The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-10-11
Horace Greeley as LARA Chapter
from His Record in Congress.

From the opening of the present
national campaign it has been pat
forward as one of the strongest points
in the Liberal-Democratic cause,
that it's candidate, Mr.. Greeley, was
a man whose moral record might
challenge the closest scrutiny.
Whatever else might be his short
comings, it has been asserted with
persistent vehemence that Honest
Horace was a man upon whose NOR
ais there could be no stain. Against
this verdict there has been two clas-
ses of professors. Journalists and
all who have been brought into close
personal relations with Mr.. Greeley
during the past ten years, know and
have said that he is one of the most
desperately profane men now in
public life in this country. In the
New York and Washington newspa-
per offices some of Mr.. Greeley's
oaths are preserved as examples of
how much profanity could be con-
densed into single sentence. While
on the floor of the House during the
last session of Congress Mr.. Gree
ley uttered a personal TRADE against
Mr.. Hooper of Massachusetts,, the
outrageous blasphemy Of which is
remembered to this day. If any one
doubts this, Speaker Blaine, General
Garfield, and other gentlemen Of un-
impeachable veracity, can give such
testimony as will prove conclusive.
But this is not all. Men who
we're in Congress during Mr.. Gree
ley's career in that body, assert that
he was there proven to be an open
and deliberate liar. We have ex-
amined the record and invite our
readers to consider the result. In
volume 90 of the Congressional Globe
containing the record of the second
session of the Thirteenth Congress,
there appears on pages 336 and 337
a record of facts which effectually
disposes of Mr.. Greeley's claims as
| a man ofveracity. The date is We'd
nesday and Thursday, January oath
and 25th, 1849. Sometime previous
" the House had passed an act ap,
propriating money for the publica-
ton of certain private books for the
use of members. Mr.. Greeley had
voted in favor of the act. Suisse
quently the press ofthe country oh.
iected to the use Of the public mon,
ey, the New York Tribune especially
denouncing it bitterly. Mr.. Gree.
lev became alarmed and sought tc
deny that he had voted for the ap
priation. He published in the Tri.
bune the following explanation of his
course.
'"And yet, it has been limited if moi
asserted on this floor, that 1 voted
for these Congressional books!
certainly voted against them at every
opportunity, when l understood the
question. 1 voted against agreeing
to that item of the report of the
Committee of the Whole in favor oi
the deficiency bill. l tried to be
against them at every opportunity
But it seems that on some stand uI
vote in Committee of the Whole
when utterly misunderstood what
was the question before the commit,
tee, voted for this item. Gentle
men say I did, and l must presume
they are right. 1 certainly never
meant to do so, and did all in my
pewer in the House to defeat this
appropriation. But it is common
with me in incidental and hasty di-
visions, when 1 do not clearly under
stand that the point to be decided
to vote with the chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means, Mr..
Vinton who is SO generally right,
and who has special charge of ap
preparation bills, and of expediting
business generally. Thus only can
l have voted for these books, as on
all other occasions I certainly voted
against them"
Mr.. Edwards of the Ninth Ohio
District, had this passage from the
Tribune read before the House, and
Mr.. Greeley acknowledged that he