The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-03
Letter from IndIanapOIis-TheD Doug
las Mass Meeting.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. %, 1860.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. %, 1860.
EDITOR JOURNAL Our Democratic
brethren had their jubilee yesterday, and
Douglas, the idol of his particular wing of
the party, was here, also was Ilerschel V.
Johnson. The performances vert off great
ly to the delight of those concerned, and |
am sure the Republicans have no cause to
be dissatisfied with the result. The weather
was highly propitious, though heavy rain
the day previous, and some indications of
more of the same sort in the morning OF
yesterday, caused anxiety for a time to
the prominent men Of the party. The num-
Der in attendance did not vary greatly from
that of the Republican demonstration on
TIE goth ult. Much larger numbers came
by some railroads, and fewer by others. 1t
should also be remembered that they had the
great advantage of having been assured
from the first that their candidates would
be here. If the Republicans had had the
same advantage, the crowd on their day
would have been immensely larger than it
was. And the Democrats themselves do not
claim that the numbers present yesterday
were materially larger than those present at
the Lincoln demonstration. The procession
did not occupy more than an hour in pass
ing any given point, and there were fire.
quent long gaps in it. In some respects
the comparison was decidedly in favor of
the Republican assemblage. The number
of drunken men yesterday was as about ten
to one of the former gathering, and the ex-
cess in other forms of disorder was in like
proportion, as the number of arrests shows.
The torch light recession was almost a
failure. A small proportion, only, brought
NDH Vvfk Fhnrr haA haI ~
no particular drilling in those evolutions
which give such procession its beauty
The " Fire Works in the Coliseum" were
wholly omitted. Douglas and johnson
rode the length of Washington street in
carriages in the prOcession-Douglas in an
open one, which gave him an opportunity
to acknowledge the salutations of the spec
tators in the windows. OF the speeches of
these two honorable gentlemen you
will have verbatim reports in the Cincn-
natl papers, and will only say of
them that Douglass was on his favorite
theme, Non-intervention," and was
a shrewd and able effort toward the OBJ
ject he had in view-pulling the wool
over the optics of voters, and persuadiRg
them that the Democrats of his stripe were
the only conservative and constitutional !
party, and the Republicans, dsuniOnists |
and amalgamationists. Throughout, John |
sons speech was wholly in very different |
vein a calm, conciliatory discussion of the |
points at issue, and containing nothing Of |
fensive iii manner or expression.
In the afternoon other speeches were |
made by several strangers, from the parlor t
balcony of the Bates House. Tod of Ohio, |
Logan of Illinois, Dixon of Ky, and some
others strove to amuse the crowd by saying |
small things without much apparent care |
for the truth of their utteraRces. Prior to |
the first speech, Douglas appeared on the
bare headed, and smoking a cigar,
which it must be confessed he did with |
grace, aud with an air that showed he
relished it ! He said nothing, but having
shown himself to the populace for a mo-
mcnt, and treated them to several bows and
waves of the hand, all with faultless grace,
be lodged back into the same hole ne came |
out at. This little pantomime, as we'll as
several particulars in his exhibition in the
procession, bore an air of jauntiness, and of
rakish nonehalance, very unpleasant to
witness in an aspirant to the Presidential
chair and which struck the minds of the
graver sort of men, of both parties as alto
gether out of place and unbecoming.
am very certain Lincoln's cause has lost
nothing by this Democratic rally, and | /
nigh. say the same for the cause of Breck-
inridge and of Bell. A few weeks more,
and what is now speculation will become
history, and the public mind it is to be
hoped, will have rest from its anxiety.
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