Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-16
Truth Will Triumph.

truths and aph0rlsms which have become
household words, and will be transmitted to
posterity through all time. Some of these
are self-evident, and so plain that child
may understand them, while others are
daily excmplifed in thousands Of instances.
IL is said that truth never loses its value.
But it seems to us that every decade reduces
its worth, or lowers it in the estimation of
mankind. Our views may be erroneous,
but we sin:eFelv believe that at no period
within our recollection has there been 10
Gttle regard for truth, and therefore, so uni
versal a habit of lying. And this is never
more observable than when men have some
vile schepsc to carry into elfect-somc i'm
position to foist upon the public, or a gi-
gantic swindle to accomplish. Much of
this is effected through the press, editorial
ly and otherwise, but every available means
becomes subservient to the end in view,
and unless some daring spirit arise and in
trumpet tones denounce the fraud, the
wrong may be consummated, and the pub
lie wake up when too late, to realization
OF the fact that most cruel and atrocious
wrong has been perpetrated upon them.
And often when full and perfect expos
ure is made, it is unheedcd or disregarded
until impending evils become too palpable
to be ignored and too imminent to be avoid
ed. Nor is this surprising to the careful
observer, for public opinion has become so
vitiated and demoralized that the words of
him who boldly and fearlessiy proclaims
the truth, obtainsbut little credence and
fnds but few adherents.
Especially is this the case with politics.
1Ien become so welded to error, and 70 en-
shaved by party ties, that nothing less than
repeated disaster and numerous defeats are
sufficient to induce them to look truth
squarely in the face, and learn the fallacy
of the tenets they have so warmly cherish
ed, and the deleterious influences by which
they have SO long been controlled. And
when, having emerged from such en:hrall-
ment they stand up in the nobility of their
manhood, and look back at their past affiil
iiatioas, they feel humiliated in view of the
sophistry, the clap-trap and mendacity by
which they were so long held in subjee-
tion and they discover the chicanery and
demagogism by which pseudo patriots ever
seek to hoist themselves into power.
The Democratic party of the present day
are pursuing course 30 disreputable, so
dishonest and so fragrant that the true pat
riot stands aghast at their temerity and
reckle5sness. Having, professedly, entered
into corrupt bargain with all the disaffcc-
ted political elements of the country, and
and for one common object, viz, to place
themselves in power, they resort to the most
contemplate tricks and she most dishonor-
able courses to achieve that desiderdtuin.
Misrepresentation, detraction and SANDER
are the weapons on which they rely for
success and no matter how often their
statements are refuted, their falsiiy shown
and their ulterior and sinister designs made
manifest, the villainous assertions are re-it-
Grated and re-published with dogged per-
tinacity which tends to satiate and diagUst
the minds of the candid and those not
wholly lost to every sense Of deeency and
truth.
We can respect an honorable foe, We can
admire has yalor and his indomitable per-
severence but the tactics Of theIDemJcrat-
ic leaders so largely partake OF guerrilla
IL Ill YIn
or ruin" is so prominent feature in their
course, that the gravest questions, inyolv-
ing not only the financial prosperity OF the
nation but its ultimate safety are evoked,
Eand the monies and commercial classes OF
the country will ponder deeply the probable
future, and the inevitable tendency of such
policy. and never lend themselves to a
scheme whose advocates are now, as in the
past, so intimately associated and closely
allied with avowed disuuionists, outlaw:
and traitors.
We have no hesitancy in asserting thi,
to be fair and correct view of the case
For owing to the over-weening confidence
OF some, and the secret exultation of Others
whose exuberance in view OF the spoil
have triumphed over their judgement, thei
latent hopes and ulterior designs have leak
ed out, and no one now need entertain any
misgivings as to the programme agreed up
on, or the compsct entered into between
the quondam rebels and their Northern al
lies.
The papers can be produced to shov
when and where the odious bargain wa
made, by whom, and for whose election t.
office, as well a. numerous details to b
carried out in the event Of success. Tn
proofs of duplicity, of the Infamous truck
ling to the nations foes, and pandering t
and conniving at the reasonable project
awaiting development, all for the sake o
raising 10 the Presidency a weak, vacilla
ting and crotchety old man, would be @
itself disreputable and would justly cove
the parties concerned with obloquy an
shame but when we know that the cor
spirators aim at the entire control of tn
government with the avowed design O
warming into actiye.life the "lost cause,
and endeavoring to obtain by legislatio
what they failed to achieve by hostilitie
we say they merit the scorn of every patr
ot, and deserve the execratiOn Of all honei
, aRd good men
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