The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-09
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MIR. GREELEY AND HIS SOUTHERN
FRIENDS.

MIR. GREELEY AND HIS SOUTHERN
FRIENDS.
From the NJ Y. Times.
Although it may be chiefly a matter of per-
sonal interest that Mr. Horace Greeley should
have consented to hold an interview with jeff
Davis, Immediately after the latter had been
spouting sedition through several Southern
States, there are some other incidents in con-
nection with Mr.. Greeleys Southern tour
which, now that he has returned, we hope he
will find time to explain. 1t has seemed
strange to many that Mr. Greeley should con-
sent to act as chairman of the Tammany Re-
publicans, an organization which now serves
nothing but Tammany, and does its works
under false pretenses. 1t seemed still more
strange that as soon as Mr.. Greeley turned
his face southwark, the Tribune began to at
tack General Grant, while Mr.. Greeley al
lowed his friends to put him in nomination
for the Presidency. .....
Mr.. Greeleys letter to his Kansas friend
was dated May 4, and it gave coy consent to
the proposition that he should be nominated
for the Presidency. After that came the
Southern tour, in the course of which Mr..
Greeley seems to have aimed at securing the
sympathies, if not the support, of the South
ern people. His consenting to hold a COM
plimentary "pow-wow" with JEFF. Davis only
seems to have been part of the general de-
sign. Everywhere Mr.. Greeley has been try
ing his fascinating powers on the Southern
people. At New Orleans he said that ''had
universal amnesty been adopted five years
ago, there would now be no Ku-klux." At
Galveston he made the following remarks,
which are certainly much opposed to the
general statements of the Tribune, and, as
we believe, to the facts. We quote from the
Houston 7elegraph:-
halfa at dav n
occurs in Texas as in New York city, and certainly
there is not nearly so much said about 1t. With
about equal population in Texas as in the city OF
New York, there are more desperadoes in that city
than in Texas, and it is harder work to manage
them"
Again, we find the following passage from
one of Mr.. Greeleys speeches quoted in the
Cincinnati Gazette. That paper very natu-
rally says of it: ''If this be the fundamental
principle of government, we of the North
have been fighting against it, and have been
guilty of crime SO monstrous that language
cannot describe it." The following is the
quotation:-
1--WE have no other doctrine respecting secession
than that embodied In the preamble to our fathers
Declaration OF Independence, namely, that Govern
ments derive their just powers from the consent of
the fight to Withdraw. Our fathers felt themselves
justified In seeding from and divislng the Brtlsh
empire on TINS gr0nna fen9nnchg eneir @
and whereto they had sworn fidelity Having been
educated to believe them right in their revolt we
shall not willingly dehle their graves at this late
day."
Even these sentiments, and the construc-
ton put upon them, are not so strong in Mr..
Greeleys mouth as the following extract from
another of his speeches, reported in the
Vicksburg Herald Of June q
81 greet you here" said Mr. Greeley, "as citizens
who will in time feel honor In the glory OF Stone
wall jackson as well those who were in the op-
posing armies (cheers), who will glory alike in the
against him. He felt that the clouds that now
hover over the country would soon be swept away,
public which viii one day embrace all the countries
and all the people of this North American conti-
nent"
If this is not carrying magnanimity little
too far, we may as well admit at once that we
have wronged the South by resisting it at all,
and offer it full compensation for its injuries.
The above quotations may all be suscepti-
BILE of explanation, but as they stand they
will not increase the estimation in which Mr..
Greeley is held, in this part of the country at
least With JEFF Davis going about the South
talking of reviving the lost cause, at the head
of triumphal professions, and bands OF music
playing the ''Bonnie Blue Flag" it is unfortu.
nate that Mr.. Greeley should have taken il
into his head to hob-nob with the traitor, and
talk about the North 'glorying in the glory"
of Lee and Jackson.
All this happens, too, at a time when Mr.
Greeley allows himself to be pat forward as q
candidate for the Presidency; when he is
chairman of local committee which is en-
gagged in doing all that it possibly can to dis
credit Republican administration; and when
Tammany recognizes the Importance OF the
alliance by placing the Tribune on the list o.
papers for receiving the corporation adver
tisements, which now are never given excep
as rewardfor past services, or out of ''grati
tude for favors to come.