Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-31

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On the 18th Of April, Mr.. Greeley
REQUIRED to the subject in an article
from which we Gull these specimens
Of gentlemanly courtesy:
"Horatio Seymour, in speech al
Bridgeport on the Both inst, did, with
intent to defame the Republican party
and secure Copperhead triumph in
Connecticut. utter these two gigantic, de.
liberate, Gtrocious LIES
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1.-THE World, in flying to the defense Of
Governor Seymour, has not made the LIES
any less, but the LIARS are more"
April 14th, recurring to the same
subject, Mr.. Greeley said:
"Horatio Seymour, Ex-Governor of our
State, saw ut = to assert, &c.
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"These assertions zoe haze publicly
branded as LIEs-LIEs altered soiih intent
| to Islander and deceiue-LIEs vILLAINoUs
in their nature and purpose-L1Es THAT
THE TONGUE OF THEIR UTTERER-LIEs
aohieh should cooer piM INFAMY euery one
aoho should make himself their responsible
endorser as the WORLD has DONE"
April 10th, Mr.. Greeley said:
I'VE stand BY euery acord zoe haze utter
ed on this theme as justified nay, demand
cd-by Scymour's malignant, outrageous,
persistent defamation of the Republican
party defamation rs fragrant in 1864,
when he canyasscd as Governor of our
State, as more recently. We haze borne
tile defamation till further .for6earance
could be baseness."
1t would be easy to quote from
the IriJuue whole reams OF abuse
as coarse and fierce as this Of Gov.
Seymour. Gov. Hoffman,, and al
most every Democrat of prominence
in the State or country, has been
vilified with as little consideration.
If Mr.. Greeley is nominated at Bal
timore, these gentlemen will be ex-
pected to address popular meetings
and advocate his election. If their
sense of selfrcspect could possibly
permit them to do it, his outrageous
vilification of them would be quoted
in all the Republican papers of the
place, on the day of the meeting,
and citizens light be tempted to
stand up in the audience and ask
the speakers what they had to say
about such unretracted aspersions.
Even if the speakers were weak and
mean spirited enough to forgive
such gross insults without an apol-
ogy, what answer could they give
to inquirers who should ask if they
thought the user Of such language
against respected men Of blameless
life, has the bearing, manners, gen
tlemanly instincts, and sense Of dig
nifty which befit successor of
Washington? To say nothing Of
irreconcilable differences of prin-
ciple, how could the prominent
Democratic statesmen of the coun-
try, who have been so outrageously
maligned and insulted by Mr.. Gree
ley, ever bring themselves either to
advocate his election, or to give him
their assistance in conducting the
government? Such inquiries may,
in some quarters, be disregarded
for the moment; but as they will be
constantly repeated, supported ev-
cry time by additional evidence,
they will pretty certainly produce
their legitimate effect before the as
sembling of the Baltimore Cohven-
ton. The nomination of Mr.. Gree
ley by the Democratic party is the
moral, political, social and econom-
ical imPossibiHty, which every self
respecting Democrat would have
instinctively declared it to be at any
time previously to the Cincinnati
Convention.