The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-31
Democratic Column.
Mr. GreeleY's Mistake.

"I was in the days of slavery, an ene-
my Of slavery, because [ thought slavery
inconsistent with the rights, the dignity
the highest well-being of free labor.
That might hare been aatstohe.'--
Mr.. Greeley's speech at Jctersonr'He,
I,,d., September %, 1872.
So said Horace Greeley only little
over one month since, when on his
electioneering tour through the States
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and
Kentucky. Greeley once thought that
slavery was Inconsistent with the rights,
the dignity, the highest well-being OF
free labor" For that reason he was the
enemy of slavery, for that reason Mr.
Greeley opposed slavery, bat no" thinks
he was mistaken. This is an instance
of trucking rarely to be met with, not
even in candidates for the minor othces
within the gift Of the people. Scarcely
would a candidate for the most trifing
Office in any township in the United
States stoop to so low process to secure
the vote of his town; yet Horace Gree
lev candidate of the Lib-Rep- Dems.
for President of the United States, will
wollow in the dirtiest slime pit Of So
phistry to secure the popular vote 1t
will be remembered too, that Greeley
made the speech in which the above
paragraph occurs at JefersonvllIe In
diana, Sept. %, 1872. JefersonviIle
is in the very bottom of what is known
as the 'pocket" in the State of Indiana
The Indiana pocket is noted East and
West, for its lack of moral, intellectual
and political culture, its old men arc
from the lowest films of southern society
while its young men have made bu
little advance.
Progress and reform are words, the
meaning of which they do not know, no
do they care to know. Slavery is now
and always has been their highest ido;
of civilization, and morality. To tn
apecoogtar" institution they have AM
now cling as the dearest idol OF thel
heart. They are longing for return
the Sonth, to the Sonth as it was, not t
the South as it is. They have no ide
of negro only as Slave.
TO talk of the negro as a citizen
the United States is to them the on
thing, the only thing repulsive and to
abhored, and yet hundreds OF these ver
men could not tell what Is meant by b
ing citizen either as to duty, privilege,
responsibility. A majority of the pc
pie in the bottom of this Indiana ''poc
ct" were bitterly opposed to the encam
menr of Indiana troops about their cl
and arrogantly talked about neutrall
of territory in the days Of rebelhc
Yet here ia the bottom Of the "pocke
and to this people, Greeley says, 81 W
in the days of slavery, an enemy of 3
very, because thought slavery inc'
sistent with the rights, the dignity, t
highest will being of free labor. III
might haze been mistake"
Now is it possible to conceive OF l(
er depth of political sOphistry than
to accomplish purpose. What Nor
ern or Southern proslavery DemocI
when. where, aud at what time in
political history has any politician or
ven the merest Demagogue, East, W
North, or South stopped so low tor OF
as this man Greeley?
Most assuredly is it true that Gree
will do any thing, say any thing, or
any thing to be President of The I'm
States.
Is it to wondered at that, Pennsy
MIA, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, aud
District of Columbia have admlniSt'
so severe a rebuke as that given on
Sth, inst? Will justice do more than
perfect work on the 9th prox, 10 to'
overthrowiug this prince OF sopoiS'S
demagogues and his aGherents!