New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-22

our public men, and have carefully avoided
it." [Laughter.l
We hope he will be disposed OF at Balti
more, for it is certain if the Democratic
party are so hungry for Office, SO famished
tor the spells Of victory as to sacrifice all
their life long Professionalism most
solemn reservations of years for few
offices and for success in the Presidential
race by taking up for the head of their party,
for their chief and spokesman, their leader
and guide, the ehiefest Radical of Radicals,
their life. long opponent, scourge even-then
the great Republican party will be content
No man will be more easily beaten as time
will clearly bear witness; but on this point
will ask your attention to Greeley on
Greeley in speech that he made in Trum-
bull county, Ohio, in October, 1871:
'Ifthe Democratic party were called upon
to decide between Grant and myself know
hat their regard for what they must call
principle would induce nine tenths of them
10 vote against me. Why? am decided
enemy of that party, even in its most re-
spectacle aspects [Applause.1
On another occasion, also in a public
speech, he said:
"We are led by him who first taught our ar.
mics to conquer in the West, and subse-
quently in the East also. Richmond would
not come to us until we sent Grant after it.
and then it had to come. CHEERS He has
nercr yet br.n defeated, and never riW be.
de will be as great and successful on the
field of politics as on that of arms. Pro.
longed applause.]
| Again, on the 5th of January, 1871, Mr..
Greeley said:
Gas to the Administration of General
Grant, | recognize no one as Republican
who is not grateful for its judicous, ener
getic, and successful efforts to procure the
ratification of the fifteenth amendment, that
key stone of our political arch, where
by the fruits of our great triumph over re.
belion and slavery are assured and perpetu
ated. That the President has made some
mistakes in appointments is obvious. 1t
would be strange, indeed, if one so inex
perienced in the conduct of political affairs,
had wholly escaped them. While asserting
the right Of every Republican to his untrau
meled choice of a candidate for next PreEi
dent until a nomination is made, venture to
suggest that General Grant will be far bet
ter qualified for that momentous trust in
1872 than he was in 1865"
| WHAT HORACE THOUGHT OF GREELEY.
And in the year 1856, HORACE WHITE, Mr..
GREELEYs greatest friend in the West, an
able man, but certainly changeable one, for
he is now for GREELEY, cooperating with
him with all his powers. Mr.. WHITE then
said:
| "Horace Greeley is not now, and never
has been, a man who ought to be trusted
with an official position requiring practical
wisdom, ordinary craftsmanship, or firm,
consistent action. For twenty-five years he
has been a marplot in council, all unrela-
BILE commander in action, misanthrope in
victory, and riotous disorganizer in defeat.
He has always been fanatical in his demands
| for the EXTREMIST measures, and when the
party has reached the eve Of triumph, inva
riably thrusts himself forward as negotia-
tor of terms of surrender to the enemy.
His course during the war was but repeti-
ton of his course in politics. In 1861, he
was an open defender of secession he
changed to a vigorous champion of the war,
and thereafter was forever recklessly making
proposals for peace and as recklessly with
drawing them-making war in spite of Mars,
and negotiating in spite of Minerva.
"For twenty years he has been an uncom
promising advocate for square fight with
the pro slavery party, and when that kind of
a fight was forced upon the Republicans in
1860, he was here in Chicago, voting not
for Lincoln, nor for Chase, but for old Ed
ward Bates, of Missouri, one ofthe fossils of
| the slave party. He was then the associate
and CO laborer Of that other impracticable
and unreliable squad-the Blair family.
The country at this time wants no inspired
harlequins in the national councils. Still
less does it want men with craftsmanship so
microscopic that they can see nothing in
public business but the mileage and per diem
of their fellow members If Mr. Greeley is
not satisfied with his position as journalist
"a position which ought to be equal in point
Of influence, power, and dignity to that of
six average Senators-and if the Republi
cans of New York want to do something for
him let them make him State Prison 1nspec
tor, or even Governor; anything that will
for his follies.' Laughter, and cries of
good.
In addition to these, could multiply the
letters, speeches, and testimonials of nearly
every public man, distinguished Liberal Re-
publicans who attended the Cincinnati Con.
vention, including its presiding officer, Judge
STANLEY MATTHEWS, against its nomination,
but will only now read you the following
from Mr.. BRYAyr's New York Erening Post:
"Should Horace Greeley ever be the
President Of the United States we firmly
believe that the corruption and the crime of
an Administration with man at its head so
weak in principle as he. so inirm of purpose
as he, so imbecile of character as he, SO sur
rounded by such crowd of adventurers, and
cormorants, and knaves as would surround
him-that the corruption and the crime of
such an Administration would reach proper
tons that would put their perpetrators be-
yond the cognizance of ordinary courts of
law, and that would call for and compel
other correction than ordinary penitentiares
can afford. Where the rebelious element
aud the corrupt element of the country are
combined to gain possession of the Govern.
ment, and on false pretense, we may pre-
pare ourselves for any calamity that in the
course of human events can possibly betall
any people in their political relations with
each other and the world" Cries that's
so, and good.]
In addition to this, Mr.. GREELEY was the
fercest of the fierce in advocacy of all the
Ku. Klux legislation, and the suspension of
the writ Of habeds corpus.
WHAT COL. MOsBY THINKS OF GREELEY.
Says Col MosBY, of Virginia
"Will the partisans of Greeley point to one
act that was odious to US that he has not
justified and approved? Nay, more. The
tyrannica acts of Congressional legislation
were an expression of q Northern sentiment
of hostility to the South for which Horace
Greeley, more than any other man, is re,