New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14

asked who was the man for whom all sucl
dirty work was dOne2 It was Grant, the
sO-called chief of the Republican party
When Grant was favOring the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise, Greeley was Opposing
It. When Grant was young and working
for the success Of Buchanan, Greeley was
labOring in behalf of Fremont and the
young Republican party. Grant himself
declared, in q letter to a friend, that he
never was an~ti-slaveryr and yet we to-day
see the men calling themselves Republicans
and sincere abOlitiOnists getting on their
knees and detling themselves to help Grant
and to SANDER their lifelong champion and
friend, Horace Greeley. Grant never ut.
tered a word in favor OF the equality of all
men before the law.
That uch men as Charles Sumner, L man
Irumbuil, Horace Greeley and others should
be hunted down by the base and corrupt fol
lowers Of Grant as not being good Repub-
licans is a little more than human nature
could bear. When the patriots just named
were making the battle for human freedom,
Logan Il other leaders OF the Grant party
were bowling their an&themas at them Tor
it. The truth had to be told, and it was
proper that the people should know these
things. The infamous attempts that had
been made, and hat were still being made,
to injura the character Of Horace Greeley,
NfA tAphEA ~ III ALAAAaAsLANA Va
every honest man in the land.
The Liberal Republican party forced no
man to vote against his convictions. 1t was
only the O~ficeh0ldeTs' convention that at
tempted this sort of thing. If you don't
like Horace Greeley, don't vote for him.
We want for President a man adapted to
the exigenCies Of the times. The whole life
Of Horace Greeley proves him to be the
man Of the hour, and he deserves the sup
nnrfs Vraf Ron Rn4lar gaya ~ Graa1av 80
elected President that slavery would be re-
established. Where was the cOlOred nan
who doubted the fidelity of Horace Gree
ley Z The Radical party were merely using
the cOlOred men for a selfish purpose, and
the sooner the poor deceived victims opened
their eyes to the fact, the better for them.
The rights Of the cOlOred men would al
ways be in danger so long as they organ
lied, and voted, and acted as a race. The
man who addressed a cOlOred ~assemblage
IN any other language than that which he
used before his white hearers, should be
spuTned as the vilest of demagOgues and an
enemy TO the black race,
Governor Palmer, then, after ~prOnouncing
Grant the most incapable man THAT ever
filed the presidential chair, proceeded to
draw a comparison between him and HOT-
ace Greeley. The picture presented was
by q little less startling than that recently
produced by Charles Sumner on the same
interesting subject, and made a deep i'm
preston on those who gazed upon it. The
Governor closed with an earnest appeal to
good men Of all parties to 60 to the polls
this fall and cast their vote for the honest
patriot and statesman, Horace Greeley, who
had so nobly taken the lead in the great re-
form movement which is to heal the dissen-
siOns between the two sections of the cOun-
try, and ~inaUgurate an era Of permanent
peace, tranquility, prosperity and happiness
and a just and proper administration Of the
affairs Of government.