The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-20

ing a speech after the one they had just
heard.
Finding it impossible to have any more
speaking, the immense crowd dispersed in
the best of humor. We never saw q meet
ing where the enthusiasm was so intense;
where it seemed SO impossible for the audi
ence to hear enough. We predict that the
Douglas Democracy will hear the echo of
Carl Schurz's speech rumbling all through
the remainder of the campaign.
Letter from PoseyviIIe---Mr. Hem
bricks Speech.
PosEYyILLE, Ind, Aug. 5, 1860.
EDIToRs JOURNAL: Two hundred and four.
teen men and boys assembled here yester-
| day, to listen to an address by T. A. Hen
/ bricks, Democratic candidate for Governor.
/ From a speech which l had heard him
make previously, when his competitor, Col
Lane, was present, had formed favorable
opinion of him as high-minded, gentleman
~ debater; but after hearing him yester-
| day, l saw that his apparent fairness was
not the spontaneous effusion of an honest
nature, but assumed because seated behind
him was his competitOr-a man capable of
stripping his arguments of all sophistry and
exposing their deformity. Hence his appa-
rent honesty and fairness upon that occasion.
But on yesterday there was no one to reply
to him or expose his falsehoods, and conse-
quently he INDUCED in system of misrep-
resentation which would have been DIS
graceful to the lowest demagogue, much more
for candidate for the high position of Gov
eruor of the State Of Indiana
He commenced by showing the immense
increase of wealth ia this State within the
last fourteen years, all of which was to 60
to the credit of the Democratic party The /
industry, enterprise, and economy of our
people has contributed nothing to the in
crease of property. 1t is ali owing to the |
rule of the Democratic party The facts |
in the case are, that party rendered us /
bankrupt in 38 and 40, and but for fer |
tile soil, the industry and energy of our |
people, and the bounty of God Almighty, /
we to-day would be, under Democratic rule, /
a bankrupt commonw wealth. We have every I
natural advantage which heaven-fav ored |
people could WISH and but for the clog of |
Democratic mis-rule and robbery, we o-day |
would stand far in advance of the position
we now occupy.
Mr.. Hendricks charges the Republican |
party with corruption, because, he says, Hi
ram E. Talbot swindled the State out of I
her swamp lands (Which accusation he failed
to substantially. But the charge of corrup-
ton comes with bad grace from a party,
which, AS Prentice would say, is as boyster-
Gus as the ocean, as unstable as the wind,
and corrupt as the devil. Where is their
Paris e. Dunning, of Georgia land motor
iety? Where their BresIin, their New ork
or New Orleans Postmasters Where the
swindlers, exposed by the Covode investiga-
tions Where is the ten thousand dollars,
that Wendell carried for weeks in his peck
ct, with the privilege of making it twenty
thousand or a Foreign Mission and for what
purpose? Because the phenomenon bad ap-
peared-an honest Democrat had been found
in Forney, and he must be corrupted
Doughty. But suppose this charge against
Il. L. Talbot & Co. be true-by whom
was he elected Not by Republicans, for
that was before their day; but by another
party, and hence the Republican party are
not responsible for their acts. And | will
remind Mr.. Hendricks that Talbot is a Dem
ocrat again. He was never anything else,
except for Office.
But his holding the Republican party respon-
siole for the corruptions and robbery OF the
present administration exceeded in impu- +
dence anything 1 ever heard. 1t was too
absurd to merit serious notice. | can't
blame him, however. | should dread to
shoulder the responsibility of defending
such corruption. | might, with the same
propriety, however, with which the Demo-
Gratis make this charge, run my hand into
your pockets and steal 500 dollars, and
turn round and swear that you had robbed
me.
Again He charges the Republican party
with being opposed to the Homestead Bill,
and Senator Hamln with voting to defeat it
only two weeks before he was nominated at
Chicago; and accuses the party with gross
Inconsistency IN putting man on the tick ct
for President who was n favor of the Home
stead Bill, and Yice-Presdent opposed to
it. This charge looks well, coming from
party whose candidate for President, if not
the author of Squatter Sovereignty, is its
acknowledged champion, while for Vice
President they take q man of the most ultra
Slave-Code mud-sill doctrine. Beautiful con-
sistency this But word as to Mr. Ham
Inns record on the Homestead Bill. By ex-
animation you will find that on all occa-
sions he not only voted for but spoke in
favor of it and after a Republican House,
with great degree of liberality, had passed
a bill providing free homes for the poor
man and after a Democratic Senate had
emasculated the BILL and a Democratic
President had vetoed it, when it was pro-
posed to pass it over the veto, Senator
Hamlin voted in the affirmative. How does
Senator Douglas vote2 lie dodges as usual
or don't vote at all
Mr.. Hendricks says Mr. Hamlin is not fit
to become Vice President, because he is an
Eastern mamie has never been West
never so much as stood on the Allegheny
Mountains and cast bis eyes over the beau
tiful and fertile West. Hence he is not fit
20 be Vice President of these United States
Here might with propriety say that think
it would have been decidedly better for the
people of Indiana if a certain gentleman
who aspires 10 be Governor OF Indiana had
never been as far West as the Alleghenies.
There are various other charges which l
would like to refer to- such as that Lincoln
entertained the doctrine that a man who
was not abolitionist was child of hell
and that Joshua R. Giddings was the au-