The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-08-01

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NUMBER 5: 4.
VIIE IND, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST r 1856

have heard. How the old State we all love
has been insulted, and her cherished Senator
stricken down, and how he yet fingers in al
most helpless Illness ,,sAs you of my own
Stifp rerueuhc these things You Will not en-
trely blame me il, in moment of Indignation
was willing to stand up at the hazard of my
what is dearer than liie-ior the in
suited honor of those who have always been
.l.. 10 nle. / an. no dueIiist. | seek no mans
e. | have but acted in the spirit of the
1eech 1 made, when ] said that if pushed
9j long and TOO fir there were men from the
id Bay State who would defend ershonor
nd the freedom oezspeechsin whatever field
hey might be assaulted. ,MSscourse became
o me- defense of liberty against,slayery; and
struggle for freedom of speech against free
nm Of bludaeon, and the only way which
seemed to left US here, by which we could de-
lend ourselves. A. BURIINGAME.
WAsHINGToN. Julyx2sthj 1856.
From the spirit of Col Brooks note was
induced to hope that no hostile action would
result from the meeting which he invited I
,eheved that the retired place Thad designas
ted, being accessible by one days travel,-iI a
ool, healthful and magnifcently picturesque
egiOn, remote from the eXcltements of metro
politan life, would be far more appropriate in
he hot season than any point in the region of
sues OlStfICC OF Out MI. DfO0kS
seems, to set out with the assumption that his
note was in spirit, if not in form, hostile mes
sage, or, in other words, challenge. What
right had l, in this view of the matter, to drive
the challenged party outside of the District?
If the answer be, to eyade the laws of our
eountTy, then, thar answer admits the place to
have heens~well sehQsen, ,r.hecause there is no
State, North4of South, m Ffhieh.the laws do
not prohibit such hostile meetings, under heavy
penalties. After assuming that.thefnote was
a challenge, he says that he could not reach
the Falls of Niagara without running the
sauntIet of mobs, assassins, prisons and PEN
itentiaries, bailiifs and constables. 1t appears
by the note of Gen. Lane to him that he had
Informed Mr. Burlingafne, at the outset that
he had the right of ltselechHg theiplaee ofmeet-
ing. &c, and yet afterit was chosen he OBJ
Iected to it on the ground .tha Ut was ''too far
Idlstahft, and would subject Mr.. Brooks 'Ato SO
Ifnany hazards to arrest" and therefore advised
lhifnsstb take no further notice of the matter"
[ viii not stigmatize the people southwark as
"mobs" "assasions," &c, but in behalf of the
people between this point and Niagara Falls,
II assert that Col. Brooks would have been
quite as secure north of Masonand Dixon'ss
line as Mr.. Burlingame would have been south
Ief it. | know nothing of the rules of chivalry.
lexcept what Nature has taught me, nor have
Ii studied nor will ever waste time in study
ling, the matter-cote duello4-bnt as my ac-
tionsin the premises seems tosbe rebuked, I
Eleave the parties to show the authorities to
Justify their position:
| I.s First-That the challenging party may, in
his message. make any restriction either as to
sime or place of meeting. t
Second-That in selecting the place the
challenged party is circurnscribed geographic
| ally by any precise latitude or longitude.
+ Third--That when the place is fixed by the
party entitled to the selection, the challenger
4 may fetire from the field on his objections to
distance; ;2if within one days travel, or from
fear. of "bailiffs and .constables."
~ Fourth-That under mutual agreement not
to give publicity, one party is authorized to
publish the affair through the press without
the knowledge or consent of the other. al
4 Ny completely in this affair was induced
lsolely by private friendship and the hope that
j [ might be Instrumental, in some humble way
in restoring amicable relations between the
| now dismiss the whole matter, as far as
may be possible, from my mind forever, con-
Isoled by the reflection that whatever may have
been my errors in the premises no brothers
blood mas been shed, or life sacrificed, by rea-
son of any act of mine. 80. .s 98.
LEWIS D. CAMPBELL.
4 WAsHINGToN, July 20, 1856.
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