The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-07-20
An Exact Likeness.

The following article from The Chicago T,-i5.
une. although drawn 30 closely that some
of the features seem 10 partake OF caricature
is yet only perfect portrait Of some north
ern newspapers. i specimen OF which we
presume may be found in nearly every State.
These papers get their existence by pre-
eminence in manufacturing every false
statement every ingenious misrepresenta-
ton, every reasonable sentiment, every
malignant sheer against the cause Of their
country and its defenders.
There are certain newspapers at the
North we will not name them for reasons
which will appear throughout this article,
which Systematically seek 10 be- Infamous IN
order that their lnfamy may be spoken o.
NAV make them notorious, may advertise
them and thus sell them. Whatever can
disgust a patriot, afilict decent man with
nausea. or make an honest citizen vOmit, l.
placed on exhibition IN their editorial col
umns. and day after day the black and rot
ten stream oil offensive refuse flows Oh Ike
the Chicago river, nauseating, pestIlenual-
But as lis nlthness Will ere long give the
Chicago nxer q worldwide fame, 50 the
Only means OF getting advertised. We have
all heard 50 much OF the devil that the best
OF Us would pay a quarter TO see him. What
wonder then that a newspaper which by
dint OF straining its ingenuity can secure
for itself the curses OF all good and true men,
which can on each aud every day cater 10
the public disgust some new item alb SlYe
to the people, the Government, the soldiers,
/ their Generals or the Union cause, or COM
/ mandatory OF the rebels, their leaders.
troops or strategy, should be commented
on for its meannesS and percnance as 4 Gu
| riOsity. Each rotten, craving, maggOty
mass of Shiny life in its columns Of treason
able editorials or lying war correspondence
adds 10 its neutrality-suspicious. sells pa
per. Ii in addition it calls down the lnQlg-
nation OF the people, and Is mObbed Or oil
tends the legal authorities and Is arrested
what a triumph in the advertising line. Il
is "itemiZed from one end OF the land Il
the other Throughout 4 still wider sphere
tnan before, il dIsgustS the decent, OIiend'
the loyal and becomes known and admired
by traitors. To be mentioned by a InlOl
General in orders excluding It's circulation
is pap" To be suppressed for lew day
bv the President Tor the publication OF ;
reasonable forgery, Is capital Int, mag
; nifcent advertisement. But these rare sue
cesses in newspaper management require
; considerable fertility OF ingenuity under al
/ administration so lenient and indulgent a
that OF Abraham Lincoln. They are "pla
GERS but OF rare occurrence. The chief re
: lance of the class OF the COpperhead Pres
To which we refer is on that daily display q
rOttenness which attracts daily mention
from a Disguised community As IN tn
case Of the diseased wrecks OF humanit
who in our great cities draw the copper
, in proportion TO the malignity OF the onen
siveness OF the sores they expose 10 IN
: public eye, and which are natures retribu
ton for their deprayity, SO these malgnan
types Of the Copperhead newspapers max
} shift 10 live upon the nOtOreity obtained b,
! the self-advertlsing power OF their own III
: fanny"