The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-13
Ban English,s Competitor.

John VI. Wilson, who opposed EnShsh IN
1856, is again formally announced as the
anti-Lecompton candidate for Congress, In
the Second District, in opposition to Eng
lish. Mr.. Wilson is one Of the most pow
erful and eloquent speakers in the State, and
stimulated by sense of the diabolicai
wrong, inflicted upon him in the last can
vas by English, he will carry on most ex-
citing contest; and if there were any intel
lectual forces that would drive the shafts OF
his vindictive eloquence through the Rhi-
noceros hide of the Lecompton traitor, he
swould annihilate him. The New Albany
Tribune says:
Two years ago Mr.. Wilson was selected
as the opposition candidate for Congress
against Mr. English. He entered vigorous
ly upon the canvas, and prosecuted it with
remarkable energy TO the end. When he
was in distant part of the district, in the
midst of his appoiIl .ments, tissue OF the
most false, vile, and slanderous charges
against his moral character were brought
out By Mr.. English and his friends, and cir
culated Ing every nook and corner OF the
district. They had a most damaging effect
and Mr. Wilson was defeated.
i Whenth charges were brought out Mr..
I Wilson friends had in their possession land
still have) positive evidence from the records
of the Louisville Chancery Court that would
ruin Mr. English's moral character in the
estimation of all correct thinking men,
They did not publish this evidence as they
might, and perhaps ought 10 have done.
But let us pass Mr.. Wilson's friends brought
libel suits against the Ledger and the State
Sentinel for publishing the false statements
alluded to above After the election the
Ledger and the Sentinel stated, that they had
examined the evidence in the charges
against Mr.. Wilson, and ascertaincd that
great injustice had been done him, which
they regretted, &c, &c. After this retraxit
Mr. Wilson consulted with his friends, and
in view of the fact that il would have been 9
matter of impossibility to get jury, with
having some of the political friends of Mr.
English or the editors of the Ledger anC
Sentinel upon il, and that the law suit
would be costly, troublesome, and vexatiouS
the suits were Withdrawn.
Two years have passed by and the friend
of Mr.. Wilson have determined to again
present his name to the people as a candi
date for Congress. 1t is now well known
to everybody in the District Tor ought 10 be
that the charges gotten up against Mr.. vii
son two years since are false. This, Their
will not effect his election. Two years ag
the Democracy were united upon Mr.. Eng
ish His real character had not then bee
fully developed. He had promised the pee
pie that it was the last time he would wal
, to run for Congress. He had not then pre-
tended TO be an Anti-LecomptOn mani
had not then voted some fifty times wit
the Black Republcans-he had not the
e voted to retain Lew Campbell (who Wa
, elected by negroes) in his seat in Congre
: he had not then turned traitor to the Ant
Lecomptonitcs-he had not then attemptC
to have John l.. Robinson turned out of O
e fec and his father put in his place-he ha
: not then packed the District Conventio
with his friends-in short he had not the
developed himself as he has since done, ar
) his Democratic friends had confidence
u him and voted for him. That confiden
{ t tlAieefY hare lost. and they will now repudia