The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-10-11
DID GREELEY SAY THAT

DID GREELEY SAY THAT
This question has been put to us on
divers occasions when a good Democrat
would read something in the Radical pa
pes, purporting to have been written by
Greeley and published in the Tribune
years ago, wherein he gave expression to
some opinion not in accord with the prin-
ciples Of Southern people. The following
is fair sample Of the stuff alluded to,
and the Radical papers spread it before
the world continually;
"when the rebcllious traitors are over
whelmed in the field and scattered like leaves
before the angry winds, il must not be TO re-
turn to peaceful and contented homes They
must find poverty at their hresides and see pri-
vations in the anxious eyes Of mothers and in
the rags Of children. Horace GreeI,y.
Now that this was published in the
Tribune. while Mr.. Greeley was one of
It's editors, we do not aeny. but that MIR.
Greeley wrote it we do positively deny,
for such a sentiment never had room in
his great, good heart. To have given it
utterance would have been to belle his
present and all past life and his history.
Could Greeley have bailed Mr.. Davis
with such a sentiment nesting in his
heart? Could he have lived the humble
and almost blameless life he has lived,
and then utter such beastly sentiment
as that' You ask then. "if Greeley did
not write it, who didYg You must know
that the New York Trib,n has dozen
or more editors, any one Of whom could
have written it, You ask again, and
say, "Wss not Mr.. Greeley apprised of
it before il was published, and could he
not have refused to permit its publication
If contrary TO hissentiments?" To which
we reply no. That great daily paper
could not be looked over by any one man,
before contents were put in type, and
Mr.. Greeley or any other editor Of such
a paper, would have huge task before
him were he to undertake to supervise
and correct every little squib that appears
ia its c,lumns, before the paper went to
press. We have not deemed it necessary
to give a denial to these silly EXTRACTS
from the Tribune" believing, as We did,
that no man of ordinary common sense
could think Mr.. Greeley capable of such
utterances. But there are few who
seem to be silly enough to think that ev-
cry line, letter and sentence in Mr.. Gree
lcy's paper, was written by him and are
she sentiments Of the mans heart.
Some of the Radical papers have culled
the back numbers of the Tribune for
the past twelve or fifteen years back, and
found few sentiments therein which
they parade at the head of their columns
rs "Groeley's utterances". These few
sentiments are opposed to the South and
Democracy, and are published for the
purpose of making enemies for Greeley
and converts to Radicalism or Bourbon
ism. Anything to beat Greeley" is their
motto, and they will stoop to any low
ubterfhge to accomplish their ends.
But even admit, for the sake of further
argument, that Greeley did, at one time,
entertain opinions which were not in our
iavorY Is that any reason why he should
always entertain themy Any reason
why he should not now turn from them
and from the camp of Radicalism with
all their rabid and rampant ofice-holders
and otiicsseekers; and become a Liberal,
Conservative man and politician, and
unite with US now in the great struggle
TO free the enslaved and oppressed people Of
the South, II man is to be held respou-
sible for everything he has done, who of
us would not blush for very shame, at
the bare recollection of many Of themy
Let US, therefore, be content TO know that
however much Mr.. Greeley may have
diiesed from US during the late war
However much his heart was fixed upon
the preservation of the union and the
liberation Of our slaves; those are accom-.
plished facts; and Mr.. Greeley now heart
iy unites with thousands of his old party
and thousands Of Democrats in thu
grand crusade against the powers of dark
ness and Of Radicalism. Suffice it to
know that he is with us in the effort 10
throw of the yoke Of bondage worn too
long already by our brethren Of the
South; and. by the help Of God, the ban
aers Of Liberal Republieanism and Of
true Democracy will unite their folds in
peace and triumph over the White
House.
Drmso the past three months, ffty-