Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-19
A. " Gem of Purest Ray
Serene"
Look at the Whole Picture
Who Told that Brazen Lie
How About the " Littl'
Dirty-Nosed Niger"
40 wad some power the giftie gle as
To see ourselveE a. ithers see us."

The Evansville Courier, growing des
perate over its declining fortunes, anC
vrithing under the scorn which it know
all the respectable citizens of the cit
feel for ii, 10 reckless in its attempts t.
make political capital out of every preju
dice upon which it can lay hold. Drown
ing men catch at straws. Rattlesnakei
IN dog days not unfrequently bite them
selves in their blind efforts to poison
those who pass by them. We have @
case in point. We call the attention Of
our readers TO it:
0nthe 10Th Of February, the Courier
bad O long article headed Temperance
Fanaticism." The Union party wal
charged with being fanatical ON thil
subject, and to substantiate the charg,
she following unqualified declaration
was made:
10. We have said Law was passed
fixing liquor license in the city OF Madi
con az one thousand dollars a year
Which political party controls the city Of
Madison?
"We defy any Republican TO tell q
time when the. Democratic party ever
controlled that cityi 1t ia as violently
Abolition "a Boston or Indianapolis"
In reply to this, the Journal stated
that no law had been passed compelling
tho liquor dealers Of Madison to pay one
thousand dollars per year for license;
and, further. that the city had been gen.
orally controlled and governed by the
Democratic party, and cited a paragraph
proving that the Democrats carried the
city election last spring.
To this, the Courier of Friday morn
ing made the following highly refined
and elegant reply:
The Most Brazen Lie ever Published.
Ii, formerly "Crafford," of the sickly
and rapidly declining Radical organ on
Locust street, has fully established itself
as a tool fit for any paid service. There
10 not suborned thing that ever escaped
the clutches of righteous law, that
would stoop to such low uses as IL Its
last effort claps the climax of ridiculouS
falsehood. 1t positively asserted yester-
day liz the organ that Madison, in this
State, is a Democratic ethyl We do not
suppose that there is little dirty nosed
niger in Indiana that is ignorant of the
fact that Madison is, and has always
been, one of the lowest and most Radi-
cal holes outside of the Indiana State
penitentiary; and yet ii knowingly as
serts the brazen falsehood that it ia o
Democratic city, and publishes an igno-
ramus's remarks that the Radicals hope
to carry it in October. 1t may be, but
it 10 the only place outside of Boston
and the Jacksonville State prison that
they will carryi
Madison was once or twice carried by
Jesse d. Bright, and once by his broth
or Michael G. Bright, both of whom ran
far ahead of their ticket, and if any
other Democrat ever succeeded in car
rying that black hole he accomplished
wonders; but has never made the fact
known.
More than this, ii is well known
fact, that Madison is so thoroughly Rad
ical, and its proscriptive element 80
strong, that q Democratic newspaper
has everheen able to live in that God
forsaken community. And Madison has
paid its price for the fun. With fine
country back to support it, well settled
and prosperous, the city itself has made
the poorest progress toward every ele-
ment of greatness of any city similarly
situated in Indiana.
We give the reply of the Courier in
full We think it proper, now and
then, for our readers to enjoy an oppor-
tunity Of seeing the dignifed manner in
which that paper discusses public ques-
tons.
To the above trade We made no reply,
contenting ourselves with writing to
Madison for the facts, az we are in the
habit of combining our. statements to the
facts in the case.
Il will be seen that the Courier pro-
nounoed our statement with reference to
Madison brazen lie"
1t avowed that there is not " q little
dirty nosed niger in Indiana ignorant
of the fact that Madison is, and has
always been, one of the lowest and most
radical holes outside Of the Indiana pen
itentiary." 4sss lgs@ss ssod 22G
Again: aMadison is so thoroughly
radical, and its proscriptive element so
strong, that q Democratic paper has
never been able to live in that God-for-
saken community"
We desire our readers to remember
the above while they read the following
article, which we copy from the Courier
hardly credible, Jet true-the same pa
psr-of Saturday. the very next issue:
Madison.
We are assured by an old citizen of
Madison that at the municipal election
in that city last spring, the whole Demo
cratic ticket was elected. We are glad
to know it. There was great room for
improvement We learn that there 10
vigorous organization of the Conserva-
tive party in Madison, which probably
accounts for the milk in the cocoa nut
This information accounts for the out
rapeous amendment to the city charter
of Madison, passed by the last Black
Republican Legislature, empowering that
city to impose an annual license tax Of
one Thousand dollars upon retail LIQUOR
sellers The bill was introduced by
lanes Y. Allison, the Republican Sena-
tor from Jefferson county, no doubt for
noliticaI effect, in case the City Council
could be prevailed upon to enforce the
provisions of the Law. With q Demo
cratic Council, there is no danger OF the
tax ever being imposed.