Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-08-20
Garrison on Sumner and Greeley.
tFrOm the Milwaukee Wisconsin,

honor of the original anii~slay cry
men of the United States. John
Bright on that occasion uttered one
OF those strringly eloquent appeals
which has Justly proved him TO be
the most distinguished man in the
Kingdom. We mention this circum-
stance TO show that Mr.. Garrison is
man of no ordinary reputation, and
that among the liberal minded his
fame is co-extensive with the enlight-
ened world
Mr. Garrison is so profoundly pain
ed at tho position of Mr. Sumner, in
taking sides with the life long enemies
Of the anti-slavery party, that he
speaks in terms of great severity. He
shows by the records that Mr.. Sum-
ner is not the faultless anti-savery
champion that he now desires the
world TO believe where the anti slavey
side is the popular one, even in the
Southern States. Mr., Garrison thero.
graphically describes Mr.. Sumner's
dllatOry action during his first eight
months served in the Senate of The
United States.
"When elected to the United States
Senate, in 1851, you sat nearly eight
months ~ that body speechless 10 re-
gard to the Fugitive Slave bill, elicit
ing strong remonstrance against your
prot acted silence, seeing that, as the
successor to Mr.. Webster, your
election was regarded as an important
gain to the cause ofimpartial freedom.
Your silence was the most inexpli-
cable. and furnished just cause for un-
easiness, because, in speech made
By you before going TO Washington,
you said: The subject will not ad-
nit of postponoment OF hesitation.
1t is the subject of subjects. From
this time forward it will be entertain
ed by Congress, it will be, as it were,
one Of the orders Of the day [; it can
not be passed over or forgotten. x
= We demand, first and foremost,
the instant repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave bill" You took your seat in
the Senate Dec l, 1851 it was not
until the 9th of July, 1852. that you
rose TO advocate that repeal, apollo
getically pretacing your remarks by
saying: Had i attempted this duty
AVIAN earlier day, it night have been
said that, az "a nou .comer and mex
pcrienced In thI5 scene, wItnvuv W.
liberation, hastily rashly, recklessly,
| pushed this question before The
country" Surely, no true friend of
humanity would have made such q
fling, ami the possible sneers of it's
enemies were not deserving mo-
ment's consideration. Besides, the
discussion had been going on through
out the land ever since the passage Of
the Fugitive Slave bill, so that to
talk of pushing the question" upon
tho public attention was a misappli-
cation of language. Nevertheless,
once putting your hand TO the plow,
you did not look back.
Mr.. Garrison then describes the ca
reer of Horace Greeley, whom Mr.
Sumner uuquslifiedly pronounces "a
lifetime abolitionist. Greeley was
what may be termed a political abb
olitionist that is, he would abolish
slavery if he could, meanwhile he
would support stakeholder for the
Presidency whereas Garrison was
opposed to all such forms of com.
promise. Mr. Garrison thus describes
Mr.. Grecley's career when he was an
answering follower of Henry Clay.
Horace Greeley, from early life,
was earnest and constant against
slavery, full of sy mpathy with the
colored race, and always foremost in
the great battle for their rights. y
= | am so much of Republican,
that / wish to see in the Presidential
chair lifetime aboitionist Here,
again, as 10 the case of Gratz Brown,
you make claim that cannot be snb.
stantiated Mr.. Greeley never was
and never assumed to be an abolition
list. He never denounced slaye-hold-
ing as o NAHUM in &c, nor advocated
| the immediate liberation OF the slaves,
nor recommended q direct assault up.
on slavery itself, nor discountenanced
all pro-slavery compromises, nor OBJ
iected TO slave representation in
Congress, or TO the legal rendition OF
fugitive slaves, nor connected himself
with any anti-slavery organization,
nor sanctioned the abolition move
ment. He was trimmer through
out the whole struggle, notwith'
standing that he wrote and published
much that was serviceable TO the
cause of freedom. He was not ever
a Free-Soiler, but always Henry
Clay Wing until Republicanism sup
planted the Wing and Free-Soi
parties. Even after the slaves wer,
set free under Abraham Lincoln
Proclamation of Emancipation, b.
was i'll favor of paying those who ha'
robbed them OF every right and riote'
upon their unpaid toll, not less thai
81, 600, 900 900 Far different was til
manner in which your friend. Nj
Il. w. Emerson. regarded this pecuni
airy adjustment between the slave
master and slave:
aGive the eacner compensation;
Ril up the bAg 10 the brim
Who Is the swRer' The slars Is owner
9 And ever vas Psy him 2"
: Not so, said NJ. Greeley psy til
money to the slave-masters. An
this, too, after they had risen in re
bellion, and involved the country
all the horrors of civil war TO pei
petuste their despotic power, and 9
: the cost of thousands of millions {
dollars And this is your "life-tim
sbolitionist," Mr.. Sumner, "alway
foremost in the great battI
for the rights of the colored race, an
; full of sympathy for them "
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