The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-11
For the Evansville Journal.
THE nALLIE RAGON.
steamboat and Railroad disasters.

VI Adaptation IN human agency D6
videpce of divine appointment, then
your esteemed fellow citizen and old
steamboat commander, Joshua
ttr ., E.q fills the place Of provi-
d utial assignment.
W. confess e sensations If pleas
ure On h%ailipg a steamer at Weston,
K some days ago. on observing on
h FIR castle, as size rounded 10,
C,p an Thr op. commanding lbs new
aud b, auuful craft. just finished. ADD
out on her first trip from your wharf
1t will be fund that her ADJUST
meDts for freight and passage are so
excellent and. tasteful. as 10 be ex
ceiied only by the talents and per
soual charms OF the lovely young
Mss of your city whose name she
bears
The MALLIE is in the interest of
Evansville. and her contributors to
its commercial advancement will have
the proof in full freights and crowds
of passengers. Her keel touches the
tossing wave as smoothly as the breast
of plumage parts the floating air, and
one can read or write, pray or sleep,
as quietly and undisturbed as the
shadow Of a cloud reposing on the
bosom of q slumberilg sea. Gentle
manly clerks, mate and steward; a
clean pillow, soft couch, kind atten-
tions, plenty of the best to eat; with
wakeful vigilance to see that the boat
neither burns up, blows up nor sinks.
is the bill of fare for which all will
have to receipt that travel with Capt.
Throop.
Capt. Throop wiH not race. This
u%ncivil, inhuman and devilish prac-
tice and sport with human lives de-
serves the damnation of every man
and woman claiming to be civilized.
The system Of human butchery, so
often occurring upon STEAMBOATS, at
tempting to pass each other under
way-pressing the craft beyond Its
capacity for safety, and rendering La
bic at every moment the horrible de-
struction of scores and hundreds of
valuable lives, with the attendants
consequences of grief and misfortune
for a life time to thousands of others,
to crafty the foolish ambition of a few
brains withoutideas, and a few hearts
as destitute Of moral emotion as the
bulls of Bashan, is only excel@d in
its qualities of ignorance, depravity
and damnable recklessness by Presf-
dents, conductors or engineers of
railroads, who, to overcome behind
time" plunge their trains, freighted
with men, women and children through
bridges and over t~restles forty
feet high and hundreds of feet In
length at a speed Of twenty miles per
hour. Hence the public journals are
almost daily calling attention to an
other railroad disaster another
steamboat ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
two hundred lives lost, and scores and
hundreds of others wounded, bruised,
butchered and burnt and disabled for
life. And then in a month or so,
here comes eIpdFte official details OF
how it happened; and when there is
nothing else nor better to quench the
flames of guilt and to hush the accus.
ing walls of the dying, and to hide
from the haunting ghosts of the mas
sacred dead, the plea rs made Tn
/, public demand ar' The public de.
; mands that when they trave'
they should go over curved and otter
!, times rotten trestles thirty-seven and 3
half feet high, and over bridges
known to be dangerous at q speed OIL
, twenty miles per hourl Sirs
|. such pleas are pTimd fdcte evi-
dences of conscious guilt used as
, official bullying to intimidate public
-eensure, and the derRier resort u
: weaken merited and expected blows
of universal condemnation. Is THU
wholesale and retail practice of humaI
butchery, and m~assacreing men, wo
men and children, to have no abate
ment2 Must the necessities of tkC
age keep up a surplus of the travelling
public of fathers and mothers
, bands and wives, bEath~1 SlssSt
raadv ~ he ~n~21u whenever drunken
st@rfdffy, or reckless daring and
internal depravity may SO decree
. Is the civilization, the educated in
~tellect and christian heart of the
American people, SO feeble and desti-
tute of remedial agencies as-to look
on these ever occurring scenes of mas
sacre and butchery of the bones Of
; their bones and flesh Of their flesh,
keeping their eyes open and their
; mouths shut. until their own necks are
! broken, their bodies bleEp up, burnt
, up, sunk or smashed into fragments,
and form part of the ghostly views Of
: some railroad or steamboat disaster
g I1aS 2Ob the American PUPPY uHO
pew the piety that feels for "humar
woes2" Has not the American bal
and press the talent and daring to sin.
> gle out these official desDeFadoes thai
: feed the fish with their kindred,y and
fatten worms with their own mothers
1esh2 Is there not virtuous pc Uel
slumbering in the masses, when
awakeEed by these agencies, which
I will stop the work of destruction il
] public travel2 IF not, our civiliza-
ton is NO account, aud our christian.
ity less, and all our education and
5 legislation is nothing more nor better
e than expensive nonsense. The public
f demand safety in travel. That's what
: the public demand. And the HUI
a mainly, intelligence, and christianity
of the American public" will soon
teach, in no e~quivocal lesson, all off.
! eial outlaws to whom the travelling
: publio have to commit their lives
when they travel, that they can. and
must, and 11iH have safety.
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