National Republican., 1878-10-24
"rHE CRIME OF CowARDs."

IL wins CARLSIE VINO sulu tnnt lic
should be trampled on and extinguished
wherever found" He continues: / am
for fumigating the atmosphere when /
suspect that f,lschood, like pestilence,
breathes around me-" That WAS all very
we'll, no doubt, when CARLYLE gave utter
ance TO his abhorrance of ialsehood but,
though outspoken aud denunciatory, he
was man Of limited experience in such
matters When he wrote the Washington
Post-erior was yet in the womb Of sin. 1t
had not shed It's pestilential vapors Of false
hood upon the atmosphere, like the mala-
rial exhalations of Kidwells Bottoms and
the reeking section known rs our river
front-and hence CARLYsLE was In COM
parative ignorance Of the greater volume
of falsehood that has since been produced
by inventive genius and modern improve
ment attached to western enterprise" !"
CARLYLE proposed to trample on and crush
out lie whenever he found one. Bless his
innocent soul, he ought to live now, when
lies are ground out and thrown upon the
community with the facility of cotton gin,
Vlu uhtli viz Atmosphere D'toihNo iNuoi'ht
with their pcstilence. Talk about tramp
ling on them-it would take half dozen
quartz .crushers to perform that service for
that single journal with any hope of sue
cess
We are led into this line of meditation by
reading the Pos-erior's second edition of
SAM LEES and the Republican Congressional
Committees plot to get up black insurrcc-
ton in South Carolina. A iow days ago it
published tissue of silly lies, charging the
Republican Congressional Committee with
furnishing the means to arm 5000 colored
blacks in South Carolina, who were being
| instigatcd, under the same influence, to pro-
woke bloody collision with the Democrats.
This was known TO be a base and unmiti-
gated falsehood by its author and he has
been branded as willful and brazen falsi-
| fer of fact and submits TO the brand with
out attempt at vindication or show of re-
sentiment. The fact is, he knows himself to
be chronic EIlsiiier of the truth, and If he
has any emotion over his being pilloried in
exposure of his want of truthfulness it is
that of astonshment that he has not had his
refuge torn of before and his real character
brought to the light.
As if the former silly effort to secure pre-
emincnce in the field of falsehood WAS not
adequate to fill its ambition, the Post-eror
yesterday morning set its machine in mo-
ton afresf, and we will briefly enumerate
the result of its effort. 1t lied in that it
denounces SAN LEE as a negro yagabond,
when intellectually and morally he is the
peer, if not the superior, Of his defamer. 1t
/ lied again when it charged that LEE used
the letter Of Attornoy-General DEvENs to
| incite the blacks to insurrectiou. And
again, when it specifically states that he
used the money furnished by the commit
"tee to provide them with arms, which were
shipped in boxes to Sumter, $. G., and ta-
ken thence by negro teamsters to the coun'
TRY, where they were distributed" Their
follows a sort of bouquet of lies culled from
the inventive genius of mind wsll trained
in NIL that is false and iniquitous, and this
badge it wears as an insignia of its unhal
lowed and shameless achievement Of one
thing we are satisfed-it has turned all it,
intellectual faculties into the work of coin
ing and uttering falsehOods, and when
branded thus it calmly accepts the mark.