The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-03
That Fracas and tha Rnnuirer.

We hoped to have no further occasion to
bring before the public matter purely Of
personal nature, although it seems to us when
an editor is struck down by ruffian for do
ing his duty, and struck in the most humanity.
and cowardly manner, it should be a matter Of
public interest. The Enquirer yesterday un-
dersook to defend cowardly and brutal act,
and in a cowardly and brutal manner. The
editor has not only misrepresented the affair,
and thrown veil of defence over the man
who attacked US, who struck US down without
warning, and then ran like a cowardly dog
but he misrepresents the offence itself which
produced the attack. This man Cross whole
subject of offence, so far as he stated to US be-
fore or as he made the attack, was that we
had published his name in list of native born
Democrats. So he has said about the streets.
From the Enquirer we learn for the first time,
that the offence was speaking disrespectfully
of this mans aoye. We never yet alluded to
respectable female disrespectfully- it is
against the whole course of our life public or
private, that we should do so. In this case,
we most seriously disclaim any intended dis
respect to the person alluded to. In our list
we published this fact
"No &c. Croas-His wife practices
medicine and he sells tomb stones"
If it was any disrespeet to say what is SO,
that his wife practices medicine, we were GER
tainly innocent Of any disrespectful intention.
and so we should have told "Col. Cross or
any other person who might question US on
the subject So much for this. 1t is extremely
disagreeable to be published as having suffer
ed violent personal attack, for speaking dis
respectfully Of female, and no one knows
better that the charge is a lie than the editor
Of the Enquirer. We have long since ceased
to expect fairness or even ordinary decency
from him, and for that reason have had lit
tie as possible editorial intercourse with him
Of late days--but we did not think that even
John B. Hall would stoop to quite SO low a
course, to quite SO deep iniamy, as he display
ed in yesterdays Enquirer And he is the
man who is now asking the votes of this com
munity for Sherilf-who pursued and harrass-
ed by the Sheriff in his official capacity, and
as politician the Sheriff IS most cringing tool
and mouth-piece, would now be Sheriff him
self to try the experiment Of managing the
peoples affairs when he cannot take care Of
his own. lie is the proper defender Of base
and cowardly assault, unprovOked by any act
lof ours, and Of which none buta coward would
be guilty and none but a bastard uphold. We
have given this Hall and his hackers thou
sand times greater offence than the man who
attacked US, yet they raised not a finger. But
they have made poor miserable tool believe
we had mortally injured him, and got him to
do that they feared to undertake themselves
knowing that he might gain victory where a
; man whom we suspected Of enmity might not
secure an advantage. No ISLANDERS of enemies
can injure us here where we are known, and
) where good citizens know our acts, and know
as we'll as we do the character and standing
of the men who are our enemies. No man can
do his duty 10 his party and to the communi
tyin which he lives, without making enemies
of the scum of politics and Of society. Snch
4 enemies we have here, enemies who would
stab US to the heart any hour if they could dc
SO with safety to themselves. These enemies
are represented by the Enquirer, the willing
tool, the cringing sycophant the sneaking de-
fender, Of all men who say they do not like
the editor of the Evansville Journal We
now appeal to all just men and good citizens
to men whose interests we have been the first
to defend, and in defending which we have
made these enemies, to know whether we shall
be sustained, or Rufiianism and the infamous
course of this John B. Hall shall be endors-
ed ?
BLAcKwooD, &c.-Blackwood for August