The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-25
letter from BoonviIIe.

BooNvTLLE, Aug. Is, 1860.
The great Douglas pole raising last We'd
nesday, in this place, was grand affair
There were two hickory poles elevated
about as high as the house tops, one south
and the other north of Main street, emblem
attic Of the two sections or factions OF the
Democratic party. They were held out of a
perpendicular position by guy-ropes, the
one leaning North the other South, There
was 4 bed cord or clothes line stretched
from-one to the other, bearing a flag COM
posed Of eight stripes, in the centre Of
which appeared the blue ground, with thir-
ty-three stars. 1t is unlike any flag ever
seen By any body before. On the upper
stripe, to the left of the blue ground was
the word douglas" on the right the word
johnson" without any character or pune
tuation mark whatever to represent the and.
So it reads, Douglas johnson. AS soon as
the BEDFORD was hauled taut, Mr.. Douglas
johnson waves clear, one Arariah T. Whit
tlesey, late of the Enquirer, was taken sud-
denly with patriotic uniOn-gaving spell,
and harangued the crowd from the Court
House yard steps two or three minutes and
then be subsidized overcome with emotion.
One faint cheer was given for Douglas, by a
German, and the crowd adjourned to the
Court House to hear from the " Gallant
Colonel Hendricks" and the uncertain
Law"
Z u Col H. spoke for about two hours and a
half, charging a great deal of corruption
and svindling upon the Republican party
in the management of the Swamp Land
fund in the State of Indiana. He also at
tempted to make the Republican party re-
sponsibIe for turning the blind, the insane,
the deaf and dumb out of the asylums, and
sending them back upon the cold charities
of their respective counties. He attributed
the unprecedented prosperity of the country
to the Democratic party, as though the
people should thank the Democratic party
for their seed time and harvest, instead OF
the Supreme Ruler Of the Universe He
stigmatized the Republican party as being
the Abolition party, but forgot to tell the
people that tue Democrats in 48 and As
ssid it was the duty of Congress to prohibit
slavery from going into the Territories
He attempted to frighten the people by tell
ing them that if they voted for Lincoln
they would be voting for a man whose poll
cy would be TO make all the slaves of the
South free and then make them citizens,
LleFeOY lDul0aJlng Inc Tree States with
negroes, no would enter the farms and the
workshops in competition with white men
He denied that the Homestead Bill was a
Republican measure, but claimed considera-
BILE honor for having once made speech in
Congress, in favor of Homestead law him.
self. He said the Homestead Bill was ! ut
into the Chicago platform as a clap-lrap to
catch votes, as il was likely to be popular
measure; but in all his charges against Lin
coin, be did not, as the small Democrats
about the street corners do, charge him with
voting against supplies and land warrants to
the soldiers in Mexico who were fighting
the battles of their country. He had a lit
tie moore sense th II some of our pop-pun
politicians whom | could name, who have
made such charges, and who have backed
down from them.
When Hendricks sat down, J udgo Law took
the stand, but before be could get the attention
of the people, at least half ofthe audience had
retired, leaving the Judge to speech to a
short horse is easily curried, and the Judge
soon dispatched him, He was in favor oil
harmony in the Democratic ranks, and es-
pecially in this Congressional District, fol
if he was defeated tor Congress in October
it might be that Lincoln would be our next
President. He attributed Buchanan's cleo
ton in 1856 10 this Congressional district
The Crowd numbered about $50, ons-hal
Of whom were Republicans and Breckenridge
Democrats. Ion.
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