New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-17
New York.


Pennsylvania in the track of routing and
annihilating the party of false pretenses,
fraud, murder, outrage, and SANDER, with
its standard bearer, Horace Greeley, who
thinks he might have been mistaken in hav-
ing been an anti-slavery man. Many old
State were so carried away with the nominal
ton of the Sage of Chappaqua as not to be
able to see at first the duplicity and false
pretenses of the party supporting him hence
in many of the counties of the State firm and
consistent Abolitionists were active in the
organization of Greeley clubs, and loud in
their advocacy of his election. They re-
membered what Mr.. Greeley had been to the
anti-slavery cause, and believed him earnest
in his love of freedom for all mankind, and
his support of the idea of giving the ballot
to the freedmen. Mr.. Greeley's demand for
the Ku-Klux law and for protection of the
negro in the exercise of the franchise, only
increased the affection of Old-time AbOli-
tiOnists and friends of the negro for him, and
his party in many parts of the State had the
strong advantage of having the support of
men who were known to be true to the ma
ton and to the cause of equal rights. Now
that Mr.. Greeley has shown by his speeches
in swinging around the circle that he is in
doubt as to the earnestness of his position
in old slavery times, and confesses to posi-
bility of his having been mistaken in aiding
by his pen these old time Aboltionsts and
friends of the slave, reaction has taken
place, which is shown by the feeling of dis
gust and contempt expressed by lifelong
anti-slavery men in the great State of New
York. These men have had their eyes opened
by the utterances of Horace Greeley on his
late tour, and by the murders of Georgia and
Baltimore, and Republican mass meetings
and ward meetings are becoming larger and
more enthusiastic by the return to their
proper camp of the once deluded friends of
the nation and of the principles of the great
Republican party.
Mr.. Greeley's attempt to curry favor with
prO-slavery rebels and Ku-Klux, and thus,
as he imagined, strengthen himself and make
his election sure, has been the means of div
ing both Democrats and Republicans from
his support in the great State of New York
The Democrats of the country have all along
counted upon such wholesale desertion
from the ranks of Republicanism to Horace
Greeley as to leave no room for doubt of his
election. This might have been true had
Horace Greeley, by "still tongue" shown
that "wise head,'' so generally thought to
belong to him; but, like the patient animal
in the robe of the king of beasts, his voice
has betrayed him, and those Republicans
who had gone into the new movement with
an idea that Horace Greeley had undergone
no change, and that he was rs much of a
Republican as ever, proved their contempt
for his duplicity in the elections of last week
in such manner as to send dismay and self
disgust into the hearts of the Democracy.
The Democracy have become so convinced
of Greeley's inability to draw from the Re-
publican party anything that does not leave
it stronger than ever, that many of them
in the State of New York positively assert
that they will not vote at all. The return
of the prodigals and the disgust Of the DEM
ocrats for Horace Greeley, glds the political
sky with bow Of promise of glorious success
for Grant and Wilson.