The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-06


several other places in the State having no bet
ter claims for prosperity than we possess.
Instead Of there being IN unusual number OF
dwelling. houses for REM in this city, there is
not decent dwelling house for rent in Evans
vile! Good dwelling houses are actually in
great demand here. We know family, that
being compelled to leave the house they are
now in to make room for the owner, have been
weeks trying to secure common tenement in
which to remove, and are probably not yet
supplied. A gentleman erecting dwelling
informs us he has had dozen applications for
it since it was commenced. The high rents are
alone ample evidence of the scarcity ofdwel-
lings, and yet there has been large num-
Der of dwelling houses erected this season.
We are paying fifty dollars more rent for our
dwelling, than we should have had to pay for
similar house, two years ago. And yet
here is an editor with these facts right before
his eyes, telling an outrageous falsehood for
the purpose of injuring Evansville.
| Now who is this man deliberately engaged
in concocting and publishing these base SLAM
ders against our city, calculated to seriously
iniure its interests abroad, and, as we believe,
directly intended to do so? His very actions
prove that he has no interest directly in the
prosperity of the city. He does not own a
foot of property here--he does not even own
type in his Office. HE has no property
here no credit, nothing in the world, that
gives him an interest in our city's prosperity,
or a claim upon the indulgence of citizens
nothing that can be injured by injuries he is
inficting upon this community. His course
has been such as to deseryedly bring upon
him the contempt of his friends and the hon.
est condemnation of the continuity. He has
1 time and again mt forth articles having Il;
rect tendency to injure this city abroad, and
the whole tenor of his course has been mark
ed by reeklessness as to the interests of
the place in which he lives, proving that he
lis really too grossly ignorant to occupy the
position he disgraces, Or is totally Indifferent
to or maliciously intent on injuring the pros
fperity of Evansville. He has time and again
insulted this community, and every man, wo-
man and child in it, who has the sense to feel
that SANDER and abuse of the aggregate body
is SANDER and abuse of each individual mem
Der. He has insulted all decency and deli
cacy, by almost daily presentation of language
and ideas only fit for pothouses, in public
print which must occasionally find its way
into respectable families. He has struck re-
lpeated blows at enterprises in which our city
and our best citizens are directly enlisted, to
gratify low personal spite. He has by base
Misrepresentation of the actual condition OF
this city, and of interests connected with it,
inflicted more injury on our prosperity, than
Iany dozen men in the city could do it good by
la years labor-and whatever of good may have
been affected by the other city papers laboring
for Evansville, he has sought to annul by out
; rageouS statements calculated to crafty none
but those jealous of our progress. In truth,
instead of making his paper an honor to the
city and blessing to its interests, he has rem
dered it a foul disgrace and reeking curse.
And yet this man and this paper, for the
purpose of performing the dirty work of a
party clique, are supported by citizens of the
very place upon which they seek to inflict
deadly injury, and are the recipients Of near
FLY all the patronage in the gift Of our coun-
ty officers. How long will the people permit
this to be? Is our community to be thus
rode by one man? Are we who have inter-
ests to be injured, to permit the value of our
property to be made a plaything in the hands
of the ignorant, reckless and unprincipled
thing of a clique-of man who has no in
terest in common with us-a mere creature
Of bad passions, and whose weakest passion
can override his strongest virtue and infict
a sting upon the community?
We have given this Enquirer and its edi-
tor more attention than they deserve. But
laboring as we have been doing the last six
1 years, and as we now are, for the prosperi-
ty of Evansville, we cannot patiently submit
to seeing our labors undone by base misrep-
RESERVATIONS which will be but too gladly
copied and noticed abroad by those who would
be gratifed to believe the wonderful progress
of Evansville has at last stopped. There is
no encouragement for us to continue in the
performance of our duty, if those who so
basely forget duty and decency pass unre-
buked.
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