The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-09-20

Cnat as such nominee he would have
been indorsed at Baltimore? Ri
Horace Greeley is the nan the DEM
ocrats picture him, If they are so
confident he will abuse no trust,
why Il il that the men who to-day
so loudly clamor for his election
have in the past as loudly cIamored
for his defeat? Why is it that such
rare excellence, acknowledged by
them since he became their eandi-
date, was not discovered before
He has been a public man for thir-
ty years, has denounced the Demo-
Gratis and savagely been den ounced
by them, yet ell of a sudden he
drops his weapon and they drop
theirs, ana the "horse-thieves," the
"freebOoters," 'tthe "conspirators,"
"the traitors to law and order" as
he once knew them, resolve them
selves into 'fhonest men, demand
ing reform, /" while the s'crazy fanat-
ic," the "ranting old abolitionist,"
as they once knew him, becomes
the great Reformer," the 'hope of
the nation" and the chosen candi-
date of the Democra tic party.
What Greeley thought of this party
only few months ago can be best
understood by quoting his own Ian
guage. In his speech at Warren,
Trumbull county, Ohio, September,
18th, 1871, less than a year ago, he
said:
81 saw the other day a suggestion
that / would probably be the best
Democratic candidate to run against
General Grant for President. I
thought that about the most absurd
thing ever heard of. If the DEM
ocratic party were called upon to
decide between General Grant and
myself, / know that their regard for
what they must call principle would
induce them to vote against me.
Why? I am 8 decided enemy of
that party even in its most respect
able aspects"
And yet this self-proclaimed "de-
cfded enemy" to the Democratic
party, In its "most respectable
aspects" is to-day the nominee of
that party to run against General
Grant for President. If Horace
Greeley thought the nero rumor SO
absurd thing, what would he have
thought if he could have seen him.
self as others see him now?
Is there q Republican 80 blind as
not to see in the published CORES
pondence between the saint and the
Devil the triumph of the latter over
his saintship? Greeley has been a
formidable antagonist in the past,
and the Democratic party know it.
To disarm him in the future, or to
turn his weapon against his own
party, was strategy on their part, but
to permit it was treachery on his.
Greeley in the field could not be
conquered, so Greeley in the camp
was bought, and the price was the
Presidency. If any Republicans
cling to Horace Greeley on account
of his past services to the party we
would point them to the brilliant
career of Benedict Arnold up to the
hour when his ambition for power
led him to attempt the betrayal of
the post he commanded. The hon.
ors of yesterday can never justify
the shame of to-day, nor shield the
traitor to country or principle from
the Just censure of the future.
We have no desire to do injustice
to Mr.. Greeley. He may be the in
nocent victim of this Democratic
plot to regain possession of the
Government, a plot concocted by
Democrats North and South and
perfected at Baltimore, or he may
be the designing demsgogue that
some believe him. Whichever he
is, the result of his perfdy, if sue
cessfnl, will be the same. He may
be blind with ambition, and hon
estly believe that the millennium has
come. He may believe, and induce
few others to believe, that South
ern Democrats have accepted in
good faith the fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments and the leading
party measures of the Republican
can party, but from our knowledge
of Mr.. Greeley's intelligence we arc
not prepared to believe that he has
been duped into an honest accept
snce of this belief. We know that
his nature is confiding, his DISPOSE
ton benevolent; that he was led in
1864 to meet Jacob Thompson &
Co., in Canada, while they were car
rying out the details of plot to
burn his own city, and took council
and gave advice, believing them to
be honorable gentlemen, deslrous
for peace. We know how easy he
has been made the victim of duplic-
ity in the past, and how open he
will be to the same in the future !;
but in this barter with the Demo.
cratic party we believe he fully un-
derstands the nature of the bargain,
and has fully determined to betrry,
not only the party, but its prlnci-
Piles into the hands of the Southern
Democracy.
This Is the political danger which
threatens the country. 1t is becom-
ing more apparent every day. It
IL shown not only in the words but
the actions Of Southern Democrats
and their Northern allies. IfDem-
Ocrats have honestly accepted the
Republican creed, why are they so
anxious to defeat the party which
gave this creed existence? If they
submit in good faith to measures
which but yesterday they bitterly
opposed, why ask the overthrow of
the party which made these meas
ures possible in the face of their OPP
position? If their whole move
ment is not q cheat and q sham, hid
ing Its real designs under the spe-
cious plea of reform, why do they
denounce the Administration as tyr
anical, and call upon the people to
change the political complexion of
Congress The answer is as plain
as the question. They are bent up
on cheating the people into the be-
lief that they honestly accept the
situation, but should they obtain the
control of the Government they in
tend to change its laws to snit their
purposes. What does the mere as
sertion ''that they submit, " "accept
in good faith" amount to, coming