The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-11-02
Lying Extraordinary.

living has its advantages. II Is frequent
" q valuable resource for carrying an i'm
mediate end, but when followed for length
Of tine, the liar defeats his own purpose by
eeasing to be believed. The leaders Of the
Democracy" are strongly tempted 10 lie.
because large part OF their voter "rt not
vel informed, and their creduity leads
then 10 believe ~ truth whatever their
leaders tell then Hence their cratNcs ant
papers abound infalsehoods of huge dlmen-
siOns: forit is just as easy 10 tell large lie
IS a small one We have not space to-day
even TO enumerate the falsehoods which are
every day spoken and published by the
Couperheads: bat we Will name ,ew rs
specimens
Let. The STATE Journal OF Oct. II hao an
article from the Patterson n. " Register
which says:
A re. urned volunteer OF the 57th Now
York veteran regiment. who has inst arriv-
Ell from the front informs us that vote
kr President was taken in tbo % (llan-
coik's) army Corps recently, with the iol-
loving result:
ror TiScoin 1855
Mcclellan 8 majority. ......... 7Ool
The information Is reliable. We have il
nom soldier who belonged 10 Hancocks
COr,s. aud who il republican. 10 proves
what all along has been said. that the sold
iers are almost 10 a man iOT Mcclellan and
the Union, and will 40 VOte In November"
a soldier in the Second Corps referring to
this statement, writes to us, Oct. %: 81
saw an article in the Chicago Times that
the Second Corps had been canvassed, and
had gwen large majority q have not the
hguses) for Mcclellan. know this is false.
/ kaOr there has been no such canvass in
our Brigade. and do not believe there ever
was 10 the balance OF The Corps. / do not
.hink there IS q single regiment in the
Corps that viii give him q majority; but the
whole Corps will give majority Of three 10
one for Lincoln. l know Of several regi-
ment8 that have voted for the State candi-
dates. AMI have given largo Onion major
ties"
2 The story that Mr. Lincoln receives his
salary In gold, while soldiers are paid In
greenbacks, has travelled all over The cOun-
try notwithstanding its Official refutation
oy The officer who paid him. or the same
D6tuTe Is the lie that Chase had invested all /,
Us funds In foreign stocks.
:. Another writer asserts that the num-
d. OF northern lives los; in the military
and naval service amounts 10 q Million
an exaggeration CT al least three or four
times.
4 Copperhead speaker in Capitol Hall
accused the Government OF purposely keep
ing back and delaying Victories for politi-
cal eject, thus wasting thousand Of lives
ard millions OF property; and proved by
Major IN Jackson, who told it 10 him that
Atlanta could have been taken month be-
fore Il was just as well as not. but the Gov
ernment would not permit. A demonstra-
ton as clear as mud.
). The same speaker foreoi the facts so
far rs 10 say, that stanton telcgraphed that
certain General, in q late reconnaissance,
went 10 the city Of Richmond and could
have entered and taken he city. If he had
Dot received orders not to do So Stanton
never telegraphed any such thing; but what
difference did that make, so long as every
Democratic bearer believed Il to be true:
{. TIE coolest thing OF this kind we have
se~1 IS q statement in the State Journal Of
Of Cct. 70 purporting to be an OPTICAL
statement OF the cost OF the war in which
the writer, afler adding In az the curreut
culinary expenses Of carrying on the Ma
-o1al Government from 1850 10 1865 and
coming short OF sum large enough 10 III
Us imagination, adds in the snug little sum
q Vine Hundred Millions as the expenses
OF Z war (which IS certain TO last one year
more II Lincoln Is reelected This Is put
~itnas an OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE COST
u EHE WAR" The total national debt by this
Aa-o OF legerdemain, is made 10 exceed
e-'oco,oeo, oo0. The truth Is that on the
I y Gay Of November, 1854, the National
b'c- according 10 Official statements. Va
rs OILY lew dollars from s.. OOO. 600 600
A the day Of election approaches and
ne time becomes shorter In which lies can
e refuted, Il may be expected rbs, ,h.;-
lumber and general circulation VIM Iar0s,s
'nsrsass. The only safe and rational co9r.s