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CrF The annual message Of the President has al
ready elected many articles of comment from the
newspaper press, especially from those which espouse
and defend the cause Of the Mexicans. The Demo-
cratic and Independent Press generally commend the
spirit of the message, and express approval ofits firm
yet moderate tone and its patriotic and statesmanlike
recommendations Yet, on account of these very
qualities it receives the bterest denunciaons which
the Mexicau tory press is capable of uttering. The
organ of all the decency in this city, for instance
imputes ''iatamOas lying" to the President in re-
gard to his plain and simple statement of facts rela
tive to the commencement Of the present war-facts
which every intelligent and woman in the coun-
try knows to be true. How it would have rolled up
its eyes in holy horrOr,-how it would have groaned
over our evidence" and " bitterness I" had we thus
characterized the notorious errors and self conlradc
tions of Mr.. Clay! But did not choose thus to
disgrace ourselves and vocation. Mr.. Clay's er-
rors and misstatements can be demonstrated without
resoring such imputations the Journal unbush-
ingly makes against the Chief Magistrate of the Peo-
pie. The Journal however does not stop with this ;
but in order to make its impuation appear plausible
it also asserts that the Wing members of the last
Congress, when they voted for the act voted for
what THEY KNEW TO BE LIE, and thus were
not only LIARS, but PERJURED LIARS!


1t is not business defend the chosen leaders
Of the Wings against charge thus made by one of
their organs but will say this much least.
They did not vote for what they knew to be lie, nor
did they thus make of themselves perured liars. Un-
der the patriotic impulses Of the moment however,
they forgot that Treachery is of the first princ-
pies of their party creed, and for amoment they
found on the side of their own country instead of
that of the Public Enemy They acted rightly n this
instance not from principle, but by instinct, just as
JOHN D. DEFREEs, the editor of the Journal did,
when, upon the first reception of the in this
city, while Captain was firing the big gun to
wake up the boys, and he (DEFREEs) was acting
with alacrity the chosen Secretary of the first
meeting held at Indianapolis.


At that meeting held in May, 1916, resolutions
were adopted, on motion of Hugh O'Neal. whig.
affirming the same facts which the Journal now as
seIts to be hes in the mouth of the President; and
those resolutions John D. Defrees gave his assent and
appreciation, and The sanction of his name, odorouS
it then was with senatorial dignity


If therefore the President is liar, and if the
Wing members of the last Congress, including Tom
Corwin, Pejured iiarS-the editor of the Jour
nal may be classed with them, by its own showing.


But it is not so. The editor of the Journal was not
a liar then,-he is simply moral TRAITOR