Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-27
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THURSDAY. JUNE 81. 1879.
No,c. nm Horace Greeley.

N0rcS Horace eSFeNttgs
In February. 1871, Horace Greeley thought
and wrote as follows;
eve like General Grant; but we care far more
for republican ascendancy than for any man
personal fortunes. Ii is in our view OF great
importance that the opposition shall be kept
out OF power.
"FOr democratic National triumph means
restoration to power of those who deserted their
seats in congress and their places under the last
democratic president to plunge the country into
the Red Sea of secession and rebellion. IhONgA
Vou paint az inch thick, 10 this complexion yoU
must come al last The brain, the heart, the
soul OF the present democratic party is the
rebel element Of the south, with its northern
allies and sympathizers. II Is rebel at the core
to-day.
There was more in the same strain. Ia his
view. a restoration Of the democratic party TO
power would be "a virtual reversal OF the Apo
matox surrender" and he hoped. that, what
ever "chastisement' our national sins might
deserve, "this disgrace and humiliation might
be spared us" What he said on this point is
as true now as it was then; nevertheless, this
"honest" man is now doing all he can TO restore
the democratic party to power. He has gone
over TO that party, moved BY insane amOluon
to be its candidate. His aim is to purchase
the presidency by revivIng and restoring the
democratic party; and Though you paint an
inch thick" you can not make it seem TO be
anything else. And so it is understood by the
Greeley democrats They do not like him; they
make wry faces and declare that he is "a bitter
dose; and yet, they shout for him, and say
they will support him, because they hope, by
means OF his aid, to destroy the republican
party and make themselves supreme. This
reason for supporting him is openly avowed by
his ex-rebe supporters at the south. The other
day, correspondent Of the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser interviewed one of these southern
Greeleyites in Canada. Writing at Montreal, he
says:
"Ex-Goy Westcott, of Florida, sits on the
steps of the ST. Lawrence Hotel, and abuses
Americans three-fOurths OF his time. He ayOws
himself TO be a secesSioniSt, abuses Grant, calls
Sumner a coward, Greeley an idiot, and Massa-
chusetts state of thieves and hypocrites. Yes
terday asked the ex-rebel who he favored for
the presidency.
He replied, 81 20 for Greeley"
''Why for GreeeyP | asked.
Because, sir, if we get him of from the re-
pubicans, we kill the id republican party.
Yes, sir, the salvation Of the old
democratic party Is to elect Greeley"
"Will the southern secessionists 20 for Gree
ley?" | asked.
"Some will and some won't sir. There's
General Hill-a red.hOt secessionist once-he
made speech lately for Greeley, but old Bob
Toombs pricked his Greeley bubble and let the
air out in three minutes. But sir, I'm for Gree
ley, just as I'd be for the devil himself il it was
TO destroy this black republican Yankee party,
which has always fought the south Now we've
got the black republicans divided, we must
whip them in detail, or, ten to one, they will all
Grant, Greeley and Sumner-get around 10
gether again. vote, sir for Greeley, between
you and |, is a vote for killing the republican
party"
This is what the Greeley movement means. in
the estimation of those TO whom Greeley looks
for an election; and it is what he himself, in Feb
ruary, 1871, said sueh a movement would mean
No reasonable man who studies the political
situation, can see a possibility of its meaning
anything else. II is not believed anywhere that
Greeley is fit for the presidency; his supporters
believe him lamenta5ly unfit for that office, aud
many of them feel this so strongly that they
have hesitated and hoped to find deliverance
from the necessity of voting for their own
candidate. 1t would be very sad for
the country to have for president any man with
all the vagaries, weaknesses, and egOtisms of
Horace Greeley, and with his total incapacity
for executive work. No thoughtful man, who
cares for the welfare Of the country can be will
ing TO have its finances aud business interests
subjected to the disastrous management of such
an administration. Nobody has spoken more
strongly of Mr.. Greeley's unftness for any i'm
portant Office than some of those who now make
q pretence of supporting him. The Chicago
Tribune has subdued and disciplined itselfto the
business Of supporting Greeley II is not very
long since the present editor of that paper wrote
OF him editorially as follows:
"HOraee Greeley is not now, and never has
been, man who ought TO be trusted with an
official position requiring practical wisdom,
ordinary craftsmanship, or firm, consistent ac-
ton. For twenty-five years he has been a mar
plot in council; an unreliable commander in ac-
ton; miSanthrOpe in victory, and riOtOus
dsorganizer in defeat. He has always been fa-
natical in his demands for the extremist meas
ures, and when the party has reached the eve of
triumph invariably thrusts himself forward as a
negotatOr of terms of surrender to the enemy.
His course during the war was but repetition
OF his course IN politics. In 1861 he
was an open defender Of secession; he
changed to vigorous champion of the
war, and thereafter was forever reck lessy
making propositions for peace, and as recklessy
Withdrawing them, making war in spite of
Mars, and negotiating in spite OF Minerva. For
twenty years he has been an uncompromising
advocate for a square fight with the pro-slavery
party, and when that kind of fight was forced
upon the republicans in 1860 he was here, in
Chicago, voting not for Lincoln nor for Chase,
but for old Edward Bates oil Missouri, one OF
the fossils Of the slave party. lie was then the
associate and cO-laborer of that impracticable
and unreliable squad-the Blair family The
country at this time wants no inspired harle-
gums in Its national councils"
The editor of the Chicago Tribune has not
changed his estimate OF Horace Greeley; but he
is now Performer" of Ithe Cincinnati style;
therefore, be submits to the Blair-McClure con-
spiracy and supports the man be described as
wholly unfit for any important official position.