New-York tribune., 1868-04-14
rs LYING GENTLEMAHLYI

rs LYING GENTLEMAfLY'
We ask this question alike of the Press and
the Public, and submit that it is worth con-
sideratiOn. Why notf
The code with which we take issue assumes
that it is very rude and ungentlcmanly to call
the utterer of fragrant, atrociOus falsehoods a
liar.
We insist, on the contrary, that it is the liar
who proves himself 10 gentleman-nOt he who
exposes the fraud and denounces the fabri-
Gator.
Horatio Seymour, Ex-Governor of our State,
saw fit, in making Democratic speech at
Bridgeport, on the Friday night next before
the late Connecticut election. to assert that
"Now when tho Republican party inausurated the
noeV of Governing the south 10y force it involved the
necessity OF maintaining great armies sehI s,ahubg
armies II involved great national expense The war
ceased nearly four years ago and yet u oo this year
more than 100000 maintain an army 70 keep hepe2pN
of he SouM in si6jectona people that ought rather
to be helping TO bear tho cost Of governing the nation
friend Cen siokles gays nothing is better than the
governors down south That be very well for me
governors there with their saares but can you aSra
20 have that state of things exist when we sgow you NM
more than 900 100000 year hare BEEN rdsfcd ~ ode
uphold ns poy p, ree2reSr m S9er Of erester dssoI
zion falling upon in this land, II this poey - con
tnuedi What do you say me as ese axss are
imposed the purpose paving our pn~se m paDs aeD
only tlOOOOO,Oo0 Where DO the tO0.VoON 0oF
These assertions we have publicly branded
IA hes-lies uttered with intent to SANDER and
dcceive-lies villainous in their nature aud pur-
pose-lies that should crimson the brow and
palsy the tongue of their utterer-lies which
should cover with infamy every one who
should make himself their responsible indorser,
IA The World has done. And We have prored
them such by ncontestsble public documents,
and even by The Worlds own Almanac Tor the
current year. which sets down the entire Ap-
propiiations of Congress for the current fiscal
wear at S145 $50. and for the preceding fiscal
year at sl55 90.OlS-$30l 029,5sS for tho eX-
penses of tco years, instead OF S3OO,UOOV Tor
one year rs Gov. Seymour falsely Asserts And
OF these $30l ,O39,jSS for two years, The Uord
Almanac shows that Sl0.i33GO for this year
with of course a corresponding amount for
last year. for which no items are given ia the
cost of the Post Office Department, which is
defrayed by postages charged to those who
use the Mails. aud is in no proper sense part
of the cost of maintaining the Governmental
saw nothing of the Army Then The World
Almanac shows that of the money appro-
priated by Congress (of Course, not all ex-
pended. though some items may have run
short. while on other accounts large sums re-
mained unexpended) for the current fiscal
year. the following items form no part of tho
expense Of the proper cost of carrying on the
| Government:
PostOlce Department. .............-.. slslyo9
Repair and completion Of certain Public
works f"@''oi
Total s57i1s1sl
Deduct these from The worlds total ... iiJ.IS9.,Go
Leaves the fair cost OF running tho Govern
ment for the current fiscal year sSS023'70
These, mind you, are not our fgures-they
are The Worlds. qs any one may see by exam
ing its Almanac page 3D for 1863. Who can
argue the seal of that bondi The World does
not venture even to attempt it.
The World, IN attempting 10 founder out
Of one bog gets heavily mired in anothor-as
follows:
"Mr McCuiochs statement Of N57 10000 ~ the coat Of
our for the year does not include pensions hut
include bOuntes The exclusion and the Inclusion
alike proper. The pension list legitimate part Ot
tho expenses OF the war but ne bountes bohg 10 ne re-
ron s1cii0, account IL is notorious that hey 0rJaded
Ia partisan Dofres and are sustained (or party rcdsonS
They are part OF the for securing support for the
iss to support an G6ebodisd dis5aaed army yor ico
0ree years ~ rtod'nsss 10 roe or Pgh as ne ei0e''"
negro reconstruction 1ldV reT,fire"
Aha then it is false that our disbanded
volunteers are mainly Democrats, as You have
so often declared them! Human hardihood Ia
not equal to the assertion that bounties are
not paid TO Democratic as well as to Republi-
can volunteers who have been honOrably mus
tered out of service, and surely you will not
pretend that your sort OF Democrats are in
readiness to vote or fight as the exigencies of
Negro Reconstruction may require Let us see
you try to wriggle out of this
D..II. -
the cost of armaments for the year.
nothing like it. AS we have already explained,
large sums are expended under the direction Of
the War Department for canal around tho
rapids of the Mississippi at Keokuk and
kindred works, which therefore figure in the
Military estimates, but are no part of F" the
"cost of our ornaments" But we need not
chase this deputy falsifer any further
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