The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-12

sacrificed; and therefore he will not be
turned aside from his path by trifies.
To appeal insidiously to the passions and
prejudices of the South, while pretending
to be anxious to heal them-to rekindle
animosities while talking sweetly about
burying them-this was the main object of
Mr.. Greeley's second stumping tour. He
everywhere condoled with the South on the
prescription of its leaders" At Cleave-
land he said Sept. 24:-
"Fellow- citizens, today part of our
countrymen are disfranchised, are denied a
voice in tho government of this country
because they were Rebels eight or ten years
ago. l think that an injurious proscrip-
ton, etc., ETC."
At Louisville he said (Sept.2D:-
"Is it not time that we desire that no
man shall be DISTINGUISHED, that no man
shall be prescribed, but that every one
shall stand on an equal platform with
ours? '
At indianapolis, Sept. 49,
"They say that few are prescribed, but
in truth many are proscribed-not few
Whenever it is said that my captain shall
be punished for what he and did, am
punished with him; feel the blows inflict-
ed on him. The ring that ties him to the
dungeon eats into my heart as his. No
part of that great people who struggled
against us in the South now feel that they
are entirely pardoned and restored to citi-
zenship SO long as their leaders and chiefs
in the struggle are punished for common
sin, or error, or whatever it is.
At Louisville, Sept. 3d.
"Men say to me, why, you don't want
to elect Toombs or somebody else, do you ?"
No don't want to elect any Of those men.
but suppose other people do? Who are
you, or who am L to say wether they shall
or not"
These quotations might be multiplied
four-fold, but they are sufficient to denote
the tone of Mr.. Greeley's arguments, and
it is argument which we desire to meet in
the most straightforward manner.
In the first place, then, as the World
(Greeley's pader) has admitted, Southern
citizens are not under prescription. Read
the World on Greeley's dishonest pre-
lenses
"In one aspect amnesty is very subor-
dinate issue. The fourteenth amendment
precludes nobody from voting, but only
from holding Office. Every Southern citi-
zen possesses the right of suffrage as fully
as if he had never been in rebellion. The
only disability not yet removed is simply
disability to hold Office, and this weighs
only upon few hundred of the Confeder-
ate leaders, most of whom would never be
voted for even if there were no legal barrier
to their election. In this view amnesty is
4 minor question. Moreover, the
power to remove the disabilities imposed
by the fourteenth amendment is not vested
in the President, but in two-thirds of Con-
gress. Amnesty in this sense does not
therefore seem very pertinent issue in a
Presidential election. "-Nsu York World,
Editorial, Sept 25, 1872.
Now, in reference to the Rebel leaders
who are prohibited from holding office, we
say at once and openly that the country
has only taken a wise and proper precau-
ton in excluding them from place and
power. Mr.. Greeley's sentimental talk
over the captive chained to his dungeon is
a shameful insult to the whole people
There are no prisoners in dungeons.
There are no captives in chains. When
Mr.. Greeley argues that we have no right
to keep jeff. Davis and Toombs out of
office, we utterly deny it, and assert that
the country would commit a crime against
law and order if it allowed these men to
take once more leading positions in the
country. In any other country than this,
jeff. Davis would have been hanged. We
have simply said, "You shall not return to
public office; in all other respects you are
as free as any of u.s." And for this meas
urea measure purely of self-defense, not
of punishment-Mr. Greeley goes about
the country denouncing his fellow-citizens
as monsters Of cruelty, and crying for
peace and reconciliation. He would not
put jeff. Davis back in the Senate, but he
would let other people put him there.
We say that it would be nothing less
than national crime to allow Davis to be
to position from whence he
would once more be enabled to strike a
trator's blow at the country. Mr.. Greeley,
for the sake Of winning Southern votes, has
advocated policy which would inevitably,
before four years were over, plunge the
country once more into anarchy and civil
war. He stands committed, by his recent
speeches, to the full restoration to political
rights and privileges of every Rebel leader
from jeff Davis downward. To elect him,
after his own warning, would be to invite
The gravest disaster which ever befell a peo-
pie. Unless we want to have our domes-
tic policy dictated by Jeff. Davis, Toombs,
and the old set of fire-eaters and secession
st, Mr.. Greeley's incendiary doctrines
must be rebuked at the polls.
To REDUCE BONES TO MEAL.-A writer
N the Horticulturist says he buys bones
IF the butcher at dollar the hundred