The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-22
Prentice ana his Trnducers,

libelous, dirty and infamous, in their attacks
upon him since the Kentucky election, only
proves how sorely they take their defeat in
that State, and how 10 their very hearts
they feel the fundamentally of Prentice in
securing that defeat. No wonder then, they
stock of vituperation in commenting upon
him and his course. The only wonder is,
1they have not all started after him, like the
editor of the Democrat, with pistols in their
pockets and bowie knives in their Wristbands
fully determined to blow him to atoms or to
cut him up into little bits of pieces, SO that
not portion Of him might be left big enough
to lift goose quill The wonder grows
when we note the venomous malice, the pos-
onous hatred, which characterize their ar
ticies, We have again and again read vitu-
perations from these men, which showed
they had all the malice and all the will to
stab Prentice to the heart, if they could do it
without endangering their own cowardly
and unexpected and uncared for carcasses.
To crafty their hatred, they have endeay-
ored by the basest and most unscrupulous
means to hold him responsible for the blood
shed at Louisville. We need not say to
those who have read the Louisville Journal
that he has most successfully defended him
self from the charges, and that he has hurled
them back till they have fallen with crushing
weight on those who made them. "A mong
other charges, these poor bedeviled devils
have accused Prentice of urging the Amerf-
cans to arm themselves for the election at
Louisville, to prevent foreigners voting, &c.,
&c. Here is an article from the Journal of
the Saturday previous to the election, the
last working day of the campaign. 1t illus
trates the entire spirit of the Journal during
the canvass so far as acting on the inhamma-
BILE public mird is concerced:
We hear of systematic arrangements of
foreign born persons, led on by native born
Sag NIGHTS, to take forcible possession of
the polls on Monday morning or Sunday
night and to keep forcible possession of them
until all the Sag NIGHT votes shah be polled.
We pay very little heed to such reports, and
we hope that our American friends will pay
no heed to them. We earn estly hope that
our friends will not anticipate collision of
force at the polls, and that they will make no
provision for any such contingency. Let
every true American 20 to the place Of vot-
ing, DESTROYS only of exercising his ownrights
and Of encouraging all others, of whatever
political party, TO exercise theirs.
We would by all means soothe rather than
infiame the public feeling, for il is by far too
much infiamed already. We deprecate q
collision of force as one of the greatest evils
that could befal our CITY. It would be bet
ter for Louisville that she should have no Re-
{ preventative in Congress, better that she
J should have no Representatives in the State
Legislature, and better that she should have
no voice in the election of the State ticket,
than that she should, on the day of election,
be the theater of such mortal strile as some
of our opponents profess to anticipate
Every man, wins shall encourage or provoke
strife, will be acting the part of "a traitor to
/. his country and her institutions. Let US bear
IN mind that every human life, sacrificed to
a spirit of political violence or feTccty, may
: involve the misery and destitu'icn of large
{ and innocent family.
And this was In the face of the most in
, columns of the Louisville anti-American pa
: pers. Here is paragraph from what Prem
tice says himself of the charge, and which
! shows that the papers of the opposition were
t not alone engaged in doing that directly op
posite to his peaceful suggestions:
1t is black lie shat we said anything tC
. induce the Americans to put on weapons.
Although we knew, that one of the mos
prominent of the Anti-American candidates
had declared in tones of deep excitement in
a public speech at Jeffersontown, that the
/ foreigners should have chance to vote here
, at ali hazards, and that he himself would i
necessary furnish them with revolvers and
! bowie knifes, and sword in hand, lead them
7 in serried host to the polls, and although
, we knew that another prominent Anti-Amer-
lean candidate was In the f9abit of declaring
upon all occasions that the foreigners SHOULD
vote even II the cutters in the streets should
6 run blood, and although We heard daily o.
the gatherings of foreigners from remote
, points and saw the warlike appeals ia the
i. Sag NIGHT organs and heard of the prepare
o tons Of deadly weapons CT all descriptions
we never uttered one word in our columns OIL
out of them to induce our friends to put them
selves in readiness for the encounter which
= seemed inevitable.
e We doubt whether there is another edito
p in The country, who fighting the battle Prem
e tice did, and against just such an opposition
It could have or would have used such consum
o mate tact, to prevent any such mobocrati
n exhibitions as those which occurred. An
n he would have been entirely successful il
If securing a quiet election day, had not for
t. eigners, made crazy for the time by the I'D
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