The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-01-30

DIsAproINTEp-Hayi entered hear
lily into the defense Of our NJ. c., for
various charges preferred against him,
on the plea that twas ''nobody's bust.
nsss," we had almost concluded to an
nounce our preference for him over all
others as our candidate for Congress in
the Forthcoming race in the new dis
trict--Ouly waiting for the result Of the
light advertised to come off with Chan
Ter of New York. 1t will be seen by the
following extract from the correspond
ent OF the Cincinnati Commercial, Mack,
that, like the ancient Bob Acres, our
NJ C's courage oozed out at his elbows,
and that he didn't mean fight when he
said Chanler might ''test' his bravery
"at any timer' We knew he was "fine
grained" and "tough in FIBRE" and
thought the time had arrived when we
could award him praise for possessing
personal courage sufficient for self-de
fense-which is all that constituent
should demand in distinguished repre-
sentative. But hear I" Mack a=[
"The peace Of Washington was some
what ruffled the other day by the hos
tile words that passed between Julian,
of Indiana, and Chanler, OF New York.
Chanler had called Julian n coward, or
alluded to some OF his remarks IS cow
ard!y, and, after tbs interchange OF q
few further CON plimcnts. Julian prom
iced 70 settle the nat;er outside of the
House. / thought. OF course, that this
meant an immediate fight l Ind heard
something OF the valor of both parties,
and was fully prepared for something
deadly as the result. As SON asI heard
of what had occurred in the House
started for the Capitol, expecting every
moment to hear the report Of pistols, 81
to see one of the parties run up the Az
enue as if the devil WAS at his heels, I
did not know which. Judge of my sur
prise when, within two squares OF the
Capitol, saw the valonous G. Washing
ton j. walking along linked arm ia arm
with lady. The wretched Chanler
had been foiled in his diabolical intent
of sudden and unexpected assault up
on Julian, after the manner OF Sol. Mer-
edith. G. w. j. had frustrated his hell
ish designs by sending for protector
Who would have thought him so '.cun
ming o. fence Pr
The New York Tribune, thus notices
the Julian. Chanler difficulty:
"Mr. Julian recently spoke in the
House in favor of confiscating and put
ing into market the lands of the disloya
Southern railroad companies, who still
hold 5000, 900 acres Of lands granted tc
them by the United States, while thirteen
fourteentbs Of the Southern people arr
landless aid homeless. In reply to hi
remarks upon the disloyalty Of thes
companies, Mr., .Chanler of New-Yorl
DEM denied that their disloyalty hat
anything to do with the question. Mr.
Julian begged Mr.. Chanler to "contail
his soul in patience under "the exposnr
of the Rebel character Of his friends il
the South Mr.. Chanler retorted b,
styling Mr.. Julian coward Mr.. Julian
informed him he could test the trut
Of his charge at any time. Mr.. Chanle
promised to take al early opportunity
to do SO.
Will the honorable gentlemen allo,
ns to inform them that, if the peopl
wanted blakgaursiism, they could get
at cheap er rate than $4,000 yea
mileage, and stationery
Alas! our disappointment it create
than could be expected, and to hav
Chanler calling our NJ. c.. coward ian
the Tribune stigmatizing both these hor
orable gentlemen as 'sblackguards'
more than we can bear patiently! I'll
humiliating! We are not totally discou
aged yet. and, like Macauber, sha
"wait for something to turn up