Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-13
4 "scOtched. snake.

All .11a1FseA A "ScOtched'' Snake.
Notwithstanding its apparent cruelty,
we have frequently amused ourself BY
watching the contortions and twistings
J Z c. cf snakes which we had pinned to the
sarth with q little fofked stick They
WILL under such circumstances, wrilhe
40 and strike, and dart out their forked
tongues, and look exceedingly danger
GUS, although perfectly harmless in their
demonstrations. Sometimes they would
start off as though they would escape,
- s.a but the little stick would holdthem firm,
..ay and what appeared to be their moving
would be only the uncoiing Of the kinks
ssass into which they had twisted themselves
re-. in their efforts to break away from their
.sssa tormenting fastening. But we do not
s.O1 remember ever having enjoyed oursef
80 much in this cruel pastme, as in wit
81 ~ Messing the contortons Of the Courier
in its efforts to sxtricate itself from the
dilemma in which we placed it on Satur
day, in reply to its Pronunciation of the
~ Library Association Our readers, no
doubt, enjoyed itsimpossnt tWistinga and
- its silly hissings as much as ourseH.. It
demonstrated to every one that the
z snake was badly "scotchea." The Lii
hrary Association has nothing further TO
ann fear from it's fangs. IaEp
But we are DESTROYS that our readers
shall enjoy themselves yet little more
in witnessing the handsome convoutions
of the reptile, and therefore we touch
him again to set him going. :
XII The Courier of Sunday copies the fol-
lowing paragraphs from the JOURNAL of
Saturday, tacitly confessing Judgment
as to seven of the falsehoods charged
Pg4N againstit: n If 1850
siss4 % Lie No a. 'The meanest and most
contemplate party spirit has controlled
e the action Of the Board during the gar
.sasas The Evansville Library Association
Ia has always been loyal to the Govern
a.sk ment, and despised treason and traitors.
That this fact manifested a." mean or
contemplate party spirit" is 80 trans
,.Ss parently false that me need say no more
noiaQf And comments ON them as follows :rs
Here ia sample of the little fellows
20 logical acnmen We charge that "the
smeanest and most contemplate party
spirit has controlled the action of the
- Board during the war, and this wonder
Ky
TO nothing, proves our statement false by
saying that the L. A. " despised trea>
no SON and traitors" The whole aim
and spirit of our article was to show
that persons who appropriated to them
selves ell the sloyalty" in the country,
- invariably had control ofthe institntion, |
80 = and that they exercised their power in |
contemptible prescription oil papers and
periodicals., Democratic or - Copper |
- head in politics; and the Journal, /
while attempting to contradict the /
proposition given above, and which
g really, in three lines contains the essen
1tial spirit of the entire article excepted
to,in its zeal to establish its loyalty"
.@sl tries bombastic aud loud mouthed dec [
larations admits the whole question in
voIa one sentence: " the Evansville Library
Association has always been loyal and |
a..s despised treason and sraisorsnii Every
true Democratic paper in the country
"a during the war was pronounced M reb. i
Ell sheet BY these loyalists, and as the
eaisss Ell A. "despised treason and traitors" |
- Democratic papers had to go by the |
board. Every man who subscribed to |
~ the sentiments and opinions Of Conserva-
tive sheets, was q sympathzer" with
treason, and as the <. L. A. was loyal
,1a Conservative stockholders could not be
sii allowed q majority on the Board.
So is The Courier charged that during the
war the Library Association was COM
trolled by the "meanest and most con.
tenptible party spirit This we denied
on the ground that standing by the Gov
eminent, and despising treason and
traitors, was neither mean nor contempt
IDLE, Risht here the Courier takes issue
with as and insists that "loyalty to the
Government and hatred of treason and
traitors are both mean and contemptible
We do not believe the people of Evans
'ss vile indorse any such "msan and con-
tsmptbls" opinion. Many Of our citi-
gems have entertained the opinion that
the Courier regarded loyalty tosthe Gov
eminent as mean and contemplate, and
treason as honorable and worthy of
praise, but it is only now. and then that
t.Iws can force it to confess the fact as
frankly as it has in the above paragraph.
A@ As an Indication Of the party spirit
that characterized the Beard of Direc-
tors, in 1861, We give the names of the
NlDenocratie and Conservative papers, so,
called, subscribed for that year: st ate
Sentinel. Charleston Mercury. Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer, New York Herald and
World, Cincinnati Enquirer, National
Intelligencer, Washington Constitution,
Louisville Journal and Democrat, At.
ianta Confederacy, st. Paul Pioneer and
Democrat, New Orleans Delta g Dat of
t"enty-thsee papers in all, subscribed
for, thirteen of them were known as
asDemocFatic and Conservative. During
that year the Southern. papers were
stopped, and the Association lost much
of the money paid to them in advance:
all Of which. no doubt. was neither mean.
nor contemplate in the estimation of
the Courier
800 In 1863, fourteen papers were sub.
scribsd for, of which Eve were known
az Democratic or Conservative In
4 1864, most of the dislOyal papers were
suppressed by the Government, and