Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29

ganization, from foundation stone to
turret, comprehended human chattel-
ism first, last, and all the time.
Horace Greeley does not possess a
single claim to the character of hui
manitarian. Heis essentially and solely
a coldambitious politician. He is also
undoubtedly philosopher. He philo-
sophized on the subject of accession.
and came to the conclusion that as an
abstract political question it would be
unjust to hold the South in the Union
against its will, and, in the presence of
this philosophic deduction, which he
pretended to draw from the Declara-
ton of Independence, every thought
and impulse on the subject of human
slavery from a humanitarian point of
view vanished from his mind and heart,
and he relegated the 100000 of bond
men to the tender mercies of their
owners with as little conjunction as he
recently felt in abandoning the doctrine
of protection to home industry to the
exigencies of his ambition for the
Presidency.
1t is true Mr.. Greeley labored in the
cause of anti-slavery indirectly as q
Henry Clay Wing, but when it became
apparent that the abolition of the
"sum of all villainies could only be
accomplished by the terrible alternative
of war, he surrendered all his convic-
lions of right and smothered every
humanitarian impulse in obedience to
the doctrine of political expediency.
Nor was he controlled by an ambition
common to great minds, to preserve
the integrity of the territory of his coun-
| try. The motives which recently ac-
tusted the German nation to fight for
the restoration of its boundaries, cur
tailed hundreds of years ago, and the
sentiment of humiliation which per-
vaded all France at the loss of portion
of its territory, found no place in the
mind or heart of Mr.. Greeley. He was
an advocate of principles which could
hardly be expected to prevail without
war; but when it doomed in the near
horizon as an inevitable necessity to the
| freedom of the negro, he was man of
peace, at the expense of surrenderlng
the humanitarian views he had cher
ished simply as visionary. He could
gain no laurels in war, and being only
an ambitious politician seeking Office,
he was willing to bow low to expedien-
CIV, even at the sacrifice Of all his orig
inal Abolitionism, at the sacrifice of the
principles of the party with which he
had labored, at the sacrifice of the party
itself; and, finally, at the sacrifice of
the integrity of the national territory.
There is not redeeming passage in the
later history of Mr.. Greeley as an anti
emancipation had become an accom-
IL IL c. vi
had crowned our arms, and the rebel
collapse, Mr.. Greeley threw the whole
weight of his influence in favor of
recognition of the independence of the
Confederacy, by declaring that when
, ever it shall be clear that the great
t body of the Southern people have be-
, come conclusively alienated from the
, Union and anxious to escape from it,
we will do our best to forward their
views ;" thus coolly remanding 100000
. of colored men, among whom were
z thousands of Union soldiers who had
fought not only for their own individual
freedom, but for the integrity and per-
petuity of the Union, and been declared
free by the solemn act of the Govern
ment, to the horrors of endless slavery.
This is Mr.. Greeley's record as a
humanitarian, and it is not utterly
= heartless and devoid of principle, but
cowardly in the extreme. And yet, in
the face of this record of mere trad
ing politician, which possesses no ele-
| ment of disinterested friendship for the
| colored race, Mr.. Sumner, with a disin-
| genuousness entirely worthy of the sub
| ject of his panegyric, ridiculous, be-
| cause untrue, says: - Horace Greeley,
from early life, was earnest and constant
against slavery, full Of sympathy with
the colored race, and always foremost
in the great battle for their rights" and
] adds, with the true spirit of Jesuit,
i am so much of Republican that
!. wish to see in the Presidential chair a
i lifetime Abolitionist" Mr.. Greeley has
n recently shown himself as much of a
;, Republican as he formerly showed him.
II self to be an Abolitionist. In 1859,
. when human slavery was.on the verge
e of destruction, he abandoned the cause
e of equal rights to fall into the arms of
e the Southern oligarchy, becoming a
V rampant secessionist. In 1871, when
e slavery had been abolished and the
i South reconstructed on the basis of ex-
v act Justice TO all, he abandoned the
e party of universal freedom and equal
o rights, and for the bride of a nomination
e to the Presidency, made secret bar
n gain with the leaders of the Democratic
: party, by which he agreed to sacrifice
q the fruits of five years of war and five
e years of reconstruction. and to surren-
i der the control of the Government into
d the hands of the men who raised their
r. reasonable hands against it in the hour
u of its recent peril.
~ The more carefully Mr.. Greeley's
v record is scanned, and the more criti
n cally the prominent acts of his life are
examined, the more hollow and heart
% less appears his character. To strip
from him every attribute of humanita
rianism, SO far as his record as an Adolf
ZIONIST is concerned, it is only necessary
to review the utterances of his news
e paper just previous to the breaking out
u of the rebellion. To become convinced
e of his insatiate thirst for office, it ii
', only necessary to read his letter tc
e. Seward, written in 1854 and published
1870 To ho occ,1roI +ba4 ;pctoaI ~