The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-10-17

many of them, and especially his bottle-hold-
er and the Chairman of the Liberal Committee
o. New York, John Cochrane, one Of the
most impure and degraded bummers that was
ever stirred up from the dregs Of Five Points,
we're vociferous for Furnishing traitors and
making treason odious
While he was stirring up the worst pas
slons incident to the war, Grant was interpo-
sing the influence Of his position and the terms
OF Lees surrender, for the protection Of Con
federate soldiers who had been indicted for
treason in Underwood's Court at Norfolk, sta
ting with all the sternness of the soldier aud
the Kindness of the man, that if the strict
letter Of the parole Of Lees army was not OBJ
served he would resign his position in the
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Two years after this, Greeley came fawn-
ing to Richmond to oblrudo his name upon
the bail bond Of j e9erson Davis, when there
were hundreds of millions of dollars in property
In the South willing and anxious to be pledg-
ed for the appearance Of Davis when called
for. There was no humanity, or kindness,
or reconciliation in it. 1t was the lnsidous,
the Designing policy of the matured dema-
gogRe, who then and there took the first step
towards the position he now maintains to the
country. At the same time that he did
this he had his agents all through the South
from the Potomac to the Gulf, scattering the
prospectuses and soliciting subscribers for the
Tribune. 1t was paying business with him,
and Yankee-like he had no objection to turn.
ing aa honest penny" It's amazing that the
Southern people could be SO deludcd and du--
ped as to rush with open arms to embrace this
vile slanderer Of their habits, their character.
their institutions, and the endorser of Beast
Buffers brutal order against the women of New
Orleans, denouncing them as common harlots
and street walkers. II there is one thing
more than another that should stir the blood
and inhame the indignation of Southern men.
! it is reflection upon the chastity and virtue
| of their mothers, their wives, their sisters
and their daughters, who, as class, are as
pure as Caesars wife.
1t is astonishing that Democrats of any sec.
ton can give their support to this common
scold, delamer and ylllifer. He has denoun
ced them as thieves, robbers, drunkards, pick
pockets and jai-birds, whose highest rule of
lite was to 'love rum and hate niggers," as
fornieatcrs, and as devoid Of every element
OF true manhood and good citizenship.
We cannot see anything in Mr. Greeley to
| challenge our support, as Mr.. Greeley. The
only sentiment for which he is commended bv
his friends, is that of reconciliation and pu-
rlHcatioa." This he has. made thread bare.
10 draw attention from his Infamous record.
he keeps this sentiment in the foreground
Tie has harped upon it, aud his supporters
have harped upon if, until it has lost its charm,
coming from them. We do not believe there
is much lasting pacifcation in Mr.. Greeley.
tie has been chronic quarreller, persistent
mischief maker, common scod and the in
stigator Of strife, ever since he has been in
public life. He has been the maligna ut ira,
Queer of everything connected with the South
for forty years, until lie wanted the votes of
her citizens. He did more to bring on DESC
latlon and blood, to spread mourning and suf
ferlng through our country, than any other
living man. He advocated secession, and then
clamored for the tdogs of war; to oe let loose
to murder our people because they acted
upon his advice. When Alex. 9. Stephens
was resisting the policy of secession in the
Georgia Convention with the eloquence and
| fervor OF Burke and the logic of a
Bacon, he was prcclaiming 'let them 90 in
peace Stephens was defeated by few
votes In his efforts to prevent Georgia from
going out of the Union, and those few votes
were influenced by the belief that Greeley
represented Northern sentiment and there
would be no war on account of it. No SOON
er was the Confederate government organized
and when it had determined to locate in the
Capital OF Virginia, than he sought by the
most lncessant and frenzied appeals to fire
the Northern heart, aud hurry the Federal
forces ''on to Richmond There is not much
"pacitication" in man who has warred upon
every form of religion every phase of the So
cial organism, and every constitutional right
OF the minority-who would have been De
list if educated in the schools of Germany and
an InGdel in France.
No enc can see where his policy of "puri-
hcatien" is to come from, when some of his
chief advisers and supporters are the New
York and Brooklyn Ring Robbers. He is
impossible, tickle aad visionary as a public
man, and while We do not believe he would be
guilty of fragrant dishonesty himself, he is lust
the caste of man under whom plumber would
bepractlscd without his knowledge.
i The records of Grant and Greeley present.
wide contrast. Greeley was vile incendi
AIRY abolitionist who brought on the war, and
remained at home to see others fght it out
Grant was Democrat, had nothing to do
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