The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-10-26
WAYNE COUNTY,, IND, OCT.
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such a man to the Presidency
would stimulate secession, we shall
never know, because the honest
masses of the people will never
allow such a man to be elected.
They will never put the Govern
ment into his hands to enable him
to redeem that secession pledge.
This doctrine of secession is the
only article of political faith to
which he has shown any disposi-
ton 10 adhere. He was supposed
to be an unfincing high-tariff man;
but, to get free trade votes, he
pledges himself to smother and
suppress his opinions on the traiff
question, and to give no advice
and use no influence on that ques-
tion, which he has pressed as of
the most vital importance to the
country. He has given no pledge
to smother and suppress his opin-
ions on the secession question.
What such pledge would be
worth, while his pledge "to RESIST
all coercive measures" remains un-
redeemed, you can judge as well
as I.
If such q man should be elected
President, what should he do when
his secession views had encouraged
the South to secede again3 He
would, of course, again offer to
hire them to remain by paying for
their slaves. Knowing, by actual
experience, the cowardice OF the
man, they would naturally demand
our taxation to pay the rebel debt
and pensions to rebel soldiers, as
the price of their consenting to
estay in the Union. And If he was
right ip his doctrine that we were
all wrong in using ''coercive meas
ures," we ought to be taxed to pay
all the consequences Of these meas
ures, for the slaves, and the rebel
debt, and rebel pensions.
What would be the result of Mr..
GreeIey's election Manifestly
the South would at once be insti-
gated by his sentiments to agitate
the question of compensation for
their slaves, their debt, and their
| pensions, and with the fiery ele-
ments thus famed into fame, the
agitation would naturally end in
our being obliged to recall Grant
and the army to put down another
insurrectioE. The people of the
North. and those of the South, like
Longstreet and Mosby, who have
had fighting enough, don't want to
90 over that ground again. Meth
er do they want dissension and dis
turbance. Ihave been an agitator
but never without necessity. Non
the necessity for agitation has
ceased, and we want peace. If il
| does not involve rebellion, the agi-
tation of the Southern claims means
a controversy over another consti-
tutional amendment for striking
out such part of the Fourteenth
Amendment as may stand in
the way OF those claims. II
means nothing less than the renew
al of excitement, irritation and
strife; the revival of the murder
our -Klux; the cruel persecution
of the freedmen and Union men Al
the South; the disorganization o
| Southern labor, and general de-
rangement of business. The cause
/ of humanity unites with ali th'
material interests of the countr.
in protest agaiest the election of ;
man whose triumph would neces-
sarily open SO dang erous an agita
ton. Obviously no such mai
could be nominated for Presiden
by the Republican party. Whel
he was satisfied OF that, then, an
not till then, he left us.
That is one serious aspect of MI
Greeley's case; and if, in additio
to his perverse opinions upon thi
| momentous question OF America
nationality, you take into the az
count his excessive vanity, veal
ness and vacillation, his flabby an
yielding moral nature, his eccentri
temper and inordinate hankcrin
for office, you have, think, fu
explanation Of his present lament
able course.
Mr.. Summers case is measurabl
plain in those who, like mysel
have had better means of KNOWN
the man than is afforded by publ
speeches.
Mr.. Sumner was not, as has bee
claimed for him, among the earlie
of our anti-slavery champion
Mr.. Garrison. Mr.. Phillips, M
J Gerritt Smith, Mr.. Giddings an
J others antedate Mr.. Sumner
many years in their espousal /,
the cause of the slave. But be-
cordial witness that, after he ente
ed upon the work, he was amor
the most earnest, fai.hful and pc
/, sistent of the friends Of freedom.
entered the Senate four yea
before Mr.. Sumner, and enjoyt
his personal intercourse and frien
. ship from his appearance there
1851 up to the time I went to E
rope in 1865. / appreciate,
highly as any man can, the invalu
be services he has rendered to |
; bertv, but candor compels me
say that, from the outset, his inf,
: ence in the Senate was greatly il
: paired by an overpowering egotis
| and an arrogance of manner We
nigh intolerable. His arbima
and dictatorial nature renders hi