be known any
where else. We m disavow for our citizens
aud even for the officers of the Strait Line
Railroad, any desire whatever Of iniuring
any Vincenncs road, much less of entirely
breaking IL ~. As this D0D appears 10 be
the foundation OF The editors iil-humor.
he can unwrinkle his brow and be himself
again. II he feels disposed II continue his
attacks an the Strait Line X abroad. we pre-
sumo he will consider it necessary first 10
d sprovs or deny thu facts wa have already
given in It's defence, before he calls unon us
tIgive far her lac Il, igur :, vaich we are
ahundantly prepared t"lurnIsn he puHlir.-
We will M longer speculate upon his mnttres,
because he appears able To chlnae III m. or
ms phil motives every is ue-bnt even at
the risk OF infcIin, tuo much STRAIT Line
40 matter on our readers, we shall take
much pleasure IN replying to any arguments
or I"c'S TIE my offer in opposition TO one
o. the greatest and bes, ro,,re;vsd r,;l,..d