The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-26
STOP THAT LIE.

STOP THAT LIE.
The Globe of yesterday quotes paragraph
from the Washington correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, in which the writer denies
that there was any disturbing of the closing
scenes of the House, or any attempt to prevent
action by certain members whose names have
been held up to public Reproduction. The editor
| Of the Globe was conscious of the falsehood Of
the statement and whit is of more Importance
still, he conscious that hundreds of people in
| this District know it 10 be false, and hence, al
though with Characteristic reckessness, he gives
1t currency, he has not dared to vouch for one
line Of it. The remarks he appends to the para
graph, which might be mistaken by careless
| reader as avouching the truth OF the al atement,
make no a.lusion to it, or to the scenes III the
House to winch ii refers. The editor cautiously
ab-tains, hat he might not be convicted of false
hood, from any, The most distant remark, COZ
hrnatory Of the anony nous Ietter-wriler, but by
inserting it in his columns he endeavors to render
the lie as servceab possible to the party.
1t is maxim i'll law, we believe, and it certainty
is in morals, that the receiver OF stolen goods is
as culpable as the thief, and by parity Of reason,
we think that The hawker of lies and calu,nny is
as wicked and prostituted as their fabrcator
Such is the attitude of the Globe.
The writer for the Post, the manufacturer Of
this "notion," upon which the Globe has turned
pedar, says, /" Some Of those happen to know
bank) bill; and almost all Of them distinctly re-
collect 10 have seen sitting perfectly quiet and
silent in their seats while these imagna- y rows
were going on
We can only say in replying TO the first pas.
sage of this quotation, that if the members refer
red to were in favor of the bill, they were too
cowardly to vote for it. They were afraid of the
odium of being called bank men; and if there
were any truth in the statement, which we doubt,
it only proves that the members in question
meanly skuked from their duty.
But when it is asserted that the members
whose names have been published as the disor-
ganizers sat quietly in their seats, and offered no
interruption to the deliberations of the House, we
have only to say that it is false. No great noise
was necessary, however, in obstructing action
that was accomplished by ncessant motions to 90
into Committee Of the Whole, to adjourn, &c.
All this the editor of the Globe knows to be true,
and which, if brought to the witness box, with
proper attachment for his ears, he could not deny.
What will the fabrcator and vender of this lie
do with the testimony of the Hon. Mr.. Saunders,
of North Carolina, upon the point? Some Loco
foco upon the floor of the House had the cool i'm
pudence to assert that the Wings had created
the confusion, upon which Mr.. Saunders, a Loco
foco HIMSELF instantly rose and contradicted it.
asserting that it was the work of certain of his
owl party, whose names he called upon the
reporters to take down. The editor of the Globe
knows this to be true and he has never dared to
gainsay it himself, although he prostitutes him.
self to the base work of disseminating the lies of
another.