The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-07
aEThe Enquirer, to prove that Mr.. Shoe

D6 The Enquirer, toprove that Mr.. Shoe
maker could not have been in Washington,
in conference with Bright and English in
their treacherous schemes for the consum-
nation of the English swindle, asserts with
most positive particularity in the following
paragraph, that Shoemaker was, on the Esd
day of April last, the day on which English
introduced the compromise bill, here in
Evansville, eating the bread and salt Of Col.
Drew, and spending his time in the sanctum
of the Journal Office, very suspicious and
discreditable place of resort for a Lecomp-
tonite. The Enquirer says:
He (Shoemaker) left Washington Fri
day, April 18th, was at home Monday night,
April 10th, he was in Evansville on the
very day that Mr. English introduced his
compromise BILL Friday ed April J, and
was staying at the Pavilion Hotel. This
latter matter, the register of the hotel will
verify. Mr. John Thompson, at the store of
II. ID. Reynolds, on Main street, will also
enlighten any one who is in the least scep-
tical upon this point. But the most coll
vincing part of proof we have to offer, in
Mr.. Shoemaker's behalf, is Mr.. Carlile him.
self, in whose sanctum he spent a portion of
the evening of the said Friday, April ed,
and that the next morning, when Mr.. s..
visited Mr.. G.. in his sanctum, Mr.. Garlic
directed the attention of Mr.. S. to an article
published in that mornings Journal, favor
ing the English compromise. Our state
nent is plain, explicit and direct, and our
readers may implicitly rely upon every word
of it as being truth.
Being called upon thus to give our testi-
mony, we presume, by Mr.. Shoemaker him.
sell, through his friends of the Enquirer, we
feel at liberty to speak of visit that, as an
act Of private and therefore confidential in
tercourse, we have never alluded to before
in our paper. We are obliged to say that
Mr.. Shoemaker was not in Evansville on
the 23d Of april We did not see him till
the 18th of that month, at which date he
is registered at the Pavilion. We did not
enquire by what route he came, but we un-
derstood from his conversation, he was d.
rect from Washington. We were led to
believe from his statements he had had in
innate and confidential interviews with
English and Bright while at the Capitol
The false telegraphic version of English's
bill, sent out 10 the country, to bring back
20 Washington the first echoes Of popular
opinion, to aid the passage of the swindle,
before its true character could be known
was then before US and was the subject Of
remark by Mr.. Shoemaker.
Readers will remember that this fraudu-
lent version Of the bill embraced all the
leading features of the Observation-Disclosures
cry bill-fairly and in express terms SUBJ
mitted the constitution itself to direct
vote Of the people Of Kansas. II was all
that the most ardent anti-Lecomptonite
could ask. But the issue of this counter
felt bin was part of the nefarious swindle
it was fraud to delude the people while
the conspirators were accomplishing their
designs at WashiAsten- The reel bill W as
kept, as far as possible, concealed. II was
hurriedly and indistinctly read in the House,
and no one could get sight of it. The lynx
eyed reporters could get no copy of il, and
for week the papers were in doubt and
dispute about its terms and provisions, and
not till the original, genuine bill came was
the fall iniquity of the treason discovered
II was on the day before this fraut
came to light-a week after the report Of
the bill by the conference committee; anC
probably more than fortnight after it hat
been fully prepared by the conspirators
that Mr.. Shoemaker held his conversation
with US, which we do not feel at liberty t
repeat, except to say that his opinions al
that date were in unison with our own
Mr.. Shoemaker gave us the impression tina
he was intimately acquainted with Bright
and had had free and unreseryed intercours,
with him, though we cannot assert that h,
said in positive terms that such h ad occurred
We knew him to be in the most confiden
tial relations with Mr.. English.
Soon after his visit the following para
graph appeared in oar columns:
awe learn from a friend who has jus
reached home from Washington, that a de
termination is expressed there by the lie
compton leaders, to carry this State, at TIN
next election, at any cost. Bright ant
Fitch must be sustained, and Judge Niblacl
and other Lecomptonites from this Stat
must be returned to Congress, if labor, in
trigue, and money will accomplish thes
ends. Jesse d. Bright will open his Golfer
filled to plethora, by means none cal
know-but all can gueSS-and if need b
empty them to gain their purpose; for TIT
source of replenishing the loss will be pre-
served to him. His men have already be-
gun their labors in all parts of the State
and are now active in this Congressional dis
trict. IL has been confidently proclaime'
that Niblack shall be reelected, and ever,
postmaster-eyeryo one who can be swaye'
by hopes or fears of office-will be Oblige'
to Join in the effort to overcome the homes
convictions of the people. In the " indians
Club Room" at Washington, ten or twelv
clerks are constantly employed in counter
feiting the franks of Bright and Fitcl
and other Lecompton members, to docu
ments with which they are flooding thi
State. Over lie, 900 Lecompton document
are reported to have been already sent t
Indiana.