Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-17


good citizens hope that military rule and
corruption will receive its quietus, the
venomous abuse which has always
characterized the Radicals, has become
greatly intensified. The Enterprise
publishes with JUNCTION string of abuse
which the stage driver Hank Monk is
said to have directed against Greeley.
Not a little tin trumpet of a Radical
sheet in the country but pours forth a
torrent of violent invectiye against man
who in character and ability is as much
their superior as the glorious light Of
Heaven is to the murky shades of the
bottomless pit. hen again every stump
speaker that streets for an hour before
an audience follows suit. Harmless,
weak, and vain of course, but still they
do their little best or worst, to lower in
public estimation man in whose pres
ence they would be as dumb as q chop
ping-block, and like Cassius said of
Cesar, walk under his huge legs and
peep about to find themselves dishonor-
able graves. he whole of them
like SO many packs of yelping hounds,
join in bowling chorus against man
as remarkable for honesty and charac-
ter MS for vigor Of intellect. What is the
reason of all this clamor? Why does
every place-holder, from Grant to tide
waiter, join in this furious cutlery? This
is the reason, and none other: Horace
Greeley refused to take part in
the Grant Conspiracy to Cypress and
rob the people. He made the Republican
party; it was the work of his hands and
brain, and he loved and fostered it. But
when he found that it had become
mere machine in the hands of unscrupu-
lous knaves to Cypress, to beggar, nay,
to destroy the country; to reduce its
people from the condition of freemen to
the mere subjects of a military autocracy,
Greeley rose superior to party and with
a giants force rent asunder the chains
with which it was sought to restrain
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His intelligence, directed by patriotism
and thorough honesty, saw at once
through the artful schemes devised by
those tricksters, Morton, Cameron,
Conkling and others. He detected the
villainy of these men and denounced
them, He was threatened, cajoled and
tempted. Every artifiee was used to
lure him back into the party traces, but
he was not to be intimidated, deceived
or bribed He knew the character of
the men who sought his alliance. He
knew that the Grant clique, from its
head to the Custom House plunderer.
Leet. were engaged in a vast conspiracy
to retain the reins of power at any cost
OF money or crime. Knowing this he
dispised and spurned them, aud was de-
termined to expose, and if possible, pun
ish the scoundrels who had turned the
nations capital into q rendezvous for
robbers. This is the crime of Horace
Greeley. That is the reason why the
Administration and its fiunkies spew
forth the dirtiest, vilest accusations that
are only equalled in their lying malignity
by the brazen hardihood of the wretches
who utter them. Horace Greeley's
offence is that he wishes to put honest
men in places Of power and trust. Hc
desires to stem the frightful tide of cor
ruption which is poisoning the life and
blood Of the nation. He wishes to cause
the United States to be held together by
the gentle but persuasive ties of friend
ship and regard, instead of being pinned
to each by bayonets and rivetted by
shackles. This is the sum of Greeley's
crime, for which he is derided and
hooted by the mercenary crew who are
instigating these assaults against him.
They laud Grant because he has assisted
them in all their schemes of pluuder.
they execrate Greeley, because they know
he will expose their villainy and secure
their punishment. But, as we believe
in the mercy of the Creator, SO we
believe that the day of retribution for
the worst Administration that ever dis.
graced the high places OF the American
people cannot be far off. The scales will
some time fall from the eyes OF the
people, and touched by the Itherial
spear of truth these wretches will be
exposed in all their hideous, disgusting
deformity. We believe this as firmly as
we believe that the day is not lar distant
when the honesty Of the Governor in the
second State in the Union, of the ancient,
glorious and proud old Commonwealth
OF Pennsylvania will not require the in
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