Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-06-01


May 18th, 1857.
HORACE CREELEY AND THE 10y
At LEAGUE.
s The New York Union League, Of which
Horace Greeley is, or was, a member, was
greatly outraged by she Philosopher" be-
coming bondsman for JEFF. Davis, and a
meeting Of the organization was called for
the avowel rurp Sc of eSpeiling Greeley
However, after the meeting was convened
and come discussion had, the araor Of the
Leaguers was somewhat danrened, and they
conte"ted themselves by passing a resolution
dorrcca.'0e the release Of Davis, with u, ar.
1a'guirg any one for par erat;on in he re.
lease. view of Ia this action Of The club
Horace Greeley has published a letter, in
which he handles without e'ovcs he s,ay.at.
home patriots who are now clamoIing for
more blood. The letter is 10 many respects a
remarkable document, ard will create con-
siderable emotion among the dry bones oil
the rapidly disc diving Jacobin party. Mr.
Greeley refers to the m order of President
Lincoln as most appalling calamity, that
seemed in an instant to curde all The milk
OF human kindness in twenty mi!ioas OF
American breasts
AT orce, continues Mr.. Greeley, "irsid
ious efforts were set on ioct 20 turn the lary
thus engendered against me, because Of NY
reT,Inac'ous advocacy OF mercy to he van
Guiahtd. CHANGING 10 euter The cluo bouse,
The next Saturday evening, | received fail
broadslde OF your scowls, ere We listened to
I.erca! LaranCue Intended TO Prove tha,
Mr. Lincoln mad been provid. ntially rsmo-
we'd because OF bis note! ioCs ieanings toward
c!cmercv. IN oilcr to make way for a sue
eessCr who would give the leat Is u foil mea-
s3re Of stern justice. | was soon made to
comprehend that | had no syMpathisers, or
lone who dared seem such, in your Crowded
assemblage, and some msladroit admirer
having few days aherward made the club
present Of my portrait, its bare reception
was resisted in a speech from The chair by
your then presidential speech whose viSor-
Gus invccive was justified solely by NY
pleadings for clemency to the rebels. A,
once concerted howl OF denuneia,ion and
rage was sent up from every side against me
by The little creatures whom God, for some
inscrutabIe purpose, permits to edit IN a or
ity OF our minor journals, echoed by yell
of Stop my paper from thousands Of i'm
perfectly instructed readers OF The 7rijnne
One impu9ent puppy wrote me to answer
caterorically whether | was or was not in IA
,or Of banging jeff Davis, adding that
must stop his paper if | were not The din
raised about my ears now is nothing to vi hat
then endured and despised. l am humili-
ated by the reflection ,hs. it ia or was in
power Of such insects to annoy me, even by
pretending to discover with surprise some
thing that have for years been publicly and
emphatcally proclaining.
The following is the conclusion of the let
ter
Gentlemen: shall not attend your mee.
out Of town, and shall keep il. l do not re-
eeognize you as capable Of jads "g or even
fully eomprhendipg NE. You evidently re-
by maucl;n philosophy. arraiyn you as
harrow Minded blocshesds, who would like
to be useful to grea, and good cause, but
don't know how. Your attempt to base
great enduring party on the hate and wrath
necessarily cngendered by bloody civil war
is as though you should plant colony or an
iceberg which had somehow dtisted into a
tropical ocean. tell you here that, out of
. life constantly devoted to the good oil hu-
man kind, your children will select my going
to Richmond and signing that bail bond IA
the wisest act, and Will feel that i. did more
for freedom and humanity than all Of Won
we're competent to do, though You had lived
to the age of Mettuselah. ask nothing OF
you, then, bat that you proceed 10 your end
by direct, frank, manly way. Don't slide
OF into a mild resolution Of ceusure, but
move the expulsion which you proposed, a nd
which | deserve, II deserve any reproach
whatever. All care for is, that you may
make this square, ssand-up fight, and re-
cord your judgments BY yeas aud nays. | care
not how few vote with me or how many vote
against me, for | know that the latter will
repent in Gust and ashes before three years
have passed. lndesstand, once for all, that
dare you and defy you, and that propose
to fight it out GA the line that have held
from the day Of Lees surrender. So long as
any man was seeking to overthrow our gov
eminent, he was my enemy; from the hour
In which he laid down his arms, he was my
formerly ering coantryman. So long as
Any is. at heart opposed to the national unity,
the federal authority, or to the assertion Of
the equal rights OF all men, which has be-
come practically identified with loyalty and
nationality, | shall do my best to deprive
him Of power; but, whenever he ceases to be
thus, demand his restoration to all the priv
iIeges Of American citizenship. give you
fair notice that shall urge the re-eniraE-
ehisement Of those now prescribed for rebel.
lion, Us soon is shall feel confident that
this course il consistent with the freedom of
the blacks and the unity of the republic
and that shall demand a recall Of all now
in exile cnly for participating in the rebel
hon, whenever the country shall have been
so thoroughly paeified that its safety will not
thereby be endangered. n
And so, gentlemen, hoping hat you will
henceforh comprehend me somewhat better
than you have done, remain,
Yours, ~ $50 Ill.,