The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-05-20
Down ON Greeley.

iOWS luat ueuUuuSeu ~ WHICH, ~ "So W.
popular and embraced it when it was tri-
umphant, and triumphant mainly through
the instrumentality Of Greeley-arc down
upon Greeley like a thousand Of bricks,
for his humanity, patriotism and ardent
desire to restore friendly relations be-
tween the North and the South. His
suggestions are a whitening reflection up
on their cruelty and cowardice and by
,pocriSY> ~HN tNa~eF"r% t""'5 '|NNONNce him
with the bitterest invective Greeley has
contributed more to the success Of the
Republican party, has done more to make
it respectable and formidable than the
whole pack of his maligners put together,
and their efforts to injure him with the
Republican party will have as much
weight as \ gnat on the tusk Of an ele'
plant. The manly and patriotic letter
which he wrote to the President on the
7th of July last, and which prompted Mr..
Lincoln, who admired and esteemed and
very often consulted Greeley, to con-
Sent. to the Niagara Falls Conference"
has excited their ShAuous indigDatiN-+a
Their abuse Of Greeley shows the hollow
ness Of their professions of devotion to
the Union-proves, unmistakably, that
they do not want the Union restored, and
convicts them Of duplicity and disloyalty.
Greeley is in favor Of a wise, conc;tiatory,
humane policy, knowing that such pol
icy would disarm the South and restore
peace and harmony to our distracted
country; his traducers, shoddy contract
ors and their followers, are in favor of a
war of determination against the Southern
people. In such contest, intellect, pa
triotism and humanity on one side, bru-
tality, hypocrisy and corruption on the
other, Greeley, single-handed, must gain
the victory. The New York Evening
Post, one of whose proprietors (Hender-
sony was convicted Of swindling the Gov
eminent. declares Greeley's letter to the
President to be shameless revelation
and piece Of consummate folly" "actu-
ated by cowardice that is almost equiv
alent to a trcachery to the loyal cause"
and charges Greeley with holding the
Language and tone of the Vallandighams,
the Woods, the Voorhees,, the Walls, and
the Seymours, who despised and deridel
the national cause. Many poor devil
was sent to Fort lafayette, or Fort War
rem, for saying infinitely less in dispar-
agemcnt Of the war;" continues the loyal
Post. The fcrocious and sanguinary
blood suckers, who want the war TO con-
tinue for their personal benefit, thus saw
agely abuse Greeley for seeking peace, in
order to deter others from following his
example. If they can destroy his innu-
ence they will remove powerful oppo.
nent to their plundering schemes, and in.
timidate less fearless Republicans from
sanctoning terms that would lead TO the
restoration Of peace and the re-cstablish-
ment Of order. Every brainesS politician
in the country, every newspaper that is
controlled by shodly, from the Sacramen-
to Union down to the Bee, every Govern
ment swiEdcr and informer, whose occu.
patton would be gone on the return Of
peace, is barking at the heels Of Greeley
lie is accused now of cowartlicc, iinbccil
ity and disloyalty, by the very men and
papers that, few months ago, swore he
was the very embodiment Of courage
wisdom aud patriotism. Wdat has caused
this wOndrous change in their tone p
Has Greeley deserted the Republican par.
ty, dcnoro""1 its platform, abused its
leaders, opposed its measures? Not al
all. lie simply advocates n just and hu
name policy towards the South. He ha.
ted the institution of negro slavery, war,
red against it and gloricd in its destruc
ton; but he chershes no animosity to
wards the Southern people. This is hi'
crime for this he is denounced; for thi:
be is accused Of being 'actuated by {
cowardice that is almost equivalent to &
treacbery to the loyal cause" by the lick
spittles of party. If he had made him
self hoarse by bowling for the blood O.
the Southern people if he had insisted
on waging war Of determination agains
them; if he had objected TO al! terms ia
vorable to a settlement Of our nationa
difficulties on a fair and permanent basis
he would, in the eyes Of these shoddy pa
triots, to-day be marve!ously loyal mar
and great statesman. But he recon-
mends and urges wiser, better policy, {
policy just, honorable and ma6nanimous
believing with Washington that "there i,
an indissolublc union between a magnan
imous policy and the solid rewards o.
public prosperity and felicity; and fol
doing so he has drawn upon himself the
wrath of the weak, the maIevolent, the
corrupt He is above their reach, and
their abuse ennobles him and degrades
them.
NATIONAL BANKING SYsTEM.-Our finan.
ciai affairs arc in a critical condition, and
the more sagacious Republican organs
appreciate the fact and are sounding the
alarm. A crisis is impending and cannot
be delayed much longer. Our prosperity