The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-08
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EVANSVILLE IND.
MIR. Veale and the Enquirer.

moral character that is above reproach.-
They trust that, by a life of industry and
honesty in youth, they will be rendered
comfortable and respected in their old
age. Little do they dream thai The efforts
of life time may be thwarted and blasted
by one blow from ali INSCRIPTIONS and libel
Gus press.
Mr.. George ". Veale, in his recent letter
to the Journal unfortunately made use of
the following language;
The politics of the place is not much bet
ter than its religion. IL has paper called
the Journal Of Commerce, which is the great
est circulator of falsehoods that ever came
from the cylinder of printing press, except
the Evansville Enquirer.
OF course the editor of the Enquirer is en-
ragged and must retaliate. We did suppose,
however, that discretion would have dictated
to the editor a reply that would have dis
proved rather than so strongly sustained
the truth of Mr.. Veales assertion We are
prepared to say that of all the Enquirer's de-
viations from truth, land it rarely, unless
accidentally, stumbles upon it), of all its
falsehoods, the one in reference to Mr.. Veale
is the blacklist and most foul
Mr.. Veale was resident of our city for
several years. He married an amiable and
highly respectable young lady, daughter of
one of our most respected citizens and bust
men, who was, at the time of his leaving, a
member of the Board of Councilmen and
during the whole time of Mr.. Veale's stay
with US he was ever regarded as a young
| man of irreproachable moral character-of
| great integrity and honesty. No one is
more cognizant of these facts than the editer
of the Enquirer, and yet, to vent his spite,
in consequence of a little fact inserted in
Mr.. Veale's letter, he despatched that gen.
tleman in Saturdays paper, in the follow
ing true Enquirer style:
One who did not know this Iibertine and
seducer would suppose that he was very
religious man. He shows his religion in
two ways: first by his zeal in the cause Of
Methodism, and second, by his abuse of the
Enquirer. We certainly never cast a straw
in his way in the world-the only bushes;
we ever had with him was in an official ca
pacity. We went with the Sheriff, or hi!
deputy, from Davies county, to the house
of his relative in this city, and arrested hin
on charge of bastardy, and delivered hin
over TO the authorities of Daviess county.
All who are acquainted with Mr. Veal'
kaow the above charge is untrue, and thos
acquainted with the editor of the Enquire
have excellent reasons for suspectimg it to b.
so. Here, where both parties are wei
known, no great damage will be done. Blu
he'object OF the Enquirer was to injure Mr.
:, Veale, in his new home in Kansas, by fur
nishing the Kansas City papers with an ar
ticle to his discredit.
f We are well aware of the editors inten
ton to back out irons his statement, an,
how he intends doing it; we remember hoy
Mr.. German was treated few weeks age
To ruin mans reputation, and then apollo
gize for it, is course quite common nova
days, but will hardly avail in this instance
The editor of the Enquirer was too well &C
quainted with Mr.. Veale, to Innocent
l charge him with crime committed by an
other man, who, if he did commit the &C
spoken of by the Enquirer, did all an hon
= orable man could do to remedy the evil
He married the party injured, and, by prov
ing an honest husband, atones so far as
can, for the folly of his youth. The poiso
! 1. L
Enquirer will only go short ways toward
alleviating the wrong. VIII it acknowledg
; the injustice done Mr.. Veale, and the entr
falsity of its charges?