The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-18


settlements with the parties entitled to the
money received.
An unsatisfactory COrrespondence.
Judge Niblack in his discussions with |
Bovey denies, in very positive terms, that
the Washington Union is the organ of the
Administration. In reply to all the Lee
compton doctrines read from that sheet,
Niblack says they are mere newspaper spec
ulations for which neither Mr.. Buchanan
nor the Administration is responsible. As
a rejoinder Judge Hovey pulls out circular
which has been sent to every postmaster and
official of every grade, in this congressional
district, franked by some one of the Lecomp-
ton members Of Congress, and generally one
of the attached partizans of Mr.. Buchanan,
which calls upon each official receiving it
to subscribe for the Union, and to exert
himself to extend its circulation. II begins
with mandate its language is, 81 You are
requested and EXPECTED to exert yourself
to give increased circulation to the
Union, whose position and relations 10 The
Administration enables IL to knOp and cypress
the wishes and sentiments of the Executive.
In most cases this command is most obsequi-
ously obeyed. The circular closes with a
postscript, which asks the officer to conmu-
nicate to head quarters all the political news
of his neighborhood-t State of parties
and the prospects of the election. In ru-
raj neighborhood in Posey county, which
has been from time immemorial, unanimous
ly Democratic, three Of the leaders of old
line Democracy-among them, the post
master, last week received each package of
these circulars of the Union. In compliance
with the request in the postscript each one
of the recipients indited letter giving the
state Of politics in that neck of woods"
The Postmaster wrote that "for more
than generation the people of that pre-
cinct had been intensely Democratic that
they had, since the days of jackson, given a
hearty and united support to each Demo-
cratic Administration that it had voted
unanimously, almost, for Mr.. Buchanan
that they had been led to hope from his
inaugural and his other declarations of opin-
ions, that they would have the happiness of
giving his Administration most cordial
and hearty support through his term. But
he was panied to say that the treacherous
abandonment of his proposed principles,
and the gross violations of all his early
promises, by the President had driven every
honest Democrat in that neighborhood from
his support and that the most odious sub
jects that could be presented to the people
of those diggings, at the present writing,
was Niblack and Buchananism. lie had,
therefore, been unable to get single man to
touch the Washington Union with a ten
foot pole. He desired that his signal failure
to comply with the command to extend the
circulation of the Union, should not be at
true Democracy, as he was an ardent
champion of its principles yet and in sup
port of those principles he should feel it is
duty TO vote for Hovey."
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for his independent impertinence in telling
unwelcome truths.
One of the other young gentlemen was
"sad to say that the most unfortunate Kan
from him the ardent and almost unanimous
support of a community of honest, inteili-
gent, and independent yeomanry, and that
name which was pronounced few months
ago with pride, as the embodiment of De-
mocracy, was now another epithet for rank
federalism az NJ. Buchanan had no friends
left in that vicinity, his organ could find
no readers AS for himself being q
good Democrat that always followed tho
lead of the people, be should vote for Hovey
and had no occasion for the Union. lie
therefore returned the circular"
The third gentleman wrote that he " had
adhered to the Administration rs long as
he could invent an apology or excuse
for its course And when his own inren-
uity had been exhausted in its defence, hc
had reSorted to the Union for arguments
but they had failed to satisfy the people
and finally lac bad gone for relief and helE
to Niblack but finding he had nothing bu
the old threadbare technical pleas for JUS
LITIGATION of his course and these had be-
come so distasteful to the people they would
no longer tolerate them. In despair, he bad
abandoned the defence of Lecomptonism
and had gone over to Hovey and SOUND
Democratic principles once more. He there
fore declined the honor Of being an agent
for the Union, whose fortunate position