New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-10
no scheme" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "to defeat Mr.. Ii n
coins election" or otherwise.
Mr. Weed confines as follows:

Nor though moved by other motives the Of Mr..
Greeley dsloya lie invited and indicated secession
He told the Southern States that they had right to vioe the
sacred Injunction of washington And when by acting upon
Coppereads TO Rebels whining for Pence upon the best
attahie terms And now after Grant sherman Farragu
Greeley AT the head and in command OF Radical army
opens the war; with shouts of On to RichmondF'
With regard to my crushing round from Copper
heads to Rebels, whining for Peace" Mr. Weed SIM
ply lies as the old villain has long persisted in doing
with regard to me- never in my life sought 'ap-
preached any Copperhead or Rebel on the subject of
Peace, in any manner whatever. The very little
ever had to say to either on the subject was always in
answer to their suggestions And never even re-
sponded TO any overture from Rebel on the subject
save when was requested and in effect commended
to do 80 by the President of the United States and
obeyed him in the premises with profound reluctance
am not ignorant of the law regarding unauthorized
negotiations with public enemies.
The charge that "inpited Secession" is a more
plausible iasehood. did invite the cOnspiratorS for
Disunion to submit their alleged grievances and their
proposed remedy to Free searching discussion before
and fair unawed vote Of the Southern People, pedg-
ing myself to abide their verdict. That the dsunon
ists would have been voted down, no more doubt
than do my own existence They mere beaten, as
it was in the aggregate vote Of the South that Winter
80 far it can be ascertained they would have been
crushed had the discussion been thorough. the vote
fairly polled, and the exasperatng menace Of "coer
cion withdrawn. Let those who will condemn the
Rebellion as the act of the Southern People: l exe
crate it the result of conspiracy OF the few against
the many; and upheld the War for the Union, not to
subugate but to lberate my countrymen living south
of tho Potomac aud Ohio Let those who can stigma
tize Rebels and Disunionsts such: glory that my
ancestors were rebels against tho British crown, and
aided to dismember the British empire resisted the
Shareholders Rebellion in defense Of not in hostility
to the great truth fundamental to republican freedom,
that governments derive their just power from the
consent Of the governed" warn those who are now
seeking what they term conservative restoration OF
the Union, that a republic cannot be pinned together
by bayonets-that il must must rest and be upheld
by the affections Of its peoplo-that, if the loyal
Blacks Of the South shall not be fully enfranohsed,
there will soon be another outbreak of the Rebel spirit
now smoldcrng there, more desperate and FORM
liable than that which has cost the country such lakes
Of blood and such mountains Of treasure Count the
-Four Millions Of Blacks ophers, and the Rebellion
has to-day, what ii had not in the Winter of COLA
decided preponderance at the South; and that prepon
derance will soon boodly manifest ITSELF There is
no safety real peace, but in Universal Justice and
Impartial Freedom. H. O.