The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-19
GREELEY FAvORS GRANT.

''Grant and his policy deserve the very
highest credit. HORACE GREELEY.
Grant never has been beaten and he
never will be. HORACE GREELEY.
There is nothing in history like this
campaign of Grants. HORACE GREE
LILY, April 10. 1865.
1T seems almost impossible that the
people should hesitate between the leader
Of the Union armies, General Grant, and
the leader of the northern denagogues.
-iIoRACE GREELEY, july Is, 1868.
''The people Of the United States know
General Grant-have known all about
him since Dcrelson and Vicksburg; they
| do not know his sianderers and do not care
to know them. HORACE GREELEY.
while assuring the right Of every Re
publican to his untrammeled choice OF a
candidate for next President until NOM
ination is made, venture to suggest that
General Grant will be far better qualified
for that momentuous trust In 1877 than
he was In 1868 HORACE GREELEY.
eff that party (democratic) should see
fit to challenge US to fight oyer again
the battle of 1868, we stall of course take
up the gauge with great and well founded
confidence of success. We have no fear
that the American people will reverse In
70 the verdict they recorded in the cleo
ton Of Grant and Colfax. In Il purely
partisan aspect we should consider this
our best hold. HORACE GREELEE,
March, 1871.
To Lieutenant General Grant the Ma
ton love and gratitude will be fervent
and unmeasured. The army of the Po-
tomac hardly knew him a month ago. it
knows him now and ever more. He had
shared the current estimates of its capaci
ty, his misconception would have been
natural, btt he knew its worth instructive
ly and trusted implicitly to its valor and
devotion. The result proves that he was
right, and that that army has at last
found its true leader. Let us harbor no
shadow of doubt that under his guidance
that army will promptly and thoroughly
complete the work to which it has proved
itselfso nobly adapted. HORACE GREE
LEY, May IA, 1864.
We loathe man-worship, and distrust
the worth Of nation which but one man
can save; yet every day experience
strengthens our experience in General
Grant The task devolved on him is ar
duous; he is confronted by an able gen.
eral and gallant, veteran army, who en-
JOY enormous advantages In their defen-
sive attitude, the nature of the country
and their intimate knowledge of its topo-
graphy; yet, from the hour of his cross
ing the Rapidan, General Grant has gone
steadily forward, repelling impetuous at
tack assaulting (when necessarily strong
ly fortified positions; Withdrawing, I'M
observed, from the Immediate front of his
wary antagonist, and affecting the most
daring and difficult flank movements,
tho reby achieving the fruits of victory
without encountering the carnage which
is the usual cost of such success-and all
this with a stern quietude that indicates
a reserved force and O consciousness
of powers adopted to any emergency
HORACE GREELEY. July 2, 1864
'We are compelled to say that the
treatment of the President and his ad-
ministration by the selfstyled indepen-
dent republican press, has for months
been ungenerous and unjust We have
had greater Presidents than General
Grant, but scarcely one who less desel we'd
the running fire of invidious carping and
faultfndiDg to which he has been sub
jected by those independent" oracles.
We will instance the Santo Domingo
and ku-klux topics to illustrate our
meaning. Santo Domingo through its
only rulers sought our government and
preferred annexation. The President
gave no encouragement till after an in
terval of months the proffer was renew
ed and action upen it urgently solicited.
Then the President looked carefully
into the matter, and decided that our
country's we'll being would be promoted
by our acceptance Of Baez' proposition.
Perhaps this was an error of judgment
| though WE CANNOT Sc REGARD IT. Had
he decided differently, we believe the
President would have been more yehe-
mently assailed than he shas been. Just
consider what a Democratic howl would
have gone up, a'ter we had offered so
many millions for Cuba if General Grant
had refused to accept San Domingo viz
tually for nothing.
,,Then, as to the Ku-klux legislation,
anG all executive action tending thereto
or based thereon, we hold the Admins
tratlon most unfairly treated by most of
the independents The President is
bound by a solemn oath to support the
constitution, enforce the laws, and pro-
tect the rights and liberties of the people. ;
HORACE GREELEY, May 5, 1871.
Mr.. Boutwell, Is fortunate in his ene-
mics. There is not an unchanged enemy
OF the Union-not one who wishes Get
tysburg, and VIcksburg and Appomatto1
had gone the other way-who does not
improve every opportunity to disparage
and belittle his achievements. Whas if
he has paid off over two hundred nilli
ons of the national debt? the money
came into the treasury and he couldn't
help paying the debt with it! Why,
gentlemen, money has come into other
treasures, yet no debts have been paid
with 1t, unless 1t be the private debts of
the fnanciers, 1t is something that Mr.
Boutwell, has vigorously guarded the fed
eral treasury, and applied every dime of
receipts, first, to the payment of current
expenses; next to the liquidation of the
national debt.
{. Having reduced the principal largely
ard steadily, Mr.. Boutwell, is irving
nard to reduce the interest on what re-
mains unpaid. by funding the 6ve-twen-
ties, now redeemable and drawing six
per cent interest, in new bonds drawing
lesser rates of interest Suppose he
could succeed in this. and reduce the
average rate of Interest barely one per
cent.-the amount thus saved would paw
Oft the entire principal of the deb. in
less than half a century. Ought not ey
cry patriot to wish him we'll not merely.
but to render him all possible support in
his arduous undertaking? Every dime
he thus saves insures to the benefit of
the whole American people.-HoRAcE
GREELEY, August 23d, 1871.