Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-06-12
AN INFECTIOUS SHEET.

vert the minds of the young, as Harper 8
Weekly. It's publishers have the audacity to
fcalllita " Journal Of Civilization" It could
be more fifty characterized as Journal Of
IDiabolism, which it actually is. Before the
war, this infamous sheet, like the Monthly
Magazine published by the Harpers [properly
Harpies1 was disgustingly Jealous in its lauda-
tionsof the South and of everything Southern.
But as soon as the war opened in earnest, aad
I they could no longer expect patronage from
the South, the Harpers became as venOmous
and basely yituperative against the South as
they had before been laudatory and favoring,
and from toadies they changed into the most
malignant revilers of the Southern people. In
their Magazine and Weekly continually APP
lpeared the most revolving and outrageous art1-
cles and illustrations, to stir up and rankle the
hearts of the people of the North against the
South
Since the termination of the war, whilst all
good men have been endeavoring to soften
down the asperities Of that unhappy conflict,
to bring about a restoration of the era OF fra
ternal feeling and genuine good will between
the people of the North and South the Har-
pers, with demoniac zeal, have applied the
whole vigor and strength Of their devilish ma
chinery, of books and papers, to intensity the
bitter animosity in the North towards the IN.
fortunate people of the South. The Weekly
has teemed with illustrations of q diabolical
character, unfit for the sight of any adult and
absolutely shocking and infectious to the gaze
of women and children. We cannot imagine
to what horrible lengths the Harpers can go
in their devilish ingenuity in the matter of re-
voting illustrations, but if they can surpass in
their efforts in that direction that which is to
be seen in their issue of the Weekly of March
23d, then are they in nature more fendish than
human, and utterly outside of the pale of any
in that number is devoted to two large and
eight small illustrations of what purports to
be scenes in the South, with a central large
allegorical illustration, to represent Southern
Justice This central picture is hideousy,
IlnOnstrously devised It is a caricature of
Justice, with frightful visage, crawling SER
penis to represent the hair, the sword I'M
sheathed and resting upon its point, loosely
held under the right arm, while from the left
hand is suspended the scales. In the lower
scale is figure representing Southern "gen-
tleman,"s and the &C. S. A." In the upper
scale are three figures, made to represent a
yankee" Niger" and an "U. S. Soldier"
ALI dead and murdered by Southern men,
To the right of this is large picture of
Southern Court scene, in which a Southern
Gentleman" is about to be acquitted for killing
a "nigger." He is pleading his own case in a
mock grandiose manner before the presiding
Judge, who, with counsel, and others in the
court room, look approvingly upon the accused.
The figures of the prominent actors in the
scene are all base caricatures drawn purposely
to misrepresent and degrade the Southern
character. On the left of the central piece is
another large picture, showing the hanging of
a odd Yankee /" and +" Niger from a
limb of tree, with lot of Southerners in
the back ground rejoicing, and the hanging
party riding away. The eight small pictures
are devoted to the murders, by hanging, burn
ing and shooting, of negroes and yankees" or
loyal men, by Southerners, and each of
them are depicted with the most revolving in
genuity of the degraded artist
These illustrations are too hideous, mons
trous, and revolving for the public eye They
are positively dangerous and infectious for
youths or small children, and in some instances
are likely to produce most terrible results in
families. They are unfit for exhibition in any
household, and are more pernicious in their
general tendency and influence than are the
foulest obscene prints of the day.
But it is not alone against the South that the
Harpers direct their venom and filth. The
WeeEly of April 9th contains an UNANIMOUSLY ex-
ecuted picture of the riot in New York city on
st. Patrick's Day, which is made to represent
all the Irish participants as so many british
rufians. And especial care is taken to depict
each Irish face in the lowest style of gross and
malignant caricature of the race
But we can expect nothing better from the
Harpers We know them. They are sanity
pillars of the Puritan Methodist Church, they
are true Puritan humanitarians, who believe
only those whom they favor ought to be allow
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