Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-24
Truthful Comments on Greeley

Horace White, editor of the Chicago
Tribune, and now one of Mr.. Greeley's |
chief supporters, in 1866 expressed the |
following opinion of the Cincinnati can
didate
Horace Greeley is not now and
never has been man who ought to be
trusted with an official position requir-
ing practical wisdom, ordinary states
manship, or firm, consistent action
For twenty five years he has been a
marplot in counsel, an unreliable com
mander in action, a mlsanthrope ID
victory, and a riotous disorgauizer in
defeat He has always been fanaticai
in his demands for the EXTREMIST meas
ures, and when the party has reached
the eve Of triumph, invariably thrusts
himself forward as negotiator of terms
of surrender to the enemy. His course
during the war was but a repetition Of
his course in politics. In 1861 he was
an open defender of secession. He
changed to vigorous champion of. the
war. and thereafter was forever reck-
lessly making proposals for peace, and
as recklessly withdrawing them-ma
king war in spite of Mars, and Dego
tiating in spite of Minerva. "
The New York Independent makes
the following remarks upon the above
just sketch of Mr.. Greeley. 1t says:
"This lacouic characterization of
Horace Greeley was true in 1866,
and it is true to-day. He has under
gone no change for the better since the
editor of the Chicago Tribune drew this
vivid yet faithful picture of the original.
His present attitude is one of open aud
undisguised treachery at the leading
political avowals if his life, inspired by
personal hostility toward Gen. Grant
and an earnest wish to foist himself in
the Presidential chair That he
should have been nominated for this
position was surprise to the country
that can be equaled only by his Demo
cratic endorsement at Baltimore. Mir
acles ended with apostolic times but
the age of marvels certainly has not
passed away. What Horace White said
in 1866 is still true: 1.-The country at
this time wants no inspired harlequins
10 the national councils" 1t wants a
President who can be depened on as
faithful to avowed principles, and not a
trimmer and timeserver, such as Mr..
Greeley has proved himself to be. His
record makes his candidacy ridiculous,
and his political treason deserves to
make the candidate infamous. HIS
nomination by the Baltimore Conven-
ton would be the last shift of a party
conscious Of approaching doom aud
seeking to avert its fate"
"He means well' is thus touched off
in the last number of Horper's Week
Ia: "Our frieads think also that Mr..
Greeley means well. Perhaps lie
meant we'll when he encouraged and
justified secession when he 'nagged'
President Lincoln to buy peace
when he promoted foreign intervention;
when he gravely perpIexed Mr.. Lin
coin by his Niagara performances
when he complained to Mr.. Seward long
ago that he had not been rewarded
with an office when he half apoligiz-
ed for Sweeney and Tweed Whenever
he had done anything which showed
his fatal want of judgment. Had be
been President instead of Lincoln, he
might have meant well in surrend-
ering the rebellion. Do our friends
think it enough to mean we'll, if you
have no judgment p
Exc ov. Swami, leader of the inten-
sely bitter and violent Maryland Dem
ocracy said in recent speech what he
thought must be
"Greeley must be elected. He must
be chosen, even by those politicians
adverse to him, on the ground that
half loaf is better than no bread.
He must yield many of his isms and
prejudices, and his Administration
will surely be Democrats, and if not,
the party will be able, though the low
er house of Congfess,@to control the
Government"
The last Maryland man who CONTROL
ed the government, was an individual
with a pistol who skulked behind Presi-
dent Lincoln. He was desperate and
felt that it must be, although Blair's
cousin Gratz Brown was not Vice Presi
dent.
In answer to the question "What is
the Greeley Coalition,? "Harper's Week
ly gives a brief and comprehensive an
swer at is combination of every
element of discomfort, of disloyalty, and
disorder in the country; of the great
mass of those who are known as
unrepentable rebels, of negro haters,
and regulators of the actual and the
oretical enemies of the Union; of an
cient aud malignant Copperheads; of
Republicans with personal grievances
of notorious and played out Republi
can politicians of the Tammany and
Brooklyn rings, and of the worst classes
in local politics; and the Ku-Klux and
its abetters and apologists and of some
we'll meaning men, utterly bewildered
by the company which hustles and
heaves them along"
Remarking the hippant comments of
New York Tribune on the recent out
rage at Yanceyville, the Raleigh ( N.Co
Era of the I'd inst. says: ave tell the
Tribune and the northern people that
the south was comparatively quite In
the midst 9th most violent Of ku-klux
outrages to what it will be if Merriman
is elected governor in August and Gree
ley in November. The outrage at
Milton and Yanceyville will be multi
Piled by the hundred, with deadly and
murderous effect. Those who hatter