The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-12
An Editor. Whipped.

+ The knock down and carry OUT prlnclpe
which the editor ofthe Enquirer has been sup-
porting lately, justifging Brooks for his lnta:
mously brutal attack on Sumner, and justify
ing the coward who struck us down one Sun
day morning, then turned on his heel and fed
has been applied to himself He was yes
terday morning met by Mr.. Mesley and Sc.
verely thrashed. cause of the offence
was this. Hall had once used disparaging re-
marks in his paper towards Mosley and with
out cause He was then warned, that if this
were done again, he would have to suffer for
it. Without any provocation whatsoever in
the conduct of Mr.. Mosley, who issnOta noisy
politician or quarrelsome man, Hall published
the following in an editorial in his Wednes-
days paper: -.'5ai#oiioi sa8
To give the devil his due the dreadful
Know Nothing antagonist Of foreigners, Jim
j ones, has some grit in him. He is Know
Nothing of the Mosley stamp, but much more
gentlemanly-no so decidedly r,tffanzy---1ot so
indellibly stamped q0its the u1amiStakaBze ear
marks of the genuine, loa0 bred Knoao Nothing
ro1dY and vagabond as he IS. Jim delights in
prescribing foreigners, but Mosley revels in the
idea. of spilling their blood; both, however at
the instigation of the dimiuutiye ape of the
Journal, whose sole ambition is to emulate the
scoundrel Prentice. of the Louisville riot noto-
riety, would instigate the Know Nothing clan
of Evansville to seize upon the ballot box and
shoot down and slung shot foreign born Am
erican citizens who would attempt to cast their
votes at the ensuing election. (Bah y III,
Mr.. Mosley is not a rowdy nor vagabond.
He is good and peaceable citizen, and as Mar
ket Master, faithful officer: Mr.. Hall had
no right to use his name as he did. 1t was
uncaIled for by any act of Mr.. Mosley, Alter
the warning which Hall had received, the pub
LEGATION Of such notice was direct and in
sulting defiance, which the other it appears,
had not the philosophy to bear, We do not
justify Mr.. Mosley in thrashing Hall, much as
he deserved it, and much as he has deserved
thousand such thrashings since Evansville
has been troubled with his presence, and dis
graced by the vile language he habitually uses
in paper that goes abroad, as one representa-
tive of the city. Wejustify no personal ply
steal violence as a yindcaton Of mere printed
abuse-yet in this case, human nature, and the
peculiar principle of violence advocated by
Hall, well excuses the application of the prin-
ciple to himself Hell has merely suffered by a
violence of similar nature to that which he has
SO emphatically approved when used towards
others, and therefore he has no right to com
plain.
We have an opportunity now of retaliatins
upon Hall the sneers and rdicule and venom
with which he alluded to our difficulty Blu
we will show him, in the face of the burning
lies, the shameless misrepresentation both o
the difficulty and Of the cause of the difficulty
and the nasty ridicule he so yillainously pub
lished to the world about us--we can be /;
gentleman still, and scorn the use of an adyan
tage over a fallen foe. si b5