The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-02
From spencer County.
EUREKA, Sept. 24th, 1860

EUREhAj CepL Z4lu, 1OOO
EDITORS JOURNAL The long expected has
made his appearance. The Giaut-not the
little giant, nor the " giant of the noun
tain, but the giant of the Pocket''-the
great champion of Democracy, has made
his appearance among US at last. So much
had been said of him of late, that there was
a great anxiety manifested on the part of
Republicans to see this political MONSTER
Well they saw him, and one part of the
"bills," they say he filled exactly. Physically,
he is giant He stands six feet and several
inches in his stockings. l don't know ex-
actly how high he is. 1 would like to see
him measured, so that l could give you his
exact hight If he would advertise that in
his bills, have no doubt he would draw
much larger crowds. Intellectually, he is
little if any above the hight of ordinary
men. He has a very good command of Ian
guage, and appears never to be at loss for
words, especially, that kind which some
call SmUtty. In telling anecdotes of the
same character, | think he has no superior
and but few equals
The speech he made here on the 22d,
aside from the anecdotes and wittieisms,
was poor thing-quite a common affair
indeed. He first attacked the Republican
party, and judging from the manner of his
attack, | have no doubt he thought he
would so completely demolish the party,
that there would not be left one single Re-
publican in Luce township, Spencer county,
TO tell the tale. But in this he most signal
ly failed. His mighty effort reminded me
of the toad --. ~
That tied its tail to a hickory stump,
And reared and pitched but couldn't jump
In opening his speech, he told his
audience that he would attend to our loca
matters first. He thought we had better at
tend to matters relating to our own State
before we attempt to interfere with the af
fairs of our neighbors, meaning the
territories. To edify and enlighten his au
dience, he proceeded to draw what BIZ
called charcoal sketches of the leading
Republicans of Indiana. He gave sketches
of Nofsinger, Lane, Talbot and others
Hecharged Nofsinger with being defaultel
to the amount of forty thousand dollars
and said that Henry S. Lane was NofSing
sr's security, and intimated that Lane haC
refused to pay TO the State of Indiana tht
forty thousand dollars, which, as security
for Lane he owed to her. The othei
sketches, which he drew, were equally IN
true. In drawing those sketches, he show
ed TO his audience, that although he wa
very tall in person he could stoop as low a:
any person to misrepresent. =
He next proceeded to charge the Repub
licans with passing what he called thi
odious liquor law. This was news to mos
of his audience. They did not know tina
the Republicans had anything to do Will
the passing of that law. l think th
Giant of the Pocket was n little wrong OF
this point. If l recollect rightly it was tn
Fusion or Peoples party, that succeeded i
having that law passed and placed upon GU
statute books. The Republican party di
not then exist. - .--.. E-t-
The Republican party is not pledge
to the passage of a temperance law, an
more than either of the other parties. Th
Giant, in speaking of the workings of tina
law and its effect, undertook to illustrate
by showing the effect it had on him. II
said that while the law was in full force, tn
drug stores, where the liquor was kept, wer
more pleasant to him, than any other plac
in the world. He spoke so loudly and ve
hemently against the law, that any person
who was not posted, would have though
that the great political question in Indian.
was the passage of the Maine liquor Law
He concluded by giving his audience
small lecture on negro equality. He sal