The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-06-08
GREELEY IN THE SOUTH.


New York Tribune, who contributed, probably,
more than any other man in the country, to-
wards creating the bitter sectional feeling be-
tween the people of the North and the South,
which finally eliminated in the civil war, is
now travelling through the Southern States and
receiving every attention and kindness at the
hands Of the people he has been villifying and
abusing for about thirty years past. His trip
has been one continued ovation from the time
he crossed Mason & Dixon's line, and while he
was being thus entertained and feted by PEG.
pie whom he has so wantonly misrepresented
and maligned, correspondents of his paper, in
other portions of the South, have been engaged
in manufacturing political capital for the Radi-
cal party by publishing false and malicious ac-
counts of Kuklux outrages, which have no ex-
istence 10 fact, but are manufactured to order
by corps Of unprincipled scoundrels, who are
sneaking around among the Southern negroes,
stirring up strife and endeavoring to create
trouble, that the Tribune may continue to glo-
rify Grant and the Radical party and villify
and abuse the Southern people.
Mr.. Greeley appears somewhat surprised at
the kind treatment he has received at the hands
of those whom he has so bitterly denounced,
and has probably ere this realized that the
South is not ''whited sepulchre." He made
q speech In Galveston, Texas, on May 9th, in
which he expressed sentiments of friendship
for the South, and said that "he could and
would testify that life and property are safe
here" He advised the cultivation of friendly
feelings with the North. and declared himself
unreservedly in favor of general amnesty. 1t
is so difficult to tell when Mr.. Greeley really
means what he says that his language must be
taken with many grains of allowance. In the
Winter of 1860, or Spring of 1861, he boldly
advocated the right of secession, but after the
inauguration of Lincoln, he was one of the
loudest in bis professions of loyalty" and most
urgent in his demands for vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war, and "on to Richmond" was the
battle-cry of the Tribune. In one of his lucid
intervals he announced himself as in favor of
general amnesty, and to prove his sincerity be-
came one of jeff Davis bondsmen. The un-
princpled leaders of the Radical party, finding
that return of peace, with the Southern
States in the Union, would inevitably result in
the overthrow of their party, determined to
first enfranchise all the negroes in the South,
and disfranchise the whites, believing that by
SO doing these States would be forever secured
to the Radical party. and then, by their cleo
tion "force bill " and Kuklux Act, they would
make assurance doubly sure, and thus perpetu-
ate the rule of Radicalism. Mr.. Greeley en-.
dorsed all these infamies, thus repudiating his
former declarations in favor of amnesty and
now he again changes front and proclaims him.
self on advocate of general amnesty Mr..
Greeley changes bis opinions little too often
to warrant any one in placing confidence in any
thing he says or does No faith can be placed
in his sincerity, and while he may wiring the
changes on general amnesty for few months,
If the Radical leaders conclude to adopt any
more violent measures we shall find the Tri-
bune supporting the extremists and dropping
oil ideas of amnesty or Cancellation.