The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-29
From the New York Tribune, August 81.
More Lies,

The Lewiston Me.) journal is respon-
sible for the following mixture of folly
and forgery:
eve know that, notwithstanding the amend
ment to the Constitution prohibiting the pay
ment OF the Rebel debt many eX-ReDels are
openly expressing their belief that if Greeley
and Democratic Congress are elected, some
how or other they viii get some com pcnsalion
for the Confederate bonds and the freed slaves,
and that the Rebel soldiers will be pensIoned.
However much foundation there may be for the
Rebel expectations III these and other directions,
yet 1t cannot be questioned that they are conf
IDENTIFY looking for "a practical restoration of the
Old state Of things. Even the North Carolina
correspondent OF the New York Tribune. ad
dressing that paper before the recent election,
wrote these remarkable and suggestive words :
THE Democrats of the South, if Horace Greeley
is elected, will he the worst disappointed set of men
you saw. | don't believe Mr.. Greeley has sold
out to them as they think he has, and there's sure
to be fight unless these Secessonists down here
are allowed to manage him. You don't and can't
know them we do; but mind what tell you, this
whole country will be overrun with ku- klux within
three months after Mr. Greeley's inaugural ion.
Then If he undertakes to suppress disorder there
Will be such a howl as this country never heard.
The Lewiston Journal knows very well
that although q North Carolina CORE
spondent'' wrote the above quoted words,
he quoted them as the words of Grant
Republican, with whom he conversed at
Asheville, and as a specimen of the nom
sense with which the Administration men
We're trying to brighten voters. Nobody
could possibly misunderstood the sense in
which they were quoted, and to conceal
the fact OF their being quotation, the
Journal has mutlated the first sentence.
We are justified, therefore, in calling this
| adeiberate and malicious talsehood, which
| disqualities its author Tor association with
men of honor.
Take the same absurd story in another
| form, wherein it has lately been preached
| from half the platforms in Maine.
| Mr.. Greeley, if elected, would pay pensions
| to Rebel soldiers, or at any rate, would pay the
| Rebel debt. Already the quotations for the
| Rebel debt in London are advancing, in view
| o. the probability of his election"
The NINth Amendment to the Consti-
| tuition OF the United States reads as fol-
| lows:
| SEC f. The validity of the public debt of the
| United States, authorized by law, including
| debts incurred for the payment of pensions and
| bounlle> for services in SURPRISING insurrec-
| tlon or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But
| neither the United States. nor any State, shall
assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred
| IN and OF instruction or rebellion against the
| United States, or any claim for the loss or
emancipation of any slave, but all such debts,
obligations, and claims, shall be held illegal and
void"
Mr.. Greeley has been accused of many
things in his time, but never of being an
IDIOT. Unless he is, there is no prospect
that the Rebel debt question will be raised
Even If 1t is, holders of the Rebel debt
cannot be the ga liners by it.