Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-06-27
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Before he became n Candidate
for the Presidency.

Let us bring Horace Greeley into court
before he was a Presidential candidate
before Herod and Plate had joined hands.
In June, 1868, the following is the testi-
mony of our witness prior to his becoming
a renegade:
Upon General Grants accession to the
Presidency a number Of those who had
supported his election, with some who
had not, sought Office at his hands or ex-
pected him to bestow it unasked, He was
unable to crafty their aspirations. II n n
"Their lamentations mingled with the
bowls of the disappointed, made a doleful
disappointed, whereof the only meaning
ydeducible runs thus General Grant is
found wanting-his administration is a
failure !"
Failure 2" how? in what? Have we
not peace and plenty in the land? Is not
our flag displayed and respected on every
sea? What foreign foe molests or threatens
US? Who fears insurrection at home or
invasion from abroad !? In which If the
thirty-six States are the masses wanting
work, disconnected, suffering?
Consider our financial condition.
Nearly every State and municipality pay
ing off debts incurred in raising men for
the war, while the national debt has been
reduced nearly thirty millions in the four
months that General Grant has had his
hands on the helm. The public expendi-
ture is falling off on every side, while the
revenue is up to high water mark.
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fy some eager aspirations, and has there
by incurred some intense hatreds. These
will not and do not fail and his admins
tration Will prove at least equally vital.
We shall hear ~lamentation after lamenta-
ton over his failure. from those whose
wish is farther to the thought: but the
American people let them pass UNDECIDED.
Their strong arms bore him triumphantly
through the war and into the White
House and they still uphold and sustain
him, THEY NEVER FAILED, AND NEVER
WILL" ~
On the 29th of September, last, in a
draft for n platform endorsed by Mr..
Greeley, it was said of the A~6ministra-
ton that /:
It abolished slavery.
1t led il the suppression Of the rebel
lion.
1t preserved and enlarged the Union.
1t promptly reduced the enormous
( forces thus required to . peace footing.
{ 1t has reduced the debt over two hun
dred and Fifty millions of dollars in the
last three years.
1t has simultaneously reduced public
taxation over two hundred and fifty mil
lions of dollars per annum.
1t hrs preserv ed peace on the frontier.
If has won a friendly adjustment of the
threatening troubles with Great Britain.
In February, 1871, Mr.. Greeley said:
"We like General Grant; but we care
far more for Republican ascendency than
for any mans personal fortunes. 1t is in
our view of great importance that the OPP
position shall be kept out of power.
For q Democratic national triumph
means a restoration to power of those who
deserted their seats in Congress and their
places under the last Democratic Presi--
dent to plunge the country into the Red
Sea of Secession and Rebellion. Though
you paint an inch thick. TO this complex
ion you must come ct last. The brain,
the heart, the soul. of the Democratic
party is the rebel element at the South
with its Northern allies and sy~mpathizers.
It is rebel at the core to-day. =
at would bail the election of a Demo-
cratic President in 1872 as a virtual re-
versal of the Appomattox surrender. 1t
would come into power with the hate,
the chagrin, the wrath, the modification,
Of ten bitter years, to impel and guide
its steps. 1t would hail the tidings of
national bankruptcy with unalloyed glad
ness and unconcealed exultation. What
ever chastisemcnt may be deserved by our
sins, we must hope that this dis
grace and humi.iation win be spared u.s.,