The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-12
POLITICS IN MIssIssIPPI.
Republican Meeting at VicksOurgi
WHO IS McARDLE?

coming decidedly hot. We copy
from a Jackson paper, a report Of a
Republican meeting 10 Vicksburg,
with a speech from General O.. G.
MCKEE, who pays his personal re-
speots to McARDLE, an individual not
unknown TO fame, by reason of his
connection with a great hdbeas COR
pas case, with which his name has
been associated:
General G. c. McKee,, who was
loudly applauded IN taking the stand,
said:
yellow CITIZENS OF VIcKs-
BURG: / have been for ten days on
q sick bed, but I gladly embrace the
first opportunity | have to address
you as a candidate for your sufrages
for Warren County.
l have always done my duty to the
best Of my ability. [ have resided in
the State of Mississippi for six years,
and in the renowned city of Vicks-
burg for FIVE years, and, to the best
Of my knowledge, no stain car be
attached to my good name. The
speaker here paid a handsome com
pliment to Judge Potter, his oppo-
nent, as being a man of rare talents
and splendid education, and stated
that he had never met him without
receiving that courtesy which is
always grateful and acceptable to a
gentleman. My great regret Is, that
knowing him to be a Union man be-
fore and throughout the war, he
should have gone over to the Democ-
racy, and ignored all his previous
pro~testations." He then spoke Of
his career as Provost Marshal, and
averred that no charge had aver been
made against him except by hat
lying paper called the VicksbRrg
Daily Times, which had abused him
for too long a time. That obscene
ape charged him with depressing
two ladies, but never was a charge
more false and grOundless. He did
not fear the dogs down here 10 the
Times Office, and asserted that else
where he had said nothing about this
wretch, McCardle, but waited to do
so until he could come to Vicksburg,
where he hoped to confront him.
Who is this McCardle? Who is
this heightened gentleman-this pink
Of perfection? This pearl of chivalry?
This man who places himself forward
as an exemplar of what Southern gem
tlemen ought to be? What is his
history2 Has he ever done a brave
act or an honorable deed? has his
life been such that any father would
wish his son to initiate it? God for
bid! He is the most abusive editor
in the Southwest, says one. He is a
C-~1-1 1~raITrA covo onnEhol IL n
tries to be the successor, IN this line,
Of Alex. MeClung. says}stin another.
What noble %emulatioBi What praise
worth effort! You men of Vicksburg,
who know him well, brand McCardle
as a drunken, vulgar loafer, who has
not a single trait of true gentlemanly
feeling about him. You know him
to be a han er-on about saloons; who
gets drunk on the whisky he sponges,
and under the besotting influence of
~torials. Away from this city people
may know him only as they know the
crippled old negro, bred Scott, by
reason of his connection with the ia
nous bred Scott case. So many people
know McCardle as connected with the
bqbeas corpus case. But here In Vicks-
burg, we know him as being a vulgar.
licentiOus and beastly disgrace to
u city. McCardle tax aud rant oI
bravery If he had wished he had
ample opportunity for fighting in the
confederate army. Once, by the force
q circumstances which he could mo-
evade, he was forced under fire, but
that effectually cured him of all aspi-
r%ations for glory won in defending the
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sought and obtained a bumb-proof DO.
ton upon Gov. Clarks staff, anC
thenceforward he skulked from danger
under cover of an appointment upon
Governors staff. Brave hero! The
private soldier used to consider a pc
sition on a Generals staff a tolerably
safe one; but on a Governors staff i
was bomb-proOf indeed; as safe anC
as honorable as tending sheep during
the war. While the sons of Missis
slppi were far away in Georgia anC
Virginia, fighting bravely for wha
they thought right, this hero, McCar
de, was at Macon, in Noxubee Coun
", looking after the State distilleriei
Of Mississippi, and getting gloriousl.
drunk on State whisky. If al
Mlssissippians had been like. thii
brave man, the fight would hav,
lasted until now, | suppose, for none
Of them would have got killed. Thi
lying braggart, always Wanting hi,
" bravery, and anxious to brint
difficulties to a settlement by tn
dnellst's pistols, has yet allowed him
self to be abused and insulted b,
both Col. Dugan and Judge Morris
aud tamely submitted thereto. be
cause he thought if he pressed tn,
ma%+a~ he might nick mn e-L.