Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-09-19
Pensions for Rebels-A Direct Chal-
lenge to Mr.. Greeley.

ONCE more the Binghamton Republican
returns to its direct charges against Gree
ley of corruptly intriguing with Demo
cratic leaders for their party's nomination
for the Presidency, while he was publicly
claiming to be Republican, and obtain
ing subscribers to his paper under the
pretense that it was and would continue
to be Republican journal. The Repub-
Ecan now makes its charges briefly and
pointedly and directly to Mr.. Greeley, in
these words:
The charge that you are committed for
pensions for rebel disabled soldiers has
never been met by you by denial or ex-
PLANTATION. 1t was not among the formal
charges of the Binghamton Republican,
which comprised the leading and essential
facts ofyour intrigue and conspiracy in the
fall of 1871 for Democratic support, through
which, in part, you were nominated for
President at Cincinnati, and, through that
prearranged support, received the Demo-
cratic nomination at Baltimore. The
matter of rebel pensions appeared as one
of many proofs of the principle charge.
This journal, having made special and
thorough investigation, finds that your
failure to deny the correctness of the
rebel pension proof is because that proof,
in a little different form than that in
which it was first presented, is true.
Your attention is invited to the following
points, which the Republican carefully
makes on its own account, and irrespec-
tive of any other proofs
l. That you held a correspondence
about the Presidency for yourself with
man notedly and avowedly in favor of
rebel pensions.
2. That he gave his views to you freely,
in writing, in letter in which he
proposed you should be candidate of
the Democrats and others against the Re-
publican party.
3. That you acknowledged the receipt
of that letter; that you expressed your
self afirmatively and not otherwise con-
corning your correspondents views; and
in language which, as answer to propo-
sition for rebel pensions, was undeniably
an assent, and was so accepted and re-
garded.
A. That subsequently you invited that
correspondent to come to New York; that
you discussed with him the proposed
compromises" with the South on the
basis of the preceding correspondence,
and agreed (then and afterward) to be
the candidate for the Presidency that you
| now are.
8. That you have said nothing by "au-
| thoriZation," in the Tribune or at Port
| land-and the Tribune has said nothing
squarely-inconsistent with these state
ments and inconsistent with full pledge,
on your part, for rebel pensions; but, on
the contrary, your evasions are con-
structively and fairly considered as pleas
of guilty"
| g. That your advocacy of the right of
secession, your proposal during the war
to pay for the slaves of the South, your
haste to bail the rebel chief, your public
utterance relating to the equal honor in
which Northern and Southern soldiers
should be held, and, in fine, your late and
present political associations and rela-
tions, make public record, in addition
to your private record, for rebel pensions,
and for other rebel indemnities.
The Republican asks for direct answer
to these charges as published; and it de-
mands that Mr. Greeley shall say, if it is
true, that he is opposed to rebel pensions.
1t is quite willing that Mr.. Greeley should
escape by present declaration to that ef-
feet, if he does not at the same time deny
what is true, or even if he denies a little
that is true; since it desires, for the credit
of our politics, that the rebel pension issue
should be taken out of the canvass.
But the Republican gives notice that on
the main charge, of Democratic intrigue
through which was consummated the
political treason of Mr.. Greeley, he is not
to be permitted to escape. That charge
does in no respect depend on the rebe
pension issue; and Mr.. Greeley, fully
convicted on the original indictment
will be shown to be guilty on his let
ters alone, whether he published them ol
y not.