The Evansville Daily Journal

The following communication has been handed us for publication by its author, a German Democrat:

[For the Journal.]

MR. Sanders:—I beg you to have the kindness to publish in your paper the following remarks to the Enquirer's essays:

The Enquirer, or Mr. Hall, or probably Mr. A. T. Whittlesy, hears it rumored that Capt. W. H. Erskine, of Centre Township, is in the field as a candidate for County Commissioner. Mr. Hall can't say whether it is true, but; "if so, then a tremendous SECRET effort will be made to elect him." Is there no friendly hand to lead him out of his blind darkness?—

Mr. Hall further "has not yet heard who the Know Nothings intend running as candidate for the office of County Surveyor."

To him "it seems their policy to keep Mr. Adlersberg in the field, and thus divide the anti-Know Nothing vote."

And Mr. Hall "does not or cannot believe that the Germans will vote for Adlersberg"

Truly, Mr. Hall, this is rich—rather a little too much so. You cannot believe that the Germans will vote for Adlersberg, for—hear! hear!! "it will weaken the confidence of the Democracy in them, which is the only party on which they can depend." (To be surely and certainly fooled, I suppose). Now tell me honestly, Mr. Hall, as a gentleman, and not as the instrument of a few Democratic(?) leaders—do you really believe what you say?

It can't be, for you don't think that the Germans will always submit to your dictation?—

If they would do this, why, they would better elect you and those few other Democrats(?) at once, to appoint all officers in future, and thereby save them the trouble of electing such themselves for so many times a year. As for the ridiculous rumor of Mr. Whittlesy appointing Mr. Saunders for his deputy, this was done by your intimate friend L. May—be that he was, as usual, under the influence of liquor when he said it, but he put the rumors afloat.

You call on your friends to do their duty. Don't doubt, Mr. Hall, that they will do their duty; but you mistake if you think that your conduct makes you other than enemies among the Germans, for they don't allow anybody to impose upon them so dishonestly. But excuse the word dishonesty. You might think that your advice is good and honest, for there is a certain class of men, who tell so often and so long, one and the same lie, that at last they believe it themselves. The Germans and many others will not vote for a Know Nothing, as you yourself desire them, and Mr. A. T. Whittlesy is a Know Nothing, or at least was one until lately. The Germans and a great many others will also not vote for a Son of Temperance, and Mr. A. T. Whittlesy was one until lately. The Germans as well as all men who act according to their own judgment, will not vote for a man who does not understand or know the business that he will be elected for, and Mr. A. T. Whittlesey does not understand it.

Before the convention was held you said, that anybody who would oppose the nomination, would therewith work his own destruction and political death." It must have been cowardice that made you pronounce such a threat, or else you might have known that you scare boys or such men as you are, by using such absurd threats. Or is it the so called connection that you rely on and boast of? By reflection you will find that you can't make use of your connections, but that you are here that they may make use of you. But, anyhow, your reasoning reminds me of the following verse of Burns:

"What of Earls with whom you have supped,
And of Dukes that you dined with yestere'en;
Lord, a louse, sir, is still but a louse,
Though it crawls on the curls of a Queen."

Surely, Mr. Hall, you can't kill anybody, and no matter what you will say about Mr. Adlersberg, you can only abuse but not injure him. And as for your scorn, sir—poor scorn! Burns says:

"Like Aesop's Lion, sore I feel,
All others scorn—but damn that ass' heel."

W. K.