New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-19
THE RIGHT TO LIE.

its temperance, and trust that II may hence
forth be so conducted as to justify the
Executive in tOlerating its existence. Mr.
Wood is avowedy in favor Of making an
immediate peace with the Rebels on their
own terms, and be has perfect right to be
So He has a right to write, print and
harangue in favor of such Peace, and to use
to that end such logic-bad, Of course-as the
case admits of. The right to reason perTersely
aud to argue sophisticaily ia one which cannot
be subverted without extreme danger to Pub
lc Liberty; and, though we affirm the right
full power of the Government to suspend tenn
porarily its exercise in times Of the grhyeet
and most imminent National peril, we trust
such authority will be very spariHgly exercised,
and only upon the clearest conviction Of i'm
peratve aud urgent necessity.
But the right to lie, to the detriment of the
National authority, the importing Of the Ma.
tons existence, aud the encouragement of it's
heroic defenders, is one that we can by no means
acquiesce in; and that assumed right, we no
tlce with regret is freely nnd even recklcssly
Tor instance, in it' Washington correspondence,
the following ineXcussbe whoPpers:
III" scer,nined that loses At the re'eu battles o,
Chanceoisyiie loot up o'ei o. oos h,d woundec sn
nissins The Coufsdea,ei captured fully 1000 rh'ouof'
If " our losses" mean tho Rebels, that frs,
statement may possibly be near the truth; but
the second is utterly without excuse.
Here is another paragraph from the same
special dispatch" concocted obviously for the
encouragement aud qualification OF Rebels and
their sympaihzing friends;
The dcul,e, beta cen our Government ard Great Britain
ere ~ .tust'd y-i the dsrart u Fusaad ihs
Fo.-rho nd other bri w. viii scbrco sd per
unscity amounting almost TO ihisat
An editorial on Paper Resources" opens
with the following monstrogs eXageeration:
Amid u, r'h q p'ler 'r.cr.'i'n, - e.'r ~ mlni
80 Ivy hs' BEN 'fpfads AID arr gi4d 20 o "a .
e. which no apifoIinis'l5r O. Aes b. been ma-e
Now tbs capital oil toe country. M returned
by the last census, exceeds Sixteen thousand
Millions Of Dollars, aud is r'aHy more than
Twenty-Five Thou,anl Millions. AL that las been
" expended " by our Government Ia tho War for
the Union mp n this hour will not exceed
Twelve Hundred Millions, or about fee per
cent Of the sexual capital o. tie country. and
nothing like ton PER cent OF the official yalua-
ton Of It's property. IL il mons'rOu' TO say
that "no approximation " has been made to
closing tho War, when tie commercial metro
polls Of the S.ayeboldrrs' Conlcdcracy has been
more than year IN our quiet possession
without even an Effort 20 rcihke Il. while Nor
folk, Nashville, Memphis, aud other o. IL chief
marts have likewise remained all that time
in our hands, and cycra OF the principal cities
damned as belonging 10 the Couiederacy-St
Louis Louisville. Wheeling, &c.-ha'o never
once been In It's power. OF the White popula-
ton Of the so.callcd Coniederacy flll third
are to-day peacefully rcposug under the Gag
Of the Union; liz chief artery is almost wholly
ours; we hold half It's forts md four Crank.
fort, Nashville, Jefferson City, and JACKSON Of
its thirteen State Capitals; anu yet we arc told
that we have made 10 progress toword sup.
pressing the Rebellion
Tie Ners proceeds to sssertthat "much Of the
paper issued aud authorized by the Government
,eas originally payable in goid bit is nop paid
IN paper only An artful but wicked faBehood.
calculated immensely 10 damage the credit
aud cripple the resources Of tie Union. That
a writer 80 reckless should proceed to assert
that "By the time the appropriations of the
last Congress are eIpended tue Debt will be
-Four thousand Millions Of Dot0Ts," should eI-
cite no surprise. When n partisan cuts loose
from truth, no one can set any bounds to the
recklessness of his msstatemcnts. Ills only
limit will be that of the presumed usefulness OF
his fabrications TO the cause he is bent on up.
holding.
That such journal should proceed TO as.
sert that Public Opinion has
at length become grounded in tho conviction that every
effort to sustain the Union by oTcs Of ' must Prove
aud concession for the uhaTang aud Iunon' employment o.
mere brute iorco"-
is but u sample of the lie inferenta and con-
structlye that We loathe as the most sneaking
and cowardly Of all yillsnous falsehOods The
mOmentous facts that it was solely by the
Rebels, not at oil by the Unionists, that
1" tho unavailing aud runous employment of
mere brute force" was initiated-that the
first guns were fred, the first blood she'd by
them IA unprovoked assault BY overwhelming
force upon a handful Of furnishing men-thal
they had been unresistedly dlsnantng aud
robbng the Union OF its treasures and dcienscs
for months before Mr. Lincoln was inau.
gurated-that they had already, through the
treachery Of its principal officers, captured and
disnrmed the chief military force OF tbe Nation
and that they seized Norfolk Nayy-lard,
with its Ten Millions worth of arms und mu.
nltions, made clutch Mt llarper's Ferry
nrscnnI md cnmnrllrd I'm dnstrlctinn of II 4