The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-08-25
Correspondence.
RocKPoRT, Aug. 10Th, 1856.

tribe of Old Lineism, ca. P. Willard) was on
that day yaliently met and nobly foiled within
her own borders, by one of her own sons,
q. c. Veatch.) This was the appointed day
for Judge Morton and Gov. Willard to speak
at this place. On their arrival, we learned
been for some days, laboring under violent
attack of neuralgia of the face, and that the
parties had mutually agreed no speaking should
De done by either party. In short time,
however, Gov Willard informed the Judge
that his friends would take no denial, and he
would have to speak. Mr. Morton then made
arrangements with Mr.. Veatch, our candidate
for Congress, to reply, and large concourse
of people numbering some three or four times
as many as did on last Saturday, made their
way to the grove. Every old liner seemed on
the tiptoe of expectation, u broad self compla-
cent smile, mantled their checks as they took
their seats in front Of the speakers stand.
AS it was Gov. Wizards day to open the
discussion, he took the stand and in his usual
pompous style, put in his hour. As usual his
speech was made up of bald defamation, and
unprincipled inyectives capped off with his
usual agony..over dissolution. Poor fellow, how
forceably he reminded me OF the old negro
who went behind the fence to pray, and asked
God to kill him if he ever told another lie
His master at the uttering this sentiment
rolled a stone off the fence on him, when the
negro exclaimed, Lord God nifty, has it come
to this that body can't say word in joke,
but you'll take it far yearnest. So it was with
Gov. Willard, he had been making joke Of
dissolution, but from the way Mr.. Veatch
pitched into his cob-web castle and rent it
asunder, the poor creature, like the old negro,
thought Mr.. Veatch was taking him for earnest
and would fog him alive, punishment he
! felt he Justly deserved for his reasonable con-
duct. When Mr.. Veatch commenced his
speech, the Governor walked off the stand
with an heir of self satisfaction, pre-eminently
A. P Willard and for time he seemed to en-
joy his FORMULATION in the grove but very
soon it was apparent that the equinimity of
the Governor was disturbed. His pace be-
came quicker, and a nervous twiching of the
mouth plainly indicated that he was i'll at ease.
In few moments he took his seat on the
stand, but few well directed fires from our
young marksmen soon discounted him, and
he took his stand close at Mr. Veatch's side and
peered him in the face,-and such a look of
hopeless despair and frenzy humor, l am sure
emanated from no other than Wizards eyes,
At length the time allotted to, Mr.. Veatch eX
pired, to Mr.. Wizards inexpressibe relief
who was already or his feet with his hands
raised and s mouth open and he cave full unre
strained vent to his pent up passions-and oh!
my country what a cloud of froth and fury
woolly headed Abolitionists, Black Republi-
cans and such like expressions, seemed to be
the accompanying epithet to every sentence.
In reviewing the past history of A. P. Willard
and the old line leaders generally, l am force
| IDLY reminded of an old gentleman Of my ac-
quaintance in times gone by. There was
lady in the neighborhood dangerously sick of
puerperal fever, and much care was felt for her
recovery. 1t so happened one day that this
old man met the attending physician in a COM
pany of ladies, and enquired Of the Doctor
what was the matter with the lady, the Doctor
informed him she had tho puerperal fever;
whereupon the old man exclaimed, well rally,
that's terrible disease, l had it once and it
liked to have killed me. So it is with the old
line orators of the present day; they pretend to
be petrifed with horror at the name of aho-
litionist, for they had it once and it liked to
have killed them. Mr.. Willard among all his
blunders such as, that Congress since the
adoption Of the constitution down to 1920 had
never passed one act to prohibit slavery, for
getting if he ever knew that Congress in every
Instance in passing laws for the organizing the
the territories comprising the States of Ohio
Indiana Illinois, and afterwards pursued the
same policy towards Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa, passed laws prohibiting slavery. But
as was saying, among all his blunders he ac-
cidentally told one truth, he said the old line |
party did in 1849 and 80 go whoring after
abolitionism, and from the zeal he manifested
in the cause of the harlot slavery was led to |
infer that he was doing penance for the sins of
his party by bending himself to his newly ac-
quired mistress in the holy band of human
slavery-and if that glorious privilege was not
allowed him he would sever the Union.
1t is needless to say that Mr.. Veatch ami
hilated all such humbuggery, and held him up
in a triumphant manner to the scorn of our
intelligent people.
Let me again repeat that Monday was
proud day for Spencer county. Willard the