The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Falsehood.

--The most despicable falsehood yet invented by the Northern newspapapers appears in the New York Times. That paper asserts that Lionel Walden, whose accidental death, at Savannah, was lately noticed, was ‘"called on by a body of men, to impress him, and on his resisting, they killed him on the spot!"’ The Journal of Commerce, we are gratified to observe, has the honesty to expose the falsehood, and to administer the following rebuke to the mendacious Times:

‘ We believe that if other similar reports of horrors at the South could be traced, many, it not most of them, would prove to be equally groundless or grossly exaggerated. Surely, there is enough of real crime and brutality in the world, without adding these invented outrages. They kindle a tempest of vindictive rage in the heart of the people who credit them, and who are ready for almost any excess by way of retaliation. A very grave responsibility rests upon the conductors of a public journal who aid in giving currency to such misstatements.

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