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Political Lying

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Many of our readers have rend Mrs. Opie's work on ying. But she did not go into the ranchos of politica! lying. Had eho lived n this country, she would have found a large eld n this department. The ways of deeiving by a mixture of truth and faleehood re.almost innumerable. To give n. single in.ance which has come before us. E. W. Goodwin of the Albany Patriot, being short of linda to pubhsh a tracl o duelüng which be iad in the Press, sent a circular to some riends, asking therh to contribute for this wrpose. Some of these were Van Buren nen, and henee the Albany Journal pub lishes lis tmlh, and predicates upon it the falseood, that the Abolition leaders have foecome ran Buren men, are playing a doublé game, c.and prejudicing wlfigs against them on this ccount. This mixture of trath and lying is opied into the Detroit Advertiser and State ournaí, and spread through our State forthe nme prrrpose. Now, thp whole truth is, that ie circular was sent out broad-cast to men ' all parties. Out of eixteen consecutive ames to which itwas sent, asthey stand on ie original list, srven were Whigs, four Van uren men, and five Abolitionists. Somiich or this story. It is true in pait, ard yet fulse s a whole.Thrs ís but a specimen of ten thnuisan.l ich ifistances ofniisrepresentntion and eqnivoation which are continuafly practiced by Edi ors of boih partiee. Mr. Goodwin requested íhe Editor of the ournal to insert a brief exposition of the acts in his paper, and he rejused! Tlius the lander is now circulating throngh the Whig 'ress far and near. It may be useful to Ihem 'or a season; but the Liberty causo does not need either falsehood or misrepresentation to advance it. It wil] prevail without the help of either, nnd against the power of both.0= The Washington Globe highly ipproves of Mr. Van Buren's plan of geting Texas peaceably; and strongly reprobates Mr. Calhoun's correspondence ín brming this treaty, in which he places anuexation solely on this ground ofsusaining slavery - a ground which the Globe says, must infallibly drive the nonslaveholding States into decided opposition to it. The Editor of the Globe says ie knew the treaty was dead, as sooti as ie saw the correspoBdence.05 The Mexican minister has gone o New York to reside, during the penlency of Texas treaty, lest he should n any manner compromise the honor of lis country, by seeming to give countelance to that project. The Mexican govjrnment has avowed its determinaron to 'esist it. On the 23rd of August, Mr. Bocanegra announced to our minister, Waddy Thompson, as follows: "That the Mexican government will consider equivalent to a declaration of toar against the Mexican republic, the passage of an act for the incorporation of Texas into the territory of the U. States - the certainty of the fact being siifficient for the inmcdiate proclamation of war."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News