Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-01
Greeley IN the Past.

Judge Johnson. in q recent speech
in New York, briefly sums up some
of Mr.. Greeley's former positions
thus:
1--WE all remember how, when Sc
cesslon was trembling in the balance,
his 'let tue hayward sisters depart
in peace" perhaps turned the scale.
We all remember the cry of On TO
Richmond" and the wall of despair
that followed. None will forget tie
laundering folly of bis Niagara nego-
tiations, nor the surprising meanne =
of his refusal to exculpate Mr.. Lin
coin from responsibility in that mat
ter We all remember the browning
absurdity of his proposal, when the
rebellion was at its lest gasp, to buy
peace by paying $500, 900, 900 for
the emancipated slaves. Had his
present scheme been antedated eight
years, and his Cincinnati convention
of that day supplaDted Mr.. Lincoln
by the substitution of this moon
struck philosopher, this sage of Chap.
paqua, as his friends delight to call
him, into what night would not this
shipwrecked nation have Como down
TO death. Nor would the result have
been much less disastrous to all the
business interests of the country if
his financial views has been allowed
full sway. In 90 against legal ten
der money in GA, he denounced
those who favored resumption of spe.
Gle payment as public enemies; in
'66, when allitransactions and values
were adjusted to the enormous bulk
Of paper money, be advocated imme-
date resumption ofspecie payments.
To those who humbly inquired how
this was to be brought about be an
swered with oracular gravity, the
way to resume is to resume. And
being further pressed for expIana~
tion-for financial men like to see
their way clear before moving, know
ing well that in our complex modern
society financial disaster brings all
other evils in its train he Dispatch
es the subject with the assurance
that untaxed six per cent. bonds TO
the extent which should turn out TO
be needfuI, would remove all obsta-
cles. Another year brought a more
fearful panacea for all financial ills.
1t was to pay the debt by taxation
in ten years by the annual levy Of
$500, 900 900. The way TO test a
mans fitnesss for power is to consid-
err hat practical consequences would
follow upon the carrying out of the
measures he recommends. Applying
this test, is there any man who has
or who hopes TO have property hon
orably acquired by labor and skill,
who would be willing TO confide the
power of Government to Mr.. Gree
ley 2"
Let the people ponder well these
things. Let them inv estigste the
purity of the character of President
Grant, the firm integrity Of all bis
conduct, the stability of the financial
affair OF the country under his Ad-
ministratiOn, the great prosperity
that prevails in consequence thereof,
and then imagine what ruin change
to tn tickle management of Horace
Greeley, would bring upoL he coub-
try, and the common sense Oh every
business man will compel him to
stand by President Grant, the hon.
est, upright, incorruptible man and
able statesman, in preference to 60
ing for vain old weathercock of q
man, who gives the lie to his whole
life by becoming the leader of the
party whose every action IN the past
be has professed to dispise. Believ-
ing that God is just, and that the
great majority of the American peo-
pie are both sensible and honest, we
cannot for a moment believe such
calamity as the election Of Horace
Greeley to the Presidency will ever
be permitted to fall upon this now
happy country and people.