The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-15
Beware.

Mfr. Editor: - We have heard complaints
without number year after year, of Mr.. Gree
| ley's inconsistencies and crochets, both whim-
steal and serious, but never so much of his
| laundering standardization, as we need to be
assured of, just now, before it is too late, if it
may be fairly demonstrated
| We all know this, that while he pretended to
be, and probably was, under certain conditions
friend of the black man and in favor of
emancipation, he was for letting the slave
holders ego IN peace" well knowing that they
would instantly crystalize into a slave-holding
community, with power enough unless we of
the north interfered, to absorb the whole West
India slave power and perpetuate their peculiar
institution for ages, if not forever. This we
kaoag, and it will not be denied by Mr.. Greeley
himself.
But something more is wanted. We need to
know what Mr.. Greeley's notions are about
secession, and this, if possible, from Mr. Gree
ley himself, leaving the rebel debt, compensa-
ton to the shareholders, the pensioning of
rebel soldiers and their families or nurseries,
and the reputation of our national debt, for
future consideration.
And here-just here-let us thank the ''sol-
der whose communication appears in this
mornings PRESS, for the extracts he has made
from Mr.. Greeley's American Conflict"
book of cumbrous pretensions which 1 never
happened to meet with, although have met
with occasional paragraphs in the newspapers,
which were said to be from that big book.
The following passages l take from the Sol
ders'" communication:
CT Il Ill
of Greeley's american Conflict" they will
find these words: "1he asserted right Of seces-
sion is one Which no government or nation eUer
did or can concede aoitt0H signing its oUn death
Uarrdnt." Now turn to page 359-only three
pages later-and you find these words: "If
so unnooleSted, "-and few lines further on
" the Cotton States shall insist that they can
do better out Of the Union than in ii, zoe insist
on letting them 90 in peace
what MIR. Greeley means here by mediate"
no mortal man could guess, for nobody thinks
of questioning the right of any man to rne,H-
tate what he please, unaccompanied by action.
But if he meditates Observation-Disclosures
waging war ON the government Mr.. Greeley
must mean if he means anything, to let him
ego in peace" and this he INSISTS upon"
But again, after little time for considera-
ton, he adds
"And wheneUer considerable section of our
Union shall deliberately resolve to 90 out aoe shall
resist all coerciUe measures designed to keep it,
A considerable portion! But what does Mr.
Greeley mean by considerable portion? Isit
one State or two? or any other number? May
not the State of New York or the city of New
York be regarded as Considerable portion?
MI Fernando Wood and his fellow conspira-
tors were of that opinion it would seem, in the
midst ofour death struggle And if New York stlte
or New York city be considerable portion.
why may not Delaware, Rhode Island or any
other community village deliberately re-
solve ito 90 out" knowing that Mr. Greeley
PresidentfGreeley,i if you please-"will resist all
coercve measures to keep them inn?
And now fellowcountrymen, please compare
the first paragraph above quoted, with the 9th
ers, one by one, and tell me if you can, which
side Mr. Greeley is on and what you may rea-
sonably expect the man to do if he should have
the power.
But, perhaps you have not read his book. If
SO, and nothing is more probable, whether you
are Democrat or Republican, Wing or Tory,
Federalist or Jacobin, to say nothing of the