The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-03
GREELEY AS A TRAITOR.

The audacious and reasonable ut
terence of Mr.. Greeley at Pittsburg
has startled the country. If there
were the slightest possibility that.
this man should ever reach the Pres
idency of the United States; if it.
were in the ken of honest people to
foresee his ever occupying any posi-
fion of responsibility in the national
government if the corrupt agencies
of party chiefs, the accidents of can
vass, or the miraculous interference
of power not human, could saddle
this added imbecile and whining
traitor upon the nation-this Pitts
burg speech of his would be the
close Of his already disgraced cam
paign. IT is only the knowledge
that what he says is Of no earthly
consequence that enables him to
g squirt himself with ludicrous impuni-
ty. The expression Of such senti-
ments in 1868 would have sent him
to Fort Lafayette or across the reb-
ell lines, whittier .honester men were
forced to go for less reason.
But the mans speech must be as
deliberately received by the country
as it was deliberately uttered by
him. 1t was willful bid for united
Southern support. 1t was intended
as a checkmate to O'Conorism in the
South. 1t was uttered in Pittsburg,
to gather from the occasion of the
Soldiers and Sailors Convention
additional venom and accelerated
force. It was thurst in the very IA
ces of the Prisoners of War who
were still in Pittsburg-as much Of
each as Andersonville and Libby
permitted to be therein order to
taunt them, and give to their jailors
the satisfaction Of the taunt. The
speech was the Great Southern Cam
paign Document of the Republican
Democratic Confederation. There
will be repeated from it on every
Southern stump from now until No
vember the rallying cry which we
quoted yesterday;
.- L DEMAND THAT THERE SHALL BE
AN OPEN FREE DISCUSSION BEFORE
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE. If, AFTER
AN HONEST, UNTERRIFIED, UNCON-
STRAINED VOTE, IF THE PEOPLE OF
THE SOUTH SAY THEY WANT DIsUN-
ION, L WILL CONSENT TO IT.
Frantic effort will be made to ex-
plain this damnable treason away.
Vallandigham said no more. Mill
gan asked no more. McMaster
wrote no more. Hunter was expell-
ed from the United States Senate
for less. Davis claimed no more.
Every unhung rebel in the South
will toss his grey hat in the air in
response. The Union flags that
have been torn from the Adjutant
Generals office in Maryland, and
showed away in a lumber-room, will
now be rent in tatters, and the Frags
scattered in the rebel winds. The
entire secession minority Of the
South will shout with new hope,
hope including more radiant promise
than the candidacy Of Jefferson Da-
Wis would have done in 1860. On
Greeley's hands rests the crime Of
re-opening every question which a
decade of blood and suffering seemed
to have settled.
The speech cannot be explained
away. It is the indentical utterance
of the same man in January, 1860.
1t was not stray thought; chance
expression Of a politician aiming to
be prudent, and in the effort, proving
himself without prudence. Greeley
never pretends prudence. His
claim is Candor. The model which
he despises in all craftsmanship is
Talleyrand. he never speaks to
conceal his thought. His claim is
Candor. He would rather be Peck
sniff than Talleyrand. By his can
dor let him be judged. BY the judg-
ment let him be condemned.
Poor fool! He spoke his own ep-
itaph when he wrote Of another and
a better man, "the Presidential CAD
fly crazes when it stings." Chicago