Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-18

their having voted solidly against him
would furnish strong provocation on the
part of his rebel supporters to drive them
to the walll Hence, they will do we'll to
let 1t be seen that they are, at least, equal
ly divided in their choice of Grant
and himself What meanness and bru-
tality are embodied in such intimidation
What disgusting selfishness is here seen
under the mask of a pretend
ed concern for their best inter-
ests | But, ,et him coax or menace
them as he may, he will not succeed in
breaking their ranks for the peril which
he tells them will environ them by his non
election will but stimulate them all the
more torally at the polls in full strength
for Ulysses s. Grant. In his speech at
Newport, KY, he said to his white listen
ers ''It is q misfortune of the colored
people that they, as a class, are steeled
against us they will not hear us; they do
not beliege as" For the all sufficient rea-
son that they clearly understand, in re-
gard to Mr.. Greeley's Southern hackers,
that the wolf is none the less wolf
though dressed in sleeps clothing
Whatever satisfaction President Grant
may feel on his reelection, as a conclu-
sive answer to all the foul aspersions
cast upon him, he will have cause to re-
gard the consolidated colored vote in his
support as his noblest acquittal. No taller
plume can be placed in Victory's cap.
Mr.. Greeley's Tribune. leaving him to
frighten the colored voters as to the con-
sequences of acting together, audaciously
undertakes to bully the loyal whites into
support of Greeley, if they would avoid
bringing upon the country the horrors of
civil warl 1--WE honestly believe" it dis
hot
which we have had fat the South is as
nothing compared with the trouble-law-
lessness, riot, peculation, personal perse-
cution, and social oppression-which we
shall have, should success make the Re
publican party even more arrogant and
irresponsible than it is at present. 1t will
be felt by that party that the South has
been delivered into its hands, with
no earthly friend to appeal to for assist
ance, and with no law left for it except
the SIC colo, sic .jlt6e0 of Ulysses Grant
How far the white population of the
South may be thus harassed, prosecuted
and tortured tcitt0ut rising IN resistance we
cannot determine, nor have we any desire
to see the experiment tried. Despera'
ton, even of a broken and powerless
people, is sometimes, at least, trouble
| some"
| N
! This is the assembling of Marc Antony:
"Good friends sweet friends let me not stir you up
| To such flood of mutiny."
Why, the rebel whites of the South will
need no stronger incentive than is here
presented to the commission of all man
ner of excesses, on the plea that they are
groaning under an absolute despotism,
and resisting only rs freemen shouldl 1t
Is an appeal directly in the interest of
Southern insubordination and revolt, in
case of President Grants reelection.
And this not from the rabid journal of
Alexander II. Stephens, but from the rec
onciling New York Tribune.
The fact is that both the Tribune and
Mr.. Greeley-by their libelous attacks
upon the Northern people, representing
them as animated by a hateful spirit to,
ward the whites of the South, when. nc
such spirit exists or has ever existed; by
their inf1ammatory representation OF
Southern wrongs at the hands of the Gen
eral Government, thereby stirring up the
rebel element to new outbreaks; by theil
dastardly assaults upon the loyal soldiers
of the North for presuming to meet full
thirty thousand strong at Pittsburgh, pre-
senting as unbrOken a phalanX for the
continuance in Office of the conqueror oi
the Rebellion as they did against the Re
bellion itself; and by trying to browbeat
the colored voters of the country into al
abandonment of the polls or liberal sup
port of the rebel candidate-are Scatter
ing firebrands, arrows, and death, at the
very time they are canting about 'peace,
reconciliation, and truce to all dis
cords! The Republic has not any more
, dangerous enemies to its repose and pros
perity. Wm. Lloyd GaraTson, IN N. Y, In
dependent.