Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-28

and unwelcomc. The leading
Democratic journals are opposed to
his being nominated at Baltimore,
as are the most prominent Demo
cratic leading men. Where, then,
is Greeley's strength? tits certain
ly not portentous in the North, and
will not be unless the Blair family,
by the same manipulation, treach.
cries and conspiracies which effect
ed the nomination at Cincinnati can
force him upon the Baltimore Con-
vention. In that case will any con-
siderable number Of Republicans
follow him into the Democratic
camp? Only misguided, disappoin-
ted and rccreant Republicans can
do so. Their number we feel sure,
will be small. The great Republi-
can party itself, is too devoted to
it's principles, too we'll acquainted
with the needs and situation of the
country, too much animated with
intelligence, too sensible that liber-
ty and reform can only be maintain
ed by it's own success, too patriotic,
and too progressive, to be led into
any FOOLS chase after Horace Gree
ley.
Ever since he obtained reputa-
ton and prominence as a partisan
and pungent editor Of the log
Cabin, in 1910, it has been patent
to all who know, and to all who
critically observed him, that he
especially lacked the qualifications
necessary for an able and successful
leader. The Harrison campaign
was managed by shrewd and saga
cious men like Seward and Weed.
They made use Of Greeley to great
advantage, and as a writer he did
efficient execution. He was handled
SO adroitly that he fancicd he was
the directing and controlling mind,
and wished to establish a triumvi-
rate with Seward and Weed. They
saw he was very well as a writer,
but would be ruinous as leader.
Others saw it too, and greedy and
anxious as Greeley has always been
for Office, neither the Wings nor
Republicans ever dared to trust him
in prominent and executive posi-
tons. If he now and then received
a nomination, he invariably ran
behind his party ticket, and the
circulation and popularity Of the
7rilane never could give him a
respectable currency as a candidate.
The frequent dlsappointnents he
suffered in his aspirations for Office
led him to dissolve the firm of
Seward, Weed and Greeley, and
since then, like Barkis, he has
always been willing, and always
unsuccessful, except in serving out
a month or two OF somebodyclse's
term in Congress-; where in that
short period he made himself
thoroughly odious and obnoxious to
men of all parties without exception
or distinction. lie has repeatedly
shown himself a marplot, and not
withstanding his Chinese physi-
ognomy so "childlikc and bland"
he has exhibited stupid obstinacy
fully equal to that of Andrew John
son, or any other jackass.
During Lincoln's celebrated can
vass with Douglass, and during the
Legislative contest which followed
it, Greeley was quite as much for
the latter rs the former. He cleo
tionecrcd for Lincoln about as he
did for the Republicans in Connec-
ticut last spring. Afterwards, at
the Convention in Chicago, where
Lincoln was first nominated, and
where the competition was between
such men as Lincoln, Seward and
Chase, was our Chinese sage, run
ming over with apparent simplicity,
and he, too, had his candidate. lie
pressed his candidate with "ways
that were dark and tricks that were
vain" He probably swore ''good
mouth filling oaths," and manifested
his great knowledge of men, his
exquisite discrimination of charac-
ter, and his profound conception of
craftsmanship, by repudiating Lin
coin and Seward, and men of that
calibre, and advocating man that
no one else ever dreamed Of for
President = Edward Bates. Mr..
Lincoln was pcrpetually annoyed
and worried by this same Chinese
politician, during all his Admin
istration. At one time it would be
his needless con to Richmond"
at another his cowardly counsel to
make degrading and suicidal con-
cessions, and at another by prose-
cutting insane negotiations III Can
ada.
As early as November Q, 1860, he
demonstrated how safe and judicious
it would have been to have entrusted
the guidance of these United States
to has sagacity and wisdom. In the
Tribune of that date he says:
"And now, if the Cotton States eonsid-
erd the value of the Union dcbatable, we
Iualuthlu Their pcIIcCt IlSut w uiSSuoo ".
| Nay we hold with JEFFERSON to the in
alienable right Of communities to alter or
abolish forms of government that have
became oppressive or injurious; and, if
the Cotton States shall decide that they
can do better out Of the Union than in it,
we insist on letting them 60 in peace
The right to secedc may be revolution
airy one, but it exists nevertheless; and
we do not sec how one party can have n
right to do what another party has a
right to prevent We must ever resist
the asserted right of any State to remain
in the Union, and nulllfy or defy the laws
thereof; to withdraw from the Union, is
quite another matter. And, whenever q
considerable section Of our Union shall
deliberately resolve to go out we shall
resist all coercive measures designed to
keep it in. We hope never to live in a
Republic whereof one section is pinned
to the residue by bayonets."
On the 18th of December, 1860,
the Chappaqut jurist, patriot and
philanthropist, cvinccd his acunfen
by telling rAathe knee about the