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AT recent Greeley ratification meet.
ing in ST. Louis, Col. W. III. Hatch
pledged to Greeley the support of
every true Confederate.p This explains
the clasping of hands =" across the
bloodyaschasm.p Greeley is to dwell
together in unity with j" every. true
I e9afedetate. There was never, in the
days OF old Democratic ascendaucy,any
difficulty in being at peace with the
shareholders, the Ku-Klux and the
Secessiouists. ,Schoolmasters and mis-.
tresses had only to teach that slavery
was the cornerstone of the Republic, a
God-given institu tion, and that it was
the chief end OF man to purchase and
"Wallop his own niger. according TO
the Constitution, and the Interpretation
thereof by the late venerable Chief
Justice Taney, to insure for themselves
| the most generous treatment from the
Southern slave oligarchy. Mr.. Greeley
knows as well as anybody that he can
only ''clAsp hands across the bloody
chasmn of the late,war by keeping these
laws. Mr., Greeley knows as well as
anybody, that there are hundreds of
thousands Of Confederates," in whose
hearts hate of free institutions, of free
speech, of free black men and of the
Government under the recent amend
ments to the Constitution, burns as
fiercely as it did in the hottest period of
the rebellion. Col. Hatch says all
these thousands upon thousands. of
true Confederates' are for Greeley
through the mystic power Of the secret
oaths and bonds Of the Ku-Klux Klans,
Col. Hatch is able to "pledge'' them for
Greeley. Every marked midnight assas-
sin who prowls about scourging, burn
ing and numbering negroes and white
Republicans is for Greeley. Every man
who owns Confederate bonds is for
Greeley. Every man who ever owned a
negro with a few honorable exceptions)
is for Greeley. Every man who has a
rascally, dishonest claim against the
Government, growing out of his own
treason to his country, is for Greeley.
Every man who wants to saddle the peo-
plewith the entire eConfederatedebti is for
Greeley. Every man who wants toplace
Confederate soldiers on a level with
Union soldiers, by adding them to the
pension rolls of the country, is for
Greeley, because he said: "a" pray for
the time to come when the names Of Lee
and Stonewall jackson willEbe equally
revered by the American people with
those of Grant and Sherman.pylur
But no man who was once the prop
erty of another, subject to be bought
and sold like piece of merchandise, is
for Greeley because he has deserted
the party of liberty and adhered to that
of treason, rebellion and slavery. No
man whose wife and children We're once
liable to the polluting touch'of slave
holder who owned their bodies and
souls, and whose virtue, whose hearts
and whose lives were forced to submit
to a degradation worse than death, at
the hands of their masters, is for Gree
ley; because he has clasped the red
hand of ".every true Confederate"
across a chasln rendered bloody by
crimes which blacken the annals, of
modern civilization. Col. Hatch "pledges
every true Confederate for Greeley p
If "every true Confederate is for. Gree
ley,n every true patriot should be against
him. If" every true Confederate" sup.
ports Greedy, it is expected that Gree
ley will support the ideas and princi-
pies of the Confederacy. Presidential
support of the principles of " the lost
cause" will revive it, will redivide the
country upon old issues and may again
plunge the nation into the horrors of
civil war. The nomination of Mr..
Greeley by the Democracy, his enthusi-
astic support by the worst rebel ele-
ments of the South, and his indorse-
ment by "every true Confederate all
show that the Confederacy is not dead,
that it slumbers as an organization, but
lives and burns as cherished hope in
the hearts of the Southernpeople.o Who
will assume the fearful responsibility of
warming it into new life?-ChicGgO