New-York tribune., 1872-08-15

lied and Reform Tammany. foremost among
them being Charles O'Conor and Samuel j.
Tilden.
According TO Gov. Vance, who. suppose, Ia good
Democratic authority, Horace Greeley is largely
responsible for the existence OF tho KuKlux. Gov
Vance says II tbere had never been any damnable
Union Leagues, thero would have been any damn
able Ku-Klux.' And yet we all know that Horace
Greeley about the first Union Lacquer that over
heard Of As he the rs 30 be tho last for while
none OF you have been in League, meeting for more
than two years Greeley was in one only few days
since"
In North Carolina Union League means a
secret political organization. Judge Settle
knows that Mr.. Greeley never belonged to
such an organization in his life. He also
knows that the Union League to which he re-
ferred is mere social club in New-York,
and that, in so far as it has political tenden-
ces, they have now been arrayed in oppo-
sition TO Mr.. Greeley. Knowing this he de-
liberately deceives his hearers into tho belief
that Mr.. Greeley has been member OF an
organization as secret in its methods and as
active, if not as wicked, in its work as the
Ku-Klux.
"The colored people saw Horace Greeley make trade
I'm which he sold out the record Of lifetime IN ono
night for Democratic and KKlux votes and they all
say II he would sell out his principles in night, he
would soil them ont the next day II he had the power
Judge Settle knows that the solitary trade
made by Mr.. Greeley consists in the v0lun-
tary acceptance of his principles by the
Democracy. Knowing this. he tells the col
ored people that Mr.. Greeley sold out his
principles in night. He dare not go even
before them with the unassailed and unassali-
able Cincinnati platform, which the Democ-
racy have accepted, and accuse MIR. Greeley
again of selling out his principles.
Mr Greeley persuaded the wayward sisters that they
could depart in peace"
Judge Settle knows that Mr.. Greeley never
did anything of the sort, and that even the
phrase which he here attributes to him was
never used by him, but belongs TO Gen. VIM
field Scott.
"Mr Greeley advocated a general conhscation OF all
property in the insurrectionary States"
Judge Settle knows that the advocate of this
confscation was not Mr.. Greeley, but that
present jealous Grant champion, ex-senator
Benjamin f. Wade.
"aow does it happen that the Government was never
able to borrow money for less than six per cent interest
before this Administration into power and that
can now borrow all it wants for four, four and Oneha
and five per cent? How does it happen that notw1th-
standing the many SANDERS you hear about mismanage
ment and punder your credit is better to-day, at home
and abroad than at any former period in the history of
our countryq
Judge Settle knows that the Government
cannot borrow all the money 1t wants Tor the
prices he names, that it tried to borrow at the
very highest of those prices, got only very
small portion of what it needed, and even IN
that became involved IN the Syndicate scandal
which has put an absolute stop to the borrow
ing process. He knows that we are paying to-
day six per cent interest on all the rest OF the
debt. simply because the Administration can
not borrow at less. Was there ever falsiiica-
ton more audacious or more imbecile!
How does it happen that when Grant came into power
gold was worth 14O in greenbacks and is only worth Ill
nOwW
1t is a triGing matter, but an illustration OF
the mans incapacity to tell the truth, or his
utter indifference to it, that instead of being
worth III gold was worth 1851 on the day on
which this speech was delivered.
Enough. Either this man does not know how
to tell the truth, or he does not care whether
he tells it OF not. Some of these falsehoOds
are cunning, but all of them are reckless, and
the man must have known that it was in the
power of any person who chose to follow
him to expose any one of them. We give
him the benefit of his asserted correction
about Peru. Any reader who, in the'light of
the above extracts, chooses still to believe
him is exhOrted to do so We confess our
selves utterly unable to decide whether he may
or may not have been in Peru, and, after this
speech, attach no more weight to his own
declaration that he was, than we would to an
extra curse or two from vagrant fishw0man.