Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-05-06
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SANDER.

Editors Journal
Within the long list of crimes, there
ia not one to be found in the dark cata-
logue more heinous and diabolical than
that of Islander. The Savior of the
world could and did forgive his murder
ers; but those wretches who accused him
of being in league With Satan, and who
said of the Son of God =" He hath
Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils
he caststh out devils" no forgiveness
could be found either in this OF the world
to come. Thus demonstrating, that in
the sight of God and heaven, the SLAM
derer was, of ell other characters, the
most infamous and diabolieal. The
slanderer is an assassin, armed with the
black dagger of hate, who carrieds
towards heart, and, with footsteps soft,
steals upon the slumbers of innocence.
The monster feeds upon envy, and
alakes his thirst with the blood Of inno-
cence. These wretchss are the pests,
the nuisanees of community, the sores,
the scabs, the ulcers on the face of
society. They are yipsrs concealed
amid the flowers of purity and vir-
tue ready to thrust their venomous
iangs into the objects of their hate.
From q circumstance which occurred
in our own city some months since, which
10 fully explained by the subjoined GER
tificate; or, from q similar occurrence in
a sister city, or from both, these foul
mouthed, loathsome creatures who infest
our own city, have attempted the aasas-
aination of the character of one Of the
very purest and most highly esteemed
citizens in our midst. The consumma-
ton of this most infamous and fendish
purpose has been attempted by stealing
facts conducting to show guilt, which oc-
Cured in the city Of Cincinnati, and
with which no citizen of this place was
in the slightest manner connected; or
BY transferring the offence of person
from another State, which vas perpetra-
ted in the house OF the gentleman who
has kindly furnished the statement be-
low, or from both of these, the name Of
one of the best and most respectable
citizens in the city 10 connected, with the
wilful, deliberate and malicious pnr-
pose, il possible, to injure and de-
stroy that which 10 more priceless
TO virtue andintegrity.than life itself
character. The vile, foul and fendish
wretch who FIRST planned and plotted
this assault, having selected the pure
and innocent as the contemplated vic
tim, had at hand, doubtless, anumber of
minions who were ready and willing to
assist in the attempted contamination
of their fell purpose. But good charac-
ter always has been, and ever shall be, q
wall of strength around the possessor, a
seven-fold shield to the bearer. This is
one Of the advantages which virtue has
over vice. The malicious and poisonous
shafts of the foul slanderer fall shivered
and harmless at the feet of innocence.
The pure and upright rise far above the
polluting and communicating influence OF
the loathesome wretches, and look down
with. utter scorn and contempt at the in
famous efforts TO injure the good name
or detract from that high and enviable
position society ever gives to in
tsgrity and virtue IL is not in
tended by this notice Of the conduct
and character of the low, snvious and
slanderous creatures that infest every
community, who have within our own
city attempted, but utterly failed, to
wound and bring down upon q level
with themselves one of our most highly
esteemed citizens-we say in this no
tice of these Infamous, low, pestiferous
creatures, it ia not intended to cast the
slightest reflection upon any one but the
guilty. None can take offense excepting
those who have conscious guilt in their
own bosoms; for the guilty, and the
guilty alone, this 10 intended, and that
the pure and upright in this community
may know and shun these wretches, and
that all such may be branded rs SLAM
derers. One thousand dollars reward
win be paid for the discovery and ident-
i6cation Of the guilty party, or parties,
in this affair; the evidence, with the
names of witnesses, to be left at tbs
Journal office.