Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-10-30
Greeley's Former Views.

&
and sayings Of Mr.. Greeley. They are
submitted without a word of comment,
farther than to a.k how has Mr.. Greeley
found it in bis heart to become the Pres.
idential candidate of the men that he thus
reviled, and how can those reviled sup.
port him:
Gen. Grant will be far better quail
fed for that momentOus trust in 1872
than he was in 1868 '-HORACE GREE
LEy, January 5. 1871.
Let the soldier understand that he il
enrolled to fight parcel of knayes. all
liable to indictment, trial. sentence and
e1ecution-mta who have wickedly dis
turbed the peace of the world without
provocation-men with whom no term'
are to be made-Dick Turpins. who cal
themselves generate, and Captain kyds
who call themselves commanders A
thief is thief-a liar is LARA PERU
ror is a pe,juror: and every Southern
traitor, who is morally responsible. is all
three together - Horace GREELEY
August Ii, 1872.
Il he brain, the heart the soul of the
present Democratic party is the rebel Fl
emcnt at the South, with its Northern
allies and sympathizers 1t is rebel at
the core io-day.''-HORACE GREELEY
February, 1871.
Every one who chooses to live by
pugilism. or gambling or harlo,ry. with
nearly every keeper of a tipping house
is politically a Democrat '-lloRAcE
GREELEY, January Z, 1868.
Point wherever you please to an
election district which you will pronounce
morally ro.len given up in great part te
debauchery and vice. whose voters sub
sist mainly by keeping policy offices
gambling houses. grog shops and darker
deus of infamy, and that district will BE-
found at nearly or quite every electio,
gi,i"s a ::%:::j;ority for that which styles
itself the Democratic party. Take al
the haunts of debauchery in the land
and you will find nine tenths of thei
master spirits active partisans of thai
same Democracy y"-HoRAcE GREELEY
"Msy it he written on my grave that
was never its follower the Democrat,
party. and lived and died in nothing it.
debtor. r."-HORACE GREELEY.
Il have no doubt that the policy you
suggest is that which your party tht
Democrats ought to adopt. 80 You only
err as to the proper candidate. an
not the man you need Your party Ii
mostly Free Trade and l am ferociou:
Protectionist | have no doubt, that
might be nominated and elected by you'
help, but it would place US all in u false
position "-HoRaCE GREELEY, in 1rtG
une, December 80, 1871.
president Grant has expressed pre-
cisely the opinion we should have ex
pected from him concerning the Crate
Brown movement in Missouri. He con
siders it an effort to disorganize the Re
publican party without cause. which nc
good Republican who has the interests OF
the country and of the party at hear
can fail zealousl v to combat. How any
man protesting Republicanism can fail t.
take the same view is one of the myste
ries which only Revenue Reformers
Tammany Republicans and other politi
cal nondescripts can be expected to un
der.tand "-Tibune, Sept. Il. 1870.
The baffled survivors of slavery still
cling to the wreck of their fallen dragon
and hope to set it again on its pedestal
If they can no Longer buy and sell men
women and children they can s,ill de
grade and orpr-ss the image of God -
They can pretend to fear that four mil
lions of humble. de-pised. money! less
landless blacks, just freed from the
shackles they had worn for ages, will
rule and domineer over twenty-eigh
millions of comparatively educated, in
telligent, wealthy whites if the law.
shall treat them exactly alike. Yet thu
hypocrItes or towards who set up this
pretense boast of their superiority to ne
groes. Why. then. do they act az il
consciously inferior to them l'-New
York TriJuae
Republicans! Gods finger has writ
ten plainly on the eventful history ofou,
last ten years His approval of your cause
and His resolve that it shall triumph -
1t must be that the great work of rem.
dering this a land of equal rights and
equal laws rhall go on to it's perfect con.
summation. Blessed are they vi ho shall
have proved faithful to it alike in dark
and in brighter hours. On, then. to the
struggle of tomorrow - Tribune, No
rember 4, 1867