The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-20
Evansville and Paducah.
From the Padrlcah Herald leth

EfdnSFiIie anu fduucd1. IA
From the Paducah Herald, l6th.I
!. One Of the editors of the Evansville
| (RadicaD journal was in this city q
few days since, and from the report
in his paper he saw but little to please
him. He saw g few, signs of com
merce." /" THE :" landing was desert
ed, the " drays were few and far be-
tween" the " merchants looked as If
time hung heavy on their hands" and
lit seemed as though : finished had
been written all over the cityp He
says . several years, ago Padueah was
a. rival of Evansville" /" sc. Those
| l-5Paducah is no longer a rival Of Ev-
ansville." sXss 80
The writer is correct In one
thing Paducahl is not a. rival of
Evansville land we may add, never
was. Paducah has been content to
pursuerthei even tenor of her way,Y
without 1.-THE fuss and feathers the
9Cbrag and, bluster n of Evansville.
She has notenyied any prosperity that
Evansville may have enjoyed She
does not now.i She feels, and has all
ways felt, that consciousness of usub-
lstantlal superiority which forbids "a
/ feeling of petty jealousy towards her
sister cities. 5d lia rsWsI al fsil ~.
i, But,not so, it seems, !, is the attitude
of Evansville The jeremaid of her
editor over the assumed commercial
prostration of Paducah, with her
fearful sympathy for the two wheeled
fire engine which had met with disas-
ter at fire of the night Beforehand
her lachrymose lamentations over our
decayed boat building interest-all
these indicate that Evansville is de-.
voured by her envy of the growing
importance and commercial prosperi-
ty of Paducah-at the extent of her
public, and private buildings-her
magnificent business houses-the re-
newea and reviving energy of her
boat building business-the enormous
extent of her tobacco trade--with
the exhilerating prospect that she
will become the great Railroad Centre
and Entrepot between the North and
South-aIl these things seems to have
stirred the bile, the malice. and venom
of the Evansville Radical organ, and
it vents its pent up spleen by deplor-
ing the intensely hostile" attitude
of Paducah to the Government at the
beginning of the war. and that to-day
she is blindly persistent in her at
tacbment to those principles of eter-
nal truth upon which she prizes her.
self that so many of her sons staked
. life, fortune and sacred honor"
Paducah can dc without the doubt
full sympathy of Evansville. Her
course is onward aud upward. The
deadly injuries inflicted upon her by
the radical party during the four years
of the war are being recovered The
trade of which she was robbed by the
= canting loyalty y of Evansville is
in the ascendent. Judge Trimble
and her other public-spirited bust
ness men and patriots, can now walk
the radical editors of the EVANS
WILLIE JOURNAL. Her boat building
interest, which was destroyed by the |
gentle Paine and other, petty despots
of the radical stripe, is now becom-
ing an important item of her inter- |
ests. Manufactures which can now |
be disposed Of without radical
: permit" are springing up on every |
hand, and even Evansville men |
are seeking Paducah as the
only live city on the Ohio river. Her
tobacco interest, the products of the
fields Immediately surrounding her,
amounts to the sale of thousands of /
per year, and millions of /
money-a trade larger and more
profitable than all the strictly com
mercial interests of Evansville com
bined. 1850 ~ .g
Such is the business attitude of
Paducah; and when two more years
shall have shown her in direct rail-
road communication with New Or
leans as well as Mobile, with st.
Louis, Vincennes, Louisville, and per
probability a little later
with Chicago-she will give helping
hand to the aspiring little city of
Evansville. and urge her to renewed
struggles for some of that trade which
Padueah will direct to the waters of
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