Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-11
AtrocIous.

EXTRAORDINARY.
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Who that has read the Arabian Nights
Entertainments, but has experienced
sensations OF the Gtmont loathing and
heart sickness on peruiing lie d1sscrip-
tiona Of Ghouls and demons who Eibaist
upon the decaying bodies Of the dead.
We can almost see them now, as heir
pictures were stamped upon our boyish
imagination--horrid, filthy disgusting
misunderstanding open the graves OF
the dead, that they might east upon
their horrid contents. IA years came
and went these youthful impressions Iost,
TO some extent, their vividness, aud we
came to regard the whole story as the
offspring OF distempered, morbid i'm
agination, and had no foundation in fact
But on picking up recent number Of
the La Crosse Democrat, We we're startled
by discovering traces Of genuine
Ghoul. Never did Arabian story por-
tray one more wildly than a abort arti-
clio in that paper. The foul creature 10
seen in every paragraph and in almost
every line. He gloats over the dead
body Of President Lincoln and tears his
mouldering fesh with a joy that is aw-
fully fendish. The article OF which we
speak lie the leading editorial 10 the In
Crosse Democrat Of the I'd mat, entitled
"Where are theyT' After inquiring for
the Whereabouts Of Phillips, Garrison
and Gerret Smith, Horace Greeley, Of
the New York Tribune, Butler, Banks,
Burnside, Fremont and Siegel, the arti-
Gle proceeds:
Where il Lincoln, the joking patron
saint of niggerism, who owes 90 much
to John Wilkes Booth, and who ia wen
nigh forgotten already, with hardly O.
dozen in the land to revere bis memory
Where Ia Chase?
Where ia Brought
Where is that crowd Of constitution
breaking, law.despising fdnRna7
Gone or going into oblivion, leaving .
nation In tears--a country in ruins--a
once happy people in debt and taxation
Ia treasury once we'll filed with coin
empty, and thousands Of millions for ua
TO pay. They have gone TO perdition,
and their victima are many. They have
gone from their field Of power.
Right Is again triumphing.
A statesman instead of clown il now
President, and the element which two
years since said President can do no
wrong 10 nov arraying itself against the
head Of the nation, and trying TO drive
him from the constitution behind which
he 10 intrenched
We deprecate assaesinatioh, yet we
feel 10 thank God for calling Lincoln
home, wherever that home may be.
The will of God be always done on
Earth rs 1t is done 10 Heaven. Not all
the cannon in the world ever sent en-
echo so far into the future as did the
report of pistol that fatal night In
Washington theatre, where great men
we're players and nations the spectators.
1t woke up the people OF America. It.
broke the spell. II gave the country a
statesman for President. IL flashed
its sic senper tyrGnnis from Maine 10
the golden strands OF our western
boundaries, and halted tho advance of
usurpation most elfectually.
z. Lincoln has gone. .NF1e he
Booth has gone. ID M
The nation wept, and yet for what it
did not know. sa $500 .r,t f. IA
The old clouds are passing away.
Tie past with its tale of blood; its pris-
ON cells; its clash cf arms; ito arbitra-
~ arrests; its shrieks Of wounded; It's
gigantic swindles; its groans Of dying
freemen; It's atupendous Frauds; i's
clouds of battle smoke: It's el.. Vi j. ol.-
gacy and inconpetency; its triAing with
Americas dsstinies is gone, and God be
praised.
The same paper, on the 2eth Of Au-
gust, 1864, gave expression to the fol.
lowing wish:
IF lincoln is elected fos. dnofker four
gears COS trust some bold hand cilt
pierce his heart Uith dagger point for
6As public good Some bold hand did
"pierce bis heart"