Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30
Too Honest by far.

The Atlantic Republicans are greatly out
ragged at the conduct Of Horace Greeley, in
speaking so we'll of the chances of Stephen a.
Douglas for the nomination at Baltimore
They dread the nomination Of Judge Dcuglas
beyond all else that could huppen, and they
think that to speak favoraby Of his strength
in the Democratic party is to give him
prestige before the Convention which he
might not otherwise have. So enraged are
the Republicans against Greeley for uttering
the honest truth in this regard, that they
threaten to withdraw their patronage from
the Tribune, and give it to new paper
which they think Of establishing.
This circumstance affords US an opportuni'
ty for commenting upon the strange per-
verseness Of partisan fesling in these degener-
ate times. a partisan paper is expected to
be devoted to its party at the expense of all
truth, deccncy orjusiice. If lie will sub
serve political end better than a straight
forward, and truthful utterance, the lie must
be told. There must be no fairness, no gen
erosity, no magnanimity in your treatment of
political antagonist If u base SANDER has
been set aAoat either against a candidate or
a party opposed to your side Of the house,
and you know it to lie such. you must either
hold your peace or help circulate the false
hood. You might lose point for your party
were you not thus to lend yourself to the
tricks and strategy of the warfare in which
you are engaged. Your partisan supporter,
do not expect you to stick to the truth, not
bit of it. They do not expect you to lay bare
before the people the naked facts of politiea
history or to clear up the fogs Of misrepre-
sentation which enwrap so many of the pass
ing transactions of the hour You are to
keep the public IN ignorance Of all the mis-
deeds of your own party and to expose all
the worst transactions of the party in oppo-
sition. You have got nothing to do with the
truth Of history Leave that to be yindicated
by future generation, il they can dig it out
from the mass Of slander. distortion false
hood and detraeion in which it lies buried.
Such are the requirements which are made
Of political paper by too many the parti-
sans of the present day They seem to think
that everything is fair in politics. and that a
man may be a gentleman and blackguard,
an honorable man and liar, at one and the
same time. so that he does his Safeguarding
and his lying from the political stump or the
editorial tripod. We say too many sticklers
for party are of this way of feeling. God
forbid that all should be so. But, be these
requirements what they may, no man who
respects himself should fall into the filthy
channel and degrade himself to the level Of
such partisanship. No respectable Journal
should stoop to the dissemination of false
hoods however much present advantage to
its party may be subserved thereby. Iftruth
will not sustain its cause, it is an unworthy
cause and does not deserve to succeed
If one will reflect but moment. he will
see " hat farce it is to publish partisan
journal of that INSCRIPTIONS class to which
we have referred Neither it's friends nor its
enemies place any confidence in its state
ments They know it will say anything for
its own side, and anything against the other f.;
that it will not stop at any perverson of facts
or distortion of history which it is at all safe
to make; that they can get no enlightenment
from its columns, and that it is in short a
great overgrown bag Of wind and gas, that il
expected to blow of a certain amonnt Of it.
contents, as some dirty occasion requires
We would rather be a kitten and cry m w
than one of these same despicable slang
mongers.
For our part. VIC can see no earthly use FOL
such sheets, after all. A moments consdera
tion will convince even the hottest partisan
that paper must establish a reputation for
truth and honesty before it can even do any
good for its party 10y the biggest lie that it
could utter The fact is, it can never venture
upon a wiliul and deliberate lie without the
risk of forfeiting all its influence with the
public. in any political point of view; and
certainly it cannot venture upon any series
| of falsehoods, without teniold danger Of the
same thing
We have never admired the course Of the
New York Tribune. but we think Horace
Greeley deserves credit for his manly indie
perdence in telling his own partisons and the
country generally, that stephen A. Douglas
is the mightiest man this day in the ranks o.
the Democratic party. 1t is the truth, and
why not say it?