The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-28
The Crusade of Liars.

The scheme to prolong the rule OF Radl-
calism and the ruin and sorrows OF the land
was to carry the elections by bold and
shameless lying. We have been acquainted
with all the presidential campaigns since
Mr. MoNROE's term, and we have never
known such wholesale and shameless lying
as the Radical party in the present cam
,paign has resorted to; nor, indeed, any
thing like it. The lies are told, and even
after they are disproved they are repeated
and sworn to in far-of places, and even in
large cities they are reproduced with some
notifications to suit. .,.,...
It is but week ago that we saw in the
Washington Chronicle what purported to
be extracts from letters from JEFFERSON
DAVIS saying what the South would do in
case OF TILDEN's election. The rascals that
printed the extracts either forged them or
knew them to be forged. Yet these cX-
tracts were on the journey over the coun-
try, and would probably be never overtaken
by contradiction. s..-.... ...sl .-. -.
The World OF Thursday calls attention
to pack OF bald-headed lies" that has
been issued from the forge at the North.
It is stated that TILDEN, when in the New
York Senate, had introduced bill to.cur-
tail the privileges Of the Jews, and that he
acclaimed them not fit to be American citi-
Zens." For this the putter-forth Of the lies
said that the Jews had organized themselves
in New York against TILDEN. The World
gives the reasons which show that the whole
story was one of cumulative falsehoods l:
There is no such paper rs the He6reD Re
cord, to which the statement is credited. =.
Governor TILDEN never was member OF
the New York Senate. 8. He never intro
duced a bill such as that described in any
body. 4. There is no anti-TILDES organi-
cation amongst the Jews in New York or
anywhere else. We mention this case as
sample Of the shameless lying OF the Radi-
Gals.
Every Jew in the land ought to know that
the story Is false, and every intelligent man
would know it to be false without hearing
that it was Gisproved. Every one who
knows anything Of Mr.. TILDEN would know
that he could never be the author Of any
such bill as that described.
The champion fraud OF all was the story,
about the war claims--the s0-called "soutil-
ern claims (Which Mr.. TlLDEN so COM
pletely ripped up and scattered; but the
Radicals had spent so much work upon it
that they seem bent on holding on while,
as were the New England slaYe-traders on
the high-seas bent on a respite Of sixteen
years from 1892, before the Introduction Of
the slave trade, for which they had built
ships and incurred expenses for handouts,
cowhides, shot-guns, and rum distilleries.
So they now say that whatever Dir. TuDEN
may say, aud whatever the Demo cratic plat
form may say, minds and measures change
with the transitions Of power, and therefore
the North has great reason to fear that the
treasury will be drained to pay ,.ssssouthern
claims.' 2i+i ,.'sz Pa; IS ~ IS 'iS ~
Assuredly in civilized country Inhabited
by intelligent people this infamous system
OF lying and hypocrisy will not pass unde-
tected and unpublished by public rebuke.:
Everybody ought to see the object Of this
unprecedented crusade OF imposture and
faisehood. The party that employs these
inendacious agencies is STEPPED in fraud and
! corruption. Such a party easily and natu-
rally lies to defend itself. That is al never
falling weapon, devised by the devil, with
which the unfaithfnl, whether In private or
) pubic life, defend themselves. The game
Is 70 avert public attention from their own
apominable crimes by falsely eliminating
tae'f opponents. But lie they meyer SO
anoeh' y y Impossible to make their adyer-
5sarles as bad as themselves n s. -
nut'ae Democrats have been WHY enough
- see ,hfonsh the thin disguise which ii
thrown around these tactics. Their crimes.
Which nave risen tot pyramid Of immense
heisht cannot be hidden. The orators 81