The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-04-12
From the st. Louis Democrat.l
GREELEY IN 1870 AND IN 1872.

The Missouri boilers of 1870 were
unsparingly denounced by the great
and good MIR. Greeley. His journal
had no terms too hard for them. They
were demagogues, renegades, copper :
heads, traitors. Not only were they
censured, but in truth they were
grossly and utterly misrepresented in
the Tribune. They were declared to
have BETRAYED the national party and
cause, and Tor free trade. This Jour-
nal ventured to give the denial to
those aspersions, and Mr.. Schurz con.
troverted them in the Senate, but
they were nevertheless persisted in.
Our position was that the bolt was a
local and temporary affair, not involy-
ing the loyalty of the participants in
it to the common Republican cause,
and that when the proper time should
come they would be found in the
ranks of their party and uucompro-
misingly hostile to Democratic as.
tendency.
The proper time has arrived, and it
Is now pertinent to ask, not only
where are the Missouri Liberals OF
1870? but, where is Mr.. Greeley
We are happy to assure Mr.. Greeley,
and he may readily satisfy himself of
the fact, that the tens of thousands of
Republicans who voted for Gratz
Brown in this State, and were SO
stintlessly slandered by him for doing
so, have falsified the calumnies he
then heaped upon them and We re-
gret to add that while they are doing
this, he is himself fulfilling the part
which he prophesied for them. Two
or three of their leaders have Yielded
to the temptation to which he also has
succumbed, and he now stands with
these two or three faithless leaders,
while the liberal masses OF Missouri
repudiate both him and them. He
cannot have studied the progress of
events and the signs of the times in
this quarter if he is not uncomfortably
that this is the fact.
The Missouri boilers of 1870 plead
ed their local cause within the local
party. They maufully piled argument,
and persuasion, to deter
mine, II possible, the composition and
action of their State Convention, and
with all the force they could muster
hey went into their Convention. Mr..
Greeley, who then gave them his pet
lest abuse, now supports a standard
If revolt against his party, bolts the
National Convention in advance, and
instead of directly seeking to influence
is complexion and action, proclaims
var upon it and its candidate before
land. He is for the Cincinnatians and
! Democratic coalition in tie national
and is, in effect, laboring to
,eep out of the Philadelphia Conven
ion even those who might render its
esults acceptable TO him. Not only
his, but he is hand-in, hand with free
raiders. Against his own protection
st convictions and against his own
eachings on the national issues, Mr..
Freely joins Republican cabal for a
Democratic alliance three months be-
ore Republican Convention can have
lone or committed aught to Justify
lis displeasure, thereby forfeiting his
light to complain of its action, what
ver that shall be. How does his course
ontrast with that. ..of the Missouri Lib
rails of 1870? He accused them of
ree-tradeism, but they have not had
nough OF it to separate them from
Republicans. His Repub-
icanism does not prevent him from
with free-traders and the
ppOsers of enforcement legislation un-
er the amendments against his party.
But We can come to his reliet and ,,
demonstrate his consistency. With us
n 1870 the question was one of so
our State Constitution as to
estCre the suffrage to those who were
lisfranchised for disloyalty. 1t was
lso with us question of Republican
trength in Missouri in 1870. With
lisirapchisement either unrepealed or
epealed by an exclusive Democratic
'ictory, the Republican Party in Mis-
ouri would have been mortally shat
cred. In opposing and denouncing
Is. then, Mr.. Greeley did his best to
make Missouri forever a Democratic
tate, and he is now apparently doing
is utmost to bless the country with a
Democratic Government. In this view
e may still claim the jewel of con,
istency.