The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-01-17
CITY CIRCULATION.
a case ot Northern Aggression.

first gun in the Gubernatorial Campaign of
1860. 1t is letter addressed to the recent
ly nominated State Candidates, laying down
some general principles for their guidance,
and volunteering not little advice. As a
specimen Gifts facts and logic, we quote the
following paragraph:
Gentlemen, the continuance of the FEEDER
al Union is in hazard; it is put IN peril by
the aggressions of the North upon, and her
bad faith toward the South. Should a
Southerner assert the proposition that the
North has been guilty of such acts as con-
stitute a lust cause of secession on the part
of the South, | confess | do not see how
| could answer it. By the law of nations,
if the citizens of one government are guilty
of continuously libeling the institutions and
public functionaries of neighboring friend
ly government or if they thus circulate
among the people of such neighboring gov
eminent letters and missives tending TO eX-
cite them to acts of hostility to their gov
eminent; or if the citizens OF one such gov
eminent shall kidnap the persons, or steal
the property of the citizens of another gov
eminent; or it they shall, as fllibusters,
enter the territory of such government
and the government of the citizens so Of
reparation for such acts, they may become
just cause of war. To the memories of
gentlemen of the legal profession, the trials
of Peltier, Gordon, and others, will at once
occur as confrmatory of what say. And
need | now tell you, gentlemen that the
North has continuously libelled the insti
buttons of the South; has stirred up her
people to rebellion has kidnapped persons
and stolen from her property; has been
guilty of fllibustering upon her, and that
these outrages have not even been frowned
upon in the North by public opinion?
The author of the above extract is rather
given to dogmatic denunciation, but as the
"Pocket prefer facts to assertion, we con-
dense an instance of genuine Northern ag
erosion, in order that our reeders may see
the correctness of the foundation on which
the statements made in the quotation are
based. We trust our Irish readers will pc
ruse the statement with care. 1t may tend
to increase their enthusiasm for party which
has always promised so much and done SO
little for them-the defeat OF Mr.. Brett be-
ing one of the last exemplifcations of its
interest in foreigners-especially the Irish
portion of them.
Mr.. Crangale, an Irish lawyer, emigrated
to this country about two and half years
ago. Soon after his arrival in New York,
he was employed as a clerk by Messrs. Gray
& Turley, mercantile firm doing business
in Savannah and Augusta, Georgia. Having
remained short time in the establishment
of these ~ sufferers by Northern agrees
ions, ;" in Savannah, they sent him to Augusta,
at which place they refused to give him any
further employment. He returned to Sa-
vannah and obtained a situation as Deputy
Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
county, in that State. He never had any
disposition to NEEDLE with slavery, and
lived quiet, inoffensive life, performing the
duties of his Office, and preparing himself to
be admitted to the bar.
Feeling that he had been badly treated
by Messrs. Gray Turley, who had induced
him to go to Georgia, AMI then set him
adrift, he sued them in a justices court for
his salary under the contract, and got
Judgment. An appeal was taken to the Su-
perior Court, but the judgment was affirm
ed. But after obtaining the judgment, he
could find no officer in Savannah who was
willing to execute it against a wealthy and
powerful firm in behalf of an Irish stranger.
Hopeless of redress in Savannah, Mr..
Crangale went to Augusta, thinking he
could find an officer in that city who would
serve the judgment of the court against his
former employers, who held property IN
Augusta. On his arrival at the capital, he
took a room at the United States Hotel. In
the course of the evening, he was called
upon by one John Nelly, who, on behalf of
the Vigilance Committee Of Augusta, in
formed Crangale that he must leave town
Immediately, as he was understood to be an
Abolitionist. This the latter refused to do,
asserting he was there to collect debt due
him, and that if they could prove him to be
an Abolitionist, they were welcome to hang
him. The bar-keeper of the hotel said that
he knew that Crangalo was an Abolitionist,
because Andrew Gray, "a brother of one of
the firm before mehtioned) had told him so.
About o'clock that night Crangale's
room was broken into by three constables,
accompanied by about twenty of the Nigi-
lance Committee, who arrested him, took
from him his overcoat and valise, and hur-
ried him off to Jail.
On the third day after his arrest, he was
tried before a couple of justices on charge
of melting an instruction of slaves. Col
Cumming, one of the most respectable citi-
zens of Augusta, volunteered in his defense.
Notwithstanding the Colonel told Crangalo's
enemies some unpalatable truths, the court
having no evidence against him, was forced
to set him at liberty. But the cost Of his
suit and of his illegal confinement, were
charged up to the prisoner; and the mem