The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-03
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To the Editor Of the Journal:

To the Editor Of the Journal:
In your paper of yesterday, an article
appears under the caption of Who
are they" in which it is said" That
distinguished gentleman, who has
for life time, been feeding at the
public crib, managed, after exhausting every
excuse which his ingenuity could devise, to
give twenty-five cents to a Committee of
Ladies, who were collecting funds to pro-
vide shirts for our volunteers" have been
informed by several of my friends that by
the term, " distinguished gentleman" men
toned in the article alluded to, am the
person meant. Waving all questions of
rank, and the further question of the great
! injustice done by an anonymous article of
this kind, have only to state the facts as
connected with myself, if, as intimated,
am the individual referred to nor should
have done this, except fer the intense ex-
element pervading the public mind, in the
present distracted condition of affairs, and
which might lead to unjust inferences so far
as l was concerned.
| Some day during the last week, met
| lady-a friend of mine, and one of the
committee for collecting funds-On First
street. She told me her object, which was
to collect money to provide flannel shirts
for the volunteers. told her " / had no
money" She said " / ought to give some
| thing" l put my hand in my pocket, and
gave her all I had-twenty-ive cents.
If there was any " excuse or " hesita-
.on " in making the donation, it arose from
the fact that the donation was a small one,
for the object contemplated but it was all
| | had. If | had been provided with more,
! | should cheerfully have made the donation
| larger. No one who knows me, has ever
charged me with illiberality, either in pub
lie, or private subscriptions, when needed,
but certainly for an object like the one l was
called on to aid, should cheerfully have
done so more literally, had ! have been
provided with the funds when the appl;ca-
| ton was made.
No one has higher regard and esteem
for the officers and men of the gallant com
pany now stationed at the Cantonment than
l have. Most of them are my personal,
and many of them, my political friends. 1t
was my wish that the only son | have at
home, capable of doing military duty,
should have joined them. He preferred,
however, to join q company of younger
men, those nearer his own age, and has
enrolled himself among them. | make no
professions of patriotism, or love of coun-
try, over others. 1t sometimes happens,
that those who make the most have the
least. Of my devotion to the Constitution,
the Union, and the glorious Flag which is
its symbol-that flag which in the battle
and the breeze has led US SO often to
victory-no one who knows me can doubt :;
and if occasion should require the sacrifice
of all have, or of myself, in its defence, it
would cheerfully be made, Connected with
the city, and its inhabitants, by every tie
that binds man to his fellow-men, l rejoice
over your prosperity and mourn over your
calamities.
But let me say, in conclusion, that this is
no time for elimination or recrImination
for ill-feeling, jealousy, or ill-wiIl for ac
cusation, censure or blame. Whatever
may have been our past differences, let
| them be forgotten. Remember that in
"UNIoN lays our strength, whether we are
to have peace or war. JOHN LAW.
Evansville, May 2, 1861.