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Show No More Newspaper Forums, But Here . For, twenty, odd years we have been writing for the, Forum of the daily papers. But now there is no longer any open Forum. It is a long time since the News found it expedient ex-pedient not to let its readers expess opinions in its columns, and now the Tribune has found it necessary to cut out its Forum. That leaves Progressive Opinion the only paper in these parts where you might get attention to contributions. Send them in but send along the wherewithal for getting the type set. Following is the last article sent to the Tribune, but it died with the Forum: Certain meetings have been held in this country in recent re-cent times which, had we been invited and attended, we would have felt like that patriotic preacher of Lincoln's time, Peter Cartwright did when he was invited and attended a meeting and banquet given by some of the Copperhead leaders. lead-ers. And we would have expressed ourself as he did. He left the meeting, but before going spoke to them in part as follows: "If I had known I would meet with such a nest of Tories and traitors I would not have come. I see . . . the huge hell of jealousy (hate) and discord that can be opened up within our country . . . You are accomplishing more for the enemy by your criticisms of and lack of sympathy for the president's noble labors than you could do were you enrolled in the ranks of the enemy. I speak strongly but I couldn't withdraw in silence and go sneaking from this company without feeling that I had been a coward and false to my country. There are now only two parties, Patriots and Traitors." The men and the papers which denounced Lincoln, called him an ape, an ignoramus, a traitor, and said that he . was entirely unfitted for the presidency, have their successors today. In that day as today they bring the same ' accusation as was brought against the Master's disciples, "They are turning things upside down." But it is all in the program of progress. |