Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-23

When the above 'item' pasted at the
top of half-sheet note, was pulled from
an envelope, we had not the faintest
recollection of ever having seen it be-
fore. But, as our friend says, we find
it was printed among the political
items" in the Monitor of the date men
toned. 1t is one item among thous-
and, picked up here and there, among
our exchanges from all parts of the
country; and to now undertake to tell
where it originated, would be too much
like boarding ones self and saving wood
for nothing, to be profitable. So long
as it did not originate with us it makes
no difference where it came from. 1t
was reproduced in the Monitor of the
I'd, and there is no getting over that,
sure. We are. aware that there are some
little things that occasinally get into
newspapers, such times as these, which
might be, and often are, by some one of
opposite views, taken up and criticised
until there is neither hair, hide, tallow
nor bones left of the whole statement.
We think with our friend that the writ.
CT of the item, put it a little strong
when he says that Mr.. Greeley was plot
ting to let the South 60 with her slaves.
As for our going to work to rake up
Testimony to ''substantiate" what we
don't believe, we are not going to do
any such thing. We have too
much respect for the good Mr.. Greeley
did in the days of his youth, to kick
the childhood of his old age. Whatever
course he took during the war. he meant
no harm to the Union, and there is few
men that supposes he did. The fact of
the case, as we look at it, was that when
the old man heard the booming artillery
and saw the signal rockets going up, he
was frightened nearly out of his boots.
Perhaps he had an idea that the .'fre-
eaters were going to drive the yankees
up among the Esquimaux and burn the
North pole, lombard New York and de,
stroy the Tribune office before the North
would have time to gather up strength
enough to push them back. At any rate
it seems that he thought that something
must be done,- and in the darkest houl
of the war he scampers off to Niagara
Falls to confer with some rebel agent tc
see if some sort of peace could not
be patched up and the war stopped
Could this have been done and the ma
tion's honor saved, it would truly have
been feather in the cap of Mr.. Greeley
But how could it have been done at &
time when the rebel leaders declared
that rather than give up their independ
ence and their slaves they would "fgh
till they filled the Internal regions 81
full of yankees that their heels would
stick out. And was not Horace Gree
ley in favor of letting the Union split
and letting the South keep their slaves
if thereby we could only have peace
Horace Greeley was not plotting t.
let the South 90 with her slaves, bu
had his advice been followed she would
have so gone. Did not Horace Greeley's
editorials call forth the rebuke of Abra
ham Lincoln as early in the war a.
1862 [? This in our mind is enough t.
substantiate the fact that Mr.. Greeley
course was not very encouraging to Mr.
Lincoln, who knew that the only way
to end the rebellion, was to grasp it will
hand of metal. As for General Grant
lighting to keep the South in the Union
we claim that was just what he wa
lighting for; and after the emancipa
ton proclamation, he still kept on fight
ing, and the course he was pursuin.
could have no other effect but to max,
the black man free"
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