North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-29
Davis and Greedy.

Davis and Greedy.
The Union League of N. Y. city selected a
committee to take action on II. G's bailing
JEFF. Davis. After Horace tells them of
his all-time disposition to be "magnamin-
ous' he goes for them as below. The
world IS progressing. Bingham and But
Ter, Sumner and Stevens, johnson and the
radicals and now Greedy on the senseless
"blockheads' of the Unions League Of New
York, sort-a caps the climax. If old "white-
hat isn't triAc bitter, he is Almost
Read this and admire the independence of
the file leader of the Republican party:
AT once, insidious efforts were set on
foot to turn the fury thus engendered
against me, because of the pertinacious
advocacy Of mercy. to me vanquished.-
CHANGING to enter the Clubhouse the next
Saturday evening, received full broad
side of your scowls, ere we listened to a
clerical harangue intended to prove that
Mr.. Lincoln had been providentially re-
moved, because of his notorious leanings
toward clemency, in order to make room
for successor who would give rebels a
full measure of stern justice. was soon
made to comprehend that had no sympa-
thizers-or none who dared seem such--in
your crowded assemblage.
And some maladroit admirer having a
few days afterward, made in Club pres
ent of my portrait, its bare reception was
resisted in a speech from the chair by your
then President-a speech whose vigorous
invective was justified solely by my plead
ings for lenity to the rebels.
At once, a concerted howl of denuncia-
ton and rage was set up from every side
against me by the little creatures whom
God, for some inscrutable purpose, permits
| to edit a majority OF our minor Journals,
echoed by a yell Of "Stop my paper T. from
thousands of imperfectly instructed readers
Of the Tribune One impudent puppy
wrote me to answer categorically whether
l was or was not in favor of hanging JEFF.
Davis, adding that | must stop his paper if
l were not
Scores volunteered assurances that was
defying public opinion-that most of my
readers were against meas if l could be
induced to write what they needed to be
told. / never before realized so wildly
the baseness of the editorial vocation accor-
ding to the vulgar conception of it. The
din raised about my ears now is nothing
to that l then endured and dcspised.
am Inundated by the reflection that it is
| Tor was) in the power of such insects to
annoy me, even by pretending to discover
with surprise, something that | have for
years been publicly, emphatically proclaim
| ing.
Upon the Republicans having, by des-
perate effort, handsomely carried our State
against a formidable-looking combination
Of recent and venemous apostates with our
natural adversaries, cry arose from sew
eral quarters that l ought to be chosen
United States Senator. AT once, kind,
discreet friends swarmed about me, whis-
pering, "Only keep still about universal
amnesty, and your election is certain.-
Just be gu let few weeks, and you can
say what you please thereafter. You have
no occasion to speak now" slept on the
wellmeant suggestion, and deliberately
concluded that could not, in justice to
myself, defer to it. could not purchase
Office by even passive, negative dissimula-
ton. No man should be enabled to say to
me, in truth. 'If had supposed you
would persist in your rejected, condemned
amnesty hobby, l would not have given
you my vote.' So wrote and published,
on the 9th of that month, my manifesto
entitled "The True Basis Of Reconstruct
ion," wherein, repelling the idea that l
proposed dicker with the ex-rebels, ex-
plicitly said: 81 am for universal amnesty
so far as immunity from fear of punish
ment or contiscation is concerned-even
though impartial suffrage should, for the
present, be defeated"
| Gentlemen, shall not attend your meet
ing this evening. have an engagement
out of town, and shall keep it. do not
recognize you as capable of judging or
even fully experimenting me. You evil
IDENTIFY regard me as week sentimentalist,
misled by maudlin philosophy: ar
! raign you as narrow-minded blockheads,
! who would like to be useful to great
and good cause, but don't know how
Your attempt to base a great, enduring
party on the hate and wrath necessarily
engendered by a bloody civil war, is as
though you should plant colony on an
, iceberg which had somehow drifted into
a tropical ocean. tell you here that, out
of life earnestly devoted to the good of
human kind, your children will select my
going to Richmond and signing that bail
bond as the wisest act, and will feel that
it did more for freedom and humanity than
all of you were competent to do though
you had lived to the age af Methuselah.
All | care for is, that you make this a
square, stand-up fight, and record your
judgement by yeas and nays. care not
how few vote with me, nor how many vote
against me; for know that the latter will
repent in dust and ashes before three years
have passed. Understand, once for all,
that dare you and defy you, and that
propose to fight it out on the LIS slA.s' 4
| have held from .A~s1ay % Lees surrender.
8. ,ong az any man was seeking to over
throw our Government, he was my enemy !;
from the hour in which he laid down his
arms, he was my formerly erring country
man. So long as any is at heart opposed
to the national unity, the Federal author
ity, or to the assertion of the equal right
of all men which has become practically
Unidentified with legality and nationality,
shall do my best to deprive him of pow
err; but whenever he ceases to be thus,
demand his restoration to all the privileg-
es of American citizenship,
l give you due notice that shall urge
the northumberland of those now pro-
scribed for rebellion so soon as shall feel
confident that this course is consistent with
the freedom of the blacks and the unity of
the Republic, and that shall demand a
recall Of all now in exile only for partic-
pating in the rebellion, whenever the
country shall have been so thoroughly
pacifed that its safety will not thereby be
endangered. And so, gentlemen, hoping
that you will henceforth comprehend me
somewhat better than you have done,
Iremain, yours, HORACE GREEDY.
New York, May %, 1867.
A CuuRN.-Mr. NEVILLE is now looking