Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-11
CincinnntI .IournaIIs,n.

That senile blanket, The Cincinnati Ga
xette, INDUCES in long and stupid homilies
upon the duties and responsibilities of
journalism, the which, it argues, consists
chiefly in being servile, mercenary, pur-
chasable and slanderous. There is no more
forcible illustration of the depravity and
mendacity of the partisan press in the Uni
ted States than that afforded by The Gazette.
It has said meaner things and more Of
them since the commencement of the war
than the rebel press. Since the first gun
was fired at Fort Sumter, its conductors
have apparently had but single object in
view: the Inauguration of civil war among
the people of the North, the promotion Of
anarchy, incendiarism and assassination
The echo of that first gun had not died
away before The Gazette advocated the mas
sacre of one half the people of the North,
and it has advocated the same thing ever
since. The following extract from its last
issue is but repetition of an article in its
first issue after Sumter fell, and acondensa-
ton OF its editorials in the interval:
1t is plain to every intelligent mind that
the enemy whom the supporters OF the
Government have to contend with in the
elections, is identical with the enemy our
soldiers have to encounter in the field
There is now no pretense that the rebellion
has divided the Democratic party, or
deposed the old Southern leaders from their
control of the whole party. The rebellion
was raised entirely by the leaders OF the
Democratic party; and the Democratic par
ty, North and South, is confederate now, as
before the rebellion. The managers, ora
tors and Journals declare the same political
doctrines. They display entire sympathy
and affinity; or rather the same domineer-
ing insolence in the South, and the same
abjec. servility in the North.
We have an epitome of the course of The
Gazette since the beginning Of the war in
this mendacious paragraph. The same
atrocious falsehood, the same hateful slam
der has been repeated in as many different
shapes as lie could betwisted into in three
years. The object of the SANDER has never
changed-it is, in its last analysis, civil war
aad murder. But in promoting this object
The Gazette has been as inconsistent as it is
mendacious and venal. 1t has slandered
and DETAINED every man made prominent
by the three years of war, from the Presi-
dent down to the humblest citizen. 1t has
repeatedly written down Mr.. LINCOLN as
an ass; it has slandered and betrayed the
members of his Cabinet in detail; it has
falsified history to belittle Gen. GRANT; it
lied about HALLEcK for whole summer; it
invented the most monstrous lies upon Gen.
SHERMAN; it chronically abuses Gen. Nc
CLELLAS; it sent poisoned arrow to the
heart of the one-armed HOWARD within
fortnight; and finally, while the fresh sod
was falling upon the coffin of the dead Nc
PHERsoN, the editor of The Gosette leaped
into the hero's grave, like a ghoul, and
threw the dirt upon his comrades who were
still facing the peril in which he had just
perished. stH
The Gazette patronized Secretary CHASE
when he left the Treasury, but betrayed
him when he ran for Congress against
EoeLEsroN, simply because, as The Com
merciaI charges, and every body believes
EGoLEsTox paid the highest price for it'
support. 1t now abuses its Abolition con-
temporaries that supported CHASE for de-
clinlng to be influenced by the same means
Reasonable itself from the inception of thu
war, The Gazette is ever ready with the con
tractors phrase ..disloyalty,"' and it nov
Kisses this serpent term at The Commercial
because the latter dared to refuse to partak
of EeGLEsroN's tempting bribes. Away
forty-eight hours behind its rival in news
the wretched sheet could not live but 70
its corruption. If it has any circulation
among Democrats, it certainly should nc
have while 1t continues to advocate thei
political and physical destruction. Sue
a sheet, reeking with lies, steaming wit
the poisonous lniasma Of corruption, shoul
be prohibited from every family as fats
poison, whose contamination is moral deatl
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