Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-05

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mere trust, will find out the honest |
TACT, and will vote accordingly, the
New York and Chicago Head Ger.
ters Of campaign falsehood to the
contrary notwithstanding.
In the last Presidential campaign
the Chicago Tribune used the follow.
ing language, in an article which
lies before us as it was printed by
the Tribune: Gin their treatment
of General Grant, the copperhead
press begin to show signs of a hor-
rible possession by evil spirits.
There are STRINGS of vile blood,
spasms of scurrility, and gnashing
ofteeth at every appearance of his
name, : Go on, gentlemen;
you are putting weapons Of power
into the hands oflcyal men. Empty
your quivers OF these poisoned
arrows. For it can only be with
this result, that all men who love
fair play and decency will turn in
disgust and Indignation to join in
the irresistible verdict of the peo-
pie in behalf Of their chosen leader.
The sure destruction Of copperhcad-
ism in this country lies in the fact
that the average moral and intellec-
tual sanity OF the people-the aver
age honesty and good sense Of the
masses-will tell every time, when
the issue is fully and fairly made,
against the faisehood with which
the copperbead leaders inevitably
take the field.''
The two I[oraces of Tribune
name, big and little, old and young,
are now respectively the head and
the tail Of the copperhead press
Of the country, and their journals
amply illustrate the horrible viru-
lencc Of partisan falsehood. The
little Horace here in Chicago has
long since led us to expect nothing
better, but Of the "great and good"
Horace other hopes were entertained
until he also, made as crazy as
loon by bis desire to run for the
Presidency, got drawn into course
of misrepresentation and falsehood
which has never had parallel in
our political history. We say Just
what we mean, and we mean Just
what we say, when we declare that
a more thoroughly untruthful bust
ness was never undertaken in Ameri-
can politics than that of the COM
plant Of Horace Greeley against
President Grant, and that no such
Generalization of journalism has
ever been seen among us as the
prostitution Of the New York 7ri6-
ame to the level of Horace White
and Long John Wentworth. The
actual lying done daily in the col
umns Of Mr.. Greeley's organ is OF
course done by the hireling pens
which are employed under the lead
ing editors, but these pens only full
fill the expectations of Mr.. Greeley
and the orders Of Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid, whose recent blowing of trum-
pets for honest journalism makes
it peculiarly appropriate to chal-
lengc him by name, and to
fix on him personally the
shame Of doing more, from
his high position, to make journal
ism infamous than ii has ever hap.
pened to one man to have it in his
power to DO.
One of the recent forms in which
the New York Tjbtne's mendacity
mas been Illustrated in the interest
OF its editor candidate is in the state
ment jhat ''the whole policy of the
President and Of his Immediate per-
sonal supporters has been anything
but peaceful, - that "they have I'M
dertaken to live and to thrive as a
party BY fostering II spirit OF I'M
compromising antagonism between
the North and the South" and that
Grant ''has seduiously cultivated
the passions and resentments of the
civil war, and in the work of restor-
ing the Union has relied mainly up
on military rather than upon moral
force" II journalism, as matter
Of intelligence, is not complete
failure in the Office Of Mr.. Geelcy's
newspaper, then Mr.. Whitclaw
Reid must know that these state
ments are stale Ku Klux lies, and
that in having them made in the
I35n9s he puts himself at the head
Of the INSCRIPTIONS. unprincipled
and mcnlacious press, sometimes
very properly called the Satanic.
-CdicQgo JomaaI.