The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-13
The Guerilla Unearthed.

Dy couple OF WeII-ulFeclSu SuOIS We
tore away the dirt breastwork of the En-
guirer, behind which its Guerilla Editor was
! entrenched, and exposed to view the desert
er from the Whig camp, who had gone over
to the Democracy and turned hisrusty match
! lock upon his former comrades. Our dis
closure has discounted him. For while
he did not attempt a renewal of his hos
tility, but in Sundays Enquirer he fires a
random shot--a revengefnl, wicked one
and begs for quarter by pleading his long
friendship for the wronged party, and his
very disinterested intentions now in desert
ing from and fighting against his old friends.
The new Enquirer editor takes occasion
to speak of he "fabbY puerilities of the
Journal. He probably got that idea from
the story of the frog that was found in the
coal mine, and submitted to the inspec-
tion of learned arithmetician, who by an
Intricate calculation, demonstrated that said
frog had been lmbedded in the solid coal
since a period anterior to the creation of
the earth! The frog is a tza66y reptile !;
the surmise was a puerile one. Hence the
derivation of the phrase quoted.
The new Enquirer man goes on to say:
ga concern that daily and weekly hands
round its mendicated hate, begging for
few pennies of public support, and bestows
the most extravagant penegyrics upon every
one that in compassion, or to avoid an an
noyance, drops so much as a dime into the
elemosynary contribution, has DO conception
Of better spirit or higher motive in
Others.
If by such illusions he means that we
value in return, he simply intimates a false
hood. If he means that we are willing to
"help those who help us"-notice favora-
bly, our patrons, and thus help to build up
the business of the place while we are Incl
dentally sustaining an expensive Daily
newspaper in a small city-we can under
stand the drift of his malicious inuendo.-
The only difference between US in the latter
case is, that while Mr.. Guerilla would, if he
were in our place, swallow like swine the
patronage given the office by a liberal public
without acknowledging the favor, we take
pleasure in reciprocating the kind offices
of our friends on any and all occasions.
Yet we confess that in such a sentence as
the one quoted, we can find very little sense.
What he means by handing round mendi-
Gated hate " he only knows who wrote it.
How one would go to work to hand around
the intangible article, or what it could be
handed round for, only the Guerilla edit
or, the classical writer, and astute politician
of the Enquirer can explain.
The complaint of assailing private char
acter is decidedly cool, coming from the
writer who so shamefully stigmatizes Judge
DeBruler without cause. We have made
no assault on private character-we are
only trying to protect the character of
others from base and cowardly attacks.
Such terms as reasonable doctrines and
political sins of Republican abolitionists,"
indicate that the writer is Obliged to resort
to blackguardism in his barrenness oflegiti-
mate argument.
Finally, the Enquirer's Supernumerary
asks, if the journal has horror of con-
ceaed editors, why don't it bring out to
the light of day the assailants in its editori-
al columns of Judge Law from the shades
of the city Banks ?" This delightful speci-
men of demagoguery and vindictiveness is
a " fash in the pan The regular attaches
of this paper have no occasion to resort to
city banks for accommodations in the line
of editorials The banks, we presume, have
enough to do to attend to their own egiti-
mate business, without wishing to edit
newspapers. No article emanati1g from a
bank and directed at Judge Law has been
published in these editorially or
otherwise-since the present editor took
control of the paper. 1t is reserved for the
Democratic organ to get its editorials from
an individual who was formerly Wing
and opposed to Democracy from education,
more recently editor of an American news
paper, and latterly professed Douglas DEM
ocrat, while pretending a strong preference
for John Bell for the Presidency Truly,
the Enquirer is hard up for editorials.
The CINCINNATI AND LOUISVILLE THEA
TRICAL CoMPANY.-This popular troupe of
dramatic artists is again with US, and will