The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-06-13

GREELEY AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The Protest OF Mother OF two Dead
Soldier SOHs-The Spirit OF 'G2--
Shall We Forget ?
To the Editor ofthe Leader:
lam an old lady sixty-three years
of age, and a widow. This is the first
time I ever attempted TO write an
article for publication. But / cannot
keep silent. 1t is out of the fullness
of my heart my pen speaketh. Dur
ing our late fearful war, / devoted
every energy of my being to work
ing for the poor, brave suffering men
and boys who were periling their
lives for their countTy's honor. I
deemed no sacrifice too great.
Two precious sons remained to me,
while the grass was growing green
over the graves of six. When the
first call was made for volunteers
after the fall of Sumpter, among the
foremost to rush forward and give his
name, was my darling bOy-literallY
a boy-only nineteen years of age.
CrOWding back the hot tears of agony,
L EdNG lily NOl5C4lE anu AAo1Cu nm
for the last time. He fell dead-shOt
through the head-in his first battle.
For his country he died, and early and
late from my aching, bleeding heart,
went forth the prayer, "Teach me,
oh Father, to say, Thy will be done"
Then, when the cry was heard for
"three hundred thousand more" l
gave up my last and only one! my
precious boy Harry. With stream
ing tears aud quivering heart-strings
[ babe him 90 at his "cOuntry's
need" That brave young boy was
slowly, cruelty murdered in Ander-
sonville. A few scrawled lines with
a pencil, on the margin of an old,
torn new spaper, was brought to me
by a more fortunate comrade who
was exchanged: "fI1ey are starving
as to death, mother. I shall ReUer see
yOu again, dear, dear mother. Pray
for yOilr boy HdTTyw That was all
the record left, save the after message,
Dead!
Then, when our war was over, and
his murderers were escaping un-
scatched, when JEFF. Davis and his
cold blOoded satellites were set at
large, unpunished, strove to still
the angry murmUrings of my heart
by remembering that there was a
just God, who hath said, "Vengeance
is mine" al will repay"
I am an old-fashioned woman, Mr..
Editor, one who has always felt that
woman's province was home. have
disproved of and cOldly ignored every
thing pertaining to the sO-called
''wOman's rights" movement. In fact
I have felt that wOman's clamoring
for the ballot was uncalled for, indeli-
cate and unwOmanly, having its
origin only in an ambition for nOtOri-
ETY. and a desire TO usurp a mans
place.
WhenI read of Horace Greeley's
nomination for the Presidency, the
bosom friend of JEFF Davis, his SYM
pathiZer and bOndsman-Jeff Davis,
the blaek-hearted traitor, the cold
blooded, inhuman butcher, the demo-
MAC slaughterer and tOrturer of thOus-
ands upon thousands of fathers and
sons, husbands and brothers-when 1
read, I repeat, that Greeley had been
nominated for the highest and most
honorable position in ourland, to take
the place once occupied by Washing
ton and the murdered Lincoln, I sat
paralyZed for hours. Had my country
fallen thus low? Was this to be the
reward of the wholesale massacres
and the fearful sacrifices made? Were
our dead soldiers to be thus insulted
in their graves? Was the grief of the
broken-hearted wives, mothers, sis
ters and daughters thus to be made a
mockery of? Just as well nominate
jeff Davis himself as his warm SYM
patizer, bosom friend and coadjutor,
Greeley. In fact, extreme sophistry
might possibly, by a mighty effort,
call up some things in partial eXten-
uation of some of Davis crimes, but
what can the most charitably inclined
urge for Greeley? Not one eXtenu-
ating shadow can be put forth for the
Northern renegade, who proff-
tered aid and sympathy, thus vir-
ually indorsing every barbarous act
of the arch traitor JEFF. and his min
ions. 1t has been said that Horace
Greeley had not one single relative
serving in the northern army, while
his wife did lose two cousins fighting
beneath the rebel flag. Perhaps this
solves the riddle of the renegade's
course. Can he be infatuated enough
to suppose that one brave Union sol
dier in the land, can so far forget his
self-respect and manhood as to be.
come his alder and abetter by helping
him into the White House?
To-day, Mr.. Editor, from my
inner-most heart, and for the first
time in my life, wish that it were
woman's privilege to vote. Old as ]
am, and shrinking as I always have
from publicity, I would make it my
mission to labor among my sex "frOm
early morn IT'LL dewy eve" for six
months to come, if need be, to prevent
the shadow of a possibility of thai
mans being elected. But he will not
be; he cannot be. 1t is a disgracC
heavy and black enough to the cOun.
try, that he has been nominated
Why there are surely in the lanC
staunch and true, in numbers sUff
Gent, to rally for the right and crush
down this vile attempt of the friend:
of treason and the South, to hoist in
to the White House aperson acknowl
edge to be the sworn ally of the rebels
through his warm sympathy with it!
leaders.
I, the now childless mother of tive
dead soldier boys, appeal to every
brave noble fellow who has worn thu
'tbIue," to be true to himself and hi
country, true to the memory of his fall
en- comrades, "who tho dead We
speaketh :" true to every principle o
honor, manhood and self-respect, il
this hour of temptation to himself
and peril to his country.
Wives and mothers, sisters AM
daughters, now is the ''silenU, gentl
/ home influence" to make itself felt
perhaps you feel "nO interest in poll
tics;n arouse yourself if never before
and think who the man is that Wa
nominated at the Cincinnati Conyen
ton for the next President. Thin
who and what Horace Greeley ha
proved himself to be! Even if yo
"have no interest in politics." thin
how you would feel were JEFF Davi
were nominated for the Presidency
Horace Greeley is second only to hin
He is his sworn ally and friend, th
man who stepped forward and rescue
the arch-demon from even q sligf
punishment. Did the cruel warsnatc
from from you loved one, a fatht
or brother, husband or son? then b
their blood which crieth to you froI
the grave, adjure you to use all tt
| influence you possess, to prevent tn
insult to the memory of your love
aud lost, and the sickening obloqU
and foul disgrace to our beloved cOuI
try, should Horace Greeley be eleete
to the Presidency. A. w. r.
Wouldn't Sell.
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