The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-31
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We had been informed that he was tell
ing the people at the school house gather
ings that Lincoln voted against the Mexican
War, against granting supplies to the army,
and against giving land warrant to soldiers
and their widows and children, but we
must give him credit in this part of his
speech for candor. He admitted that Mr..
Lincoln was not in Congress when the war
was declared, nor did he charge him with
voting against supplies or land warrants, but
did say he voted that the War was unneces-
sarily and unconstitutionally begun.
MISUNDERSTANDING.
After Sufficiently commenting on Lin
coins record, be told the Haubstadters that
a crisis was about to arrive; that if Lincoln
was elected the Union would be dissolved
right off, in three months. Here the veil of
futurity was lifted up and the Colonel got
peep under the curtain. The Colonel has
really a fine imagination. His picture of
the dissolution of the Union was truly
terrific. The proud bird would cease to flap
its wings over our beauteous land. The
'ipes with the bespangled stars on the
azure blue would be torn into tatters by the
fierce winds of an angry God of Nations.
The " niggers would pour over the Ohio
like a swarm of black birds in corn plant
ing. Bristling fortresses would rise all along
MasoE and Dixon's line, and regular Chi
nese wall would come up like Jonah's gourd,
in night, with untold thousands of armed
men to guard the passes. The Father of
Waters would be cut off and the farmers /
couldn't get their corn and bacon to New
Orleans and a universal wall of despair |
would go over the West because it could |
get no sugar from the Southern plantations. |
q In them terrible times, whar, oh whar
would Injiany be y The orator waxed |
warm with his blood-freezing subject, and
our reporter was too much overcome to fol-
low his words. Suffice it to say, it was a
terrific description.
The Col. descended, as well as he could,
from the loftiness of his grandiloquent i'm
agery to ordinary topics of State policy,
and got into the theories of political econo-
my in reference to paying off the State debt,
and showed pretty conclusively that wheat
at one dollar a bushel wasn't worth any
more than dollar in bullion; but excused
himself further on the subject by saying
lust 70 elect his friend, Tom Hendricks,
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the man what could do it. He concluded
Oy saying he was not candidate didn't
want an Office nor was only a humble
oIow-b boy that this was the last spe ech he
was going to make for long time that
ais audience must excuse his disconnected
as he had been plowing the day
before ian old farmer thought be must have
lad rain in his region y and had only ten I
minutes that morning to. look over the docu-
nents.
After he was through, fellow with a
ed head and foxy whiskers, who said he
anne all the way from Hazeltou to make c
peech, commenced to talk, but our reporter
leard the Express train whistle for Evans :
'llieY au0 He, squire OtIusou Win nlS rneu-
natic leg, and others made fast time for the
ars, and left some of the Haubstadters
earning lessons of political wisdom, drink :
ng tangle-foot whisky, aud eating water L
Melons. {
The moral for the Col. is, Don't speak
It Railroad stations, for the reporters will be 8
fter you. t