New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-29
Mr. Greefey's Secession Record.

ASlde from Nr. Grceiey 5 wen Scttlcd anu
openly avowed disunion sentiments, the
opinion OF all candid, thoughtful men of all
parties is that Horace Greeley is tho most
unfit man in the United States for the Office OF
President. He is as unstable as the wind, Gre
dulous, weak-minded, bigoted, vain, unscru-
pulous, of violent temper, bitter prejudccs,
wild visionary theories that are mistaken for
principle, timid and cowardly by nature; or,
in the better language of Richard II. Dana,
Jr, "a visionary without faith, radical
without root, an extremist without persist
ency, and strife-maker without courage.
He is generally admitted to be vain, unprac-
teal, loquacious, open to fattery, easily in
Inundated, easily deceived as to men, and in
tensely DESTROYS of Office. And, while have
never regarded his hat and his trowsers as
strong arguments for or against him, there is
no reason why we should shut our eyes to
the fact that he is whimsical, affected, boor-
ish, and profane.''
But unsafe and dangerous as he is for these
reasons, and undeservin. the confidence and
support of the American people, his treason
able secession principles form a far more Sc
rious objection to him !; and no greater insult
was ever offered them than to present for
their suffrage q Presidential candidate occu-
pyinS the extreme secession doctrines at the
bottom and the real cause of the rebellion.
John {. Calhoun, nor JEFF Davis, nor Robert
Toombs has ever so bravely advocated the
right OF any number Of States to secede from
hn TTroipr III, 81
he holds now as strongly as he did ten
years ago, when he was cooperating with
the rebels for the dissolution of the Union
that slave-holding confederacy might be
established upon its ruins. If, through an
inscrutable Providence or deluled people
he should be elected, he is bound by his
pledges to encourage any effort the Southern
States may make to secede from the Union.
Senator Morton, in his speeches in Indiana.
presented this question in its true light, and
showed the absolute wickedness of the At
tempt to restore the cause, for which seces-
sionists wagcd four years. war, by the
election of the great secession champion. In
one OF his last speeches delivered in Indiana.
two weeks ago, he took up Greeley's scces-
sion record, and after noticing his de-
Tense Of the reasonable doctrines. ouoted
Democratic authority to show it's disastrous
influence at the South. BY the testimony of
Frank Blair, who procured Greeley's nomi-
nation at Cincinnati, and now supports him.
and of Dan Voorhees,, of Indiana. it is proved
that Greeley's advocacy of the right of Sc
cession in the New York Tribune at the be-
ginning OF the war, confirmed the Southern
leaders and fastened their action, in their
secession designs. The subject is of such
vast Importance and exhibits so clearly the
great danger of clccting such man for
President that we present Mr.. Morton's
summary of the testimony of Grcelcy's Sc
cession record:
GREELEY A WORSE sEcEssIONIsT THAN
CALHOUN.
And among the reasons why the Southern
Democracy preferred him was that he was q
recognized advocate of secession. And per-
maps 1t IS proper to remark right here that
Horace Greeley was the choice of the South
cm Democracy, and not of the Northern
Democracy; that he was forced upon the
North by the Southern leaders; that many
Va eilC l'ClllOCldtIC lcuUcrS OF the North took
INN reluctantly, gave in their support crlldc-
ingly, but that he was almost unanimously
sustained by the South that in this matter
the southern Democracy have controlled the
party as they were accustomed to do before
the war. by the Southern Democracy I
mean those who were engaged in the rebel
non. Nearly the entire body of the Southern
Democracy were in the rebellion; they were
the supporters of the Confederate govern
ment. They were the advocates of the right
OF secession. Mr.. Greeley, on the 9th of
November, 1860, Immediately after Mr.. Lin
coins election, declared in favor of the right
OF secession, the right of n State to withdraw
from the Union at her own sovereign will and
pleasure. He put that right upon higher
grounds than it was placed by Southern poll
ticlans. Mr.. Calhoun, Mr.. Yancev. and
other men of the South who advocated the
right of secession, claimed it as a constitu-
tlOnal right; they said that this was not a
nation; that we were an aggregation OF soy
ereiSn and independent States, that we were
bound together by compact, and that each
State was the judge for herself of the nature
and character of the compact, of any infrac-
ton of it by the General Government, as
well as of the remedy, and could withdraw
at pleasure.
Mr.. Greeley put the right of secession upon
higher grounds. He declared it to be a ma
tural and inalienable right, right that be-
longed to men before and above all constitr-
tions. He used the same language in de-
scribing the right of secession that our fathers
did in the Declaration of Independence in
describing those great, God-siven rights.
DAN. VOORHEES, TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Voorhees,, of whom you have all heard |
as a prominent Democratic politician, made |
a speech in the House of Representatives on
the 18th of May, after Mr.. Greeley's nomi-
nation at Cincinnati. In the course of that |
speech he declared that he could not, as an
man, support Mr.. Greeley for the |
Presidency; that no Democrat could support |
him and maintain his selfrespect. Among |
other reasons given why Mr.. Voorhees, could |
not support Mr.. Greeley was that he had |
been a rank secessionist. l had supposed |
from my knowledge of the course of Mr..
Voorhees, during the war, he being under
stood everywhere and by everybody as a
sympathizer with the rebellion, that this
ought to be about the last reason he would
give why he could not support Horace Gree
ley. And it seems to me that if Mr.. Greeley
was a secessionist so rank as to disgust Mr.
Voorhees, he ought to make everybody else
sick. lLauShter.]
L read from the Globe what Mr.. Voorhees,