Show the might of a lie LIC task of overtaking an untruth has well been described as a hopeless one how fabrication wrecked political career of john G carlisle probably the most impossible hopeless task on earth is to overtake a lie the other day ex speaker john 0 G carlisle now a successful lawyer for great corporations with an old fashioned home in north washing ton square passed along pine street with the easy gait of a plow horse two citizens saluted him and when he had passed on one remarked there used to be the making of a president in that man the entire country looked up to him if it had not been for his cynthiana speech the northern democracy would have been solid for him and of course he owned the southern wing the speech ruined him he ile retired from politics with a broken heart and settled in new york to make a little money here is an extract from that ta fa heart rending speech I 1 deny that the united states Is a nation it Is a vicious system that has destroyed sovereign and oppressed nine millions of people in the south it if a state has no right of secession she certainly has no right of revolution the most infamous order ever issued was that of the at torney general only a few days ago which caused sixty companies of sol diers to march to south carolina to take charge of the ballot box and overawe the voters of that poor down trodden state the paradise of carpet and scalawags but the day da y will come when south carolina will rid herself of the barbarous political buzzards of the north that have ed fed on her carcass for the last eleven years and robbed white and black without discrimination lor ten years mr carlisle tried to run down that report of his cynthiana speech but it had too big a lead at one time he thought it overtaken and sidetracked side tracked but several years later the tribune of this city resurrected it in the original form mr carlisle ex I 1 did not say that the gov eminent is a vicious system but that at that time the policy of the admin was vicious I 1 always held that the constitutional right to secede did not exit there was no verbatim report of the speech for no reporter was present an opposition paper picked up from the audience a few stray recollections of what I 1 said strung them together and published them but the lie never was nailed and carlisle s hopes of political honors were dashed |