The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-18

slavery and the temporary subiugation of
his country. But if there is ANYTHING that
can qualify the qualification inspired by
those ideas, it is the fact that, in the vae.
aries of scheming politicians, such q man
as Horace Greeley can be thought of as
| The President of our great Republic. =
What enlarged measures of public policy
designed to. expand, strengthen, enrich,
ennoble and exault the American Union,
has been proposed in the last half century,
OF winch Horace Greeley has not been the
noisy and factious Adversary
HE WAS AN ABoLITIoNIsT INcENDIARy.
His career up to 1861, was devoted to
the disruption of the American Union. He
| sowed the seeds of misunderstanding and
hostility towards the South in the Northern
! mind, more than any other man, and all
| other men. He filled the Southern heart
with alarm by Systematically traducing
our character and melting our slaves to
| discomfort and instruction. "Slave breed
ers, shareholders war;" human chat
tells" were few of the phrases of his
coinage, that went into that vocabulary of
| eplthets which was contrived to prevent
the possibility Of q peaceful continuance of
the Union. Over and over again was his
Tribune seized in our post offices as a fire.
brand of instruction. Over and over
again was the present candidate of the
Southern Chivalry for the Presidency, pre-
scented by our Grand Juries as fomenter
OF servile outbreak, that most dreadful
calamity which can befal a community
wherever in the South our slave population
Appropriated or exceeded the whites in
numbers, their alarm had its abode at the
teachings of Horace Greeley. Whatever
the opinions of our people might have
been, of the policy or the rightfulness of sla.
very, there was but one sentiment entertain
ed amongst us of those men at distance,
who, in order to break up the institution
were willing to let the Union slide,n and
to exterminate our system of society by
butchery, rapine and flames. 1t was not
for lack of zeal on the part of Horace
Greeley, in plying his vocation of an in.
cendiary, that night after night our dwell
lings did not tighten the skies with their
flames, and that our women and children
were not seen rushing from them naked,
into the arms of death, or upon a fate
worse than death. It was from no lag.
gardness of Horace Greeley in the work
of incendiarism, that the dagger was not
the portion of our young men, and that
poison was not the daily seasoning of our
peoples food. glory in saying, that there
was one sufficient security vouchsafed us
by kind Providence against the fiendish
teachings of this +" Conservative candidate
for the Presidency, and that was the affec.
tionate fidelity to us of the amiable and in
corruptible race of people whom Horace
Greeley endeavored to convert into demons.
WHAT DROVE HIM SOUTHWARK IN 1866.
refrain from dwelling on this black
chapter of his history. Not /, nor you
are his chief accuser for these attempts
against the. peace of the South and upon
the fidelity of the colored people. 1t is
his own conscience. 1t was his remorse
at the brutal wrongs he had done us, that
brought him to Richmond at the close of
the war as a suppliant for mercy. HIS
subscription to bail bonds and his proffered
amnesty were expedients by which he
vainly sought to purchase of an outraged
people, forgiyness and oblivion. If | had
been Jefferson Davis, would have died
the death of twenty traitors | would have
seen the heavens rolled away and the earth
crumbled under foot before would have
bond for my liberation.
Who, but Horace Greeley, was the chief
promoter of the civil wars of 1856 to go,
in the territories in which Sharp's rifles
were shipped by thousands, and emigrant
aid societies marshalled by regiments,
were employed to achieve, by bloodshed
and violence, in Kansas result that was
inevitable under the peaceful flow of an
honest and patriotic emigration?
JOHN BROWN WAS SAINT IN COMPARISON
In contemplating the record of Horace
Greeley as cold blooded wanton insur-
rectionist, urging from safe place, others
into danger, | can look with reverence
upon the character of John Brown. That
old mans object and scheme was the lib
Grafton of the slave, and furnishing him
safe escort to freedom. Violence and
bloodshed were not in his plan of opera
tons. 1t was not harm to the white man
that he sought to effect, but liberation to
the slave. Pixies were his only weapon;
arms of defence, not arms of assault. He
placed himself in the fore front of danger,
and when arrested and tried, he met his
death like hero, in the spirit of genuine
martyrdom, upbraiding no one, and ex-
plrlng with conscience at peace with God,
with his fellow man and with himself. If
he had survived the war, his conscience
would not have driven him to Richmond.
lie would have had no need to assume
the part Of political turnkey He would
have signed no bail-bonds. Nor would he
have given himself up to noisy adrocacy
of amnesty, taking care to do no act to
secure it.
HE WAS FOR DIssoLyING THE UNION IN 1861.
/ see, in all this conduct of Horace
Greeley, no proof of his fidelity to the
Union, and no ground of claim to the con
fidence of national men. At the begin
ming of secession, he was the open and
jealous advocate of dissolution having
suddenly became man of peace, prefer
ring an amicable separation to war of
subjugation. However acceptable that
policy might have been to our Southern
slave. holders, it involved base desertion,
by Horace Greeley, of the cause of the
colored people. After spending the best
years Of his life in filling slave holders
with evaporation towards the slaves, Mr..
Greeley was willing to turn these people
over to the unrestricted power of their en-
ragged masters desiring that the Union
might be dissolued, in order that SLAVERY
might peacefully continue.
HE ADVOCATED ALL THE AMENDMENTS AND
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