The New Daily Appeal

NOW MARK: YE ROGUES, HOW A
PLAIN TALE
SHALL PUT YOU
DOWN.

Another Lie Nailed.

The Daily Feeble Croaker which oozes
out of the building adjoining the APPEAL
office has busied itself of late repeating
old, fly-blown slanders against President
Grant: and amongst other rehashings
from the scraps and mouldy debris of ab-
solete lies, warmed up by the corps of
amateur writers who keep that institu-
tion in gratuitous political cold victuals,
has appeared, from time to time, the mis-
erable and baseless falsehood that Grant
has "given away
great quantities of the
public domain. Some of these fabrica-
tions originated with that unhesitating
and ingenious liar, Thomas A. Hendricks
of Indiana, --noticing some of whose reck-
less fictions Senator Morton, in a late
speech at New Albany, in that State,
said:

In a speech in Indianapolis on the 20th of
July, Mr. Hendricks said, in talking about grant-
ing public lands for the purpose of constructing
railroads, that General Grant, on the day he
signed a bill granting 77,000,000 acres of land,
an area larger than the State of Indiana, to the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, illustrated
his economy and zeal in the public interest by
vetoing a bill to pay for two horses an Indiana
cavalryman had lost in the war. Now, it turns
out upon investigation after the bill had passed,
that the man had been paid for his horses--a fact
not known to Congress at the time it passed. The
statement that a bill granted seventy-seven mil-
lion acres of the public lands to the North-
ern Pacific Railroad is true, as stated by Mr. Hen-
dricks, with the following slight exceptions. The
first exception is that the bill was passed in 1864,
and was approved by President Lincoln on the
Second day of July. At that time General Grant
was in the field, and had nothing to do with
building railroads, except those he built to pur-
sue the rebel army. Another exception in the
accuracy of the statement is the fact that Mr.
Hendricks was at that time in the United States
Senate, and was on the committee that reported
the North Pacific Railroad bill, and made a speech
in favor of its passage, and then voted for the
bill.

We should say that this is bringing up a
liar with a pretty short turn! yet, after
so
conclusive a controversion of this
stale slander there will be an abundance
of Copperhead voters, Liberal back bit-
ers and Feeble Croakers to revamp the vil-
lification of the hoary political libeller
who is running on the Mongrel ticket for
Governor of Indiana. This lie which is
so effectually exploded by Senator Mor-
ten is a fair sample of the stuff which is
peddled by Schurz, Sumner and their
fellow conspirators.