The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-01
Tfe Wholesale Trade on EVansViIlc.-
The Courier ISLANDERS Refuted.


appeared in the Evansville Courier Of
| yesterday, which caused much indig-
nation among all classes in the bust
ness circles Of this city. The Courier
has succeeded in its design--it has
created a sensation. The merchant
who went to his business yesterday
morning, as was his custom, was
greeted with the announcement in
one of the public journals of his own
city, that Evdnsvflle is a doomed city.
The article in question was two
column and half editorial asserting
that reaction had suddenly taken
place In this city since the election,
| that its wholesale trade had very
greatly diminished, that merchants
| from Kentucky and Tennessee were
leaving it,, aud that general stagna-
ton of business was taking place. We
cannot give place to the whole article,
but we make sufficient extracts to
show our readers its spirit:
Before the elections we appealed 10 the
people to vote money into their pockets
to.consider wen fOhat a Jacotbt tatot meant
Ia this crisis We kept the matter before
the public. We discussed itlfrom every
conceivable point OF view. We exhibited
to 1lern how Louisvllle had gown 10 mag
nIhcence from trade which IL had politi~
caliy courted and sought-how from 900
inhabitants IL had grown TO perhaps 100000.
How its trade had revived seRepssince the
last election In Kentucky, when that city,
for the first time since our dpoubies had
gone Democratic, or Conservative, with o
large majority-a change in public Senti-
ment or about 5000 votes in, Less than a
year. rsF HaaiH asn a8sgA s8isa5
But our appeals We're In vain. The blight
OF Radiealism had settled np0ta hedoolaed
city Of Eyansuitte, and doomed II Is, and with
ferceness never before equAled, promi.
nent merchants entered the ranks OF the
Jacobins 10 battle against the success OF
the Conservative cause and their os0n In
terestsl They stood up at the polls as
dercely an Ii all their wealth was nc stake
on the issue of the, election.
Madness, insanity, stupidity fiIed their
"ioyai" hearts then, and although they
met a stubborn foe in the nnterrifed De-
mocracy, who gave them back as much aa
they received and even more, they, never
theIess triumphed oper themselves and adj
vertised Evansville one Of the most Radi-
cal Republican cities on the Ohio river, il
notsthe most intense in the State.
A reaction has taken place fAtal7 reac-
ton. Evansville, instead OF improving, ia
losing ground. With the finest stocks of
goods to be found In the West, her mer-
chants are not doing the business which
they might have done.
Thesesapera' legal merehantso { Fsyans- !
vile eannot ex nect'men from. the soatii to
continue to buy from them while they |
pursue this course toward their customers.
The Southern people are not to be humbug-
ged any longer by this class OF men, and
we do not blame them for the indignation
which leads them to cease al intercourse
with these gentlemen.
Ii is not our purpose in this article
to handy epithets with the Courier,
and retort upon its personal and
unwarranted attacks upon our mer-
chants, but simply to speak about
facts as they exist and are known
to every one versed in mercan-
tile affairs in this city. IF, what
the Courier asserts is true, the bust
ness of the city is destroyed, our
merchants had better close their
stores, our manufacturers shut up
their shops, and the laborer, the arti-
zan, and all our citizens, prepare for
the general ruin, which is so surely
coming upon us.
To the people of this thriving, busy
city, it is not necessary to adduce facts
to disprove the mad and reckless as
sertions of the Courier. The answer
to its unhlushing falsehV9ds are to, be
seen on every hand in this city, which
during the present year has improved
more than in any previous year of its
history. But, to counterfeit any false
impressions which may be created by
the article in the Courier, we desire to
make statement of facts as they re-
ally exist.
There is not single available store.
room vacant in this city. The demand
for new business houses is very great,
and cannot this season be supple
Higher rents are being obtained at the
present time than ever before.
Every one connected with CONNER
cial affairs throughout the country is
we'll aware that the business of 1866
is notequal to that of 1865 in the lead
ing centers of trade. Weneed not stop
here to enquire the causes. 1t is a
fact known to every welI.inform-
ed merchant. From New York,
Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis,
Indianapolis, and all around us,