Litchfield enquirer., 1860-09-13
Fusion Misrepresentaticm.

It is well known that an effort is being made and to certain extent has succeeded in com bnng together all the political elements under ihe sun, against the Republicans in the present canvass, with the avowed object of defeating l.ihcoln; and were this the extent of their ac- tion, perhaps We should find no fault :; but the combination being formed, the newspapers, and the leaders generally, do not scruple to resort to the most wicked and wilful misrepresentations concerning us. It seems to be almost mpossi- ble for the actors in this combination against the Republicans, to speak or write, so much as the simplest truth in our favor. Further, it seems as if they taxed the mind to it's utmost capacity forpower to concoct lies and then not satisfied. they use their whole energies to induce tho peo
 pie to believe them to be true. The Republi- ran organization is misrepresented it's prnci- ples are misrepresented; its purposes, objects
 and aims are misrepresented msrepresented without any warrant for it, and they are persis- ted in from day to day, in such wanton, un- sC!upulous, and scandalous manner, that the au- tiors of them deserve the contempt of every we'll thinking man. They seem to regard per sisiency in misrepresentation as virtue, and they feed upon it with keen good relish. None seem to persist in this carry the spirit of mis- representation farther, and with more pertinacity than do the Constitution Union-lovng Bell-Ev- e,ett portion of the combination. They do not speak the truth, they do not write the truth con. cerning the Republican party, its principles, pur poses, and objects. This is not because they canot-but because they will not. Being ben on instrumentation for the base and selfish pur pose of obtaining a political advantage, the. seem to lose sight of every other consideration and this is pursued day after day, as if it wa the chief end of man. If these representation are denied to-day and shown to be false, the. are renewed tomorrow with redoubled force even new ones are added. It matters not tha our platform is before the people. It matter not that it contains our principles and our cours
 of fpolitical action, this upright and pure politi cal combination, who have the Constitution an, the Union so much at heart which is arraye, against the Republican party, will have it tha we are something else. They wish the peopl to believe that hey are what &iey profess to bt and that every other political organization, e, cept the Republicans is what it professes to bt But they will have it that the Republicans ar not what they profess, that they are this, or the are that, that they mean this, or they mean tha
 that they favor this or they favor that, that the contemplate this, or that they contemplate that however absurd, or false, or ridicuous,' or err
 neous, or criminal it may be- Is this right, I Just' or manly9 Us it wrong to treat polite
 opponent with some show of decency2 Is
 wrong to treat a political organization with son
 Show of truthfulness, Have the corrupting
 huences Of party, become so strong, so pote
 for evii' as to have benumed the moral feeling
 the moral senses, to such an extent. that falls
 hood predoainates over truthY The nr;nc;n,
 of the Republican party are entitled to some ]
 gree of truthfulness at least, although the tru