Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-15

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The Louisville JOurnal---Its Pre-
tensions Exposed.
With an arrogance that is sometimes
amusing, because of the shallowness of
its pretensions, the Louisville Journal
has been in the habit Of abusing every
body in Kentucky who did not agree
with it, at the same time claiming that
it is the only true representative of the
Union sentiment of that State. Hereto
fore, people in other States have been
disposed to admit its pretensions, and,
in consequence, the Union sentiment of
Kentucky has been regarded as peculi-
arly unreliable. Judging of the people
of Kentucky from the representations of
the Journal, they have been regarded,
in many instances, just as disloyal as
they could be without endangering their
property or necks We have always
known that the Louisville Journal did
not correctly represent the true Union
sentiment of Kentucky, and we are
pleased to see that the fact is becoming
more and more evident every day. In
its efforts to debauch the Union senti-
ment of that State by placing it, surrep-
titiously, in the arms of the Vallandig-
ham Democracy of the Northern States,
it has aroused spirit of honest indig-
nation that viii ultimately stamp it with
failure and disgrace. But it is not our
purpose, now, to comment upon the con-
duct of the Journal at any length. We
prefer to leave it in the hands of Ken
tuckians The Frankfort Commonwealth
has taken up the cause of the Union,
and fairly and boldly joined issue with
the Journal The latter paper attacked
the Commonwealth because of its defense
of Green Clay Smith. In reply to this,
our Frankfort contemporary says:
The epithet of "apostate falls with
no significance upon US. But we won
der that the Journal uses it. In no way,
shape, nor form have we gives aid and
comfort to the rebellion. On that PROMO,
sition, TY
Let the CALLED Jade vince
Our withers are unwrung."
1t would be well for some of our abusers
to have skirts as clear of apostacy as
ours
The Journal endeavors to be quite
Factions about the size, circulation, etc,
of the Commonwealth Well, had we
fawned and cringed upon the powers
that be" and begged as hard as the
poorest of mendieants of the loval people
for support; and had we received from
the Government alone one-tiird the pa
tronage which the Journal has received
by its persistent appeals, the Common
aceGtth would. have been able to have
had a better corps of loyal editors, and
TO issue paper as large or larger than
the journal Or were the Journals
columns stripped of its abuse and mis-
representation of the Administration.
and OF the unjust criticisms on the con-
duct of our army officers, and the Gov
eminent advertisements, the residue of
its matter could be compressed into
dimensions much smaller than the Com
BlonVeGlth
We anticipated, when we defended
Gen. Smith from the ruthless attacks
made upon him by the Journal and
other papers of the same stripe-the Val
landighammers of Ketucky-that we
should be denounced as Abolitionists.
This sort of denunciation, from one who
has apostaeised,, from the principles of his
fathers, and who has been given a posi-
ton in Kentucky, by being associated in
the Journal as one of its editors, does
not disturb our equanimity. Native of a
slave State and owning slaves, such
SANDERS fall harmless at our feet. Small
as the Commonwealth may be in the es-
timation of this most puissant substitute
of the great man who founded the Jour
nal, he will find that we fear him not,
and that, before the people of kentucky
are done with him, he will wish he had
not attempted to overshadow the Con,
nlOnwealth with his colossal stride, and
was in Canada, ichence 1t is reported h
emGnGted
The Cincinnati Gazette says the ital
les have this significance at has beer
reported that Mr.. Shipman, the writing
editor of the Journal, is native of Can
ada, and that he is still legally either
of that country, having never taken the
steps necessary to become citizen O.
the United States" 1t will be well 70,
the Journal-which, without stopping tc
ascertain the truth of rumors, abuse,
good men without stint, baring its at
tacks upon even rumor-to correct thi,
impression.
But the Frankfort Commonwealth i
not alone in its efforts to place the Jour
nal where it properly belongs. a Ken
lucky correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette aids in the good work Hi
criticism is pungent, and we doubt no
win penetrate the thick hide of concei
in which the Journal is encased. Tn,
writer uses the following language:
The Louisville Journal is continual,
boasting that it has saved Kentucky Il
the Union; that it has stood as rock
to beat back the wave Of rebellion; tina
through lis appeals the people of Ken
lucky have been reused to devotion Il
their country, and at It's calls they flew
10 arms forty thousand strong in the de