The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-08-24

A BRAVE AND MANLY LETTER.
Those of the Illiberal faction who
are so fond of circulating the SANDER
that the Liberal nominee for Pres
ident has no firmness, will do well
to read the following extracts from
Horace Greeley's letter to the Union
League Club, the members of which
had threatened to expel him for be-
coming one of Jefferson Davis
bondsmen. The letter was printed
in the Tribune of May %, 1867:
By these Presents Greeting-To
Messrs. George w. Blunt, John A Ken
needy, John o. Stone, stephen Hyatt,
and thirty other members of the Union
League Club:
Gentleman: l was favored on the
10Th instant, by an official note from
our ever courteous President, John
jay, notifying me that a requiSitiOn
had been presented to him for "a sPe-
cial meeting of the club, at an early
day, for the purpose of taking into con
tie conduct of Horace Gree
ley, a member of this club, who has
become a bcndsman for Jefferson
Davis, late chief officer of the Rebel
Gentlemen, I shall not attend your
meeting this evening. l have an en-
out of town, and shall keep
it. / do do not recognize you as caPa-
BILE of judging, Or even fully appre-
bending me. You evidently regard
me as q weak sentimentallSt, misled
by a maudlin philosophy.
/ arraign you as narrow mlnded
who would like to be use
full to a great and good cause, but don't
know how. Your attempt to base a
great enduring party on the hate and
necessarily engendered by q
bloody civil raj is as though you
plant a colony on IAN iceberg
had somehow drifted into a
ocean,. / tell you here that,
out of a life earnestly devoted to the
good Of human kind, your children
will select my going to Richmond and
hat bond as the wisest act, and
will feel th; { it did more for freedom
and humanity than all of you were
to do, though you had lived
to the age Of Methuselah.
l ask nothing Of you, then, but that
you proceed to your end by a direct,
manly way. Don't slide off in
to a mild resolution of censuTe, but
move the expulsion which you pro-
posed, and which I deserved l deserve
any reproach whatever. All care for
is, that you make this . square stand
up fight, and record your judgment
by yeas and nays. l care not how few
vote with me, nor how many vote
against me; for I know that the latter
will repent it in dust aud ashes before
three years have past. Understand,
once for all, that l dare you and defy
you, and that l propose to fight it out
on the line that I have held from the
days Of Lees surrender. So long as
any man was seeking to overthrow our
Government he was my enemy; from
the hour in which he laid down his
arms he was my formerly erring coun-
tryman.
So long as any is at heart opposed to
the national unity, the Federal author
ity, or to that assertion to the equal
rights of all men which has become
practically identified with loyalty and
nationality, I shall do my best to de-
prive him Of power; but Whenever he
ceases to be thus, 1 demand his restor:-
ton to alLpriviieges Of American citi.
zenship. I give you fair notice that ]
shall urge the Reimbursement Of those
now prescribed for rebellion so soon a.
1 shall feel CONFIDENT that this course is
CONSTANT with the freedom Of the
blacks and the unity of the republic,
and thai l shall demand q recall Of all
now in exile only for participating in
the rebellion Whenever the country
shall have been 70 thoroughly pacified
that its safety will not thereby be en-
dangered.
Aud so, gentleman, hoping that you
will henceforth comprehend me some-
what better than you have done, l 70
main yours,
Horace GREELEY.
New York, May q, 1867.
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