The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-10
CITY OF EVANSVILLE.
FRIDAY Observation-Disclosures 10
A Great ana Little Soul Centr; sted.

A Great and Little Soul C6ntr sted.
Certainly the most infamous editorial out
rage upon public decency, and the most
shameless and scandalous degradation of all
the better feelings of man to political hate,
we have ever felt called upon to notice, was
an editorial in last Wednesdays Louis
vile Times, most maiciously vindictive and
most dirtily abusive of the very man, Geo. D
Prentice, who saved the Times Office from
destruction the Monday night previous. The
editor Of the Times could not by life time
of even the same scaDdalous editorial pros
tration of decency which has marked his
course the last few months, have piled such
infamy upon his head, or have so gathered
upon himself the contempt of all honest and
honorable men, as he has done in this single
article-nor is it in his power by lifetime
of good deeds, even could his poor degraded
nature be brought to attempt their perform
ance. to wipe away from the rernembra nee
of his fellow citizens as foul a spot as ever
pen point stuck upon the moral carcass of a
human being. In a contemplation of this
disgusting article, it appears to US this poor
miserable wretch has drawn striking con-
trast, or rather has held up to the view of
the public, the contrast already drawn by
nature, between an open, manly, generous
soul, lifted up by peculiar circumstances to
an exhibition of moral greatness, and poor
little shrunken, contemplate, starved spirit,
bewildered and astonished at this exhibition
of true nobility beyond its appreciation, sink
ing into lower depth of infamy than the
eyes OF men are rarely called upon to search
into for lost souls.
Abused, slandered and DETAINED, as Prentice
has been for months by the editors of the
acknowledgements In his every position
~-every motive imputed to vice. and sgery ac-
ton to defiance of virtue==yet, when this
man was informed an enraged mob was be-
fore the Times Office, and threatening the
property of those vile enemies who had so
traduced him and his party, he left his home,
stood up before this mob, and plead in ear
nest and eloquent language to save the prop.
erty of those who would have inflicted dead .
See one man standing there alone com.
batting a multitude Hear him pleading
for his enemies, and for the very types and
machinery which had thrown to the world
those before him. One word from this man
aye, one word unsaid, and those types would
be scattered with the winds, and the power
full machinery rent to fragments. But he is
successful. He has saved his enemies
Now mark this other picture. See poor
miserable wretch sinking into the office
thus rescued from the indignation of the
populace. Fair day is now shining upon il
and upon him. The sunshine of noble &C
ton too, 10 before his eyes, and some though
of gratitude, or if not of gratitude, of admi
ration for the bright deed of generous enc
my, should have spread that sunshine owe
his own soul, and for moment at least dis
PEELED it's natural darkness. But mark tina
man, and see the picture he is drawing o
his own moral depravity, while he seek
alone to injure his benefactor. He writes
Look over his shoulder:
From Prentice or his outlaws we ask N
favors, The wretch, who him self was hung
in efigy by these same demons fifteen month
ago-who was protected from further out
RACES by men against whom his internal NAL
ice is now turned--who stood trembling an
whining at the Gait House after his retur
from Middletown, whence he fed from tn
mob, until friends forced him to his Office t
defend himself-this impotent and malignan
eunucb is the leader of the villanfes whic
have disgraced the city beyond redemption
Good heavens! This of the man who hR
plead SO eloquently for him few hours pre-
vious This the return for a noble dee
most nobly done We turn from the pix
ture with loathing for the viieness and deg
radiation of soul exhibited. Fhe touch
that mans hand would defle even blackv ics
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