The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-07-31

election in June, salo II was rishL 70 SUI
nit to the majority How could 1 have
said this in Nashville in June, when ar
rived in Evansville on the ION OF May ~
Now, the pelican nose man mas 700 Keen a
soanr himself rat- to detect this discrepance !;
so he makes az asterisk atter june, anu ap-
nends ! NOTE that aths perhaps should be
spring eIection-it is evidently wrong. III
the blind lead the blind both shall tail INTO
the ditchn And when liar helps liar,
they only expose their desperate case
PRAY, most ingenious Peliean nose tell US
what election took place in Tennessee be-
tween February and June. There was
none sir. This precious Pearl says John
P. Aiken stated that " was very strong ~
my expressions of secession sentiments, ana
was surprised to learn that | had left the
CITY," | thought Aiken a clever man-ta-
vored him all [ could with hauling from
the depot. He was at the boat the morning
befoae the afternoon left, and introduced
me to Capt Manard, of Patton No p with
the warmest concentrations, and we bad
/ long parting Union talk. If he said ever
uttered a secession sentiment, so entirely
inconsistent with my leaving Nashville,
and expressed establishment that had iefti
the terrible hump on his back IS no more
natural deformity than it is a burden OF
sim" like what weighed down poor Chrls-
tian, the Pilgrim. And Mr.. Hardiman, with
whom served in the same company Tor
four years-whose companys construction
books continued to keep for three years
| longer after left their Office for more im-
portant post, for part Of which service / expe-
rienced the greatest difficulty in ever getting
my pay, and whose company still owe me
$50 that I cannot get-this Hardiman says
" lost my late situation with his company
from negligence of duty" Alb Hardiman,
! if you said that, you are very big fat
man, and carry about an enormous tub OF
gatherings, but you are no bigger man
than you are liar. You say they wanted
man who could figure less in the papers,
and more in their books" Exactly. 1t was
we'll understood in Nashville at the time,
that my Union articles provoked an attempt
at persecution but the place was not an
agreeable one, and / had repeatedly re-
quested the Superintendent to release me
from it. The blow, therefore, struck by the
secessionists in the Directory fell harmless.
Now, Mr.. Pearl, a thousand Of your best
citizens know, and will testify, that you
would no more have published SO wanton,
Infamous, and false a TRADE of abuse Of me,
were where l could get at you, than you
would venture to jump off the Suspension
L
ize the miles 5etsVeen as that make you so
bold, and think of your AFFECT apology, and
your little swindte, my neglected genius
that you speak of goes out on the wings
of intense song, and ask:
''When shall we tgo meet again.
wish to say, that have nothing to ask
of the people of Nashville. l had right
to leave there as they had right to stay.
For many good and loyal Union friends
that l have there, I entertain deep admira-
ton and regard. For many secessionists /
hold kind of suspended esteem. NJ heart
would fain separate their treason from their
many good qualities that endeared them to
me in our long intercourse. | would have
even an enemy respect my rectitude.
would, therefore, say, that in no instance
ever made an assertion that would call for
any such certificates published in the Ga
zette, as if in refutation. / never said our
flag had been pinued TO the seats of boys,
negroes and roWdies, though | did state
truly the Morgan case, and many instances
of gross insults to, and attempts to de-
grade the national flag. / never said that
owned any real estate in Nashville. never
said that any violence had ever been offered
me t. drive me out, on the contrary, care
fully corrected such an impression in the
minds of Messrs. Rathbone Foster, Viele,
french ana Olu6FS- i never spoke OF the
election of the 9Th of June in any other
way than as warranted by the newspapers
of the country. Indeed, gentlemen, we differ
as widely as the antipodes God knows
your crime is black enough not to need
exaggeration to deepen it. And do you
take care not to add to your objectionable
sin in the eyes of God and man by publish
ing falsehoods and heaping injustice upon
individuals. Terms of opprobrium like
" Northern hords of cut-throats and viii
lains," "thieves," Towards" "white trash"
and such ilk, may do as war charges, but
do not attempt to Gssdsinate private char
acter.
But what will the people of Evansville
think of a man who would resort to
scheme of hunting among our bitter foes for
some dirty, cowardly, irresponsible personal
enemy, and furnish him with mere inven-
tons of his own depraved and diabolical
mind, to be circulated in Nashville to stir
up resentment and passion against me-, and
procure defamitory certificates People of
Evansville, will you not giUe nae a certificate
that this Pelican nose John Huge, is the
greatest liar in the city, and that did but
partial Justice to his character when, in five
minutes after his communication was hand
/ ed me, denounced him to his face as base
! liar and seoundrel? People of Nashville,
will you have the magnanimity to send me
his villainous letters to you. Oh most re-
doubta6Ls and chivalric j. w. Huge, | shall
never again trouble myself about your ar
ticles. Whenever your cowardly spirit can
be reused to say to me the half l said to
/ you, | will crush you as a viper.