The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-14
A villainous Charge.


The German papers here have a Jealous aid
in third paper in this city, in their abuse of
the Judge of our Court of Common Pleas for
imprisoning two German citizens for an open
contempt Of Court. If they had merely
stopped with abusing him and the Prosecutor,
for doing their duty, we presume the public
would have cared as little about it as the
Judge and Prosecutor themselves. But in
paper yesterday, it was signifed that this was
a case Of persecution of men for refusing TO vOte
the Kaoae Nothing ticket, and that there is rW-
NOR that large number more who refused to
cote the R7aoao Nothing ticket are to be treated as
these persons were. This is not merely con-
temptible, but it is a ui7iainous attempt at de-
ception to injure the American party. The
very Judge who sent these men to jail has
always been known as an Old Line Democrat,
and the Judge to whom appeal was made to
get these men out of prison, and who refused
to interfere, is an Old Line Democrat Mr.
Baker, the Prosecutor, is a Republican, but we
never heard he had anything to do with the
Know Nothings, and he is certainly Low act
ing entirely Independent of this party and of
every other.
But since the GENE of driving policies into
this subject has been commenced, 0e have a
word to say, as that's precisely in our hand.
We appeal to American citizens, and to Amer
lean citizens of foreign birth who have liberty
ofthought of their own, if things are not COM
ing to a pretty pass in this city, when foreign
ers not only take the law in their own hands,
or violate it with IMMUNITY, but actually mock
it in a court of justice, and defy the Judge
upon his Bench-when they set themselves
up as judges of what IS law, and only lend
obesance to so much of the laws of the State
as srits them? We ask if this is becoming
of men who have kindly and freely had offered
them all the privileges of American citizens
and among other rights that right which they
have exercised to the fullest extent, of voting
for the very men who make the laws they re-
f fuse to obey? We ask if they are not by
such conduct disgraci2g rather than adding
honor to the boosted title of American citi-
zen?
They have not only been the first but the
only ones to violate a law in our Statute book
which the majority of the Representatives o.
thepeople Of Indiana placed there and which
so long as it is law, should find implicit ODE
dience on the part of every good citizen, no mat
ter what his opinion oft. They have not on
ly violated this law, but they and their support
ers have sought and are now seeking to screel
them from the penalties of violated law, by
throwing defiance into the face of high court
and hooking justice even when clothed in the
ermine. Not satisfied with this, these men, thes
volators of the law, these defers of the law
instruments, are setting up cry of persecution
and complaining that americans, the very mel
in whose faces they have thrown an insult b,
their course, are prosecuting them because the.
will not vote the Know Nothing ticket Ar
we to be patient, and play lick spittles to sue
lawless men as these? And they cry out becaus
when they are thus taking the law in their ow
hands every opportunity, and defying eommo
decency and common sense, a party has sprun
UP to save the country from their rule-t
keep men from Assisting in the making and ez
ecuting of laws, when they know not how t
respect law. We appeal to every native Dor
American, whether he is willing to knuckl
down to the increasing impositions of thes
men? Is it not time that americans were ru
ing America? Is it not time for us to tie
these men, that when Americans make a Law
American citizens, whether native born or no
shall hold them sacred? Or shall we wit
Christian meekness, smitten on one cheek, tu1
the other-permit them to continue vioiatin
those laws they do not like, and to insult GU
Judges in court, or openly to defy him whe
they are called to an account? We say it
time for Americans to think of these things
It is time for us all to understand, whether IL
laws of the State or the Germans of the Stat
are to rule paramount.
A ho1J lor