Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-27
Tear down the Haunting lie ]
Half mast the starry flag Il;
Insult n0 sunpv skv

Tear down the Haunting lie
Halt mast the starry flag;
insult no sunny sky
-. with hates polluted rag. 's5
has long been mooted point. During
the life-time of CHARLES @. .HALPINE, the
Radical leaders so industriously circulated
the report that he was the author, that
many believed it, although it is now re-
membered that they carefully abstained
from making it in form where General
HALPINE or his friends could give it an
authentic denial. Since his death, the
Tribune, in which paper the Infamous thing
first appeared, and the Eoening Post both
charge the authorship on General HAL
PINE. This charge brought ont the facts
of the case. Mr.. HENRY RUSSELL, gen.
tleman of truth, and well known in New
York, in a letter to the Neo York Sunday
Courier, says:
s'George Boweryem wrote Tear Down
the Flaunting Lie.' He read the poem to
me repeatedly before it appeared in the Trt-
bune. He submitted it to Mr.. Greeley after
had said to him more than once, Every
born American will resent the sentiment as
a personal insult Afterwards, in great
triumph. he brought me the Tribune, con-
OF his opinion over my own.
Still later George Boweryem related to
to me quite "a dramatic scene as havin g
occurred in the Tribune editorial rooms in
consequence of the office-editor's ordering
his poem to be taken out of the form OF the
semi-weekly Tribune, after Mr.. Greeley had
permitted it to be placed there" 5H 1f7N
Still later than the above one VIM
GLAND BOURNE, in the N. Y" Soldiers
Friend" claims the authorship as his own
-averring that he wrote and sent it to the
Neao York Tribune, in which paper it was
first published on the 18th of June, 1852
and gives other specimens of his poetry
: much in the same disunion vein, to prove
it.
We are not at all concerned whether the
fame of writing this miserable attack on
the American flag fell on BOURNE or Bow.
ERYEM. They may both take it and divide
the discredit between them. But we are
glad that the discussion has produced evi-
dence that it was not written by Gen. HAL.
PINE, and that his memory is rescued from
the foul sspersion. H.. a,... .,,.,. .,f.....,
The editor of the Tribune, who first pub
lished the article, is entitled to as much, il
not more infamy, than the man who wrote
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The Naturalization Fraud Bub.
BILE Bursting in New York.
The terrible charges against the De.
mocracy of frauds In naturalization pa.
pers in New York, which are now going
the rounds of the Radical press, are thu
met and branded as the merest balderdash
by the Ne,o York Herald, now actively en-.
gagged in the canvass for GRANT and Col
FAX.
FRAUDS IN ELECTIoNs.-A great dea
of fuss is being made Just now about al
legged intended frauds in the Democratic
party in regard to naturalization papers
for the approaching election. This is al
balderdash. There Is no doubt that frauds
have been committed by both political
tion time, and it is probably impossible to
prevent bad men from attempting to cheat
on both sides in an excited political cam
paign. But there has never been a general
election in which frauds have not been
charged on all parties, by the opposition
and we have yet to learn of single case
in which such frauds have been brought
home to the offenders and properly pun
ished.n sFEf 1 .Ta5ie bass .sT,HHIl -l
IA few days since we gave the substance
of an article from the New York Times adj
mitting the charges to be false, yet still
they are sent out by Radical leaders as
supported by testimony. Such men are
doing their best to emulate the {" fiend who
lies like TRUTH