New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
Wendell Phillips on Greeley.

From the National Standard
Horace Greeley looms up in the fore
ground as a presidential candidate. He
seeks no office, but if the nomination
should be thrust upon him he would not
decline. 1t would appear that, like Barkis,
he is willing. Invited recently to deliver
an address on agricultural matters in
Texas, Mr.. Greeley improved very fully
the opportunity thus offered to reassert be-
fore the country, and especially at the
South, his well known amnesty views. He
also Joined the discounted Southern wor-
shippers at the shrine of Lee, Davis and
Stonewall Jackson in their tributes of ad-
miratiOn for those "herOes" of the re-
bellion, and again Inundated himself by
hobnobbingi with Jefferson Davis and re-
viving the fact that his autograph was
affixed to Davis bail bond. Mr.. Greeley
has travelled further, and been absent
longer, on former occasions; but this is the
first time, we believe, that his return has
been signalized by public reception, the
burning of powder, the exhibition Of fire.
works, and the discussion of political cues
tions. Whatever may have been his inten-
tiOns, we consider Mr.. Greeley more re-
sponsible than any other private citizen
for confusing the public mind at the North
on the subject of amnesty for unrepentaDt
rebels, for adding TO the perils and
sufferings of the loyal Southern people,
Utilization of the old ruling whites to so
great an extent with political power. Mr..
Greeley saw no Ku-klux at the South, and
we presume no one else would be likely to
be troubled by those masked visitors who
should 90 South and make speeches SINH
lar to Mr.. Greeley's while there. 1t is note
worthy that in his serenade speech in this
city, on Monday evening, he omitted any
special glorifcation of Lee, Stonewall Jack
nd no nf rah
but substituted therefor a condemnation of
the Ku-Klux, while at the South he appears
to have had little reproof for the Ku-Klux.
Mr. Greeley has been a Whig-Anti-slavery
man for many years-though never a
straightforward uncompromising Abolition
list. We remind the colored voters of the
country that Mr.. Greeley, while holding out
the "olive branch" with excessive "rnagna-
nimity," to old time Shareholders and rebels,
has persistently opposed our efforts TO Sc
cure for the landless and dependent free
people available free hOmesteads, that
which is now SO successfully and judiciously
befriending the Indians. Amnesty, politi-
cal power and the d" fatted calf for white
rebels and negro-haters but for the land
less, still-persecuted negro, Mr.. Greeley's
rude greeting is: I" Go to the Western prai-
ries root, hog, or die"
Mr. Greeley thinks the time has come to
go forward and leave the old issues. But
while BostOnians, who 60 South simply as
private citizens in search Of health and to
see the country, without making amnesty
speeches and clarifying rebel soldiers, are
advised and constrained, in consideration of
personal safety, not to register at the hotels
as from Boston, the old issues can not be
dropped Such an instance occurred in
Georgia, with very respectable and respon-
sible, well Endorsed parties, at date as re-
cent as Mr.. Greeley's own visit to Texas.
Instead of the "Old issues" Mr.. Greeley
suggests for the future nothing but his
dreary political economy and devotion to
the pursuit of material prosperity. We are
quite sure that the nation could not long
thrive upon such a regimen. There is much
vet to do in the sphere of human rights.
The equal citizenship of half the people is
unrec0gnized, simply on the ground of diff
ference in sex. But this ineqality does not
appear to come within Mr.. Greeley's pur-
view. The railway and land monopolies
are assuming very threatening proportions
under the present Republican administra-
ton, and there is much that is difficult to
be patient with, and which can not be ex-
cused. If, however, Republicans are to
take new departure" from Grant-the
real meaning and intent of the Greeley
movement-we trust it will be to some one
higher up, not downward to the level Of
Mr.. Greeley's platform.