Delaware straight-out truth teller. ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1872-18??, 1872-10-01

sanity, which may wen excite tbe 40
to- 'ushniept.of the world Gen. Grant
is ne 'tner the author nor the inspirer
of the acts Of Congress which have so
meruilesA " oppressed the Southern
people. A'r. Greeley is more RESPONSE
BILE than an " other man for all those
terrible bills. he, more than ANYBODY
elss, has kept up through his widely
circulated paper, an action upon the
public mind by firing 1t with the fury
and malgnancy of Lis own temper.
What thunderbolts did he hurl at the
head Of Gen. Grant when he brought
back from the South report that the
people were well disposed, and, in his
opinion, entitled to the confidence of
'the government" and the benefits Of
peace And again, how was General
Grant sneered at by Mr.. Greeley when
the former declared that he "would
resign If Gen. Lee was arrested in
violation of the terms of surrenderf
When Gen. Grant was uttering those
memorial crds, ''Let us have peace
Mr.. Greeley was trying 10 set fire to-
Northern hatred and revenge BY such
atrocious sentiments as the following,
afterwards constantly proclaimed :-T
When the rebellious traitors are over
whelmed in the fteld, and scattered like
leaves before an angry wind, it must not
homes. Thoy must find poverty at their
nresidess and privatton in the anxious
eyes OF mothers and the rag lof children
While Gen. Grant was personally
desirous of seeing an end Nall oppres.
ssve legislation, MIR. GreeI y was ioadt
ing the mind of his party with sucJf.
furious doctrines as the following - Nj
therefore, on every proper oocasioul
~ yonst9q and tnstinsd tho gp Klsi---.sst
South and II It does not Drove strons
enough 70 affect Its purpose, hops {fle
win be made stronger and stronger. -,
Now, then, for the Southern peoples
TO seek relief from wrongs, by eIeva
ting to greater power the chief author
or their sufferings, is an. evidence ofE
madness which no enlightened states
man and no intelligent friend of the
South should encourage for slhgIe.
moment But we think it is not true
that the ablest men of the South are for
the election of Greeley. Only a small
number of that class in the South an
pear TO have caught the "Greeley-
craze" which seemsY to be generally
confined TO class of honest men, who.
are not remarkable for the clearness of
their perceptions. or the soundness of
their judgments. We are, however.
met everywhere with the delusive idea..
that MIR. Greeley has suddenly changed
his nature and his principles. We'll,
even if that were true, decent self.
respect ought to prevent an honorable
people from SO suddenly bestowing the
highest token of affection and conf
dence upon one who, for more than a.
quarter of a century, has been their
most implacable and most uniust-
enemy. But where is the evidence
that he has either repented or changedT
1t is only in the imagination of his self
duped adherents in the South. In his
speech TO the democratic Committee
which informed him officially of his
nomination at Baltimore, he said 81
am no less thoroughly and earnestly a
Republican than l ever was !" and in
his letter of acceptance he makes no
profession of any change in his disposi-
tion or principles. He is even careful
to forewarn the democrats" that he
regards himself as the nominee of the
Cincinnati Convention" and reminds
them that they preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present
another candidate for President, and
would more readily have united with
us (Radicals) in the support of Adams
or Trumbull, Davis or Brown" That
is, Mr.. Greeley tells us very plainly
that he considers his adoption by the
Baltimore Convention more as thing
of force than choice, and he then says
81 owe my adoption at Baltimore
wholly to the fact that had already
been nominated at CINCINNATI
meaning of all which is that Mr.
Greeley regards the small and fiery
faction of soreheads who met at Cncin--
natl "a faction so insignificant in num-
bers that the Republican party could
well afford to treat it with contempt(
as his kite, and the Democratic paItY
as nothing but its tail. He is really
the nominee of the Cincinnati Conven--
tion, and the great Democratic party
only comes in to give conyeniensR