The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-12
AN INFAMOUS FALsEHoon PERsIsrEn IN.


The following article appeared in the Albany Evening
Journal few days since
PRoPHKcy TWO oLD.-We OF the North are cold
booded and slow to Carried away with the excite
Of business choked by the "cares and anxiees OF
this world drawer and nobler impulses apt te
ssggsh and inactive Were this not so, how could
forget such singing words Mr.. Stephens Of Georgia
addressed two years ago TO the northern members of the
House OF who protested against the Kansas
bill Said Mr. Stephens:
SWELL gentlemen, you make good deal Of clamor the
Nebraska measure but il don't alarm us at all We have
got used TO that kind of talk You have threatened before
but you have performed You have always cayed in
and you will again. You are mounting, whte-lWered
set OF course you will oppose we expect that but we
don't care for your opposition You viii rail- but we don't
for your railing You will hiss, but so do adders
We expect of adders and expect of you Youare like
the devils that were pitched over the batemen OF heaven
into hell They set up howl OF discontinue and so VIII
you. But their fate sealed and is yours You must
submit to the yoke but don't chae Gentlemen we have
got you in power You tried to drive us TO the wall
in 1850, but times changed You went avoiding and
have home heeced Don't be mpudent as TO COM
plain. You will only be slapped in the face Don't resist
You win only be dashed into obedience
Have not the recent in Washington, and the
general conduct Of the Toombs Douglas, and Stephens
school, prove that they Of acts well as words
Such words and such acts, however, have wonderful
power of perpeuang themselves and live long after both
the speakers and the actors are forgotten.
The impudence and reckessness of the republican press
may be estimated, when inform readers that Mr.
Stephens uttered such language and that he has
his own signature put the brand of flsehood this br
cation The Utica Observer took the trouble to ferret out
and expose this invention which, if we mistake not first
appeared in the Journal time ago The Observer
some two weeks ago. published the following letter from
Mr. Stephens to Hon. John Kelly member of Congress
from this State; .a"".m
WASHINGTON D. G., July l6 1856
DEAR SIR The letter from your friend which you sub
mitted to me this morning, have received
In reply his inquiries about the newspaper paragraph
alluded to- have only say that 1t is utterly false
The paragraph is as follows
Here follows the pretended extract from Mr. Ste
phenss speech contained in the above article from the
Journal
made no such speech the occasion referred to- or
any other. The paragraph is fabrication from be-
ginning end and is only part of that general system
of Misrepresentation and fasehood by which it is now
attempted to deceive and misead the people.
Yours, respectfully, -
.' ALEX II. STEPHENS.
Hon. john KELLY, House of Representatives, Washing
ton, d. O.
And yet the Journal fortnight after the publication of
this letter. reproduces the fabricated Speech and makes
the ground of ncendary appeal to sectional passions
1t time for the public to understand that the present
reasonable crusade against the constitution and the
Union stops falsehood which promises tempo
rary aid to Its infamous designs. This pretended language
of Mr. Stephens has found its way into most of the
publican papers, and yet we venture to predict that his
letter fepudating 1t will not be published in journal
out Of which have given currency to the fasehood
Will the Journal publish Mr. Stephenss letter.
ALBANY Argus.