The Western Democrat

YANKEE INFAMIES, BIG AND LITTLE.

The shameless mendacity of the Yankees is fast becoming a scandal to Christendom. Confined to no class, it is common to all. Officers and men, civilians and soldiers, are all alike liars. They lie to the whole world, even to one another. Their Generals in their official reports of battles congratulate their astonished troops on victories which the latter know were never won, and on bayonet charges which they know were never made, and all is swallowed down as so much gospel truth.

The object of these falsehoods is two-fold: first, to deceive the masses at home, so as to get troops and money. Secondly, to deceive Foreign nations, in order to prevent our recognition and their intervention. Fortunately for us, our cause cannot always thus suffer. Time, that infallible detective, will surely expose the truth, and then the Yankee government will stand at the bar of the world a convicted and degraded liar.

If one of our Generals were to lie to our troops, telling them they had done what they knew they had never done, he would bring instant disgrace upon himself. He would be universally despised, and the men would refuse to fight under him. A convicted liar can never hold up his head in the South. He is branded and handed over to infamy.

Supported by outrage and plunder, propped by fraud and mendacity, the Yankee scheme of conquest can never succeed. It will be reprobated of God and man. Every development of Yankee policy, every manifestation of Yankee character serves to convince mankind that honorable States cannot affiliate with so base a people. Japanese lying, Chinese stealing, Turkish rapacity and Mormon profligacy pale their ineffectual fires before the superior infamies of these hypocritical Puritans.