The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-27
CAN THEY BE TRUSTED?
Who are Greeley's Supporters, and
What are the Purposes AMI
mating Them
An Able and Lucid Statement of the
Issues Of the Campaign.

An Able and Lucid Statement of the
Issues Of the Campaign.
| From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
| The Springfield Republican, the fairest
and most conscientious of the former
Republican journals which still support
Mr.. Greeley's candidacy, published a
significant article, s.,few days since, in
which, under the head of "Can They
be Trusted 2" it essayed to present the
true issue in the pending campaign. In
the first part of its argument it conced.
ed the point that Mr.. Greeley would be,
and ought to be, defeated if those who
are supporting him could be proven
guilty Of a desire to make way with the
results of the war, to overturn the con.
stitutional guarantees of universal free
dom and citizenship, and either to
again attempt the disruption of the
Government or to force the payment of
Southern war debts and the pensioring
of rebel soldiers. The Republican does
not bubble over the point that it is
Mr.. Greeley, and not his supporters.
that is 10 be voted for; but, with can.
dor that is refreshing just now in Con-
federate organs, it comedies that an Ad.
ministration must take its character
from the overwhelming majority of the
men who support it, and, therefore, if
the supporters of Mr.. Greeley can be
truthfully charged with the purpose to
do or attempt to do any of these these
things before enumerated, he should be
defeated were he ten times the better
man that Mr.. Bowles believes him to
be.
The candor of the Republican very
greatly simplifies the true issue involv-
ed in the contest between Greeley and
Grant; and agreeing with it fully in
this proposition, we are willing to accept
argument upon the second and vital
question: What is the purpose of Mr..
Greeley's supporters, and in what direc-
tion will they color and shape his Ad-
ministration To learn this properly, a
man of common sense, ready to apply
the same rules of action TO this duty
that he would to the commonest affair
of every day busi ess, must 60 at once
| to those who can speak &c cat&edra for
| the great majority of MIR. Greeley's sup.
| porters. For we suppose, by this time,
no man is insane enough to believe
| that nine-tenths of his followers will be
| other than Democratic, and that the
most ultra and virulent democratic
type developed in the past fifteen or
twenty years. The men who precipi-
tated the country into rebellion who
upheld the fortunes Of the Confederacy
to the last; whose treason cost us the
long and bloody war; who sacrificed a
| half millions of lives and billions OF
treasure in the mad effort to establish a
Government whose cornerstone should
be slayery-to use the words of the Con.
| federate Vice President-the men who,
in ante.rebellion days murdered,
scoureed and maltreated men and wo.
men in the South who were suspected
of enmity to the "peculiar institution u
and who, in post bellum days organized
themselves in Ku-Klux Klans, and
have murdered twenty-three thousand
black and white Republicans for disa'
greeing with them in political belief
there are the men who to-day furnish
the overwhelming of Mr.. Greeley sup
port. The point of variance is not as &c
what these men have beer in the past
but whether their sudden conversion al
Baltimore, on tine 9th of July, was rea
and honest; whether these Sauls o.
Tarsus, who have for years been pursu
ing with the torch and sword the
friends of liberty and equality have, by
virtue of the Baltimore Convention, be
come the true and accepted Pauls t.
lead the hosts they have heretofore per
secuted to a better and higher politica
life.
Passing over the question whethe
Mr.. Greeley's success would entail an
other attempt to disrupt the Govern
ment without saying more than that
, should the South desire to secede, MI
Greeley is pledged to aid them in thei
secession to the full extent of his pow
er. let us adduce some evidence to shOy
that Southern men-and Northern, toe
for that matter-understand that MI
Greeley's election means the success @
the principles fought for in the r.be
lion, and payment to the South for tn
losses sustained by its treason.
The Lexington Mo- Caucasian, tn
, nrGC paper III Tic OHlteu cthtCo W nam
r Mr.. Geeley for the Presidency, and t
t whose editor Mr.. G. addressed friend
S ly letter on the Presidential question
3 has for it's platform to-day: estate Soy
ereignty! White Supremacy and h
, pudiationl Down with the Fifteent
/ Bedamnedmentl Total Reputation {
, the Monstrous Yankee War Debt il
' Cured in the prosecution of an uncor
stitutional crusade Mr.. Greeley col
4 ceded the right of secession, and
a course the war to prevent it was vi
}. constitutional for the Accomplishment
8 of an unconstitutional and horrid pu
q pose!" This is the original Greele
8 platform.
I Hon. Jere. S. Black, mr.. Buchanan
Attorney General, the ablest juri
IS who espouses the Greeley cause, d
J. clares, in his letter advocating M
n Greeley's election, that "the Reco
& struc.ion laws were unjust bills OF a
tainder," and the Fourteenth and r
y teenth Amendments are "frauds upt
e the spirit and purpose of the Cons
tuition"
y Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee,
of a speech at Nashville, says Greeley
s. ain favor of restoring to the South b
pristine rights"
Hon. j. s. Golladay, NJ. c. from Ke
n. tucky, said at the same meetin
=. WGreeley ,oas IN favor Of paying The So'
=. for he, slaves, and believe he IS STILL"