Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-30
STILL GARBLING.

The Union declared that IL published Mr..
GresleJ's Pittsburgh speech Just as it APP
psared 10 the N. Y. Tribune " without the
alteration or omission Of word IL nov
says We take back what We said, - and
says it don. know how it happened that
the omission was made, and then proeeSds
to publish what il wishes its readers TO
think are the words omitted. The Union IS
still guilty of a fraud upon its readers. Here
ia the passage in full
Whar Lineoln had been elected and this
coo,ni,aev for secession began TO advance,
wa RepublicAns were told BY our own men,
and told still more by those out Of the circle,
" You must back out Of Jour RepubIicanism,
you must Surrender your opposition 10 the
extension of slavery or consent to great
civil war This, they said, was the only
.alternative-blo od.hed and devastation over
the whole country, or you shall surrender
the principles on which you have just car
red the election. ] was one of those who
said 4" No, there is no such alternative" /
denied that the great majority of the South
ern people we're against the Union. / de-
manded tha, there should be an open free dis-
cussion, that the Southern people might have
an honest, unterri6ed, uneonstrainsd vote,
and II they approved, if the people OF the
South said lhey wanted disuniou. would
consent to it. / knee they trOuld not. /
kReiC that tie great majority Of the Southern
people couid hare Uoted as they actually did
that tcintT, not for secession, but for 1tRgiag
10 the Union cheersi;' aud now, to-day, II
the nation were to be imperiled, and there
we're Just two ways of saving it, to trust the
chances of civil war or the chances of free
vote Of the Southern people, would very
greatly prefer to take the latter chance rather
than the former. Cheers For, .falo,c
citize9s, they do greatly misunderstood dnC
mdiigH this american people irheH they astina
that, ia cold blood, before there had been dBy
clash Of arms, the people in the South, an!
more than the people in the North, desiret
diSunion. Cheers,l
These are the words as published in thu
n. Y. Tribune the morning after they wer,
spoken. The Onion gAEbles aud change
the passage, and entirely suppresses tn
words We have placed in italics and b.
so doing is guilty of a deliberate insult 1
the intelligence Of its readers. Thus, in
stead of referring to his views tn n, befor
war had begun, and while the Soulher
States we're about to have elections on tt
; subject, Mr.. Greeley's words are so distorte
as to make them seem to express bic view
} nov. 1t is possible shat the garbliDg wa
originally only mere blunder; but its cor
tinued repetition is no blunder. NobOd
e can read the passage without seeing, eitht
. that the quotation beginning No, there
o no such alternative" should be continue
= to the close Of ths passage, or that the rel
,. OF il should stand, as in the Tribune rspor
II in the past, not 10 the present tense. Tn
meaning is so plain that no honest sdisa
-, can have mistaken it.
=, Mr.. Greeley says no question can eve
arise again 10 regard to dissolution Of th
n Union-but ii such question we're poss
-, IDLE, there is not a thoughtful, constellation
, man or woman in the land who would nc
4 prefer to try the chances Of q free cots .
. The Southern people to plunEiug the patio
into smother civil war without Erst ascertain
Jog the free and upcoustrAined sentiment
Of all the people OF the South, black an
white. Nobody doubts the result, and "
envy not the head or heart Of any Perso
uho wants another war, if we can preserv
e the Union without it. We ask the editc
r Of the Union to read what Mr.. Greeley hin
i self said on this subject, at Dayton. 1t wi
be found in this paper.