The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-15


years, we havesscome across some "all- fired"
mean and desperately wicked men. Wehave
been misrepresented by those who could not
dispute or destroy our real positions, and
shamefully abused by others, who, not from our
strength but from their own weakness, or the
weakness of their cause, could not maintain
themselves in discussion. To all this we have
become accustomed. But little dingy paper
published at Charlottesville, in this State, and
advocating democratic principles has con-
WINGED us that in all our experience with mean
men and corrupt politicians, We had yet to
meet meaner man, more contemplate
knaVe, a smaller specimen of the dirty polti-
cian than any with whom we had thus far come
in contact. The last number of the Craw
louisville Review, edited by one Chas. ii. Bow
en-, has come to US, and as the first we hope
the last time visitor to this Office, with an ex
tract marked for our particular notice. This
extract is credited thus Evansville Journal,
! (FgAlmore)" 1t was an editorial from this pa
per, giving sketch of the discussion in Ev-
ansville between Morton and Willard. in
which Willard was thrashed out of his politi-
cal boots by his opponent. But the "editor"
of the Review reyerses the names, and then
credits US with the following: ga.
1 WILLARD AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
! IN THE DULT-MoBToN DEFUNCT.---In the
discussion yesterday, at this place, between
Lieut.. Gov. Willard and Judge Morton,
the Abolitionsts probably experienced a
defeat never equalled in any Of their bitter ex-
perience of this campaign. Gov Willard lit
orally killed and buried Morton. Never was
the weakness of demagogue's principles"
and the corruptions of his party 50 exposed
never the rascality of the demagogue himself
so shown up for public execration as by Will
lard yesterday, in his handling of Morton and
his party opinions. At the late hour we write,
it is impossible to enter into details But we
wish every man in Evansville could have been
/ present at this discussion. Morton's friends
doubtless regret that there were dozen per-
sons in attendance. Willard achieved great
victory and gained many votes. = Morton
we know lost votes, as well as reputation
But we have no disposition to exult over bad
ly whipped foe. We freely forgive Morton his
second hand criticism on u.s. in consideration
of the first handed thrashing he received. We
hope he will follow Willard all over the State.
| We want to see these two men traverse the
State side by 81 lie, that the people may hear and
Judge for themselves, Let them do this, and
| Wizards majority will not be less than TWEEN
ty thousand. .......,...-s s.e srs..a
l.s.ss' Evansville Journal. { Faluaore)
Thus is a Fillmore paper, and as prominent
a Fillmore paper as there is in the State, pub
lished to the world, or made to publish ITSELF
as supporting that corrupt BLACKBOARD Willard
for the Goyernorship of this State! Was there
ever viler, dirtier political trick than this ?
Would any one trust his pocket-book within
reach of the author of such trick Would
setting hens be safe when such political
chicken thief as this fellow is prowling about?
Should not blind beggars inehis neighborhood
be provided by public charity with keen eyed
protectors to prevent him flching the eoppers
dropped in their hats Do they ever, where
he, is permit bodies from which souls have fled.
and the eyes of which are closed to the world
and its wiekedness by quarters, to remain
one moment unmatched Does any one sup
pose has soul would have to be magnifed by a
microscope of five million power to reach the
enormity of a mustard seed ? Or can any one
believe that his mortal dissolution will be
marked by the departure of soul at all?
sas Old Line Devotion. e s-aa 'ssas
The blind devotion of its disciples to Old
! Lineism has been the wonder Of the day. The
truth and testimony of historya-the dictates
Of the moral senses-the irresistible convic-
4 tons of reasonable mandates of conscience,
have no power, seemingly, to disturb their faith
and allegiance to their party under the ragged
banner which the leaders have serfuptitiously
taken from the old Democracy. 1t is like
Mormonism, one of the moral and Intellectual
anomalies of the times; and the progress of
events seems to show it to arise from perver-
sion of some attributes of the mind like that
astonishing superstition which enslayes Nor
mons to the tyranny of Brigham Young. Col
i Benton says the. Pierce administration has
wrought what the world has heretofore thought
to be an imposibility, viz: "made John TyIer's
administration respectable in the eyes Of the
world It is this miraculous act, that has
impressed its followers with belief of its SUI
Ipernatural powers and divine mission, and they
fall down and cry hosannas to its most out
rageous deeds and widest absurdities Rea-
son and truth have lost their sway over them,
andTit appears as useless to try to persuade
them of truth, right and duty, as to dissuade
a Mormon from his errors With one the
shibOleth of his party is an answer to- every
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