American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-12-29
Lou1svILLn RIOTS, AGAIN /.
The 'lelegrapHs Big GIN Spiked!

AT the risk of re-exciting the "risi-
bles' of the editors of the Morgantown
Telegraph, we are compelled, for the
truths sake, to take up again the SUBJ
Ject indicated in the heading of this ar
ticle. Our readers will recollect that
some two or three months ago we took
occasion, as duty demanded of us, to
expose and disprovc the fragrant mis-
representations of the anti-American
press in regard to tho riots at Louis
vile on election day. AS we had met
and exposed several false statements
copied into the Telegraph from the
Louisville Courier, that paper in a
serio-comic editorial, came down upon
us for our course, and to clinch the
Misrepresentation it had Photographed
to the public hereabouts, it published
paragraph, purporting to come from
the "National Intelligencer, that old
est and most reliable Wing journal in
the Union," as follows: .a..
CATER careful examination of all
that we have seen bearing on the point,
after an unprecedented study of the ar
ticles that have appeared on the sub
lect in the Louisville journals, we be-
l:eve that the blood of the slain is on
the hands of the Know Nothings. The
proofs are many and convincing"
Now we may as well acknowledge
that, having in our possession not less
than II columns of atfidavits, publish
en- during the legal investigation of the
riots, all proving that the irish and
dutch of Louisville were the aggressors
in shedding American blood without a
provocation, the above paragraph con-
siderably stamped us; for we knew
its import to be false, and yet did not
wish to think the anti-American press
capable of so gross, so outrageous a
forgery. Yet such is the case. De-
termined to ferret the matter out, and
to asc crtain the facts, we applied to a
constant reader of the Intelligencer,'
who told us that so far from that arti-
Gle being contained in that paper, ano-
Their had been published denying the
paternity of the above extract. Failing
to get hold of the paper, we last week
wrote to the editors Of the "National
Intelligcncer," ENDURING whether that
paper had ever held such language
The Daily National Intclligcnccr, of
Dec. Is, which we received in reply to
our enquiry, contains the following Ian
guage after copying the forged para
graph cited above:
"The above is but a repetition of
misrepresentation, unintcntional we
presume, which obtained a place in
some of the newspapers last autumn,
and which we then attempted to set
right by the publication of disclaimer
in the National Intelligcncer of the 9th
of October. NOTHING IN THE
LEAST RESEMBLING the ABOVE
STATEMENT HAS EVER APPEA-
RED IN THIS PAPER"
R95~ Then, to reduce the thing to
its simplest terms, the paragraph pub
lished in the anti-American press, and
vouched for edttorially by the Morgan
town Telegraph, as the opinion of the
National Intelligencer, is nothing less
than BASE FORGERY-a villain
Gus COUNTERFEIT!-a falschood
gotten up deliberately to deceive the
people! Now,if the Telegraph desires
to do the fair thing, it will tell its read.
crs that it has been imposed upon and
has imposed upon them a forged testi-
monial-that the "National Intclli-
gcncer, that oldest and most reliable
Wing journal in the Union," says in
reference to the article the Telegraph
accredited to it, "NOTmING IN THE
LEAST RESEMBLING TIE ABOVE STATE
MENT HAS EVER APPEARED IN THIS
PAPER" Candor and fair dealing de-
demand the retraction at the hands of
the Telegraph more particularly as
that forged paragraph has been pub
lishcd in that paper not less than three
different times--frst when it was quo
ted to disprove our statements, which
we will ever reiterate with the proofs
to back us--and twice since that time.
In conclusion, VIC do not charge the
Telegraph with originating the forgery;
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