Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-25

Brief Revival OF the Democratic
Enirit

sections, is the subsection of every citi
zen of the Free States to lynching in the
/ South, on the mere suspicion of having
free opinions, and whose arguments are
the mobbing of presses and public
speakers, and the assaulting of public
meetings with stones, unwholesome eggs
and howls from breath still more un.
wholesome.
For brief period Democracy was it
self again. The New York papers of
low degree led off The provincial ours
of lower degree took up the howl The
World put its strongest writer in train
ing, with instructions to write as strong
as he could In the old Democratic
times it would have been good for the
murder of any Abolition speaker, and
probably of many of his hearers. Now,
such Democratic efforts can only murder
unoffending colored laborers, sack and
burn orphan asylums and negro dwell
ings. The Democratic heroic appetite
has to be content with negro blood.
The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote as
strong as it could, but it was feeble i'm
itation of the World. Without the NOR
al effect of the Democratic mobs of the
good old times of peace, harmony and
free speech, it all seemed the gnashing
of toothless gums-the serpent with his
poisonous fangs extracted.
The accusatory part of these invective
the Southern rebellion, and now he Is
come to gloat over the devastation and
bloodshed he has caused. How did Mr..
Thompson do this? By speaking in a
few Northern towns, and expressing his,
opinions with freedom. These, we are
told by these Democratic journals,
brought all these woes upon the country
If this be true, then freedom of speech
is the sum of all crimes. If it be true,
thing so dangerous should never be al
lowed to lisp. Do not the Democratic
journals find little clashing between
their new shift of speech and their accu-
sation of its terrible consequences?
What they really mean by their crv for
free speech, is immunity for melting
/ treason, and the crushing of every right
of liberty.
The Democratic hatred of George
I Thompson is peculiarly vindictive now,
because during this rebellion he has
/ been the devoted friend of the North
/ and of the National Government, and
has been very influential in creating a
/ public sentiment in our favor among the
English people. A writer to the Bos ton
Trdreller says:
To Mr. Thompson, more than to any
hundred men in England, including
Bright and Corden, are we indebted for
] 0f
ment touching the shareholders rebel
lion. His machless eloquence has NOV
/ ed and swayed the masses as with the
wand of an enchanter. His labors in
all parts of England and Scotland have
been unceasing from the commencement
of the war to the present hour
He has lectured so frequently, and
written so much, and aided in the for
nation of so many societies of North
ern sympathizers, that his health has
suffered greatly in consequence, and he
comes to this country to recuperate his
wasted energies, hoping to remain here
until after the jubilee. He deserves
the most enthusiastic ovation ever given
to any visitor from foreign shores; he
has earned it by his self-sacri6cing. de-
votion to the Federal cause.
In years past, Mr. Thompson has been
known principally as warm Abolition
ist but during the whole progress of our
civil war, he has been an ardent and de-
voted friend of President Lincoln, the
Washington Government and Northern
cause. speak not from heresay, but
from personal knowledge and obserya-
ton, during the greater part of last year,
having attended many meetings with
him, and been familiar with his daily
toll II any one man in England has SC
far modified public opinion as to pre-
vent war between that country and this
that man is George Thompson. Let oul
reception of him throughout the entire
North, and at Washington, show that We
can appreciate such labors.
John Bright, another distinguished
friend of our Government, whose infu
!; ence and eloquence have rendered ser
vices to our cause in England whicl
every American should remember will
gratitude, wrote as follows in letter t.
the farewell banquet to Mr.. Thompson
on leaving England:
"I have always considered Mr.. Thomp
son as the real liberator of the slaves il
the English colonies; for without hi
commanding eloquence, made irresist
ible by the blessedness of his cause,
do not think that all the other agencie
t then at work would have procured thei
freedom.
> u have not spoken of Mr.. Thomr
sons labors in other causes beside tina
of the destruction of slavery-they ar
known to most Of those who will be wit
), you on Saturday evening. l can sa
honestly, and say it with pleasure, tha
during the last thirty years there ha
4. been no movement on behalf of an
good cause, and there has been no vic
y tory in this country to freedom and tn
people, in which he has not borne a
r. honorable part
The writer to the Boston TrdUeHe
= makes the following positive afirmt
ton:
= BY the side of Bright, or little i
the foreground, should be placed in Ell
s. during bronze the statue of him who's
Il name heads this article-the man wit
s- a. by his transcendent eloquence and III
It's answerable logic, concerted John Brow
he to the views which he now holds O
nc American affairs, and which he so alb
ht defends in and out of Parliament"
Is , This is what has excited the Dem
,r- cratic howl against Mr.. Thompson; ar
n 1t IS for labors sue h as these in our n
tional cause that they would revive I'll