Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-17
HOW DIsLOYALTY Is GENERATED.

Mr.. EDITOR Perhaps few lines on
the above subject will be interesting to your
readers (if published.) | suppose you
have all heard more or less about the pis-
toll outbreak in Fulton County, and of
Gen. Banks trembling so, when he heard
of the news, that it shook the earth so
that the Mississippi River lost its channel,
and the Rocky Mountains fell to pieces,
and several other calamities to numerous
to mention.
The Chicago Times, after publishing
grossly lying and scurrilous account of
the Fulton Go. affair, deliberately remarks:
mo wonder the Democracy of the whole
county few to arms; y thus justifying an
act that came near precipitating this
County into instruction and rebellion.
The Peoria MAIL charges the origin Of the
difficulty to the arrest of party claimed
as deserters, by an officer of Provost Mar
shall Allen, Of this district that the ar
rest was most brutality made, and the wife
was stunned and severely wounded-that
the man denied being a deserter, and was
hurried off to the army, and put into the
ranks without single chance being given
:.
him TO establish the alleged fact. All of
this was grossly false. Yet the Mail per-
sists in the lie. The yesterdays issue in
duleed in an editorial that ought to
consign its author to infamy. 1t says
houses are broken open, and men shot un-
der orders of military officers, and the
outrage is justified because an officer did
it,-that rowdies attack and murder cit
liens while pursuing their Legitimate bust
ness. That ignorant and tyranical officers
insult and Cypress the people to the last
degree which forbearance can be made to
extend. That the friends and supporters
Of the nment have adopted the prin-
ciple that the people have no rights which
the administration is bound to respect and
50 on. Now there is no Journal, however
limited in circulation or influence, but has
some readers who religiously believe in its
assertions. This is much more so with
the democratic, than with other parties.
1t is no wonder then that men reading
such papers as the Times and Mail, and
believing their lies, are worked up to a
pitch of frenzy ready to break out with
violence at any opportunity. Such poor
victims of deception are not the ones who
should be accountable for any violence
they may be induced to commit, so much
as those who have, by lying and fraud,
houned them on to the commission of
these deeds of wrong.
There are limils to the. freedom of the
press, and it is the duty of the officers of
the law, both civil and military, to compel
those copperhead journals, (or pistol de-
fenders) to keep within their limits. Ar.
lraign these malignant lying rascals before
the courts, and expose their libels, and
punish them for the utteraDce; teach theu
to keep within the bonds of truth, or make
them suffer the consequences, and think
there will be great change in the public
mind,o 1t makes no difference with these
papers whether they agree or disagree.
each one tells its tale averse, that it is from
thoroughly respectable person, convers.
ant with all the facts perhaps an eye
witness. Put the stories side by size and
they would contradict each other, yet the
anthor of each swears that their version
is true. Everything that can possibly b
done by these copperhead journals, (ol
pop-gun defenders) to enAame the passions
of the readers, and to deceive them is re
sorted to with the gredicst avidity, as i
their parties believed their end justlfiet
their measure, no matter how false aEt
damnable those men might be. Thes
are coined with deliberate ccolness, an,
sent out for no other purpose than to dc
ceive the mind Of the readers
W. tas' & faql d. o. WAIT.
Snicarte, Mason Go. ILL.,, Aug. %.
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