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

insist on getting ont Of it, we shall Insist
that they be allowed TO SO, for we are not
going to fight them!"
Again: "Instead of boiling the door in
alarm, and calling for help to guard it, in
case the South should hereafter threaten to
walk ont of the Union, we would hold il po-
litely open," SC.
This was his opinion in 1854. But in 1861
he wrote: 81 But, nevertheless, we mean to
conquer them-not merely to defeat, to con-
quer, to subjugate them. But when the
rebellious traitors are overwhelmed in the
field and scattered like leaves before all an
cry wind, it must not be to return to peaceful
and contented homes. But they must find
poverty at their firesidcs, and see privation
in the anxious eyes of mothers and the rags
of chlldrcn''
With such versatility Of talent at command,
the people will not be surprised to find this
political acrobat trading with the sworn enc
mics OF his country for position of honor
and trust, that he may cleanse from his gar
ments the slime of duplicity and truculency
| gathered ut Niagara, and in his communica
tons with Jake Thompson, Saunders, (who
was the guest Of Mr.. Greeley the other day
in the city wherein bands of ncendaries and
scatterers of infected clothing awaited their
chiefs commands and others of the same
| class.
| Thus prepared, the public will not be sur
prised to learn that this young man Carpen-
ter, upon appearance of the foregoing affida-
Wits, has been visited by shoulder-htters
| from New York city and his life threatened
unless he retracted the substance Of his afii-
| davit," and under threats and for the pro-
| lection Of his life forced to sign statement
in which, while he retracts not word,
tasks suspension Of Judgment till the let
tiers themselves are published. The frs. was
sworn affidavit, the latter note written
under duress and violence.
The evidence as to the bargain, and how
he did it, is conclusive and, remembering
his remarks at Montreal relative to gentle
men who had been bitten by the Presidential
hydra, and the fact that he is now laboring
himself under Il similar attack--that he cOn-
seled secession and, after crying "On to
| Richmond" next begged permission to 60 to
Niagara Falls to meet Thompson, Saunders,
and Holcombe, to sue for peace; that Frank
Blair, who is now his heartiest supporter,
said: "Words were never uttered more fatal
to the peace Of the country than those by
Mr.. Greeley defending the right of seces-
sion ;" that the Kentucky Sentinel, speaking
of the late supposed Democratic victory in
North Carolina, exultingly halls him with ::
"How do you like the old rebel yell' she
gave?" and that the argument for Mr..
Greeley's nomination at Baltimore was that
there was definite underst landing between
our party and the Liberal Republicans, en-
tered into by representative men of both
parties, and with general consent, before the
assembling Of the Cincinnati Convention,
that the nominations there made should receiUe
the combined support Of both parfies," [Greeley
pamphlet issued TO the Democratic delegates
of the Baltimore Convention, we are forced
to the conclusion that the bargain and its
consummation is clearly proven by the char
acter of the manly the evidence furnished,
and also by the acknowledgment Of the par
ties to the corrupt arrangement.