The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-29
Democrats 40 ruIe IL Greeley should
be elected.

Every body in the North understands
perfectly well that the Democratic party
has not-one into this Liberal bust
ness simply to elect Greeley and thus
inaugurate q modified sort of Republi-
canism at Washington-nota at all. They
are playing desperate game Of life Or
death, and il they win they expect to be
the gamers in more ways than one SO
far the Northern wing OF the party have
been shrewd enough to keep quiet and
hold their tongues as to their great ex-
pectations in the future, but in the South
they begin 10 speak out and tell the people
what they expect under Gseeley. Gov
ernor Brown OF Tenue ssee at a recent
Greeley joliifca ton meeting at Nash
VILE, said
He supported Greeley because he loved the South
bailed Jeff Davis, advocated universal amnesty and
had knfolk. lie did not What Greeley had
said in the past against the South and its nstit utions
1t 5 enough for him to know that he in favor
OF restoring her to her pristine rights GTeetey y
elected lyoutE pay le losses Of South and her
people on the high road wealth and happne
What are the tax payers Of the coun-
try to infer from this statement OF Cola
day, a Democratic Representative in
Congress made at the same time and
place
Greeley at the outset of the war, in favor of
letting the "waywari sisters depart in peace" and
afterward went single-handed and alone to meet
ocr Commissioners in Canada, to treat for peace.
Not Democrat in the North dared to so with him
manifested any desire TO 60 He was then in
favor of paying the South for her slaves and believe
he is still.
Greeley will pay the losses of the
South, says Governor Brown. Gree
| ley will pay the South for her slaves, !"
chimes in Goiiaday. That is to say, the
North must pay the losses incurred by
! the secessionists in the attempt to destroy
| the Union, which is not very cheerful
| outlook for an over taxed people who
| are already seriously burdened with
what the late Democratic rebellion cost
US /; but that is the way they look at it
down ia Nashville, They take a similar
view of it in Kentucky. At Greeley
meeting held in Lexington on the Sec
/ ond inst, Gen Hodge, one of the Gree
ley electors held this language:
haze devoted lifetime to the principles of the
| Democratic party. have grown gray in the adj
voccy of those principles, and each year the convc
tion has grown deeper that its fundamental princi-
piles the trHe ioundaon-stones for this Govern
nrent. have upon the battlefield thousands
throw away their lives in defense OF these principles
The graves of the gallant Southern dead who sleep
upon over! hiii-slee III tAe over ltose
| the night winds sigh are reminders to me OF the
lose for these principles which still linger IN my
means that John c. Rrecknridse and other chival-
rous sons OF the South shall be restored to their FOR
mer positions Of power and influence. Locking lack
upon the shattered and fruitiess hopes of the
| South now see that the equal rights aud Sover-
eighty of states shall be restored and my comrades
of rEe lost avse have not died in vain. This viii be
| victory tor that for which they fought Mr.. Gree
| ley promised o do ali he could to aid when we
get majority in Congress- L object 10 Grant be
| cause he is Republican because he is memhes
of that party which waged successfully the contest
! against my hrethern of the South. whose orators
kept the fires burning that filed the Federal ranks
| with soldiers l have heard ii said by some that
| the Democratic party shall have no part with Mir
| Greeley in the conquest; but feel that they VII
not be neglected. Not only Will Greeley not forge
who has helped i'm TO his position, but pledges
direct pleiges-have been given us by him that VIZ
| shall not be forgotten in case of success
Col. u. c. F. Breckenridge said a
! the same meeting.
on- mart of this bargain is to give the Liberia
| Repubiicans our votes in order to enable them t.
| succeed in the undertaking Their part of the bar
sons of the South TO drive out of the temple thes
vandals and thieves and 10 restore You, Democrats
10 their posi.to- They are to give you men OF IN IN
South, those places which the men OF IN
dominant party now hold don't care a picayun
for Horace Greeley. what he has said He rapres
ents the dawn of a new era to US an err that VII
restore power. VIII that not be victory enoug
for us? 1t may be in the words of friend iron
Woedfard blackburn that Greeley is purgator
Gran; helI7 The election of Greeley also
that the Federal soldiers, who stand pei
tetrlal menace over the South, shall see removes
| / ainstred OF seeing them here They have no bus
| ness here. This is not the place for them don
want to vote any longer under the shadow of bayS
nets. L want them out West where they ough
to he.
These men are not to be fooled wit
the idea that the Democratic party is t
gain nothing by the success of Greele
but they feel assured that his electio
| is to give them the full control of th
Government again as much as they eT
. loved under James Buchanan. And
> Is right that it should. They furnis
the capital that will set Greeley in bu:
;ness and he will be as seft wax 10 the
hands. Hath not the potter powt
over the clay? ?'-Ail,calkee .Senttst