The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-06

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Hy-The New Albany Ledger copies
paragraph from this paper relative to Bill
Englishs visit to Perry county, and the
publication of Shoemaker's card, and APP
ponds to it remarks characteristic Of Bill
English's organ. 1t says English's visit was
on the 18th, and the card appeared on the
10th, therefore the visit and card had no
connection We have no means of deter
mining the truth of these assertions but the
doned his principles, and is daily contradict
ing himself The mail between here and
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we saw the card, and presumed they were in
the order in which we became acquainted.
We know enough Of the political and social
relations of the parties and their characters,
to be convinced that such an arrangement
was but the natural consequence of the con-
nection between them. If the card was not
the result of the visit, it probably was of
some other intercourse.
English was made infamous by the dis
closures of his satelete; the latter was but n
thing of wax in his hands, and could be
made to wear any shaped nose, however
hideous, plastered upon his countenance by
his chief Our opinion of Shoemaker, though
not flattering to him-does not allow us to
think that he would stultify himself and en-
tail such notorious infamy upon his name
but upon the imperious suggestions of die
tator. He is not bold aud hardy enough
in the practice-like Bill English--to pub
iicly make broad, sweeping, daring asser-
tons that can be disproved by dozen I'M
impeachabe witnesses. We have testimony
in the case-independent of Hicks proof
which we have never used-becauSe conf
dential-on which we have formed our
opinion.
Bat an error of a single fact or date in
repeating newspaper rumors-and stated to
be such on the face of the reports no
reason for scurilous epithetS and personal
abuse from men who have been treated with
more forbearance and external courtesy
than their shameless apostacy TO principle,
and daily self contradictions should have
secured 10 them. In the winter, the New
Albany Ledger pretending to have thrown
off the shackles of slavery to party, aSSum-
ed bold and indignant condemnation of
Lecomptonism and all its outrageous doc
trines; and, for time, made a show of an
honest defence of the right of the people to
adopt or reject the doinss of Constitution
al Convention. Coming from an emanci-
pated slave to party, it surprised the world
with lis apparent elevation and indepen-
dence. We often quoted and commended
it. But it was only playing in concert and
harmony with its traitorous.. leader, whose
organ it is, and who uses its conductors as
the treedleS to play the tunes he sets it.
When Bill English took his thirty pieces of
silver, in the shape of the Nebraska lands
and betrayed the cause of popular Sover-
eighty, they were found basely recreant in
the same hour to the principles they
had ardently advocated. They gave up an
obvious principle, essential TO treedom-and
a. eternal in its application the hills,
and accepted in its lieu, miserable subter-
fuge - an evasiye, fallacious, pretended
mode of applying it, that yielded, betrayed,
and abandoned the principle itself They
become at once the defenders of the author
of the attempted wrong, and the panderers
for the traitor to the cause they had pre-
tended to support. No treason is so fatal
none so damnable and infamous-as that OF
a professed champion.
No falsifier of facts can equal in sin and
depravity the betrayer of principle. INF
deity to facts may cause casual and tempo
rary wrong; but infdelity to principles en-
tails everlasting injuries. When mercenary