Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-02
Truth VS.. Falsehooa,

Truth VS., Falsehood,
The party now making such desperate
and frantic efforts to obtain power and the
control OF our national affairs, appear to be
aotua;ed by the motto that call ia fair in
/ War" This we deny on manifest grounds.
Ii it were true, then was the slaughter of
women and children iusti6able in the great
Indian Rebellion, and the starving of I'm.
ion soldiers in Libby and Andcrsonvillc a
legitimate effect of our late war.
That this principle was the animus of the
rebels there is scarcely room to doubt, and
their allies and co-workers in the North,
having similar interests at stake, namely,
the destruction of the Republican or Union
party, are moved by the same impulses to
accomplish the same purposes and reach
the same goal. With the hope OF success,
the mal-contcnts as body have rcsorted TO
the most contemplate means, and stopped
t. the lowest depths CT degradation. No in
justice is too fragrant, no falsehood too pal
plble or too atrocious for their purpose /:
the principle of anything to beat GRANT"
is one under which may be porpetratcd al
most any outrage short of murder; but it
is apparently the animus which stimulates
and controls both the secret and public
transactions of that party and although a
suicidal policy, they cling to il and act up
on it with an infexible tenacity which re-
vcals but too plainly the desperate straits
to which they arc driven. We repeat that
the policy is suicidal one, and believe
that in November next, the assertion will
be verified in the entire overthrow and de-
struction of the party.
1t is the duty of the patriot, when he be-
holds corrupt men making Herculean eff
forts to obtain political power, to warn the
public OF danger, and by every lawful
means at his command endeavor to render
such efforts abortive. Among those means,
however, should not be found villifcation
and personal abuse, this may influence the
illiterate and unthinking among mankind /;
but he who essays to demonstrate the unfit
ness or inclligibility of an individual to a
highly important place OF trust, power and
patronage, should be prepared with facis--
palpable statements which invite scrutiny
and challenge investigation. A volume Of
such statements might be adduced to show
and prove how utterly unfit and incompe-
tent is HORACE GREELEY for the Prcsiden-
ey. His instability, his vacillation in times
of public peril, the unsoundness of his
views on the currency question, his vaga-
ries on social problems, and above all his
! sympathy with secession and parleying
with traitors renders him not only an unfit
but most dangerous man to be invested
with executive power, and we can not be-
lieve that the American people will so far
stultify themselves in November and jeop.
ize the welfare and prosperity Of the nation
by comforting upon this hybrid candidate
Presidential hoRoTs.
Desperate and persistent indeed have
been the attempts made to prove the pres
ent incumbent guilty OF malfeasance in Of
fee, but without, in any case substantiating
the allegations set forth. Notwithstanding
these repeated and signal failures the par
ty continues to make the same stereotyped
charges and re-iterate the hackneyed SLAM
ders, hoping thereby to impose upon the
credulous and cajole the ignorant, but it re-
mains to be seen how far such dishonorable
and transparent humbuggery will be sue
cessful.
GREELEY asserts that he is no less Re
publican now than formerly. Will true
Republican lend himself to corrupt and
disgraceful bargain having for its ultimate
object the full restoration TO power OF the
Democratic party? He knows this would
be the result OF his election, it is so under.
by all the Democrats, sore-heads, and rebel:
in the Union; and yet, for the sake of be
ing President, he is not only willing but
anxious to become instrumental in thus in
flicting upon the country a concatenatior
OF evils, the magnitude and extent OF which
no one can foresee.
VIII any one in view OF these facts, have
the temerity to assert that such a man il
not traitor to the party to which he claim
to belong? A traitor to the principle
he has long professed and still claims t'
cherish He cannot reasonably complain
if such a stigma is indisolubly associates
with his name, although that name is no
ARNOLD!
In view OF the above facts we hold it t,
be the imperative duty of those who ar
the exponents OF Republican or patriotic
principles to make every lawful endeayo
to prevent the consumation OF all scheme
having for their object the restoration anc
accession to power eta party whose recorc
is so intimately associated with nationa
disaster so fraught with public mischie
and odorous Of treason, and with reno
gade Republican as itg osteusible head