The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-15

lonor, 9nd to my own conscience. Ap-
,lause and cheering1 And in thus vot-
ng do not bolt my party. I do not
violate my principles as a Democrat. /
10 not act inharmoniously with my duty
to my party, myself or my country. /
am but exercising the high prerogative
Of every American citizen, and | shall
do SO by casting my vote for one of
Gods noblest works-an honest man"
Below we give Col. Mosby's letter Or
the candidates, Grant and Greeley this
is one of the three letters garbeled by
Greeley's ono party organ" few weeks
since, viz, Longstreets EwelPs and Mos
by's when it published the announce
ment that Beaureguard and Jeff. Thomp-
son the'guerrella, n i. Forest the hero
of Fort Pillow Butchery and cold blood
ed murder were-out in favor of its
Editor candidate, and called it cheering
news to the Patriot, quite likely it was
to Patriot of the Greeley type.
WARRENroN, May 13, 1872.
Mr. DEAR SIR | have received your fa-
vor inquiring my position in the Presiden-
tal contest. Of course, if q Democrat is
nominated, shall support his election with
all my heart; but if it is reduced to a ques-
ton of choice between Gen. Grant and
Greeley, | shall support the former. Nv
own views of policy were, after the failure
of the Cincinnati Convention, to nominate
a man acceptable to Democrats that the
South should hold from the contest and
not commit itself 10 either until the Phila-
delphia Convention had nominated its can.
didate and declared a platform of principles.
For if the whole South were committed in
advance against the election of Gen. Grant,
what motives could he or his party have to
try to conciliate us Now, why should the
South array itself on the side of Greeley,
her unrepentant, lifelong enemy, against
Gen. Grant? | am no apologist for the OPP
preston we have endured from the Federal
Governments but will the partisan of Gree
ley point TO one act that was odous to us
that he has not justified and approved? Nay,
more. The tyranical acts of Congressional
| legislation were an expression Of Northern
sentiment of hostility to the South for
which Horace Greeley, more than any
other man is responsible. Gen. Grant has
been the instrument of executing many
laws obnoxious to us, which were enacted
under the pressure of public opinion, Gre
ated by Greeley, which no man could resist.
! The pen was mightier than the sword.
| Now, what is offered to the Southern people
by nominee of the Cincinnati Convention
as consideration for their votes? Amnesty
which simply means the relief Of few
thousand men from the disability imposed
| by the Fourteenth Amendment. But the
| President has no control over this-i
requires a two-thirds vote of Congress tC
effect it. If the Southern vote is to bt
bartered for such paltry consideration al
this, why not bargain directly with thost
who have the ability to pay what they
promise? Does any man doubt that tht
party in power would gladly grant univer
sal amnesty to secure the electoral vote OF
Virginia alone! If so, how is there less
of dishonor in coalition with Greeley y OF
such condition as this than with the part,
who can give you now all you ask? TIL
only difference that can see is that in tn
one case you bargain with set of poli tica
bankrupts and adve,,turers whose pie dge
will be redeemed about as soon as tn
Confederate debt-and therefore they wi
be profuse in promises; in the other 20
may ut least expect to receive the sma
pittance required. Tell me one singl
reason why Southern man should prefe
Greeley for Grant. They say that Creole
is honest-thcn so much the worse is he
honestly opposed to all hold dear. The
say he has abused carpet 'baggers-whic
by the bye, are only the natural product c
institutions which he planted among II:
but as he is indebted to this class (wh
assumed at Cincinnati to represent tll
South) for his nomination, surely hone!
Horace won't, if elected, 60 back on h
friends. They say, too, that he is the frien
of amnesty, and yet be advocated the in
I parchment of Johnson for pardOning rebel
( On his recent eectioneering tour throug
the South, when he looked on the Ian
where he chad made solitude and callc
it peace" his heart was fer momel
5 touched with u sentiment of pity for Il
| Southern people, as well as a desire fl
! Southern votes, and he was tempted
{ say a few kind words for which ne WI
swift to make atonement, when ON h
return TO New.York he retained to n ga
e ing crowd of his admirers the fabulol
G stories Of Kuklux horrors, and applaudt
|. | inc NISOr Ol iHe administration IN SuSpen
i ing the habeas corpus in South Carolil
: and enforcing the Kuklux laws.
. The men who, as old Isaiah tells u
d cooked their breakfast with one end of
e stick of wood and made an image of Il
n other, which they worshiped, were n
A more unreasoning idolators than those w
= prostrating themselves before Hora
u Greeley In both eases the virtue of t
IS idol exist only in the Imagination of t
2. worshipers. don't choose to bow at su
n shrine, and am not led captive by su
entertainments; and if we are compelled
60 through the ceremony of choosing
} master, to me there is less of humiliati
u in accepting the soldier to whom /
d surrendered his sword than the fana
IS whose teachings have been 'the Had
"a all our wOes.''
- am, very truly yours,
" JOHN S. M0SBY
r. Capt A. G. BABcocK.
~