The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-12
,x. ryo,rr wilson as a Reliable Man.

MIR. Henry Wilson as a Renaole Mail
The readers OF this paper have doubtless
observed that it very often has occasion 10
disagree with Mr.. HENRY WILSON, who l. at
present a. candidate for Vice-Prcsident, and
urging his claims for the position on the
stump in the northern States. The chief
cause for the disagreement, we contend, Is
the persistent manner in which Mr.. WILSON
asserts untruths. AS has been justly re-
marked of n yet more distinguished candl-
date Of his party, he has been successfully
contradicted so often that he has good cause
to distrIst his memory. and particularly ID
the case of the German letter, to which we
are about to allude. II is not hard TO prove
that Mr.. WILSON has told al untruth.
Unfortunately for his reputation, that
has been done more than once in the
last month but what we propose
TO do is to prove it by himself. On
Saturday evening last, in village called Co
c!lit,latc, in Massachusetts,, at GRANT Re
publican meeting, where all were his friends,
he made speech attemptin"t TO explain away
any connection with the letter i'll German
signed by him, and in which it was denied
that he ever belonged TO the know-Nothln9
organization. That there may be no mistake
about the matter, we take the report Of his
speech printed in the New York Times.
He stated that having seen what purlmrtcd
TO be an extract from a know-NOthinS speech
of bis published, and having had his attcn-
ton called to it by Il German gentleman, he
furnished that person with an extract from
the New York Tribune. written twelve years
ago, branding that speech rs forgery; and
now We quote the report in the Times:
These extracts, which he requested his
German friend to send to the writers of the
letter, clearly showed his opinions and rc-
veiled bis connection with the movement.
His German friend read it, promised TO send
these extracts, and did so; but he wrote II
icttcr md signed Mr. Wilson's name to it.
together with his own initials. The Senator
said he did not have the slightest idea that
his friend would write letter of any kind !
and use bis the Senator's name. The man |
did not live that he would trust TO write |
letter for him on public affairs and send ii |
out without seeing and reading it. He !
would certainly lie guilty of an unpartton'-
bic indi>crciion TO do so at this time. The |
letter WAS wholly unauthorized, aud was
written and sent without his knowledge aud
much TO his regret. When he read it he had
40 idea whatever that it was written ny the
gentleman whom he had requested to send
extracts from his speeches To Germans in
other parts Of the country. II was some
time before he knew that his friend had writ
Ten it, He was sure that his friend had in-
tended 10 wrong to himself or to any one
else, or to deceive anybody, but had made
great lnisluke-a bltlndcr.
1t is the first time i'm American politics
that professional politician, Il class not
often ut loss for Il falschood, has been |
caught So illy-premrcd, and has taken |
rc!Lgc in one that the yeriest Child, surprised |
in "A surreptitous raid on its mothers pre-
serve pots, would have thought too thin for |
use. This statement, coming as it docs on
the heel of Of Il series of statements. dis
proved almost us quickly rs made, to the
effect that lie had never been member OF
the American party, will not he entertained
for moment. 1t has not even the appear
ance of truth 1t is by no means Il triumph
10 detect Sucn man us HENRY W lLSON mas
been, i'm deliberate untruth. The first feel
ing is surprise, and TINT is followed by one
Of pity, that IA man should give away the
rectitude of n life for the greed for Office.
His detection speaks badly for the morals
of the large and influential party he repre-
sents. 1t speaks badly for our country, that
man who SO easily falls into temptation,
and the unworthiest of temptations, should
be put up before the world as u representa-
tive man. 1t had been far better that he
had remained in the humble station from
which he sprung, than that II life, con>id-
cradle part OF which has been spent in efforts
for the good Of his kind, should he IRENE
dably stained by unworthy efforts to do
good for himself.
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TERRESTRIAL MAGNErIsM.-The old notion
that the earth had within itself strong mag
nets which attracted the needle of the COM
pass has long since given way to the theory
that there arc electric currents running east