Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-17

ries will throw some light upon the sub
Iceland without such answer the matter
will remain very much as it was before
MIR. Arnell wrote his card
HORACE GREELEY AND GERRITT
SMITH.
In years past no two men, who have
taken an active part in the issues that led
to the late civil war, have been more cor
daily hated in the South, than Horace
Greeley and Gerritt Smith. OF all the
men who have asserted the right of the
slave to be free none have been more active
and practically effective than they.
WELDING an influence extending through
out the North, the New York Tribune,
has, for twenty years, consistently, devOt-
eddy and ably advocated the political
equality of the black and white races,
without a shadow of turning or wavering.
This has been his cardinal idea and to
accomplish it Greeley has dared to brave
the influence and very existence of par
ties, and consistently repudiated all who
refused to agree with him on this plat
form Equally we'll grounded in the same
faith was Gerritt Smith; but he also de-
voted his means to put the theory into
practice lie bought lands and settled
a number of colored people upon them,
free of charge, and thus expended thou
sands of dollars for the good of the black
people in this country No one man in
the United States, has given as much
money as he has for the freedom, eleva d.
ton and improvement Of the negro in
America No two men have exhibited
more honesty, more persevering industry,
or performed more unselfsh labor as the
friend of the negro than they have. If
the negro has a true disinterested friend
in this country, he could not more cer-
tainly point him out than by placing his
finger on these two
Ii is a most remarkable and significant
fact that after their great work has been
accomplished-when there is not a single
relict of slavery remaining in any Of the
Southern States, when the negro is invest
ed with the privileges Of the ballot and
all the muniments Of title to and protec-
ton in the enjoyment of the right of life,
liberty, property and the pursuit of hap~
piness-tbese two earnest men were first
to turn their efforts to the great and
necessary work of pacifcation, and to ce-
menting in peace the work performed in
commotion and through strife They
were the first to call for the release of
Jefferson Davis; and when after two
years of imprisonment, he is released on
bail, they are the first to become his
sureties More than this In speeches
delivered at Richmond, after the release
OF the prisoner, they both declare for
peace and amnesty. Having seen the
negro free, they want no white slaves,
such as Brownlow is trying to make in
Tennessee.
What a lesson is this to the shameless
crew of Adventures that are seeking to
turn these great events to their personal
adyantage-who are endeayoring to bank
on spurious capital Men who were
owning, buying, selling and whipping
slaves, when Horace Greeley and Gerritt
Smith were pleading for their rights and
liberties, are now first to profess friend-
ship for the negro in order to get his vote
and to ride into Office These arrant
hypocrites and knaves, who have preached
the divinity of slavery all their lives, ac-
cidentally foisted into power and place,
are DISTINGUISHING the most intelligent
and patriotic white men Of the land to
retain place through the political bond
age Of the negro When, since the war
closed, Horace Greeley and Gerritt
Smith were pleading for negro suffrage,
there were not a dozen Radicals in Ten.
nessee who were not opposing brown
low even going so far as to write mes
sage advocating their removal from our
midst, and their colonization in some
foreign land
These facts should sink deep into the
minds of the colored people, and cause
them to reflect and discriminate between
the course Of their true friends and those
who are false, specious and selfinter-
ested. Let them consider we'll before
they rejectthe disinterested advice of such |
a tried friend as Greeley, and embrace
the bondage to party which Brownlow |
and his coadjutors and followers would |
lead them TO.