The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-09-10

49,, From the le. New York y orld,
The Presid ent's5 Lettsr % greeley. 1

|.' .''.', 81, From the New York " orld,
! The. Presid ent's Letter % Greeley.
MIR. Greeley's itching vanity prevents him
from conntentment with the impersonality q
theeditorial column, and two or three times
in the week he varies the monotony 81 his life
and. gratifes desire for notoriety BY dress.
ing up, the old ideas, ,in new phrase, and let.
ting it fly at whosoever's head happens for
the moment to be op the top of the current
Of public events. signed Yours. Horace
Greeley There issno public man Of note
in our politics for the last two decades who
has not been assailed with this sort of oiirn oin1
pertinence., It becomes impudence at last,
and Mr.. Greeley tired of waiting for the
policy in which he believes our salvation to
lie, and willing enough 70 attack. and make
quarrel with the: President, Whatever his
difficulties or the nation's perils. he writes
to him an arrogant, offensive note which,
naira1ilc dictu, the President answers. If :
= The policy which the President proclaims
is the one to which. his acts have con:ormed.
|1t,is the only one which can save the nation.
Says the President: +.'' -" ."@'' ..:
i would save the Union.
I would save it under the Constitution
in the shortest way. .s..
When the national authority is restored,
the Union is nearest what it once was.
MY paramount object is to save the Un-
ion, and not either osave or destroy slavery.
Concerning slavery-the negroes-all l
do, or refrain from doing, is because l be-
lieve that thus and 50 is the Union pledged
to be saved' 49,, .'-.
Upon this platform, whoever cannot stand
is unworthy to share in our political terit
age. 1t is the pure and simple Union plat
form-that which alone could have called
out our armies-that which alone can guide
them to victory-that which alone can keep
firm beneath them the strong arm of the
nation. low it divides the sheep and the
goats TO that part ofthe Unionism OF. the
Border States which is spurious, interested,
and insincere, it says If there b. those
who would not save the Union unless they
could at the same time save slavery-I do
not agree with you.' ...
To that part of tho Unionism Of the North
which is spurious and insincere, it says -
If there be those who would not save the
Union unless they would at the same time
destroy slavery-l do not agree with you.
The blow to the radicals and the ideolo
gists who nave been clamoring for proclama'
tions and emancipation so vociferously, is a
square one It hits them full in the face
j do not agree with YOU They have fo
weeks and months exerted all their power
Every influence, political, personal, ane
quasi patriotic has been brought to bear upor
the President. He has been besought, teaz
ed, prayed, and bullied, and this is the sun
tota! OF the result. do not agree will
you
They do not know the temper or the pur
poses Of the radicals who imagine that thi
letter will mark the end Of their warfar
upon him. The demonstrations of thei
hostility will abate for time, Of course, bu
they will soon be renewed with fresh vigo
and the old venom. But they will be pow
er'ess. Mr.. Lincoln has spoken the wor'
which the nation has waited and longed t
hear. The millions by quiet iresides, 1.
the market places, in banks, in stores, il
: courts, pulpi's, and on the streets, to thi
platform and this platform only gave thei
hearty adhesion. The hundreds of thous
ands Of stalwart men who have gone t
fight the battles Of the nation ratify tn
word and faith Of the President that it is tn
Union and the Union only for which the
fight. And now whoever asks for anothe
banner, or blows the trumpet Tor anothe
cause, thereby proclaims that he loves th
Union less than they. 3.