The Portland daily press., 1864-08-30
self-oOnvioted Maligner Of the Government.

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Mondays Portland edition OF the Rich
mond Examiner, In It's efforts To clear itself of
the charge of imposing forgeries upon Its
readers under the head of washington Cor
respondence,p unwittingy affords additional
proofs Of Interpolation and Justification of the
record. The point is this: battle was fought
fifteen miles beyond Harper's Ferry, In the
Shenandoah Valley, on the 2lst OF August.
The 22l this was telegraphed to Baltimore,
but the Government Censor, believing 1t i'm
polite, probably, to send it out. suppressed it
until the next morning, the 23d, when it was
published in the American OF that city, The
washington correspondent referred to,
purports TO write out the unfavorable details
of this battle on the 2lst-the day it occurred
in Washington, though no communication
of the facts appears to haveleft Harper's Ferry
by any medium, until the next day. When
we urged this fact in proof that the "corre-
spondence'' was either written or interpolated
after it left Washington, the editor of the
paper in question, to explain the inconsistent
cy, said Secretary Stanton kept the news
back, and further said that when on the Path
he published the telegraphic details of that
battle, he ''prefaced the report by this impor-
tant announcement
Baltimore, Aug. 23.-The following is
published in the American of this morning,
the substance of which the Censor would rot
permit TO be transmitted"
He then adds in his own language: "The
Associated Press correspondent says he was
not permitted to send it report of the battlel
on the evening of the trenty frSt-hence he
sends 1t on the 22d, and it appears in Balti-
more on the morning of the 23d,n &c. $50
far" says he, ''thc matter is straight as line
to every comprehension" And yet this
straight lire has fatal kink in 1t. that will be
found very uncomfortable to its author.
Look at the above dispatch from Baltimore, Of
Aug %. 1t reads: "the substance of which
the Censor would not permit to be transmit
tedw When did the Censor refuse such
transmission? AT Harpers Ferry, or after
the despatch was received from there? Look
in the same paper of the oath, from which the
above is alleged to have been copied, and you
will find the preface" read thus:
BALTIMORE, Aug 23-The following is
published in the American OF this morning,
the substance OF which the Censor would not
permit to be transmitted last night:
Why the omission of these two concluding
deinitive words? Il was the "last night
proceeding the 23i that the Celsor interpos-
ed in other words, it was the night OF the
22i, after the news had been forwarded from
Harper's Ferry and received at Baltimore.
But for this act of the Censor the Associated
Press agent would have forwarded 1t to the
morning papers OF the 23d; 1t could not pos
sibly have been published sooner. 1t was
Published in Baltimore as early as it could
have been published at all, but had there been
no impeachment in the way its publication
would have been simultaneous In all the
morning papers OF that day. 1t was not with.
held or interfered with till the night of the
ed. The Censor does not appear TO have
had any knowledge Of the matter till that
time, and yet the correspondence gives it
from Washington the 2lst-one day quicker
than lightning. The evidence OF interpola-
The interpolator stands convicted by bis own
dates, and feeling the awkardness of his pill
lofled position he attempts the dangerous
strategy Of a second deception to conceal the
first He does this in mutilating the despatch
in relation to the action of the Censor, so as
to make it appear that his suppression. afford
ed room for the alleged acts of his correspond
ent, when his own paper affords incontestible
proof that the suppressory act was too late to
afford such relief from his dilemma.
Having thus exposed the tricks and chica-
merry of this rebel emissary, and impaled him
on spikes drawn from his own platform; hav-
ing driven him from one deception 10 another
and forced him to mutilate one record to heal
the mutations OF proceeding one, we now
leave him to himself, 10 the worst possible
company he can be in, not deeming it worth
while to pursue species of game of far less
value than the ammunition required to bag it.