The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-10-11
CANNOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH

! CANNOI BELIEVE THE ILFUILL
There are many men who will give
credence to no statement of fact
which is unpleasant to them. How
ever candid and trustworthy the
witness, however direct and une-
| quivocal his testimony and however
conversant he may be with the mat
ter OF which he speaks, his testimony
is regarded as incompetent. his state
ments untrue if his facts be not
agreeable.
Such men have rendered them
! selves incapable of national con-
viction, where their interests. or their
prejudlces are opposed The more
convincing the proof used against
them, the more determined they be-
come They make the conclusive
ness of a statement, or an agree
ment, an occasion for resisting it.
Ask them if the whole is equal to
the sum Of all its parts, and they
will say it is; but if you place all
the parts together before them and
ask them if that is the whole, they
will say no, and be vehement in their
denial. The conclusiveness of testi-
mony with such people is evinced by
their denying its truthfulness and
abusing the witness.
or this class or men, the Republi-
can party seems to be full to over
flowing at this juncture in the affairs
of that party. No matter if the
leaders of the party have been
proven by testimony incontestible
to be corrupt, it is every where as
serted that they are the very pinks
of perfection and purity.
No matter how plainly aud con-
clusively it is shown that Republic
can financial legislation has well
nigh bankrupted the country only to
fill out the already plethoric purses
of the bond holder, it is asserted all
the same that the financial measures
of that party are conducting the
country right along the high way to
prosperity. No matter if every act
and utterance of the people of the
Southern States for eleven years
have proven that they have. in per-
feet good faith, accepted the results
of the war, these men assert broadly
that the Southern people desire and
are determined to compass the dis.
reimbursement and reinstatement of |
the negro. No matter if the facts
of history do show that in every |
Southern State where carpet-bag |
radicalism has been Oyerthrown and
Demccr rule established. peace |
and harmony between the races pre-
vail, the howl goes out all the same
that the negro's life is not safe I'M
der Democratic State government.
1t is proven by investig cations and
all the facts elected, that the antag-
onism between the races. resulting
in blood shed in certain localities,
has been brought about by the ne
groes themselves. or their biacker-
Dearted allies disguised in white
skins, it makes not q whits differ
ence, shese things were made of
whole cloth for rebel outrages, and
~ that name they must be christen-
ID and called,
If it is known TO the world to be
act that the first Democratic House
# Representatives which has existed
n sixteen years, saved to the tax
layers all Of twenty.nine millions Of
Iollars by it's care over appropria.
ion bills in one single session. This
s nevertheless denied as vehement
y as if aothing Of the kind had been
lone.
Now, we must be permitted to {
ay that this inveterate disposition
n the part of very many Of our /,
friends to pervert testi- /
1ony and deny facts. can only be 5
Explained in one or two ways Those
Tho do it are either personally dis
onest, or they are personally igno-
ant.