Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-06-05

!'brc :! ~ explain way He Nc' p''i IVA o~'->A
son Davis, the 7iriLnne publishes resp ms
by> Mr.. Greeley The inti,na,ion WIS tset
,hc League would vote to expel him. TIE
f.llnwin. are the more spicy portions OF MT
G's letter:
BY THESE PRESENTS, GREETING!
r. il.ssrs. Gsorge w. Blunt, Jain 4. Ecnne-
.n J,tn D. !Ssone, Stephen HyaG and Mir
fg .ij,e;s, mcmtcyY ei' lie Union League
tl"b:
Gcyr,.rMgy: was favored. on the lG;h
in;,.. i,c ;.n oils not" from "nr ever-cour-
tsous President. John Jay, notifying lie that
;. rso ,;.iron al been presented 10 him l'r
"., special me ting nf the Club at an early
,Iay for the purpose Of taxing, into considera
,,on the conduct &c Horace Greeley. MEM
h,.r Of the Club, who has become bonds
man .,r Jefferson Davis, la:c chief officer OF
ia. rebel government" Mr.. Jay continues:
1As have. reason 10 believe tha. the sign
rrs. or some Of ,hem, disapprove Of the con
,,ucs Which they propose the C!uh sLal! con-
s.da. IL is cearv Gu'. both TO the Club and
- Yourself, that you should have the opportu
nty OF being heard oa the subject ). beg.
therefore. TO ask on what evening it will be
convenient for you that call the mcetipg,"
Nc. &c.
In my prompt reply, requested tho Pres
ii N. 10 give you reasonable etime ior reflection,
but assured him that / wanted none since
:hau!i not attend the meeting. nor ak any
friend 10 do so, and should make no defence
nor offer augh. in the way of selfvinGicatior
am sure my friends in the Club will not con
ssrne this as Implying disrespec,; but it i
not nv habit to take part in any discussions
which may arise amoug "ther 6 'ntleaien as to
INV fitness t, enjoy their society. That is their
affair atogc- her, and 10 them leave it.
MIR. Greeley then goes on to rehesrSe tie
rr,cipa incidents OF The var, aid the courS,
ri the Tribune III relation thereto. do"n :,
tic time OF the Lincoln assassinaiio:.l 'fha'
app2llins calamity" he goes on 10 say,
- see med in an nstantsto curd!e all the milk
of human Kindness in twenty millions o
american breasts At once. i:.sidious efforts
we're set on foo: to turn tie fury thus en-
cende,ed against me, because Of my per.ina-
cous advocacy OF mercy TO the yaoqalSsed
CHANGING to cniet the club house the mex
Saturday. evening, received full broad
side OF your scows, ere we listened to cler
;cal harangue intended to prove that Mr.. Lin
colr had been provdentially removed because
of his notorious leaaiugs towards clemency.
in order to make way for q successor who
would give the rebels a full measure Ct stern
;ustice was soon made to comprehend that
/ had no sympathizers-or none who darec
seem such-in your crowded assembage.
And some maladroit admirer having, few
llys afierward, made the club present of my
,,rtrait. it's bare reception was resisted in s.
spes,h from the chair by your then president
"a speectf whose vigorous invective vas jus
fed solely BY ;::y p!eadings for lenlty to the
r,bels.
At once concerted howl of denunciation
and rage was sent up from every side agains'
ME bv the little creatures whom Gud, fo-
some inscrutable purpose, permits TO edit u
majority Of our minor journals. echoed by a
veil of ':Stcp my paper from thousands o.
imperfec;ly instructed readers OF the Tribune.
One impudent puppy wrote me to answer
ctcsorically whether Was or was n2t in Ia
y;r of hanging JET. Davis: adding that must
stop his paper i ! were not.
SCORES volunteered assurances that ! was
dcfying public opnion-that most Of my rea
ders were agai st meas il | could be iu-
lucsd 10 write what they wished or said rather
than what they needed to be tod. never
before realized so viTidly the baseness of the
EDITORIAL vocation according 10 the vulgar COR
c,p,ion OF it. The din raised about my ears
now is nothing to that | then endured and
dssnised. ain humilia;cd bJ the reflection
tlat it is Tor was) in the power Of such iii
s,cts to annoy me, even by pretending to dis
ever with surprise, somet thing that have for
years beenpubicly, cmpha'icay proclaimi"g
Upon the Republicans having, By desperate
elf,rt. handsomely carried our State against a
formidable looking combination OF recent and
yen,mous apostaies with our natural adverse
ries, cry arose from several quarters that
ought 10 be chosen United States Senator.
At once, kind, diScree. friends swarmed about
me. whispering: "Only keep still! about
unirersal amnesty, and J our election is certain.
Just be quiet few weeks, and you can say
what YOU please thereafter. You have no oc
casion TO speak now" slept on tbc Wei
meant suggestion, and deliberately concluded
thai could not, in justice to myself: defer to
il. could not purchase Office by even pas
sive, negative dissimulation. No man should
he enabled to say to me, in truth, Z" II had
supposed YOU would persist In your rejected.
condemned amnesty hobby, would MT have
given YOU my vote" So wrote aud published.
on the 9th Of that month, my manifesto en-
it'll " The True Basis of Reconstruction"
Gentlemen, shall not attend your meet
in, this evening. / have m engagement ou
Of town, aud shall keep it. do not rccog
niz, YOU as capable of judging Or even fully
nm ,rehending me. You evidently regard me
a, weak sentimcntalist, misled by u maud
lin philosophy. ! arraign you as narrow.
minded b!ockheads. who would like 10 b.
useful to great and good couse, but don't
k,ow how. Your attempt to base great,
en- turing party on the hate and wrath neces-
sarily engendered by q bloody civil war, is as
though YOU should plant colony on an ice
bery which had somehow drifted into tropi
cal ocean. tell you here that, out OF life
earnestly devoted to the good of human kind,
your children will select my going to Rich
Inond and signing that bai-bond as the wisest
act. and will feel that it lid more for freedom
and humanity than all Of you were comp
tent to do, though you bad lived to the age
of Methuselab.
All I care for is, that you make this 81
square, stand.up fight. and record your judg-
ment by yeas and nays. care not how few
vote vi me, nor how many vote against me;
for [ know that the latter will repent it in
dust and ashes before three years have passed.
Understand once for all, that dare you and
defy you. and that propose to iigot it out
onsthc line that have held tr,m the day of
Lees surrender. So long IS any man was
,1,-o q
was my enemy; from the hour in which he
laid down his arms, he was my formerly er'
r ng countryman so long as any is at heart
:onposed to the national unity, the federal au-
sEar;ty. or to tina. assertion of the equal
.igt., 81 all men which has become practical
" identified with loyalty and nationality, l