The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-01
s6~ Our neighbor is not at all pleased

BaF Our neighbor is not at all pleased
with our intrusion OF the "reminiscences OF
the last years canvass upon his attention.
He says he was not out of the city during
the canvass, and was engaged at home IN re-
conciling the schism in the party. We
would respectfully inquire Of him if he did
not attend the convention that nominated
Judge Niblack 2 if he was not an active
promoter of that nomination. Did he ever
do single act or speak a word fer the sue
cess of Hovey, the anti-Lecompton Demo-
crat? Did he not strenuously oppose the
election Of Stinson, Gavitt, and every anti
Lecompton man that run in the canvass p
Did not his Lecompton zeal impel him to
make bets upon the defeat of these anti-Le-
compton county officers, which he lost !? and
are they yet liquidated? -
But he says Judge Hovey was not the
regular Democratic nominee, and he was,
therefore, obliged to oppose him. His sub
serviency to caucus dictation, by his comics
sion, is stronger than his devotion to the
principles of his faith his political godfathers.
He sacrifices both at the mandates of
a iunto. Thus will it be in January next !;
by intrigue and management, the anti
Lecomptonites will be over-reached or out
voted; and then our ardent Douglasite
neighborA notwithstanding his affected adj
miration for the champion of popular SOW
ereigLty-wiir give up his pretended favorite
and transfer his aIlegiance'to ano'tsr.l he
wiIlpretend to sympathise with .trayed
Douglas men in their DISAPPOINTMENT but
he will preach to them the golden Demo
cratic rule, ,hat the majority must govern
that all good Democrats abide by the de-
cisions of the party, promulgated through
It's "regulr " constituted conventions. y
If the ant comptonites of the Pocket bt
once drawn into regularly "constitutet
convention, "-unless they have decided
majority in it, they will never come out o
it, free and independent citizens
will find their freedom of choice trammel
led and their votes pledged away to mer
they aohor. n, -
The old party engineers know the powe
. of the engine and machinery of caucuses, anC
they know how 10 work them TO bring int
their control all such honest and unsuspect
ing recusants as Lecomptonism has pro
duced. An improper time Of meeting ha
been imposed upon them 20 try their tenn
per; and all their protests and bitter com
plant againt - rong have had no in
fuence on the dictators to grant reliet.
Our neighbor says he supported Niblack
in spite OF his anti-Lecompton convictions
because he was the regular nominee of tn,
Convention. If that were his only reason
why was he so active and Jealous in his op
position to Stinson and Gayitt, good ant
tried anti-Lecomptonites, who were the reg
ularly nominated candidates Of the Count.
Convention? o. - -. ---- t.'s-.- ID
The truth is, that his anti-Lecomptonisr
was then, and is now, in our opinion
"rather fishy,p andneeds stronger tests ths
any il has yet borne. We are determine
not to have the genuine Democratic plat
form which we have labored earnestly :
build up in the Pocket, subverted by the in
trigues of hypocritical friends. And to tn
support of it, we call for the watchful car
of such true and staunch Democrats a
Hovey, Stinson, Gayitt, Raleigh, and 9th
ers who will not see it betrayed nor over
thrown by base Vaccinations of treacherou
friends, deserters from the ranksof its enc
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