The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-30

who would sign an article half
yard long, containing statements cal
culated to injure his neighbors, both
personally and politically in ignorance
of its contents, the following card "
appeared in the Boonville Enquirer:
AT HOME, juno 26, 1866.
Mr.. VIM. A. Williams
| SIR do certify. that you did not
sign that instrument that is in circu-
lation against you; and furthermore,
that you did not have any hand in
getting the article up; and it was not
the intention of the authors to make
political capital out of it. a sa
You may use this as you see fit.
Yours truly, Il. P. CASEY,
Now, then, the question occurs to
an honest man, ,oho has lied? rqf
1t is due, to Mr.. Williams to say
that he was not an officer in the army,
and knows little if anything of STRAIT
egg, as his conduct in this matter
clearly proyes-though it appears
strange that those men, leaders in the
Democratic party, carefully remaining
lat home with their " Sunday School
books" who were such diligent stu
dents of Hqrdee, and, who spent so
much of the time in which honest nsen
take their rest, in performing military
evolutions, should not have given this
pitiable novoice some instruction.
But of the four last Treasurers of
this county, prior to the present,
elected by the Democratic party, only
three we're .defaulters, and ,Alvah
johnson, the only honest man of the
lot, is not now,,nor has not been
Democrat since the commencement Of
the war. .tspso bas uiez
DR.. Brown, of Lynnville, was a de-
faulter in the moderate little sum of
nine thousand; and. as in the two
preceding cases, the county is likely
to lose it. And, Notwithstanding he
was an, avowed rebel-and it was
proven that he had said if compelled
to fight he would fight for the rebels
he was the Democratic candidate for
the Office, of Treasurer, against the
present incumbent, Capt 0 Jas FL j
Masters, and received the unanimous
vote of the Democratic party.
And yet these political scavengers
now claim that they favored the pro-
secution of the war, and they are the
only true friends of the soldiers. T -
\ From their record one might pro-
(perly ask which side they favored?
and, what was the color of the uni
form their soldier friends wore?.
Inasmuch as some persons of the
Butterhutic persuasion3 whose COM
bativeness lpredominates. only when
fortified by whisky, have expressed
desire to fracture and otherwise dis
figure our physiognomy, we deem it
proper tosstate for the benefit of those
gentlemen, that we are afraid of Cop
perheads. only under the following
circumstances: i 'i VS. E
When we are sick and helpless -
When there are dozen of them,
emboldened by whisky, and we are
alone unarmed. AhasisaaJ 35tbiss
~ When alone at night they have an
opportunity to assassinate u.s. ss,s.e
When we are asleep. osou. isaila4a
When we are drunk-very drunk,
and alone > y. ErVgs04yass s.ss.ss,
% Hon. Alyah johnson, of Evansville.
1 made several speeches in this county
last week Alvah is well known in
this county, having beenia citizen of
it, until within the past few years, all
his life; and he is regarded, even by
his political enemies, as an earnest,
honest, conscientious, Christian gem
tleman. He discusses the questions
at issue before the country in such
candid, good humored, logical man
ner that men of all parties give him a
respectful hearing.
He spoke twice on last Saturday, at
Yankeetown in the afternoon, and in
Newburgh in the evening, and though
suffering from severe Illness, he re-
viewed the record of the Bread and
Butter party in skiIlful and con-
elusive manner. He appeals to the
candor and good sense of the people,
instead of INDUCING in bitter, relent-
less and indiscriminate .denunciation,i
a practice with some of our political
orators, certainly calculated to dam