New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-18
The Evening Post on Lying.

Our attention mas Dcen called 10 An
article in a late number Of The Ersniqg Post, ia
which. protesting to comment on our recent Ell
posure o. the mendacity Of De hicursb0de, VI
Shebovgan Wisconsin, The Post copies para.
graph of the same with the f. loving Improve
meDt:
"Ard then The TTibARs goes on 20 quote from q we'd
ern Newspaper In the language Of Holland sps'sgrsps
which II COMPLAINS, brings an uplGns charge sssas
Gen Scott a.
I'VE commend The Tribune for its zeal alaa f.ss
hood expressed In tue Dutch language but wha ices
II think OF fssehood In the Gsrmsn tongue rne other
day we quoted from German pamphl't, pu0l'hed, 81
me Tribune Office, CD passage, In which he rstsi,us
test Ia New Hampshhe Constitution, excluding CAIho-
lies from public Offices charged to the sccDunt Of
General Pierce, In terms implying that he ga h
author. CD
tom aoAin,t those who lie In Dutch had no such
pies about lying in German. IL Issued aud rrodsssts
lying tract In the German language. ihe f"oArshno
believer In free trade and claims, va suppose, Tia
monopoly of circulating lies In foreign Language"
We add word Of ex plsn,tion to the sweet
ness of the above statements:
/. The Post, a. is often the case, talks loudly
about a subject, without thinking it necessary ~
know whereof it aflrms, which, for 80 yeracious
journal, indicates an uulucky procliyity. Thus it
is not true that the western newspaper" re-
ferred to, brought any charge against Zen. Scott,
or that We complained Of any such charge. Gen.
Scott was not named nor alluded to either IA the
article from De NiearSb0de or in our comments
thereon. They discussed no other question thm
whether the Loco Foco party is or is not the
party of River and Harbor improvements. And yet
the blatant blunderbuss Of The Post writing upon
those comments, and with them before hs eyes,
says they related to a charge against Gen. Scott!
A pr.tty fellow this TO accuse other people Of
lying
.. No political pamphlet whatever in the Germaa
language has been pubshedat The Tribune Office.
We have bought and sold a few Thousands Of q
German pamphlet prepared the Central Scott
Committee at Washington, and should be glad to
urnsh other thousands of the same to any Gus
toner who will pay the cash for them, and very
good pamphlet it is. But in advertising it, We
have ALWAYS stated that it was not got up aids
sued by The Tribune, but Only for sale at our
counter.
3. In that pamphlet is a brief passage containing
one or two typographical errors, and single
phrase, which, in the haste Of preparation, w"aot
made as clear as it should have been. That phrase
great influence in New Hampshire, and that pro.
badly IL is due 10 him that that Democratic STATE
has religious test excluding all but Protestsuts
from office. But nothing is said or implied which.
would attribute to him old age so extremely
venerable as to be the auflOr of a constitutions
provision which dates back sixty wears ago. The
idea meant to be conveyed by this phrase as we
are assured by the writer of the tract is that bad
Pierce used his political power in the State rh
as much efficiency and true zeal as he has used 4 I
for his Onn personal advancement, this test would
have long since been abolished, and that is ua'
dOubtedly true dea,-altOgether too true for tn.
qualification of The Post. Accordingly il gets out
Of temper and brings false accusations, winch do
no credit TO it's own virtue.
And now if The POst, with it's profesed
horror Of lying in Dstch and German, has sun
GENTLY misrepresented our controversy with ~
Nieursbode, our. relation to this pamphlet andns
pamphlet itself, we shall be happy to hear its woes
of truth upon the question whether its party@
really the great advocate snd friend Of inprouS
the rivers and harbors Of the country by the Goa .
eral Government or not. De Nieupsbods ayE
is, but down South Hon. Mr.. tenabe declrs
that it is not, and that il Dir. Pierce is eectedh
will veto every such bill that lately passh
Evidently here is lying some where, eIthe "
Dutch or English, and The Post, as sort ot~
dunn and expert between the two, will, Psfnsp. i
favor the people Of the Northwest by teul]
where it is.