Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-19
Dissemination OF FaIsehOOd by Demo-
cratic Investigating Committees.


The Democratic party has never been
celebrated for untarnshed honor or for a
scrupulous regard to right as against
wrong and truth as against falsehood
when political opponent was concerned
| Undoubtedly, the moral sentiment of the
Nation has reached higher plane than
ever attained before; and that on the part
Of the people there is proiounder reali.
cation of the necessity of political and
personal uprightness. The fearful condict
induced by the rebellion of the South, for
which the leaders of the Democracy are
held responsible, has had the usual effect
of all wars upon all peoples, and opened
the flood. gates of reckless ambition to get
rich without labor, and to adopt crooked
devices TO reach the object desired. But
while the better classes of citizens who,
prizing education, have been able to WELD
a healthy influence over the masses, so as
generally to hold in check in the North
that selfish lawlessness which prevails so
much in the South, the Democracy, rank
and file, with many OF the Bourbon lead.
ers, have not partaken of the benefit to any
appreciable extent The result Is that the
unexpected revival of Democratic hope,
BY the assembly in the House of Rcprescn.
! tatives of the Confederate remnants of the
rebel armies who were stricken by light
ming when sent there, has revived there.
with all the old vices of the Democracy.
now doubly hideous from their long re-
preston. And we have the sorry specta.
Gle of twenty eight Democratic invcsti-
eating committees of Congress, every one
of them vigorously engaged in sending
abroad as unchallcngcd truth evidence
which they know to be false, and evidence
which they knew must be contradicted
in the course of a day or two. Thus
the country is flooded with Democratic
falsehood from one end to the other
Democratic chairmen of committees listen
to venOmous hearsay statements which
consume the public time at the expense of
public money to pay the fraudulent
witnesses who have not word Of truth to
testify, or If they had it would not be lis
tened TO because it was not wanted. This
practice is a very stale trick. Hhe lie
travels swiftly and is sent out first. When
truth overtakes it, the lie is supposed to
have done its dirty work The Democra-
cy are not areading people, and the Demo-
cratic press is not given to the virtue of
contradicting what tells against Rcpubli
cans simply because it is not true. The
floating lie in Democratic hands is a DEM
ocratic power, and much relied on and adj
mired. And is not Democratic admira-
ton for Democratic lies justified when
Democratic charmen of investigation
committees select these lies with great
cheerfulness and send them on their trav.
els for publication? No prominent Re
publican is safe from the attacks of Dem.
ocratic detamers. The purest Of our pub
lie men are shining marks for defamation,
and if those Democratic committees can
by falsehood affect to smirch for an hour
good character it is feather in the cap
of Democracy, and an achievement worthy
of the Democratic camp. Let Republi- |
cans note this.
But what disreputable employment
for Democratic chairman! What dis |
graceful method Of opposing Republicans!
Such Democrats are nothing better than
sinking moral assassins, who have en-
tered the lists as rivals of the bludgeon of
the agrarian or the stiletto of the Italian,
who always stabs his victim in the back !
The time-hOnored Democracy" as they
love to call themselves, are of the same
strain as those who welcomed the rebell- !
ion; the descendants of the men who were
in league with disloyalty, or the very men
themselves who grew up to the pattern of
those bewildering political lights, North !
ern men with Southern principles, or
Southerners whose Democracy was all |
MdgdziHe.