The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-01
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= as our amiable and tender-hearted
associate was pleased to designate them
Ito our humble selves. Indeed, with
the effrontery of a skillful demagogue, he
used the Journal for the base purpose of
introducing himself to the crowd Not
possessing the commanding dignity of
Judge Law, who seldom condeseends "to
notice newspaper paragraphs" Mr.. Hen
bricks felt impelled to correct certain err
roneous impressions sought to be made
by the Journal The Hon. gentleman
was unable to recognize his speech at
Pabytown in the distorted construction
placed upon it by the Journal We ask
the people who heard him on Friday
night to think over the matter and see
how far short he came of making Just
such speech as we charged him with
making at Babytown.
We said his speech at the Convention
consisted in the discussion of four propo.
sitions:
1st Urging that the Democratic party
organization be kept up and sustained"
Was there anything of that kind in his
speech on Friday night?
ID. "Denunciations ofthe Administra-
ton of President Lincoln, the Congress
of the United States, and the measures
adopted by them to put down the rebel
lion" We ask the people who heard him
on Friday night, was there anything in
the Hon. gentleman's speech to justify
such a statement? Was not Mr.. Lincoln
and his advisers denounced in the most
bitter terms? Were they not assailed as
being incompetent and dishonest?
Was it not charged upon them that
they were working more in the interest
of the rebels, than in that of the people
who love the Union; and that peace
would never be restored except by hurl-
ing them from power and eiecting con-
servative men?
4th. Did not the speaker abuse Joseph
A. Wright? Didn't he labor to impress
the idea upon the people that Gov.
Wright was polite al mercenary, who
fought on any side that would give him
ofice2 1t is true that he did this on Fri
day night by the especial request of Mr.
Whittlesey, who desired him to ''give Gov.
Wright touch, but on Thursday he did
it of his own volition, and as labor OF
love- He did it with vicicusness that
we could account for only on the suppo
sition that Gov Wright had done the
speaker some grievous personal wrong
We charged that the third count in the
itinerant gentleman's speech at Baby
town was devoted to proving that til,
northwest is bound by every tie of inter
est to the Southern States, land tina
".said portion of his speech was but rep
:. zetition of the articles of +. Y. Carlile
! published in secession newspaper il
Memphis prior to the rebellion, to prov,
to the Southern rebels that the north
west would be with them in their effort
to overthrow the Government ra.
This seems to have been the remark
that touched the quick We didn't sa
: Mr.. Hendricks was engaged ina grea
conspiracy We didn't accuse him o
desiring the overthrow of the old Gov
4 ernment and the formation of new on
with the northwest, as dependency o
. portion of the present slave empire o
jeff Davis.
He puts that construction upon ou
simple statement of facts
D We can only add that we know Of n,
4 4 one better qualified to. decide upon tn
> tendency of his own teachings thai
i Thos. A. Hendricks. If he insists tha
efforts to convince the people that the
= are bound by every tie of interest to th
South" is an effort to subvert the 20,
r ernment, and is treason, then Mr.. Hen
n bricks is guilty of just that thing, for
n large part of his speech at Babytown, a
q at the 9Th of January Convention at In
: dianapolis, was devoted to an elaboratio
g of the doctrine that the interests of tn
% Northwest bound her to the Souther
= = States. We make no charge thatwe car
not sustain by proof "clear as holy writ
We submit to these who heard Mr.. Her
bricks on Thursday afternoon, if the 70
lowing extract from his speech made q
= the Sth of January Convention-whos
candidates and resolutions the Babytow
Convention had just endorsed-is not a
l. most identical with his remarks on tn
same topic on that occasion. We sui
T NIT to our readers if our statement-w
made no charge, we drew no inference
R we announced no conclusion-is not sui
stantiated by the following quotation
Docs not this extract from Mr.. HendricL