Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
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Horace Greeley's Latest Political
Speech.-What He Thought then Of
His Present Democratic supporters.
His Warren Speech. OF Sept. IS,
1871.
Some of the supporters of Horace
Greeley object to his opponents going
back so far as 1862 to files of the
Tribune to prove bv his own words
that he advocated secession, and to
still more recent dates of his news
paper to show that he denounced
Democrats as liars" thieves"
" scoundrels," rebels traitors"
&c. &c. Perhaps Mr.. Greeley thinks
better of his new associates on amore
intimate acquaintance, and feels quite
at home in their society. But we do
not propose to go back ten, five, two,
or even one year from this date, to
show what Nj. Greeley thought of
the men, principles and sympathies
of the Democratic party. On the
18th of last September, MI. Greeley
addressed a large Republican meeting
in this city. His speech was simply
a sever critical arraignment of the
Democratic party for its conduct dur
ing the wal and also for its opposition
to the financial policy of the Repub-
lican party during and subsequent to
the war. He said:
1.-THE first question I would consider
is this: Being, as we are, on the eve Of
q Presidential contest, can the Demo-
cratic party afford to take power at this
time ~
81 say the Democratic party is not
prepared to take power. 1t must in
taking power assume that it will faith
fully fulfill all the ends, all the duties,
which devolve upon an administration,
and its public avolVals prove that it ,gouId
not do this"
"If the Democratic party were in
power, its members of Congress would
be men who fought in the rebel armies,
or who =ere high in the rebel councils I;
they would necessarily be the chief
advisers of the administration. = .
They would inevitably be hostile to the
policy of paying the debt due to the
creditors of the Union, while the credi-
tors of the ~Confederacy found their
obligations of no value"
"Were the Democratic party in power
it would be very hard to maintain the
payment of pensions to Union soldiers.
They would say, why have we not
WON'T Have we not voted in the ma
Now you are paying pensions
to those fellows whom we haYe beaten
at the polls, and you give no pension to
us who have beaten Them There
would be a demand to pension rebel
soldiers very difficult to resist"
"a Democratic victory would be a
reversal of the victories won in the
great struggle for national unity and
national authority"
Democracy in power must always
war against the best interests and dear
sstrights ola free people like ourselves
al saw the other day-for there is
nothing incredible or impossible that
loes not get into the newspapers-a sug-
that I would probably be the
best Democratic candidate to run against
Gen. Grant for President. 1 thought
hat the most absurd thing I ever heard
,r read"
'If the Democratic party were called
lpOn to decide between Grant and my
'elf, know that their regard for what
hey must call principle, would induce
zine tenths of them to vote against me.
y by? I am a decided enemy of that
in its most respectable aspects"
The foregoing extracts show what
Greeley knows about Democrats
whom he has sold himself as an
instrument for the destruction of the
party and the elevation
f the rebels and their sympathizers
o the control of this government.
Comment seems su~perfiuous.