New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-21
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Tho Lewiston (Me) Journal is responsible for

the following mixture Of folly and forgery:
owe know that Notwithstanding the amendment 10
the Constitution prohibiting the payment OF the kepe
debit many ex-Rebels arc openly expressing their DO
lief that II Greeley and a Democratic Congress arc
elected somehow other they viii get some compens
ton for the Confederate bonds and the freed slaves ana
that the Rebel soldiers will 10 pensioned. However
much foundation there may be for the Rebel expecta-
lions in these and other directions, yet 1t cannot DO
questioned that they confidently looking for prac
teal restoration OF tho old state Of things Even the
North Carolina correspondent Of THE NEw-YORK TRTD-
USE. addressing that paper before the recent cleo
tiou wrote these remarkable and suggestive words:
"'The Democrats OF the South, II Horace Greeley Is
elected will be the worst disappointed set OF men yon
ever saw do MT believe Mr.. Greeley has sold out TO
fight unless these Secessonists down here allowed
10 manage him. You don't and can't know them as We
do but mind what tel lou this whole country wv VIII no
Greeleys inauguration Then II he undertakes TO sup
press disorder there will be such howl as this country
never heard"
The Le,riston Journal knows very well that
although o North Carolina correspondent
"wroten the above quoted words, he quoted
them as the words of a Grant Republican,
with whom he conversed at Asheville. and as
a specimen of the nonsense with which the
Administration men we're trying to brighten
voters. Nobody could possibly misunderstood
the sense in which they were quoted, and to
conceal the fact of their being quotation
The Journal has mutated the first sentence
We are justified therefore, in calling this
deliberate and malicious falsehood, which dis
qualities its author for association with men
of honor.
Take the same absurd story in another
form, wherein it has lately been preached from
half the platforms in Maine.
"Mr Greeley II elected, would pay pensions to Rebel
soldiers or at any rate would pay the Rebel debt Al
ready the quotations for the Rebel debt in London are
advancing in view OF tho probability OF his election"
The XIVth Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States reads as fol-
lows:
"sEC. L. Tho validity Of the public debt OF the United
States authorized by law including debts incurred for
the payment of pensions and bounes for services in
snppressng instruction rebellion. shall not be ques
toned But neither the United States, nor any STATE
shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred In
aid OF insurrection or rebellion against tho United
States or any claim the loss or emancipation OF any
slave but all such debts, obligations, and claims, shall
be held illegal and void"
MIR. Greeley has been accused or many
things in his time, but never Of being an
idiot. Unless he is, there is no prospect that
the Rebel debt question will be raised. Even
if il is, holders of the Rebel debt cannot be
the gamers by it.
The Albany Euening journal, among dozen
implications of the same foolish invention,
INDUCES in the following:
The TRIBUNE pronounced Greeley's letter giving up
Pennsylvania forgery 1t is now established that IL
was genuine letter written to Judge Conway What
IS THE TRIDUSE's word worth The letter of Greeley
giving M Pennsylvania is bitter dose for The Argus
IL eagerly cutched yesterday at the assertion WAT II
was forgery But to-day since the proof OF Its genu'
ineness is unanswerabe The Argus has nothing to say
II tries to conceal Its modification in silence But mat
doesn't alter the fact that Greeley gives up PennsyVa
MA"
We have been accustomed, since last Win
ter. TO regard The Albany Euening Journal as
entitled to no attention save on the subject of
twenty per cent payments for proof-reading.
That is q matter it thoroughly understands.
On any other point its word is as worthless as
that of any other detected and convicted
swjndler. But let us make an end OF
this business. Mr.. Greeley never wrote,
either to Judge Conway or to any
other human being, letter giving up Penn
sylyania, or limiting at giving it up He ex-
poets to carry it, and has never said or
written one word or syllable 10 the contrary.
Whoever has printed any forged or garbled
private letter. expressing diverse view, has
merely lent himself to a patry deception, the
folly of which every man who has talked with
MIR. Greeley about Pennsylvania will laugh at.
Perhaps we may as well stop. BY hasty
count there are between three and four dozen
"anti Greeley les" just as impudent and
foolish that have been sent to us within the
last forty-eight hours. Life is too short; we
can't be bothered with them. Let the above
be taken as sample Of all; and let no man
dream that because we don't contradict some
unusually silly lie, that is to constitute the
shadow of q shade of reason for believing 1t.
WHERE rs THE IGNORANCEf
II seems 10 be a shocking thing, to the