The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-24
The New Albany Ledger, &c.

The New Albany Ledger cannot retain
from personalities in abiding to US, and as its
natural instincts seem to make this "a labor of
love-" we shall not object Personalities and
personal abuse from even a more respectable
source than the New Albany Ledger are
much more apt to injure their source than the
object at which they are eveled-and in this par
ticular instance they are too harmless to injure
either the Ledger or the editor of the Journal.
But the Ledger says:
We might charge, that the Journal advo-
Gates the various ultra isn1s Of the day, because
his mental vision is narrolC; but we prefer to
lay it to the most likely cause, namely-a de-
sire to propitiate the good opinion of the Church
and to infuse a sectarian bias into the politics
of the country; by such means expecting to
break down the Democratic party.
The Ledger, we are constrained to believe,
might charge almost anything on private or
political character, but fortunately its charges
do not pass current as facts. 1t might charge
that we advocate mormonism, spiritualism, &c,
and we are rather astonished it don't-ust as
well as it can charge we advocate different
OCler ultra 1SIllS Ii AmeIlCalllS1n Is an ultra
ism, we presume the Ledger is right in charg-
ing we advocate it, although we do not believe
that shows very narrow mental vision. We
know that when the editor of the Ledger,
Mathews, was few months ago advocating
the same ism, he thought it rather an evidence
of very broad mental vision. But we should
like to know what ism we are advocating ''to
propitiate the good opinion of the Church,"
and which Church it is we wish to propitiate
If to advocate Temperance is ito propitate
the good opinion of the Church" we think it
might be desirable in every citizen to propitiate
that good opinion. The editor of the Ledger
is very DESTROYS Of propitiating the good opin-
ion of the Catholic Church, yet he pays that
Church but a poor compliment when he advo-
Gates LltemperGnce to secure its good opinion
We do not think the Democratic party
can be broken down by any infusion Of "sec-
tartan bias into the politics of the country
1t has the Catholic vote safe on its side, which
appears to be the only religious "bias" that
can be predicated upon as society.
We hope Mr.. Mathews will forgive us for
making few extracts from his 0a0la a0ritings
of little over a year ago, when he edited the
New Albany Herald-just by way Of illustrat-
ing his inconsistency, more than for any other
purpose. He then said:
We have looked upon this American move
ment in rather different light than most of
our contemporaries. In it we have never been
able to discover that violation of the principles
of the freedom of conscience, that is the boast
of our institutions The war they make is not
upon the religion of the Roman Catholics, but
upon political Romanis,n; that disposition of
the clergy of that denomination to gain poiltl-
bal power through their membership, control
ling them at the ballot box, and the manner in
which that power has been truckled to by po-
litical demagogues in this country. Not only
has this disposition, to secure the votes OF
foreign Catholics been made, but foreigners OF
all classes have been appealed to by candidates
and leaders of political parties. The Demo
cratic party are guilty of this conduct in some