Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-10
Appleton's Cyclopedia and the New
York Tribune.

yOrk IrlDunes
The Tribune appears TO have gone clean draft
on th' 'Copperhead Every man whose seD-
timep,j do not echo the TSi6ane's utterances in
politics is Copperhead, and all books on con.
temporary topics not equally orthodox are to be
expurgated. What need Of any more printing
Of books and newspapers, might be asked, to
adapt the argument Of the caliph among the
parchmenta and rolls Of the Alexandrlan Libra.
~, to these days Of the Koran of the isms2
II they conirsdict the Tribune, they are the
peetilent, ,traitorous outporngs Copperheads"
-and If they coincide with the Tribune, Why
the Tribune 10 tracing the most infiniienessimsl
cupreous taint in writer, far transcsnds the
science of the chemist. Acoum, the man Of
authorizations, who found red lead in anchovy
sauce, turmeric In mustard, ooculus in beer,
and poison 10 everything, Was bungler when
compared with Greeley. .-
Dean Swift in his pleasant description OF
the scientific institutions Of the island of La
puta, gives an account Of professor whose
seat, II vacant, should assuredly be filed by
Greeley. This saesa had devoted himself to
the art of noslng ont treason, and had brought
the method to suoh perfection that he would
extract testimony from the paFipgs Of the bus-
pected mems nails, ferret out plot In q lock
of the hair and convict one Of treason on OIL
factory evidence. Greeley has improved on
the Laputan philosopher to Judge from the
| manner in which he would wiring out proof that
very fair and unbiased work published BY the
Messrs. Appleton, and entitled 1.-THE American
Annual CyolopedIa" is answsrsble to the
charge of political partiality II not Of mig
prison Of treason.
The first point Of this most righteous and IN
spotted critic is based on the following para
graph In reference to and under the title "Con-
iederate States" In the work In question:
These States possess also their peculiar produsts Of
source Of wealth, and enable them to bs consumers Of
| the productions Of all the other States.
The ilaIicIsed portion contains, We may pre-.
sumo, for they are the Ifi6Hne's, the fatal virus
or verdigris. We remember, indeed, Il was q
few months ago regarded as reasonable to
doubt the oft repeated vaunt that the seeded
States would be starved ont In sixty or ninety
days. The result seems 10 be that the bounty
| of the earth is yielded alike TO "rebsl" and
"loyal," and after two campaigns the Confed-
crucy appears to be abundantly supplied with
food. In this connectioa the "CyeloI die, In
aRRravatlon of its offence, mallciously and re-
beiliously backs mp its statements with the
statistics OF production In the seeded States,
taken from the census Of eighteen hundred and
sixty. Did not the writer know that In place Of
the sugar, cotton and tobacco once raised, corn
has now taken their place In the fields Of the
South2 queries the Tribune, and may he not
reply that the publication OF the capacity foI
j sugar, cotton and tobacco production at the
South Ia not only very useful but perfectly in-
nocenti Never was there trumped up . more
absurd charge. .q
against the Messrs. Appleton 10 founded on the
discussion contained In the Cycloredis Of The
principles Of party and the policy of the Ad'
IL states the stFuggle of ideas which finally oul
i minated In the Presidents emancipation proola
nation. Ifthis pct measure Of the Tribune 10 not
"anti slavery" 10 its character, why en- the Cy.
cop iia treats the Administration unfairly; but
II Il be In accordance with the principles oi
the oppouents Of slavery, Why then Il epsakl
the truth. Why need the Ifibwns, at this late
day. be ashamed of the titles Abolitlonism and
Apti-slayery, once 90 dear to ID and Its follow
ers2 II would now hypocritically pretend thai
! the restoration Of the Union is the primary OBJ.
iect, and that the abolition of slavery is onl,
}, incidentally within the aims Of tho party h
power.
; shows that 1t 10 because the Cyclop@dia dare
to speak the truth that 1t ID aasailed. ID recog
nizss as facts the "Confsderate Stated" Con
1 federate Nav" end Confederate Congress"--
and very stubborn facts they have proved. Bu
this implies no suspicion Of Partially for thei
caui Or belief In the legality of their exis
8 tencs. 1.-THE "Shibboleth" Of the Ant-aIayer
party had only been properly used throughou
The book, if"Rebel" and "Seoesh" had sdofne
: its pages, and that horrible crime OF llaye5
, been held up TO execrstlou, then the Tfibus
!. would have puffsd the "Cyolopwd dia" 90 boo
0 invaluable for reference, and one without whic
: no gentleman's library couldbe considered con
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