The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-03-14

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of its origin, and the petition occupied by
what may De considered the friends and oPPo'
nents of the Douglas-Nebraska bill in rela-
ton TO the said call
paper containing what purported to De a
call ter an anti-Nebraska meeting, was circu-
lated and signed by several Of our most pro-
minent citizens, and published in the Journal.
The next day we were called upon, as sign
er of said call, by Mr.. DENLY, of the Enqulr'
er, who remarked that "you have been max
ing a ridiculous and absurd call upon the
public; why don'tyou make it general! we
(meaning the unterrifed Democracy we pre-
sume) want to meet with you and discuss the
question:" We at once consented to change
the nature of the call to meet his wishes, or
those whom he might represent. and promls.
ed the acquiescence of the other signers OF
the call. We subsequently conferred with
two of them, who readily acceded to the pro-
position, and we were prepared to give this
agent of the ''unterriied" an answer, grant
ing his request. He made 4 second call ano
retracted his former proposition, saying that
"his folks were unwilling to 60 into it." We
deem this explanation due to the position
that the opponents Of the Douglas bill occu
py. They are disposed to meet this question
fairly and openly, and court discussion upon
the subject.
When the meeting convened on Saturday
evening, and previous to its organization, the
call was adjudged for several reasons to be
Objectionable. The friends OF the movement
were unan imously opposed to restricting the
call to any particular class of people, and
were unwilling to- enter upon discussion o.!
the subject except in the most general sense.
1t was then agreed to make his meeting only
preliminary To an open, free and general dis.
cussi N OF the S, bject. and a temporary Orga-
nization was gone into for that purpose. An
attempt was made by the Locofoco Douglas
Nebraska office holders and tOadies to defeat
the olj.cts of the meeting, by preventing an
adjournment, and denouncing the whole de-
monstration as a grand.fizzle " The En-
qurer of yesterday, in its characteristic
style, in reporting the proceedings of the
meeting, grossly misrepresents the senti'
ments advanced by the principal speakers of
the occasion, Mr.. Blythe and MIR. Baker,
We expected nothing else from the source.
The reporter who made ridiculous "fzzle"
of speech. in which he displayed gross igno.
rance and worse taste, was most severely
dealt with for his impertinence, and the
senseless and uncourteous epithe's which he
INDUCED in, by these same gentlemen. His
chief objection to these gentlemen is, that
they hung him "high as Haiman" in the
discussion which took place between them,
and made him make a scafold confession. that
he did not know what he was talking about,
and that "he would not have supported the
measure he'd he known what it contained"
MIR. Denby's charge Of abOlitonism, and ac-
cusng these gentlemen Of advocating aboli-
ton sentiments upon this occasion, is simply
a total Misrepresentation of the plainest lam
guage that men can use to express their SEN
tments. We do not deem it necessary to
vindcate the views entertained and fearless
ly expressed by these gentlemen at the late
meeting. They were listened to by large
number of our citizens, who also know their
political history too well, to per lit them to
be msrepresented by any mushroom COM
mentator. They bear about as much priml
facie evidence of truth as the charge that
"Mr Whttlesey Che cd Democracy voted
for Van Buren, in ls52"-four years after
MIR. Van Buren, was a candidate.
So lame an effort to get up an excitement
we have never seen-such weak arguments,
and wandering from the subject, such dema.
goguery and appea $ to sectional feelings, We
have never known.
This precocious young mac has the above
yesterdays Enquirer. "Such thi .gs he has
never known, such demagoguery aud such
appeals to sectional feelings" 1t would ap-
pear that several important events in the his
tory of the country had escaped his observa-
ton. The famous Nebraska bill itself, con-
cerning which he has written dozens Of COL
umns Of "twaddle," and of which lie in one
breath boasts of having read all about. ard
in the next confesses that had he known it
better he would hot have supported it's
one. The occurrence Of certain Presiden.
tial election, an event which generally forms
an era in the memory of most great men,
seems to have made a very erroneous impress
sion upon his mind. In fact it would appear
that he viewed all past generations as barba-
rians. incapable of inrulcating the principles
of free government, aud that the entire
amount OF wisdom and virtue that the world
| moss, sses. is now concentrated In Stephen