The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-08

A&mnna1 GareeEeF N the NOrfh-
The Milwaukee Wisconsin sentinel,
Radical, publishes first-ciass campaign
document (for that latitude) under the
head of "a Democrat ON the Situation,
in the form of a speech by one Hon b.
T. Parke who announces that he. Was
Democrat born in a Western home
whose. indentures were with a Demo
cratic ship and taken for Democratic
voyage and that therefore his mission
does not admit IF his going aboard the
Liberal craft with Horace Greeley as its
commander. We were curious to know
on what grounds this western-born Dem
ocrat formed his decision, and have ex-
amined his speech with that view. His
first objection is thus stated.
HE REC oGNIzED THE RIGHT OF SECESSION
AND SAID LET THE SOUTH GO.
[ never was secessionist myself, but
look at the record of Horace Greeley
Away back in November. 1861 right alter
the election of Lincoln. Horace Greeley. as
editor of the New York Tribune, came ont
out of the Union, they might go. John G.
Calhoun never expressed or advocated Sc
ceSsion clearer, stronger and less adultera-
ted than Horace Greeley did them on
may say that it was an ephemeral produc-
ton of the hour; but several years after
ward he takes that paragraph from his
newspape4 article, and repeats it in his
History of the Rebellion thus making it
part of the permanent history OF this
country.
The foregoing conclusion was on the
old fashioned Republican idea that gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, and that the
people have right to reform them, or
substitute others, whenever they may
deem proper.
PEACE NEGOTIAToR IN 1864.
In 1864 some rebel commissioners were at
| Niagara Falls Horace Greeley went to
work and contrived to enter into negOtia-
tions with them. What were the results !?
This was certainly humane effort to
which no philanthropist of either section
could suggest.
COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION.
He advised Mr.. Lincoln that we had bet
ter pay the South $400,000,000 for the dar-
| kies that had become free, That was in
| the midst of the heat and turmoil of battle
| but years after he deliberately writes it
down and makes it part of the history OF
| the country. He was first in favor of Sc
| cession, and secondly in favor of paying
$100,000,000 as compensation for the loss OF
| their slaves.
To~this count in the Indictment, the
Greeleyites respond that the plan could
have been good both on the score of its
economy and humanity. 1t would have
saved several hundred thousand lives and
many millions of money.
JEFFERSON DAVIS BOND.
We will go ahead little farther. JEFF.
| Davis was considerable of a character in
| the South during the rebellion. We, up
| North, men and women, boys and girls, all
said we would hang jeff. Davis on a sour
| apple tree" Yet the first man to go and
back his bail bond was Horace Greeley.
| SUMMING UP
| | have now made three points against
| Horace Greeley. / think they are pretty
good points, and l defy any man to prove
| that | am wrong.
In addition, we find the following in
another page of the same paper from
which the foregoing extracts are taken /:
PENSIONS TO coNFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
Lewis Carmichael to Horace Greeley
| August, 1871. Proposing pensions for disa-
bled rebel soldiers and asking Greeley S
views. Affidavit of Mr.. Carpenter.
| Horatio Seymour to Lewis Carmichael
advocate tbeep tee ds of rebel 5.6
sions. Mr.. Carpenters affidavit.l
| Horace Greeley to Lewis Carmichael
August or September, 1871. Declaring in
favor of law giving pensions, by United
States government, to rebel soldiers. though
doubling its passage by Congress. Atfida-
Wit of Mr.. Carpenter.
In reference to this matter of pensions
we will say that we believe the statement
is bare-faced fabrication as to Mr..
Greeley. AT all events, his fberalty, if
true, has taken a wider range than the
expectations of that class of men reach
They simply ask to be let alone and to
be permitted fair start with the rest of
mankind in the race before them. We
submit the foregoing to our readers as a
sample of the arguments employed in
some ATTITUDES against Horace Greeley.
None of them are relevant to the present
canvass.