Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-11
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laws, IN the respect ana obedience that shOuId
be accorded to it. 1t is, in truth, the most
unconscionable' exactor of disreputable
and disgraceful shifts from men with pretence
to personal character, ever permitted to have
influence in public affairs in a free country
Thus, In its service, in the two weeks prior To
the~election, the Tribune was made to tell
most UNANIMOUSLY villainous falsehoods against
many of the gentlemen, personally, who were
candidates for high places in opposition to those
lnstanced by that journal. Messrs. Seymour,
Wood, Barker, Ullman, and dozen others.
were accused by the Tribune boldly and with
detailed statements of time, place and circum-
stance, OF most henious crimes. Indeed, the
stranger, On reading that paper, would draw
the conclusion that in this country men were
universally selected as candidates for high
Office in the peoples gift, for the possession of
personal characteristics which in any other
civilized land would surely consign them to
prison as malefactors.
We need hardly say that these accusations
were false-we may add willfully false as
no sane man could read them, one and all.
without concluding that they were deliberate
y concocted only to serve partisan political
end We saw it stated in New York paper.
that the conductor of the Tribune, on being
appealed to to publish refutation of one OF
these stories of his journal, admitted that the
refutation in question embraced the truth,
but bolded added that the truth was lust what
he did not want to publish until after the
election.
1t is not wonderful, therefore, that honest
persons turn away in disgust at the pretence
that conscience is the guiding inducement for
politicians of the Tribune school, to Justify
notorious and willful violations of the Cons IT,
tuition and laws. However the people of New
York have rebuked this So called conscience"
IN this election, in manner which bids fair
to check lis insoience and demagogism here
after, as we'll as to rescue the Wing party of
the North from the deep gulf of isms in which
its temporary leaders have been pIunging it
deeper and deeper in each succeeding canvass
for the last five or six years This New York
election shows that . conscience" after the
fashion Of the T'7bune's, fails to pay. So its
mercenary prete nded devotees will, of course
abandon it, like rats deserving sinking ship.
A large wing of its honest followers it seems
to Us, must low realize that in its service they
are but doing the work of and relying on the
" Father of Lies'' himself, if they are not so
deeply plunged into the most disgusting polit-
zeal Jesuitism ever resorted to to effect a rep.
rehensible political end. Otherwise they will
surely understand that that cause must be
bad one, indeed, which is only to be sustained
by such Wholesale and barefaced lying, and
mendaeity in insisting upon lying statements
for the truth, as has disgr aced the columns of
the Tribune in the last two weeks.
The Fourth Of July Dinner in London We
have, up to this time, RETAINED from COM
mentng upon the recently published CORES
pondence between Messrs Sickles and Pea.
body, relative to their almost a-fracas over the
dinner given bJ the latter to the Americans in
London upon the last anniversary of our ma
tonal independence. Our purpose has been
to obtain Information concerning the unwrit-
ten facts involved, 50 that in what we may
publish on the subject, We may do exact JUS
tice in the premises We have obtained it.
and we do LOT find, we must card idly confess,
that it reflects credit on George Peabody, ESQ.
The Americans in London had arranged to
have their annual Fourth of July dinner, max.
ing it. as usual, wholly an American affair.
Mr. Peabody, an American by birth, of great
wealth, but notcriously Anglicised in all his
interests and sympathies, desired, himself, to
give the entertainment, and by agreeing that
it should be in all respects an American pub
Tic dinner in honor Of the anniversary of our
national independence, he prevailed on the
gentlemen connected with our Legation in
London, who were, of course, active in ar.
ranging for the usual public celebration of
the occasion, to give that up, and adopt his III
its stead. To that end, before consenting to
do 30, they stipulated that seats should be pro-
TIded for all respectable Americans in Lon
don, whether acquaintance Of Nj Peabody CT
not. That the President of the United States
should be toasted before the Queen, and that
The Star Spangled Banner" should be sung
without mutilation. That is, without emitting
the third verso, that might be offensive to
VINO were expected to DO present
The acts of Mr.. Peabody, in agreeing to these
requirements and substituting the entertain
ment at his expense for that contemplated at
the expense of the Americans generally, who
were in London, made his dinner essentislIy
public one. As such, it was becoming that its
main features should be wholly American
Mr. P was under every obligation that should
govern gentleman in such a case, not y any
act of his to divert the entertai nment from the
express end the Americans present had, in
at it. He, however, chose to act
differently. He had the Queen toasted before
the President of the United States; had our
national anthem mutilated for tear its SO dear.
y-cherished historical "reminiscences might
offend the ears of the Englishmen around the
table, and made his speech mere occasion
for toadylng the Queen, the royal family