The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-25
RockpOrt Corresll0ndemce.


RocKPoRT, September 20, 1860.
EDlToRs JOURNAL will you permit
reader of your excellent paper to speak
few words through its columns, in regard
to what the people are doing and saying in
Spencer, about this great political campaign.
There is one thing which is " self-evident "
here; that is, that the people are Wide
Awake, and duly sober" wherever there
| is to be political meeting or speaking.
/ The people turn out readily to hear what is
to be said and to see what there is to do
and it is truly encouraging to those who are
battling so manfully for freedom and the
right, to see and know that their labor is
not in vain, for there has been a very great
change here for the better. Many, indeed.
have left the ranks of the Democracy, false
ly SO called, and are focking to the stand
| ard of "Honest Abe; and particularly is
this true with regard to the Germans of this
county. / have been over the county to
some extent, and l know whereof l affirm.
There is another thing worthy of note
| the Bell and Everett ticket is not going to
affect the Lincoln ticket to that extent
which the Democracy have doubtless anti
cipated. Whenever men come to the stand
ard of Lincoln and Hamlin, they "stick,"
and they keep coming and keep sticking,
and by the 5th Of November next the Re-
publican ranks will be full. After the Oc-
tober election things will take quite anoth-
er turn. The race will then be between
Lincoln and Breckenridge, and then the
Douglas and Bell parties will begin to scat
ter off, some to Breckenridge, ard some to
Lincoln. In the Northern States the most
of this scattering vote will go for Lincoln;
in the South for Breckenridge.
Now if any person is disposed to doubt
this matter, just let him reflect for one mo-
ment upon the issues before the country.
Let him ask himself what is the true issue
between the opposing candidates. He will
find that it is simply this-Slavery or
no Slavery in the Territories. Lincoln rep
resents that sentiment which says "The
Territories shall be kept free for free White
Men," Breckenridge holds to the opposite
sentiment-that of establishing Slavery in
the Territories. Bell advocates about the
same doctrine, Douglas pretends to stand
about halfway between those issues. The
result will b. that Douglass milk and water
doctrine won't win, either North or South,
from the fact that the people always like
to know what they have to depend upon.
| The people of the South and the North who
believe that slavery is right, will want to
vote for a man who believes the same way;
and, on the other hand the people of the
North and South who believe that slavery
is wrong, desire to vote for a man who is
likewise opposed to it, and do not wish to
throw away their votes upon man who
says he "don't care whether Slavery is
voted up or voted down"
But | am DEPRESSING somewhat | PROM
ised to tell you what the people are "doing
and saying" Well, l must in addition to
what have said upon that point, state that
the Republicans are working manfulIy here
with the expectation think of giving
"honest Abe about 900 or 400 majority
in the county.
DeBruler will beat Law awfully. Yeatch
will lead Laird several hundred. l must
say right here that l.. Q. DeBrulers speech
es are the best gotten up in our" diggin's."
They are mild, pleasant, eloquent, patriotic,
and convincing. Now | am fully satisfied
that we have in our ranks many good men
talented men-goed speakers, but l do
sincerely believe that the people generally
would as soon, or rather, hear Judge De-
Bruler than any other man in our ranks
His speeches carry conviction home to the
hearts of his hearers, and they tell every
time. do not wonder that Judge Law
does not want to meet Judge DeBruler on
Y
ly in favor of DeBruler that Law would feel
like quitti ny" E-.
But I must speak a good word for our
Democratic friends here; they are doing all
they can as a matter of course, but il has,
been the luck of Democracy to be unfortu-
nate, ever since they met al Charleston, and
their luck "gets no better FAST A week
or two since, when Mr.. Bischof was to adj
dress the people of RockpGrt, Ithe Democrats,
fearing that speech from him might cause
some change in the German vote; got up |
meeting at Bartly Ringers Brewery, and |!
they went all around through town Just |
about dusk, making as much noise as though |
bedlam had broken loose. They drummed
up all the Germans that they could get to
go up there and drink beer and listen to
Democratic harangues Such a course as
this, taken by the Democrats to deprive Mr.. |
Bischof of hearers, disguised sensible men,
and the result was that it added one vote at
least to our ranks, and none to theirs.
And again, few days ago, the people !
were addressed by DeBruler then by Shank
lin, then by Baker. Baker used Shanklin
upso numerically that he had to jump up
and make most desperate effort at a re-
ply and that, too, after he had spoken the
DAY before, without being interrupted by
Baker. Did not this show at once. that
Shanklin had been really whipped when he
had to deliver two long speeches in order to
make anything of a show. But he did
good. He, too, made another Republican
out of a Democrat. So they go. Shank
lin boasts that Mr.. Allen was afraid to meet
him upon the stump. Is that so Pr If Mr..
Allen has got a son ten years old who
could not beat Shanklin speaking, it is
pity. LEoNIDAs.
*No, of course not. Col. Allen had n list OF sp-
pointments already made, and couldn't withdraw
them to meet MIR. ShankIin. Shanklin would be a /
mere child in bis hands.-ED.