The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-22

We are glad to see in the last Wilkinson
Wing an evidence that the editor of,hat paper
secs how improper il would be 10 charge the
Governor of a State, acting under oath, a man.
too, so pure in his moral character, so high mind.
ed, as the Governor Of Mississippi, with the base
crime OF telling a lie. The editor of the vii.
kinson Wing thinks that we have nut him in
Il false position, and were not warranted in say.
ing that he had stated Governor Quitnan to be
guilty Of ialsehood, and that
"lf n man annot understand the differ.
ence between 4 false statement and n ,ly.
ing one, he is not quite casuist enough To-
attempt the meading of mems morals"
1t is a matter of conscience with us not 10
place u man in a position not warranted by his
words, given without what we conscientiously
ana with due examination, think TO be either
an extension or diminution of their proper and
common Specification ard in our associations
we have never seen so fine a line of casuistry
attempted to be drawn, nor do we remember
to have seen It's introduction among the gen.
tlemen OF our country in our ignorance there.
fore, and being unsophiSticated we were no,
prepared TO take il into consideration when we
came to our conclusion in this. instance.
Nor would we have fallen into the error of
saying that the editor of the Wilkinson Whir
had imputed TO Gov. Quitman the vile crime
OF lying Che most remoteu approach to which is
Justly esteemed among gentlemen n contomp.
tible thiugl had il not been that the part of the
Wing we referred 10 aud quoted, stated the
proclamation TO contain "about US much ms.
statement and false statement as could be well
got into Il document &c. Having always,
o%urselt, seen n great difference between mis-.
statement and false statement, (which also
differs very much from a false conclusion. or n
false sentiment, or a contradiction, though the
last, is very impolite and not to be used light.
w we did not think that Il gentleman of such
known taste and requirements as the editor of
the Wilkinson Wing, would use them side by
side, and connected by the copulative c~oniuic.
ton "dnd' when both, to his mind expressed
precisely the same meaning and thus make
what a rhetorician, who saw, like the editor, no
distinction between them, would call a gross
tantalogy,
1t is also probable that VIC would not have
noticed this paragraph in the Wing had the
tone of the rest of the article, from which we
only quoted the first paragraph, thinking i, of
itself sufficient to sustain our position, tha, the
editor of the Wilkinson Wing had called the
of Mississippi, acting under oath, a
liarl been of a character to admit, in our opin.
Of a more moderate construction. 1t was
our opinion whe, we wrote, that all went to
that in the opinion of the editor, the
Governor of our State was tainted with moral
quit by the character OF the statements he
made; had made statements Of facts knowing
to be false. We extrac, as follows, for
Instance; marking the words, we thought, con.
those ideas in italics. Speaking Of
'ome statement in the proclamation, it saws.
ut would seem TO us that any nan who
distinguish between q whole and a half
aust know that it is a false assertion"