The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-23
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The Enquirer, envious and malicious as it
is toward the Journal, is alwayson the look
out for an opportunity to find fault with our
course. 1t has spied an opportunity in the
case of the Mt. Vernon criticism of our
Fourth of July performances, and "jumps at
the chance" of giving this paper thrust
with its stiletto.
The Enquirer says in regard to our publ
cation of the communication " This is the
FIRST time in our experience in such mat
ters' that we ever knew that public jour-
mai was bound to publish a slaEder for fear
somebody else would publish it. A paper
that cannot stand to be blamed for doing
right and refusing to do gross wrong is a
very contemplate object in community
The journal says: 1T
1.-THE refusal to publish) would have been
hard 10 deal with =
If a newspaper is to be compelled to pub
lish what it don't approve, simply because
refusal would be 'hard to deal with it is
high time that the morals of public journal
ism were improved"
We meant by " hard to deal with that
if the communication were published away
from home, with the statement that an Ev-
ansville paper had refused to publish it, the
effect on the public would have been ten
times more unfavorable to our city than if
the article had been published right at
home, where it could be resisted on our own
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the British in 1776 on their own soil. Had
they invaded England, they would have
been wiped out" howsoever righteous
their cause, on account of the disadvantage
and the inconvenience of reaching the
ground of contest with full force.
Had the charge been published at the
place of residence of the writer, in paper
particularly friendly to him, he could, if so
disposed, have continued to write on the
subject for weeks, and would have been
sure of the last word, while our people
might have not been aware of half that was
written.
Here the advantage is in favor of Evans
vile. If anything further is offered by our
first correspondent, it must be accompanied
by proof positive of what he asserted, and
when he cannot offer anything substantially
affecting the merits of the question, he must
cease writing through this paper.
The Enquirer, in an unco-righteous vein,
says ga paper that cannot stand to be
blamed for doing right and refusing to do
gross wrong, is very contemplate object
in a community" We are very willing to
submit the course of the two papers to this
community, and even to the respectable
portion of the Enquirer's own party. A
paper that teens with the lowest abuse of
its neighbors of different politics-Republi-
can and Administration Democratic-call-
ing the former niger thieves, amalga-
mationists, advocates of negro equality,
abolitionists; and the latter disunionists,
traitors, tories-is not very proper oracle
to lecture other people on their conduct.
For proof of the abandoned character of
the Enquirer, we instance the very issue
which contains the homily given for our
benefit. Just read b" Samuel Johnson's Let
teri" The Tories at Work." "The Goa
lition of the Black Republicans and Buchan-
antics; )" and that article, blistered with fes-
tering falsehoods, entitled "Bad and DAN
gerous Tenets and Criminal Practices of the
Republican Party" You will find in these
shameless TRADES the Enquirer's idea of de-
cency.