The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-06-01
MORACE

Everybody knows Horace. He is the
Great Mogul of the Abolition party. He
first formed it, and then brcathed into it the
breath OF life. Since its formation he has
engineered it. It was through his man.
euvering, more than to any other mans,
that t'HOnest old Abe was first nominated
in 1860. Before the Convention met Sew
ard was the Coming Man, but Greedy had an
old score to settle with Seward; so he urged
that Seward was not available-that he was
too we'll known to run we'll and that Abe
would fill the bill exactly. Aud he was
successful. Seward was shelyed-Abe was
nominated, and through the division of the
Democratic party, was elected. The war
was i~naugurated; and Horace, though an
original secessionist, was loud IN the war-cry
of " On to Richmond" Horace was also
one of the p~utatiye daddys of the Union
League. lie aided in forming it and breath
ing into it its vitality. In fact he has aided
in about all the meanness, rascality and vii.
lainy of the Radical party.
But, unlike Thadd. Stevens, Sumner &
Co., Horace has a troublesome thing in
his bosom called a conscience. 1t is terribly
scared, and SCARED, and stretched; bus still
he does possess some conscience, such rs it
is and at times it troubles him, causing his
knees to smite together as did Belshazzer's,
This units him TO be a successful leader of
the Radicals. lie should stop at nothing.
No measure, no matter how cruel and un.
just it may be, presented by the Radical
leaders, should cause him to hesitate for a
moment.
When JEFF. Davis was first captured, and
for months afterwards, the Radical leaders,
from Maine to Minnesota, and from Florida
to Oregon, were IN high glee. They Eere
going to make treason odious. They would
hang JEFF. Davis on a sour apple tree, while
John Browns soul was marching on, with a
.knapsaek on his back. They would battle
their hands in the traitors blood. They
would chop hin into mince-meat. We do
not r~ecellect whether Greedy joined in this
insane outcry and gibberish, but for a while,
at least, he looked on complacently. He
made no attempt to call of his blood-hounds.
They yelped, and licked their chops, and
scented the blood of Davis from afar, and
Horace uttered no word of condemnation -
Conscience ,-scarred, bruised, and battered,
was then asleep. Il was in q comatose
condition. 1t was suffused with a plethora
of bastard patriotism, and came very near
having Its pipe put out for good in conse-
4aenee.
But Horace has recently been awakened.
His gum -elastic, eieatrized conscience has
recently been terribly pricked. He now
thinks that there is danger of going too far
indeed that he has done so already and
hence, when Davis was recently taken to
Richmond for trial, and was required to
give bail Of 500, 900, or go-to prison again,
Greedy was the first to step forward, unso-
licited, and become his bondsman ! Bravo
Bully for Horace ! But this isn't all. The
Union League of New York met, May q,
and summoned Greedy to meet them on that
evening and consider his conduct in battling
JEFF. Davis. lie did not obey the summons,
but wrote a letter, rehearsing the course Of
himself and Tribune during the war, and
then saws.
81 shaIlmot attend the m Getting. 10 not recog-
nize the Club as capable Of judging me-. You cyl
IDENTIFY regard me as . weak sentImentalist, misled
By maudlin philosophy. l imagine you a narrow
minded blOckheads, who would like TO be useful "a
the great cause but do not know how TODD it
Your children will regard my going on the bail.
bond as a wise act for freedom and humanity. ]
dare and defy you, and give notice that I will
urge the northumberland Of the rebels SO sooE
as I am confident that such a course is consistent
with the freedom Of the blacks and the union Of
the States
There Isl no doubt Whatever that our white
coated philosopher has got bis .:'baek up
and the ''fur will fly" now, or we are NJ
prophet. The fight is very interesting. G'
in, lemons, aud be squeezed. Go it, Horace
go it, Union Leaguers.