Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-07-25
An Open letter TO Horace
GreeIpv

Greeley.
To-day I received from the Tribune
Office notice that my subscription would
expire in ten days, and a request that il
1 wished to renew the same to notify,
etc.
Mr.. Greeley, a great many years age
I first began TO read the Tribune. Ii
was then Republican paper-devOted
to the party and the country. Now
that it has changed to a Democratic
paper, want none of it. You taught
me through its columns that Democrat
was the synonym for thief and scoun-
drel; that Democrats were natural
thieves and the enemies of law and or.
der, and that if all Democrats were not
horse thieves, all horse thieves were
Democrats. You proclaimed that il
they again got power the public schools
would be closed, and the land be robbed
from one end to the other, and that the
Democracy were the organized ignor-
ance of the land. Your utteranceS
through the Tribune have done more to
give the people the idea that the Demo-
cratic party are thieves than all the ac-
tions of that party. You became text
book in the household of every anti
Democrat. You built great paper
through abuses of the Democracy. You
lined your pockets and the pockets OF
your friends by calling the Democracy
"a relic of the dark ages" Time and
time again have you warned the people
of the danger to the nation of a Demo-
cratic success. This was before you
were bitten by the snake, which you
have SO often spoken of-the President
ial serpent. You attempted the game
you are now at in 1864, by trying to de-
feat Abraham Lincoln. You were Just
little snake-bitten then. Yon went
as far as you dare go al tiltt liuIe, and
through fear of justice Oh the cruss bar
ola lamp post, you and your friends
listened to the voice of the people then
in the midst of horrid war, which
you had done more to bring about by
your writings against the South than
all the men in the land. Your course
during the bloody rebellion vas like
the antics of Jumping Jack-neyer
Iappearing to have purpose except to
growl and create dissatisfaction. This
was all overlooked by anti-slavery men
lin view of the eminent services you
had rendered their cause. You at that
time out-did Herod in dislike of rebels
and Democrats. Two ladies went to
you with a subscription paper to aid
some soldiers orphans. You looked
at it and saw on it the name of Mrs.
General Robert Anderson. "No,n you
replied, ''not cent while that womau's
name is on that paper. She is rebel.
Take her name off and will give you
$50" Now things have changed. You
have put on your arnor for a battle
with the people on a platform of "Hor-
ace Greeley Trumbull, Upton, Fen
ton, the adventurer Schurz and your
Iself-all renegade Republicans-are
into the death. You must fight. If
you are defeated you die most unholy
death, unhonored and ,unwept. You
Republican party was always weak
from having such unreliable men with
in it. Now, thank God, you have
strengthened that party by leaving it,
and reached your place in the bosom
of the Democracy-the party, which if
not all horse thieves; by singular CO.
incidence graduates from its ranks
all the horse thieves, as you have stat
ed.
You say the movement which you
lead is the uprising of the people; that
the people made the nomination at
Cincinnati. Did you see the conven-
ton, Mr.. Greeley? Never was there
such a gathering of used-up and fly
blown politicians. Who was there,
Mr.. Greeley? Fitz Henry Warren,
Rufus P. Spalding, Cassius NJ. Clay,
John Cochrane, Jacob Brinkerhoff, etc.,
all anxious to be in the uprising, so
they could get postoffice or a clerk
ship under you. Nine-tenths of this
convention were old political jades,
men Who have been q stencil in the
Hnostrils of the people for a generation.
I can name them all for you. The
most of them were on Hanvthing to-
beat Grant, because Grant had beat
the most of them by turning them out
of Office for being what you say the
Democrats are, thieves. Who repre-
sented several States and voted for you,
Mr.. Greeley? Oregon-six votes, vot-
ed by one man, Jasper w. Johnson,
who held no credentials, the only per-
son in attendance from that State, and
who is so popular at home that when
he gets up to address his fellow citizens
they respond with a shower of eggs.
California voted all her votes through
B. F. Nickerson, known to be the
meanest man in the State, and he had
no credentials, but was found on the
street on Wednesday and brought in.H
Nevada voted through one man, who
was east on other business and was
"yanked'' in. Georgia, IA votes. This
State was really represented by one
man, Cole, who borrowed some other
persons credentials, so as to be able to
fill committees, etc. He was sour be-
cause he had no hand in the reconstruc-
ton of Georgia. Who voted six votes
for Delaware? How many of her sons
of soil-the people-were on hand from
little Delaware? One man-who did
not live there, but saw that she was re-
presented, And SO on through this
comedy of errors. Do you know why
you were nominated? When the get
ters up of the convention saw that its
original purpose had been Frustrated,
land that instead of Free Trade Con-
vention it was an anything to beat
Grant" crowd, why the respectable men
left because the bottom had fallen out.
And you were nominated for fun. Did
you ever hear the truth about how your
nomination was received by the con-
vention which nominated you? When
you were nominated Schurz was in the
chair; his nose reached his eyebrows,
and he would not declare You the nomi-
nee for two hours, and until it was in
sisted upon. He thought it was joke
by the boys on the floor. Men who had
prayed in the Synagogue and Temple
for years and had lived holy lives, took
off their hats and said one to the other,
"Vell, I'm d--d." Other men not so
good said, "Oh h-l," and many of
the delegates put the thumb of their
right hands to their noses and wiggled
their fingers and said, "How is you,
brudder Horace" 1t was odd that a
convention calling itself the Peoples
Icanvention, should nominate the stand