The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-06

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Editors Journal:
A ripe scholar, graceful speaker,
and consummate master of rhetorical
eloouenceA is 1.-The gentleman from
Gibson County,"
The ornithological archives of the
State and Nation are explored in vain,
the genius-illumined pages Of Audo-
bon are. vainly sscrutinized for an
aviarial specimen worthy to be men
toned with the Bird Of Gibson
County. .a a arg
The writer hereof is not so pulled
up with oyerweening pride as to
imagine himself capable of adding
materially to the radiance that encir-
cles that proud name. When the
God of Day lights the universe, glow
worms and fre-fies attract little at
tention, and their practical utility
may be called in question. But the
motto of that venerable matron, who,
according to tradition, augmented
with an aqueous contribution old
oceans gray, and melancholy waste, =
has commanded the admiration of the
wise and prudent from period where
of the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary, and in humble imita !
ton of her grand philosophy this
penny dip is held beside the path !
way of glory, along which in solar
splendors strides the schoolmaster of
GibsouGounty. fa,ltifa ia aLea ~
The career of statesman is ever a
tempting theme to an ambitious pen,
but time and space alike forbid pro-
lixityy and your correspondent must
leave, to a more fortunate biographer.
the grateful task of tracing step by
step from nadir to zenith the course
of one who will in all time to come be.
recognized as grand examplar to as.
piring youth. ~ ee .,. III " ~
There are, however, two events in
this career that stand out in bold
prominence and so proudly challenge
the admiration of all who can appre-'
ciate true greatness, that faithful
chronicler of the times cannot afford
to pass them by.
A deliberate attempt to destroy his
own party, to make the wretched rem
nant who survive the late defeats of
that tenacious and cohesive organiza-
ton, its last representatives on earth,
was a stroke of policy which genius,
less astute than Birds, would never
have conceived. Knowing that the
only guaranty of Democratic life is
ignorance of the fundamental prin-
ciples of governments that know
ledge of those principles would utter
ly exterminate the Democracy from
the face of the earth, he has the
courage to rise in his place in the
House, and demand such knowledge
for all the youth in Indiana. In this
the better element of his duplex char
acter is presented to our admiring
gaze; the schoolmaster, triumphant
over the partisan, proposing to sacri-
fee the hopes of the party to the
mental elevation Of the youth of the
State.
That he failed to. accomplish his
purpose through the blindness and
bigotry of a Republican majority de-
tracts nothing from the glory Of his
undertaking, and the rising genera
ton of Hoosier Democrats, CROPPING
In stolid ignorance of the fundamen-
tai principles of government" may
not shake their unkempt locks at
Bird and say you did it."
An ordinaryDemocratic mind would
have paused in its aerial flight, content
with the glory of one grand idea, Sc.
renely confident OF posthumous fame:
but there are other sufferers than
those of the human race, and other
evils than ignorance affecting the
Democrats of Gibson.
Marauding foxes and sanguiniv-
orous wildcats roam through the
umbrageous forests, and adolescent
swine are exposed to their rapacity.
Shall the schoolnaster rest in in
glorious ease while porcine juvinility
falls prey to the craft and cruelty of
those vicious denizens of the woods?
If you think 50 you do not know the
man. and not to know him argues
yourself unknown. fede