The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-27


We gave an account on Saturday morning
of the dastardly attempt by a squad of des-
peradoes aud cut throats, instigated by Dem
ocratic leaders, to break up a Republi-
licaa meeting at Newburgh the night be-
fore. We propose to give few more items
in regard to the affair.
The Wide Awakes were as orderly a
body of men as we ever saw until attacked,
and acted only in self defense. No citizen
of Newburgh whose word is worthy of be-
lief can testify otherwise. They bore all
manner of insults with patience, and only
resorted to force when they were fired upon.
Their speakers were constantly interrupted,
and they tried to quell the disturbances, but
only by mild means until the rufians COM
menced using weapons.
The better class of citizens deplored the
bad behavior of the abandoned rowdies who
disturbed the procession and the meeting.
But the Republicans are few there, and are
overborne by superior numbers. We are
much mistaken, if this affair of which W
write does not increase the Republican
strength at least a hundred votes in tina.
vicinity. We talked with persons not Re-
publicans, who declared their sympathy for
our cause, arising from the startling devel-
opments as to Democratic tendencies shown
there that night. The people of Warrick
county have been under Democratic rule so
long that they think Democracy is all-in-all,
but are beginning to learn better.
We do not hold the body of the Demo-
cratic party responsible tor the acts of a few
designing and bigoted leaders, and of a
further than this: They should not nomi-
nate and elect to prominent offices such
men as Sol. Koker. We understand that,
desperate as he is, he was elected Marshal
of Newburgh by the Democracy over good
man, and now enjoys the nomination of the
party for Coroner. We are pleased to hear,
however, that his bondsmen have with
drawn as sureties for him as Marshal, and
now if he is sent to the State Prison, where
he belongs, and if his party will repudiate
him, they can claim some credit for being
opposed to border ruffanism. Otherwise,
they must bear the odium belonging to
such conduct.
In the midst of TIE disagreeable circum-
stances connected with the occasion, there
were some pleasant ones. The Wide
Awakes were greeted on their arrival by
the sound OF cannon, the music of band,
and the glare of rockets and Roman can
dies, provided for their reception by the few
noble Republicans of Newburgh. Mr..
Union Bethel had his mill handsomely IL
Illuminated in their honor. Messrs. A. NJ.
Phelps, John Handy, John Hutton (tempo-
rarily stopping there), and others deserve
thanks for their kindness.
We hope that Capt. Thomas F. Bethel
and Nathan Piatt, the men who were fore
most in instigating the disgraceful outra-
ges Of that night, will be remembered to
their sorrow. They may, perhaps, some
time, have occasion to ask favors in Evans
vile. Let every person who regards the
lives of our citizens recollect their outrageous
conduct at Newburgh. The cry of the
Texans was Remember the Alamow We
say, Remember Newburgh
There is good reason to believe that the
affair was premediated and prepared for by
the Democratic leaders. There was a sys-
TEN about everything that shows the work
of some controlling mind. The Democratic
leaders are responsible for ghat happened,
and no trumped-up fiction of the Enquirer
crew can exonerate them.
The interruptions of the procession and
meeting were not confined altogether to a
few, but huadreds were guilty of this con-
duct-among them, we are sorry to say,
some Bell men. These interruptions con-
sisted in yells and epithets, not in violence.
This is bad enough, but is nothing when
compared to the acts of Koker and his CO.
/ rufians. The minor rowdies can only in
jure themselves and their town Their con-
/ duct is the result of Democratic teachings
/ and intolerance.