Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-27
Is it a question Of veracity or is it blum


Is it question of yeracity or is it a blum
We learn from the Virginia Free Press,
published at Charlestown, Virginia, that the
editor Of paper called the Esprit" Gs the
editor thereof spirit Rappers'D in some
speech or remark made by him, in connection
with the paternity of the American platform,
said, that the editor of thesAmerican Organ
was Black Republican This statement OF,
the Spirit Editor alias the 2 Spirit Rap
per" having been alluded to and contradicted
| by the Free Press for which we tender our
| thanks) we learn that the aforesaid sSpir1t-
Rapper said as follows, in reply:
The person allnded'to by us, was French s.
Evans, Esq, Of Washington city, who was as we
stated at the time, the author of the "Washing1
ton alias :" Verbage Platform adopted by the
K. N. Council in Philadelphia, on the 2lst Of
February, and which first appeared in the Wash
ington Organ, on the 9th of that month. The
editor of the Free Press ought to have known, If
he did not, that Vespasian Ellis was not the author
OF that platform. This mistake, like the one
above noticed, in reference to us, may have been
an inaccuracy OF his reporter, as observed that
! he, himself, bad gone out at the time. We would
advise him to employ more accurate one next
4 time" g -e ts.0l.n r
We had not supposed that any journal in
/ Virginia would hetray SO much ignorance it.
self whilst charging ignorance upon its neigh
Dor, but it is a common fault Of poor human
nature from which spirit should be free)
to accuse others Of the very faults and follies
of which themselves are guilty.
The Spirit Rapper" has imputed gross ig-
norance to the Free Press, by saying to it that
4 = the editor Of the Free Press ought to have
Known, if he did not, that Vespasian Ellis was
not the author of that platform" Now, pray,
Mr. Spirit-Rapper," how and by what means
4 could the Free Press have known what was
utterly false2 We hardly suppose the Free
Press held any converse with spirits-or, ii he
did, it was not reasonable to suppose that any
spirit (much less the Spirit ef Jefferson, J
would tell him such an untruth. IL was I'M
kind in you, Mr.. Spirit -Rapper, to impute so
much Ignorance to the Free Press. And now,
Mr.. SPIRIT Rapper," as you happen 10 have
connection with spirit, pray inform US the
modus oaerandi Of ascertaining that unmitiga-
ted falsehoods are undeniable truths
/ we would advise him (of the Spirit) to
1 ,SihpiVJ ~ AuoiS ftpoitcT ue&t tlllle.
To eplighten the benighted g Spirit we re-
4 publish from our daily Issue of the 21st Au-
gust the following refutation of the original
1 statement which the "Spirit' must have
copied from some other g Rapper" The
Washington correspondent Of the New York
Post some time In August last, wrote to that
paper as follows: @
a. Two important accessions to the supporters of
Sremont have just come to my knowledge. Mr.
French 5. Evans, the author Of the PHILADELPHIA
platform, on which Fillmore was nominated, and a
| warm advocate of Fillmore has announced his pur-
pose of taking the stump in Pennsylvania In favor
4 Of Fremont He is an effective and able speaker
/ Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro, late translator in the
i State Department, also friend Of Fillmore. and
one Of the best stump speakers in Maryland during
the Taylor campaign, has resolved, TO enter the
4 lists for Fremont Mr.. Tasistro is a man Of extra
ordinary accomplishments, and is capable OF doing.
great service to the Repu6iican cause"
This article went the rounds Of the sham
4 Democratic press in August last, and on the
4 2lst Of that month, we made the following
comments thereon, to wit: s
There is not one word of truth in the above
statements as to the purposAs Of either Mr.. Evans
or mr. Tasistro. We know that both Of them are
or 'csre I'VE days ago, warm advocates of the Ame-
rlcan nominees, and we have ourseif heard Mr.
Evans more than once deny the Truth Of the report
4 within the past week, that be had announced his
purpose TO support Fremont, and we knoao that he
is for Fillmore. sssI4 N, Is~,-s f.r~~I :,