The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1872-07-18
Elegant Extracts.

When the "Greeley Record is published, it
will probably be the most astonishing farrago
that has ever appeared in political literature
Meantime, while il is in preparation, We give our
readers the benefit Of q few selections now going
the round Of the press. Of course, the Tribune
will at once reply: Some Of these things were
said Iy the Tribxae, and not by Mr.. Greeley at all
But this is no answer, for the Tribune is completely
identified with its former editor An editor who
prints leading articles with his initials for sigma
ture and continually allows his name to appear
in its columns in all sorts Of ways, can not avoid
the responsibility Of the connection by turning
round and saying that there is no connection at
all. For thirty or forty years the Tribune has
been used to advertise Mr. Greeley's claims upon
the public and the result has been the complete
Identification of the editor with the paper. This
Identification can not now be explained away.
But to return to our extracts: it seems in 1868
Mr.. Greeley made what the French would call a
brief jsdgmesf social of Daniel Webster, in the
course Of which he declared that Mr.. Webster
failed only in one respect; and in this respect
differ from him-hc wanted to be President, and
I don't" He also commented upon the fate of
Mr.. Cass:
"Gen Lewis Cass died Mt about eighty-twO,
and up to the day Of his death he wanted to be
President No one ever escapes who catches the
disease; he lives and dies in the delusOn. Being
n reader and observer at an early age, saw
how it poisoned and paralyzed the very best of
our public men, and have carefully avoided it,"
which has Just nominated him at Baltimore are
better:
"If the Democratic party were called upon to
decide between Grant and myself, know that
their regard for what they must call principle
wOuld induce nine-tenths of them to vote against
me. Whyi am decided enemy of that party,
even in its most respectable aspects"
"P0int wherever You please to an election pre-
cinct which Won will pronounce morally rotten-
giving up in a. great part TO debauchery and vice
Offices, gambling houses, grog shops, and darker
dens of infamy; aud that district will he found
given u large majority for that which styles it
self the Democratic party" what is the in
stnct, thesympatheticc chOrl which attaches them
uniformly to that partyp
"May it be written my grave that l was
never its follower lnamely, of the Democratic
party], and lived and died nothing its debtor"
Still better are Mr.. Greeley's views of his own
claims upon the Liberal Republican support. In
he says:
You only err as to the proper candidate. am
not the man yOu need. Your porty is mostly free
trade, and am ferocious protectionist. l have
no doubt that might be nominated and elected
by Your help; but it would place us all in false
position
Mr.. Greeley's views Of the necessity of mild
policy toward the South are curOusly illustrated
by comparison of his opinions now with the
following opinions expressed few months
since:
at is urged by the Democratic organs that the
law is to he enforced in State and municipal elec
tions. This is done to make it more obnoxious,
if that be possible, to their party. But. unfor
tunately, this is an error. The law applies only
tOpresslential and congressional elections, though
We heartily wish it could be made to apply to all
others.
81 hold our government bound by its duty of
protecting our citizens in their fundamental rights
to pass and enforce laws for the eXtirpation of
the execrable Ku-klux conspiracy; and if it has
not the power to do il, then say our government
is no government, but a sham. ], therefort. on
every proper occasion, advocated and justified
the Ku-KlnX act. hold it especially desirable
for the South, and, if it does not prove strong
to effect its purpose, hope it will be made stron-
ger and stronger"
We may add that Mr. Greeley in 1861 said:
"Whenever considerable portion of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to go ont, shall re-
sist all cOercve designed to keep il in"
If the cotton States shall decide that they do
better out Of the Union than in it, we insist
letting them 60 in peace" "If the slave States,
the cotton States the Gnlf States, only, choose
to form an independent nation, they have clear
moral right to do sO.'
And recently, speaking of Gen. Grant, he has
said:
"That the President has made some mistakes
in appointments is Obvi0ns. II wOuld be strange,
indeed, if one 50 inexperienced in the conduct Of
political affairs had wholly escaped them. While
asserting the right Of every Republican to his
untrammeled choice Of candidate for next Presi-
dent, until a nOminatian is made, venture to
suggest that Gen. Grant will be far better quail
fled for that momentons trust in 1872 than he was
in 1863"
vote for.-N. 7. Post.