The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-14


airy curiosity of its kind, the English language
has vet afforded. 1t is indescribabIe. AL
though intended to be bitterly personal, and
to utterly annihilate its subject, it is the most
laughabe conglomeration of explosives and
"damnab!e adjectives" probably ever put to-
gether by human genius. And yet in the
whole two columns of rawlings there is but
one truth in it, and it is as follows. Out of
breath the writer excIaims ssh
"But, our indignation and contempt are
becoming vulgar and ngentemanly."
It's a TRADE against Prentice, who p:o-
badly stands by the side of the author of this
piece in moral and intellectual proportions,
as an elephant by the side of toad. IF we
had room, we should like to give our readers
the whole article. Who is its author! The
editors of the Sentinel will not certainly rest
contented while any person in the communi-
ty has even Suspicion that either of them
wrote it! If they have no care for their re-
putation as men, they should have enough in
terest in preserving the Precipitation as writer's;
, to deny the authorship of this most laughabIy
absurd of all laughable articles. The indi-
vidual who ''does up" Prentice, commences
with the following amiable little sentence:
! Though young in years; of the above nam
ed incendiary wretch and his infamous mis-
deeds during long lifetime of individual and
newspaper scoundrelism, we have tolerably
fair knowledge. So well acquainted indeed
are we with his political and personal dis
no esty, his unprincipled political and relig-
/ ious hypocrisy, his baseness as man, a Jour
nast, and politician; his readiness to sacri-
fee to his own mean and selfish interest the
best bosom friend that ever grasped his vile
/ hand in the warmth of unsuspecting friend
ship and the utter recklessness, depravitv,
and want of moral sensibilty that character
ize this thing in the capacity of what we
heve inadvertently termed man; so well
known to US are his immense qualifications
OF knavery, mendaeity, atroeious defamation
of public and private character, and that
ferocious, hell-born, demon spirit of rabid,
blood thirsty incendiarism, by which this
venomous reptile, called George D. Prentice,
editor and murderer, is distinguished in the
second capacity referred to; and lastly, so
well founded is the feeling of ineffable con
tempt and scorn which we entertain in our
heart of hearts towards This filthy, dirty, pesti-
lential importation shipped from the good
old State of Connecticut in that most fit and
appropriate enclosure of TAR AND FsETHERs,
1 in the third light in which 1t has been spoken
off in view, we say of these things, and
actuated by a keen and lively sense of so
much accumulated meanness and infamy
combined with strong and sincere desire
to maintain our proper selfesteem, and pre-
he Of -
do which has up to this time been our con-
slant aim-we feel impelled TO be cautious
in the use of this stern, bold; uncompromis-
ing Anglo Saxon vernacuar, economical of
space, pen, ink and paper
The writer thus remarkably portrays his
fear of becoming almost as vulgar, base and
detestable as his ssickening subject" by con-
desce nding to notice him:
For verify, in the presence of the God who
made US. and with Our hands upon our heart,
which beats ready response to the sent-
ments we tearlessly pen, avow and glory in,
we do solemnly and seriously feel and fear,
that in descending down to the deep and dark
abyss where wallows in the loathsome mire
of infamy and debasement the reeking car
cass, the black and corrupt heart of George
ID. Prentice, in order TO speak in suitable
terms OF the miserable and paltry bastard
which he is, there is much danger, scarce to
be got over by human effort alone, and with
out small share of that "Divine grace -
which, alas! has been entirely monopolzed,
. and is SO often appealed to, (facetionsly and
ludicrousiy enough,) by the Reverend and
other rufians who follow in the bloody foot
steps of the Louisville felon and galows
j bird, of violating the dignified rules which
should regulate the manner of newspaper
writing, and becoming in our loathng and
| disgust, in our profound adherence and con-
tempt, almost as vulgar, base and detestable,
were such thing possible, as the sickening
subject of cur remarks itself.
But here are the ''honest sentiments" of
the State Sentinel relative to Mr.. Prentice,
and its opinion of the Individual who don't
like 'em:
Now such a robber and advocate of rob-
berry, such foul murderer and advocate of
murder, of rapine, anarchy and bloodshed
we, through the columns of the State SENT
mel, emphatically pronounce the infamous
and rutfian mouthpiece of the infamous anC
ruffian order in the city of Louisville, to be
; and If any of his Hindoo admirers in this city
or elsewhere are so stolid and stupid and az
roganlly presumptuous as to conceive in
their dark lantern minds that in fearlessiy
uttering and proclatlIng our honest senti-
ments, founded as they are upon the naked
and unvarnished truth, of said George Dem
on or Dirty Prentice, or any other crippled
superannuated, impotent, palsied, paraly Zed
mscreant and blUodstained felon, we will
contribute certain sum, more or less, fol
), his special benefit, wherewth to purchase
: the poor imbecile wretch straight jacket