The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-06-28

The Enquirer says it supposes the editor
Of this paper might be a"Know Nothing"
because che made desperate defence Of
them (the Know Nothings) against our as
sault upon them, and tried so hard to render
respectable the government organ at New
York by endorsing it himself" Well, our
nsighbor is certainly remarkable for some
thing else than his bad grammar. We were
not before aware, that the article of ours de-
noxncing the objects Of the Know Nothing
party, so far as we knew anything by COM
mon report of those objects, was defence of
that band-and that the principal feature of
this article, denying and proving that the
Know Nothings had no connection with tho
Wing party, was evidence that zoe looked up
on them with great favor. Our neighbor
cannot even bring in the plea, SO natural to
himself, of ignorance, when he wrote the
above paragraph relative to our article, unless
he never read the article at all, which seems
presumable from his remarks. And upon his
ridiculous, and we may say wilfully false
construction, of the spirit Of that article, he
saw fit to make the charge against US of be-
ing "Know Nothing!" We have much
better grounds for believing our neighbor a
Know Nothing, and so has the whole com.
munity. Every number of his paper proves
that il he amt literal "Knou Nothing" he
makes very narrow escape. As narrow an
escape from hanging would leave him black
in the face from excessive choking. But we
think this precious neighbor, this most amia-
be fall neighbors, when he feels disposed to
make q charge of this nature against fsl.
low.citizen, should have a little better evil
dence of the fact, than words from him d.
rectly condemnatory of the band Of which
he 10 accused Of being member. We sup.
pose, that if we should write an article d.
rsctly condemnatory of a band Of incendia-
riss or horse thieves supposed to be in our
midst, this neighbor would at once charge us
with being member.
But he talks of our endorsing" the New
York National True Democrat Our neigh.
Dor has queer idea of endorsing. Because
We have charged that this paper is an "ad
ministration organ" which no one denies bu
himself, and proceed to make extracts from
II to prove its hostility to the foreign popula
ton and its sympathy with the Know No
things, and draw the deduction that an ad
ministration organ occupying this position
is very good evidence its masters occupy the
same-ws are accused of endorsing this pa.
per! We presume then, that if we should
call the Enquirer an administration organ
and proceed to make extracts from its edito
rails to prove the position of the administra
ton on q certain subject, we would be lisbl,
to the charge of endorsing the Enquirer
If the editor thinks 30, we shall be YER,
careful not to make any extracts from hi
paper. The True National Democrat is al
organ Of the administration; it 10 the recip
lent of government patronage as such an or
gan; and the sentiments we have taken
from il, are those of the administration, il W,
may Judge its opinions at all by what its au
thorzed press speaks. But we do hope tina
we shall not again be accused of"endorsing'
it, any other rabid and uaprincipled Loco
foco sheet. This is rather an unfair way t.
keep Us from enlightening our readers, BY
extracts from their veracious and mora
columns.