Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-01
Cancellation.

the Union men there, black or white;
no, the rebel element of the South
that must be concliated. The sum
total OF all the legislative or consti-
tutional disabilities inflicted by the
United States government as u pun>
isbment for treason is monopolized
at present by less than 200 rebels,
and even in their case, the disabili-
ty only deprives Of the right to bold
office : not the right Of voting. If
all Mr.. Greeley intends to do for the,
people be calls 1.-THE South" is to rem
der few rebels eligible to seats in
Congress and legislative halls, he
will still leave the "bloody chasm"
between Unionists and former rebels
as wide and frghtfuI as ever. Then
what does Mr. Greeley propose to do
to conciliate the late rebels in the
South and elsewhere?
When generation OF men have con-
spired together in the present age of
the world TO overthrow FREQ gov
eminent and establish chattel slave.
ry as the corner stone of our ciVii-
cation have carried their conspira-
cy into gigantic and bloody war
and after all have ANONYMOUSLY fall
edit is very difficHlt, if not impossi-
bic, for such rebels to occupy as high
q place in the worlds esteem, or in
the opinion of their contemporaries,
as those who have periled their lives
on behalf Of humanity and justice
and freedom, and have succeeded in
their undertaking. They have de-
served and will secure the gratitude
of their loyal countrymen and pos
terity. But those who have spoken,
toiled and fought to rerpetuate hui
man slavery cannot escape the con-
domination and malediction of their
fellc W men. Their actions have en-
tered the pages OF history. Here is
tho insuperablo difficulty Mr.. Gree.
10y has to contend with. Suppose
all political disability to be removed
from all rebels, can Mr. Greeley sue
coed in convincing the people Of the
United States that jeff. Davis is as
much entitled to their gratitude as
| Abraham Lincoln, and that Joe John
ston or Beauregard should occupy as
high a niche in our esteem as Gen.
Grant or Phil. Sheridan? And that
soldiers who fought to save the IN
ion are no more worthy Of the pa
tons favor and respect than those
who fought against it?
Mr. Greeley has written two yol-
umes on the American Conflict. The
Democr attic party and the generals
and statesmen and politicians who
united in the conspiracy to override
freedom with perpetual slavery, he
has exposed to the just derlsion and
contempt Of the present and future
! generations of men. Can we read
his history and have the same re-
spect for these men that we have for
Lincoln or Fremont, or Garrison, or
GerrI. Smith? Ga the last page Of
Volume |. he gives an order from
Gen, Mcclellan expelling the Hutch
insous from the army Of the Poto-
mac, because they sung an anti slave
ry ode composed by Whittier. Vol
ume III, page 238 contains procla'
nation from "Little Mae" in which
he promises the rebels TO "crush
their slaves with an iron hand
should they attempt to revolt while
their masters were fighting Little
Mac" Mr.. Greeley has made us feel
a supreme contempt for this Demo.
cratic commander, and we can't help
it. Mr.. Greeley has exposed hun,
dreds of men in the North who hap.
pened to affirm the South was right
and the North wrong. He has re.
corded all that every prominent man,
either North or South, said or wrote
vindicating secession and slavery
Dare we read the fiery speeches made
by seeessionists at the Chicago Con.
venton in 1864 in which helish car.
nivh of treason the life of Abraham
Lincoln was openly threatened
Shall we read these proceedings in
Vol. III commencing on page 666, and
then say that no distinction shall be
made between these men and those
who were then at the front periling
their lives for the freedom and SO
curity we now enjoy?
The moment Mr. Greeley talks
of comforting political Office and hon
ors on tho late rebels without res
spect to their autecedent history, &c
tho same extent that he would
upon Union soldiers and generals
and statesmen, that moment
Mr.. Greeley has to meet all those
opinions, Judgments and prejudices
if you SO choose TO call them, in
wrought into tse popular mind by
the we'll known events of the war
and by the recitals and records OF his
history But the opinions expressed
in his history in relation to the con.
duct, principles and actions of the
two great parties in the recent wal
accord with the instincts and judg,
ments of mankind at large. Mr.
Greeley cannot contend against them
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