Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-08-06
A Greeley Lie Nailed !-senator Will
son and his Calumniators-The
Know Nothing Forgery
Branded as an Abso-
Lutte Falsehood

The Greeley papers are determine
ed TO see what virtue there is in ly-
ing. Since Senator Wilson's nomina-
ton by the Republicans for Vice
President, they have, with hardly
an exception, published speeches at
tributed to the Senator against the
rights Of foreign born citizens, and
reported to have been made by him
in the year 1856. Not few ofthese
papers have kept the pretended ex.
tracts standing in their columns.
The following is a specimen of the
statements charged to Senator Will
son, and which has appeared in near
ly every Greeley paper in the North
west
Gin the heart of the foreigner beats not
single noble impulse, not one single throb OF
patriotism he is so brutal and degraded
that he has no sympathy for anything but
cabbage and lager beer, potatoes and butter
milk, or some other outlandish dish, fit only
for hogs Of the street or the pen. All the
oaths in the world cannot bind them.
"Some tell me that many foreigners are in
tslligent-yes, intelligent How in the name
OF Almighty God can they say it? Look at
the Dntchman smoking his pipe, and if you
see ray OF intelligence in that dirty, idiotic-
looking face Of his, show il to me.
"We must change the laws OF the land, and
prevent these ignorant, degraded paupers here
from voting and holding office; villains and
ruffians who congregate in and around our
villages and large cities, and live by stealing
and begging from Americans. Some saw
they have rights. So they have-the right to
live under our laws, and till the soil, and do
as we bid. They are inferior in intellect and
intelligence to the Americans, and they must
be and shall be put down and kept down, il tt
has to be done at the point of the bayonet
and with powder and lead"
Other forged extracts of even
more insulting and brutal character
than the above have been charged to
Senator Wilson, and have been ex-
tensively used to influence foreign
voters against him. These forger-
les have been called to the attention
of our candidate for Vice President,
which he answers in the following
patriotic letter addressed to the edit
or of the State Journal:
NATIcK, Mass, July 80, 1872.
J.: o. Culver, Esq, State Journal, Madiso n,
Wis:
My DEAR SIR-The mail has just brought
me your note, and the extracts clipped from
various papers purportng TO be speeches
made by me. | answer to your inquiry,
have TO say that they and all thoughts and
words of like character which have appeared
in the papers are mere inventions, forgeries
and absolute falsehoods. Never have
thought, spoken or written those words, nor
anything resembling those words, nor any
thing that the most malignant could torture
into such words. | could not have done so,
for they are abhorent 10 every conviction of
my judgment, every throb Of my heart, every
aspiration Of my soul. Born in extreme pow
| erty, having endured the hard lot .he sons of
| poverty are too often forced TO endure, |
| came to manhood passionately devoted to the
creed Of human equality. All my life have
cherished as bright hope and held the avow-
ed, living faith Of the doctrine that all men,
without distinction of color, race or nationali-
ty, should have complete liberty and exact
| equality of all the rights asked for myself.
| My thoughts, my words, my heart, my votes,
| have been conSecrated for more than thirty
six years to human rights. In the Constitu-
tiOnal Convention of Massachusetts, eight
| years. service in her Legislature, in more
than seventeen years in the Senate of the
| United States, in thirteen hundred public adj
| dresses, in the press, in speeches and IN writ
ings that would fill many volumes, and make
thousands of pages, have reiterated and re-
reiterated those rights for all conditions oil
men. II is not, my dear sir, passing strange
that partisanship should so blind men 10 sense
truth, justice, and fair play, that they could
forge and print abhorrent sentiments, insult
ing TO God and man, and charge them on one
whose whole life has been given TO the cause
Of equal rights, and whose profound sympa-
thies were ever givel TO the friends of liberty
Of all races and nationalites abroad
YourAStruly, HENRY WILSON.
Let us sec how many Greeley
papers which have copied these in.
famous pretended extracts Of Sena-
tor Wilson's speeches, will do him the
justice 20 print his answer. The
Grant County Democrat has publish
cd such stuff attributed to him
Will that paper have the fairness to
publish the answer to the whole
batch of false charges
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