Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-09-18

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rlan, and if he made law instead
OF administered it, would be
highly obnoxious. AS toall this,
however, he has Abntllittle power,
and hisspeeulative opinions can
DO but little harm. AsBesides lis
past career shows that his theo-
ries have never been allowed to
cripple his practical action. In
all his past life he has tried hard
to- ypoplllarizeshis IDEAS, and
make then, the creed Of parties,
but he never lay dreaming over
their perfection, OF. failed to take
active, practical. part in the
movements Of public affairs be.
cause 2 his theories weles mot
adopted. Still, he has not been
but, on the contrary,
steady in his adherence to prin-
ciples. Through opposition and
.obloquy, he adhered to the cause
of Abolition till slavery was no
more. He has never faltered in
his advocacy Of protection, tho
the thinking world has been in
arms against him. Time has not
shaken his devotion to temper
ance, his faith in religious tolea-
ton, or his confidence in, human
progress He i'd ever the same
steadfast friend 'of the people,
advocating their interests, and
pointing them to the paths of in
dustry, temperance, economy,
rectitude and virtue. Every
new invention, every labor-sav-
ing machine, every aid to the
elevation of the working masses
finds in him an early and con-
slant advocate. Peace and the
triumphs of peace, freedom to all
of every race, color OF persua-
sion, happy firesides to the hum
blest sons Of toll and love to the
whole human family, are the
of his policy. He
shrinks from war and violence
and oppression with the sicken-
ing horror of an anchorite, and
yet would brave prisons, or
stripes, or death itself, in defense
Of the right, Whatever else
may be said, Horace Greeley is
no commonplace man. His Ca
reer has not been that of a mere
He seorns the
highest offices if they cost the
surrender Of his convictions, and
defes even his friends when his
consciousness of duty requires
him to oppose them, He is the
strength and the docility of
greatness, the elevation and firm
ness of conscious rectitude, No
country ever more needed these
great qualities than they are
now needed in the Presidential
chair, He is cheertdlly support
I'd by all old parties, for his
known integrity and purity fit
him to sit as umpire between
,ontending factions. Abolition
sts and pro-slavery men, Union
sts and seaessionists, Democrats
and Republicans, all find they
can trust the old philosopher,
md feel thae his administration
will harmopize their dying strifes
nte q public policy which shall
'qbserve the public good, Who
'lse could so thoroughly bring
'oaclllatlonY Although before
Ind during the war the boldest
Ind bitterest Of the ideas and in
erests most cherished by the
Secessionists Of the South, he
las, since it closed, been the.
most generous friend Of the fall
n, From the moment the re-
'ellion collapsed he has urged
,eace, reconciliation, universal
While his party friends
lungered hungered and thirsted
or blood, he sought to slake
heir vengeance by commencing
0 their parched lips cooling
from the chalice of
mercy. When the olive branch
s held out by such a. mana
nan from the ranks Of their old
'nemies--it comes with more
ignificance and touching grace
han If presented by the hand of
IN old friend. The magnanimi-
y Of an enemy softens us when
he kind Offices of a friend would
lot touch the hidden springs oil