The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25

vitality important is IL in my Judgment
that the national Republican ticket shall
succeed. Democratic rule very nearly cost
us the life of the nation. God forbid that
we should come again under this rule The
return of the Democratic party TO power
be IL with Seymour OF Hoffman or CIR reeley
at its head-is the one thing we have to
dread.
The men who to-day support Greeley,
who nominated him first and last, are
the very men who years ago said that a
negro had no rights in this country, that
a white man was bound to respect; these
are the men who have said, and now
say, 'this is white mans government
created by white men, aud for white
men," 1t was the men who to-day sup
port Greeley in New York that hung
negroes to the New York city lamp
posts in 1868, while lees rebel army
was invading Pennsylvania.
But we are told that there are Glib
eral Republicans" at the bottom of the
Greeley movement; that the nation is in
great, grand and glorious struggle to
throw off "Caesarism," &C. "Liberai
Republtcans!' why the very name arro-
gantly assumed indicates its true char
acter to wit; the greatest political hum,
bug of any age. 1t is the farce played
of at the end Of the chase for office;
the outburst of Indignation becansc
neither the people nor the President
could see in them what they did not
possess, viz: qualifications and integrity
for office.
IF these so-called Liberal Republicans
have any measures of reform, or have
ever expressed any, they are after the
crawfsh order, for the only one we ever
heard of was that of going back and
Shaking hands over the bloody chasm"
Let the coloreed men North and South
remember that Horace Greeley and
other Democrats, a:e the men who de-
nounced the law furnishing the Ku
Klux bands of the South, as only in.
tended to further the interests of Gen.
Grants reelection, they called it Grant
ism, Caesarism, Military Despotism
and other names too numerous to men.
ton.
No one questions the existence of the
Ku Klux in the Southern States, ques.
tions their murders, ROBBERY, arson, and
other crimes. If. they did they could
very readily consult the records of the
courts that tried them, and the con.
fessions of those who are to-day enjoying
the changes of a felou's life in the
Albany penitentiary, convicted of the
basest crimes on the entire catalogue OF
crimes, convicted upon their own con.
fession, or by the testimony of compe
tent witnesses.
When was Horace Greeley honest, il
ever? When he, through the columns
of his Tribune was urging upon the
President aud Congress, less than a year
age, the passage Of what is known as the
"Ku Klux Law" authorizing the
President to suspend the writ Of habea:
corpus, that the worst Williams upon
which the sun has ever shown should be
brought to justice; urging it as a ne
cessity to protect the loyal citizen of the
South, white and black in the possession
of their property, homes, and families
or now, wheu he is, through the columns
Of the same paper deuouncing the Law
as cruel, unjust, and military terrorism
to further the designs of au unscrupu.
lous military tyrant in position and
power.
The colored men of this country are
citizens of the United States, thanks tc
the great National Republican Party
with Gen. Grant and Henry Wilson as
its standard bearers leading it to victory
next November, these rights must anc
shall be preserved.