The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-31
Great Meeting at Haubstadt.--An
Ex-COngreSsma and COrnstalk
Colonel ON the Stump.

Ex-COngressmRn and COrnSta1A
Colonel on the stump.
Hearing there was to be u grand rally o.
the Democracy of Old Gibson at the re.
| Goubtable city of HaubStadt, on wednesday
last, and that Hon. Smith Miller, the Corn,
| stalk Col, aud other lesser lights of Demo
cracy, were to enlighteu the natives, with
commendable enterprise we had our reporter
on the ground. During the day the soye-
reigns had been busy in erecting tall Doug
| las pole, and in the afternoon were collected
in the woods to the number off two hundred,
to listen to "eloquent Democratic orators"
When our reporter arrived at the seat OF
war, Holcombe, the candidate for Repre-
sentative, was saving the air at furious
rate, and pitching into the State policy of
the Black Republicans SIT TO kill" He was
terribly severe on the temperance law, but
forgot to say that the Democratic Governor,
Joe Wright, signed it. Seeing Col. Miller
coming up through the woods Holcombe
subsidized and the Col. mounted the platform,
on which were seated the diguitaries of
Haubstadt and vicinity, together with one
OF our own 'Squires-none were more prom
inent on the platform than our friend Squire
Stinson looking after his interests for the
Common Pleas Judgeship.
We had heard a great deal about the
charges which Col. Miller has been making
against Mr.. Lincoln to his audiences in coun-
try school houses but could hardly credit
the reports-we could scarcely believe that
an ex-member of Congress could be SO blind
to the truth as to assert what Was reported
against him. We went to hear. He COM
menced his speech with discussing what he
termed "the damnable destruction of the Dem
ocratic party, all brought about by Yancey
the high priest He promised his remarks
by saying he thought Old Buck pretty
good man yeti
BRICK 9 FALL-HIs Bold INTELLECT.
h almost shed tears over " the fall of has
old friend Breckenridge was 80 sorry for
his condition" He was well acquainted
with Breck.; be rode with him three hun
dred miles in Illinois once he was very
companionable fellow, and had a very bold
intellect but alas he has fallen Here the
Colonels emotions almost overcame him,
but he was saved from exhibiting the femi-
nine weakness of tears, by thought of his
=" terrible conflict with Judge Hall in 1854,
when treason rode oVer the country on a black
horse Of a dark night" "a flight of image
ry) but what connection Breck.'s fall and
his " terrible conflict" had with each other
he did not show
GOT THE PLATFORM BY THE HORNS
After sufficiently bemoaning his friend
Breck.'s fall" he gave his audience a his
tory of the Democratic Convection, 81 all of
which he saw, and part of which he was"
His remarks were quite heavy as he waded
through the struggles on the Majority and
Minority Reports, the clearest point he
made being his oft-repeated assertion that
u Yancey was the High Priest of Alabama
Finally concentrating all his ideas into |
single sentence, and rising in Imagination
with the enthusiasm of his subject, he de- /
clared that the battle was terminated when /
. the Old Line Democracy walked into the /
Convention and took the Cincinnati Platform, 4
by the horns, and told them, them aO4r tie
principles"
The Colonel was somewhat desultry y in
lis remarks, and fired away at the Breckin-
'idgers and Lincolnites in a lump, mixing
himself up in his subjects without regard to
'ither facts or grammar. He displayed his
Of the vastness of our ger-ate
Ind gel-orious country by saying that " Kan
las was three thousand miles from Rock port
he home Of Jim Veatch, who wanted to go
o Congress to legislate for little niggers"
lie gave stunning account of the
truggle in Congress in ls55l56, when
: they were tteo or three tOeeks voting for
peaker." His thoughts took the wings of
he wind and in moment he was right
nto the midst of the Utah war, which was
,reated because " the Mormons put the laucs
# the United States at a nuisance" He said
breckenridge WAS elected a United States
Senator in 1856; that Long John Went
worth, "the mouth-piece and High Priest of
Abe Lincoln" was expelled from Congress
or stealing ton or two of stationery. He I
vas excruciatingly severe on g Old Abe"
for riding in the same carriage with Long
ohm in hts Illinois canvass. ID. a-.
THE LEX LoKI.. ....
In reading an extract from Henry Clays
peech in 1850, to show that Mr.. Clay was
n favor of the ge-rate per-rinciple of nom
Intervention, he illustrated his knowledge +
# the classics and of chaste Latinity by
aging, " Lsr loki, that is, the opinion Of
he people in the territory He pronounced
n eloquent eulogy on the complomise Act
'ut by far the most vehement and crushing
'art of his speech was that wherein he
'roved to the evident satisfaction of his au-
Hence
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