The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-01
published in the columns Of his Tribune
the following paragraph;

not see how one party can have right to
do what another party has right TO pre- |
vent. We must ever resist the asserted |
right of any state to remain in the Union |
and nullify or defy the laws thereof. To |
withdraw from the Union is quite another
matter. And, whenever a considerable sec-
tion of our Union shall deliberately resolve
to go out we shall resist all coercive meas
ures designed TO keep it in"
This paragraph was repeated again in
the Tribune on the 18th and 24th of
December, 1860; again February 23d,
1861, and again affirmed by Mr..
Greeley in his letter to Mr.. II. Nc.
Ohesney of Trey, N. Y, dated Sept.
23d, 1862, and published in his Tribune
Sept. 26th, 1862.
1t will be seen that Mr.. Greeley makes
ludicrous effort at playing the role of
the statesman, philosopher, and philan-
thropist. He evidently intends hand
ing his name down to posterity as the
later Jefferson, as well as the "Later
Franklin" 1t will be seen that Mr..
Greeley perverts the Declaration of In
dependence when he holds secession to
be revolutionary, and revolution to be
right, against which no coercive measure
should be brought to bear. and if coer-
Give measures were employed he should
oppose them. Now what was, and is the
difference between Horace Greeley and
JEFF Davis. Davis claimed the right to
seceed, and was sorely annoyed at the
coerclve measures employed by the gov
ernment to prevent secession, and only
desired to be "let alone," that they
might ego in peace" and in peace tear
up the government of the United States,
and out of the ruins thereof, build up
confederacy whose chief corner stone
should be slavery.
Greeley places this right to seceed on
the famous declaration that governments
derive "their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed, and that whenever
any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends it is the
right of the people to alter or abolish it,
and to institute new governments, Stc..
etc." Now this was precisely the posi-
ton taken by Jeff Davis, and his coad-
tutors in rebellion, but neither Davis
nor Greeley, nor any other secessionist
tells us when or iI what particular the
government of the United States with
held any right guaranteed to the govern
ed by the constitution and laws of the
country. When and by whom was any
right either state or individual, with.
held by the Federal Government from
any state or citizen before the rebellion?
Neither Greeley, nor his coadjutor JEFF
Davis, have informed us when the gov
ernment of the United States, deprived
or attempted to deprive the people OF
Republican form of government, or {
proper representation in the Legislative
branch of the government according tc
legal forms before the rebellion, thereby
making secession and revolution duty
as we'll as a right.
Again Greeley shouts "On to Rich
mond" and so far as was possible for onc
man to do so, precipitateG the first battlt
of Bull Run, before anything was il
readiness for such a conflict, and thCl
counseled cessation of hostilities.
Again in 1861 when President Lin
: coin called out an army Of 100000 men
Greeley was loud in regrets at what h
S regarded as very unfortunate course
i but inasmuch as there could be no re
p cession, he counseled the President t
=, make but one effort with that army an
= if unsuccessful make overtures of peac
, on any terms. Hostilities must cease
q no cost of national honor is too great i
e his and the estimation of his compatriC
e Colorado Jewet. compared with wha
! they called by the high sounding title
d fratracidal war.
Greeley made appeals in his Tribun
# to the people over his own signatuI
urging the necessity by attempts I
}, argument, but especially by his old tin
/, honored system so natural to him, vi
e denunciatory sleql!do against tt
n President, against the army, the nav,
t, in fine one and all in any way connecte
n with the work of putting down the r
IT bellion, except in his way, and accor'
e ing to his suggestions.
n Horace Greeley sat in counsel vii
e George Saunders and others, pretende
representatives of Of the Rebel Confe
,r eracy, and promised the influence of h
y paper to effect peace at any cost OF n
t, tional honor He put himself in CORE
ic pondence with the French minister VIII
ct that magnate offered the mediatory ST
e, vice of his master Napoleon III on pr
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