Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-04
Assault Upon Hon. G. w. Julian.

Assault Upon Hon. G. w. Julian.
EDS. GAzETTE I send you state
ment, derived from an eyewitness, of
the assault upon g. w. Julian on Mon
day last, to which reference is made in
your paper of yesterday. The attack
was in every sense of the words brutal
and cowardly On Monday morning,
Meredith, and a man recently in his
employ, named Marquis, inquired at
Centerville whether Mr.. Julian was in
town. Receiving contradictory replies,
Meredith proceeded by railroad to Rich
mond, leaving Marquis at Centerville,
who learned by inquiry at two or three
of the stores that Mr.. Julian had gone to
Richmond, and would probably return
in the evening. Marquis followed him
to the latter place, and at the time of
the assault was in Meredith's company,
and together with some five or six
"fell ows of the baser sort, like himself,
formed ring Tor rather line-Julian
and Meredith being in O corner of the
gentlemen's room of the depot,) to
prevent interference by Mr.. Juiian's
friends, which they succeeded in doing
Mr.. Julian had, during the day, been
informed, that conspiracy was on foot
to assail him, but having met Meredith
fifty times or more since the close of the
war, when he manifested no disposition
to attack him, and not being aware of
any fresh cause or complaint by Meredith
against him, he disregarded the warning
as be had done many similar ones in the
past few months. Mr.. Julian has been
in feeble health during considerable
part of the past summer and autumn, and
never carries weapons q Meredith found
him with his shawl around his shoulder
and tucked under his elbows, with
bundle under his left arm, and
cane hooked over the same. APP
preaching him IN pleasant manner,
Meredith asked If he had requested the
Agent of the Associated Press to pub
lish dispatch. stating that he (Mere-
dith) had been relieved from command
at Paducah on account of sympathy
with traitors Mr.. Julian replied in the
negative, as he did in reply to the ques.
tion whether he had made similar
request of the Editor of the National
Republican. Thereupon Meredith struck
him one or more heavy blows over the
head with piece of iron held. in bis
hand, and, selling him by the shoulders,
threw him upon the floor, which he did
the more readily from the fact that Mr..
Julian has lame knee and was encum.
bered by his shawl and the bundle under
his arm. Falling under the shelf OF the
ticket window, with the ends of his
shawl under bis body, Mr.. Julian's arms,
or rather his elbows, were pinioned 10
the floor, while he was stunned by the
wounds upon his head, one of which was
bleeding freely, Meredith proceeded to
infict dozen or more blows upon his
head and face, plueking out handful
or two of hair, which was afterwards
picked up by by-stander. Finally he
drew heavy whip or cowhide, and con-
tinued to beat Mr.. Julian till he was
tired or willing to stop. During all this
time the cowardly brutes around him
were cheering him on, crying, "Give
it to him r "Flog the id Abolition
list T. "Giye him what he deserves r.
GLANDS off T. "Let them fight it out"
&c. Mr.. Julian was not making, and
could not make any resistance. Two
or three of his friends were pres
ent, viz: Judge Johnson, of this county,
of them men of any physical stlength
Mr.. Boswell Forkner, of Centerville,
hitherto, / believe, friend of Meredith,
but a gentleman and a friend of fair
play, united with the other two in re-
peated and vigorous efforts to relieve
Mr.. Julian, all of which were defeated |
by the confederated DULLES who had |
come for that purpose, and who hurled |
them violently back, threatening them |
with fogging if they persisted. They |
did persist, however, to the last, and one |
of them begged prominent lawyer of |
Richmond, who was looking on with a
eolnplacent and serene countenance, to /
"Come, for God S sake, and assist in
stopping this disgraceful outrage" With
undisturbed equinamity the prominent
attorney replied, at was no usel They
were determined to fog Julianl Nothing
could be doneI" &c, &C., and refused to
show, by voice or gesture, his disappro-
baton of the proceeding. And so the
murderous, eowar ,ly and deyilish work
went on. Outsiders did not, as you
were infor ned, succeed in their inter-
ference.
The reason assigned for the assault
is, as everybody knows, a mere sham;
for Meredith had no greater cause of
complaint on the day OF the attack than
he had six months since, sohen he Iods
removed from command at PGdWcGk
for actice sympathy Nth traitors, (as
any one will learn who inquiries of the
Secretary of War;, and when he had
the impudenee to assert in speech at
Padncah, that his son had fallen in
battle slain BY his side r. The true
reason is a long cherished and deep
seated hatred of Mr.. Julian on the part
of miserable faction OF disappointed
politicians, whose attempts to DESTROY
the confidence of this people in their
Representative have been so often and
80 sorely baffled in the past few years.
Always on the point of success lin their
own estimation), they have seen him
again and again returned to Congress
by increased majorities, notwithstand-
ing the torrent of SANDER and vitupera-
ton by which they have sought his de-
struction. At a time when the verv
seventh vial of their wrath was poured
out upon him through the columns of
the Indianapolis Journal, and when they
fondly imagined they had given him the
coup de grace by charging upon
him hostility to Governor Morton and
to publish respectful" de-
NAL of that unmitigated falsehood, they |
are chagrined beyond measure and be-
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