Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-03-23
NEW ABOLITION FRAUD--MORALs
AND GEOGRAPHY both VIOLATED.

A NEW ABOLITION FRAUD--MORALs
AND GEOGRAPHY BOTH VIOLATED.
That immaculate saint, pure patriot and
untirng philanthropist, Horace Greeley, has
been accustomed for years to stuff the readers
of the Tribune at regular and stated seasons
with the most horrible and heart-rending sto-
ries about the cruelty of masters, and the suf-
ferngs Of slaves. He republishes oil the ad.
vertisements Of runaway slaves that he finds
in his southern exchanges, and garnishes his
delectable columns with appropriate and i'm
pressive representations Of these runaways--
their legs far apart, their knapsacks on their
backs, and their heads turned to one side.
He accompanies those representations with
editorial remarks, full of FIRE and birthstone,
intended to arouse the indignation, and stimu-
late the zeal of his Abolition readers. When
such advertisements fail, q fresh supply is man.
ufactured to meet occasions.
1t very frequently happens that the stories
Of the Tribune are disproved, and that they are
shown to be base calumnies. But the Abolition
newspapers generally care no more about be-
ing detected in a falsehood than they do for
the blowing Of the wind. They take particular
pains though, never to publish these contradic-
tons in their columns. They stick to their
own stories through thick and thin. They
constantly and consistently refuse to let the
truth 90 before their readers. sA
A striking instance of their meanness and
recklessness has lately been presented in the
Tribune. 1t paraded in its columnsthe follow
ing advertisement, which it thus prefaced:
The following appears in q Missouri journal
the Lexington Dem0crGtic Adnocate
nsE NEGRO DOGS.-I would inform the
citizens of Holmes county, that still have my
NEGRO DOGS, and that they are in good
training, and ready to attend to all calls OF
hunting and catching RUNAWAY NEGROES,
at the following rates For hunting per day,
five dollars, or if have to travel any distance,
every day will be charged for, in going and
returning, as for hunting, and at the same
rates. Not less than five dollars will be charged
in any case, where the negroes come in before
/ reach the place. From fifteen to twenty-five
dollars will be charged for catching, according
to the trouble; if the negro has weapons, the
charge will be made according to the difficulty
had in taking him, or in case he kills some OF
the dogs, the charge will not be governed BY
the above rates. am explicit to prevent any
Misunderstanding. The owner OF the slave to
pay all expenses in all cases. venture to
suggest to any person having slave runaway,
that the better plan is to send for the dogs
forthwith when the negro goes of, If they
intend sending at all, and let no other person
60 in the direction, ifthey know which way the
runaway went; as many persons having other
negroes to hunt over the track, and failing of
success, send for dogs, and then perhaps fail
in consequence to catch their negro, and thus
causelessly fault the dogs. Terms cash. II
the money is not paid at the time the negro
hunted for is caught, he will be held bound for
the money. / can be found at home at all
times. five and q half miles east of Lexington,
except when hunting with the dogs.
FEB. Ia, 1855. & JOHN LONG"
1t then proceeds to say
aLexinpton, in Missouri, is near the frontier
Of Kansas, and SO the browning glory of the
patriarchal system-negro dogs-is ready-to-
hand in that country where, according to Mr..
Everett, slavery could not GO. If there be a
single reader OF the Tribune with heart so dark
and skull 80 dense as to uphold that system,
with its blazing pyres and hounds OF blood,
let him examine the simple unadorned brutal
ity of the above advertisement"
The number of the Tribune containing the
above, found its way to Missouri, and has been
completely exploded by. the st. Louis fntelli-
gencer and the St. Louis Republican. After
commenting on the character Of Greeley and
the Infamous course of the Tribune, the Intel
lyencer thus concludes:
"But the advertisement, pictures, and indig-
nation only lack one element-fruh. There
is no Democratic ADVOCATE published in Lex
inpton, Missouri, or elsewhere in Missouri, nor
ever was. There is no Holmes county in
Missouri that we ever heard OF, and John
Long advertises to imaginary customers. when
he solicits their patronage. And finally, there
are no negro dogs in Missouri, near the
frontier of Kansas, or elsewhere. What dogs
we have in the State belong mostly to negroes,
and we are sure they would chase Chevalier
Greeley much quicker than they would any sable
fugitive to be found = in the bush.''
Comment Of the 81. Louis Republican.
The only approach to truth, in the point of
locality, is, that there is city of Lexington in
this State but there is no such paper as the
Lexington Democratic Advocate" there is no
such county AZ "Holmes," and the name of
Horace Greeley might as well have been at.
tached to the advertisement Of "John Long"
as far as truth and the probability OF his resi-
dence in Lafayette county is concerned. The
forgery is complete, from beginning to end,
and it argues gross assumption on the part OF
the writers for that paper, to suppose that with
not solitary particle of truth to sustain it. the
fraud should be expected to be gulped down
even in New Hampshire. II Is by equally dis
creditabe and unblushing forgeries and frauds
that the people Of the non-slaveholding States
are so deeply excited against the citizens OF
what are denominated the slave States
The pious and philanthropic Mr.. Greeley, who
practices on the policy condemned by the Bible,
of doing evil that good may come out of it,
of circulating falsehoods to promote the truth,
has been detected in as plain fraud as was
ever perpetrated, by an Aboitionist even. His
very geography is at fault. This should teach
him not to be so soemnly and particularly cir.
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