The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-06-28

and then received a nomination, b
Invariably run behind his party ticket
and the circulation and popularity Q
: the Tribune never could give him
, respectable currency as a Candidate
The frequent disappointments b
suffered in his aspirations for oflic
led him to dissolve the firm OF Sew
ard, Weed and Greeley, and sine
then, like Barkis, he has always bee
willing, and always unsuccessful, ex
cept in serving out q month or tw
OF somebody else's term in Congress
where in that short period he mad
himself Thoroughly odious and oh
noxious to men of all parties withou
exception or distinction. He ha
repeatedly shown himself a marplot
and Notwithstanding his Chimes
physiognomy so 'childlike and bland,
he has exhibited stupid obstinsc.
fully equal to that Of Andrew Johu
son, or any other jackass.
During Lincoln's celebrated canvas
with Douglass, and during the legis
lative contest which followed 1t
lGreeley was quite aG much for tn
Halter as the former. He electioneer
ee for Lincoln about as he did fol
The Republicans in Connecticut las
spring. Afterwards, at the Conven
tion in Chicago, where Lincoln wa!
irst nominated, and where the com.
petition was between such men as Lin
lcoln, Seward and Chase, was our Chi.
nese sage, running over with aparen,
simplicity and he, too, had his candi
date. He pressed his candidate with
ways that were dark and tricks tha,
were vain" He probably swore "good
mouth filling oaths," and manifested
his great knowledge of men, his ex-
quisite discrimination of character,
and his profound conception of state
manship, by repudiating Lincoln and
Seward, and men of that calibre, and
advocating q man that no one else
ever dreamed OF for President-Ed-
ward Bates. Mr.. Lincoln was per-
Ipetually annoyed and worried by
this same Chinese politician, during
all his Administration. At one
time il would be his needless "on to
Richmond" at another his cowardly
council to make degrading and sui
cidal concessions, and at another by
prosecuting insane negotiations in
Canada.
AS early as November 0, 1860, be
demonstrated how safe and judicious
it would have been to have entrusted
the guidance of these United States
to his sagacity and wisdom. In the
Tribune of that date he says:
Sand now, if the Cotton States
considered the value of the Union
we maintain their perfect
right to discuss it. Nay, we hold
with Jefferson to the inalienable right
of communities to alter OF abolish
forms of government that have be-
come oppressive or injurious and,
if the Cotton States shall decide that
they can do better out of the Union
than in it, We insist on letting them
go in peace. The right to secede |
may be revolutionary one, but it
exists nevertheless; and we do not
see how one party can have a right
to do what another party has a right
TO prevent. We must ever resist the
asserted right of any State 10 remain
IN the Union, and nullify or defy the
avs thereof; to withdraw from the
Union is quite another matter. And,
whenever q considerable section of
our Union shall deliberately resolve
% 60 out, we shall resist all coercive
designed to keep it in. We
ts sf Is p pinned GSsonRRRis Il RRs
esidue by tayOnets."
On the 18th OF December, 1860.
he Chappaqua jurist, patriot and phi.
evinced his acumen by
elling phat he kaows aboutthe Deela-
alton Of Independence. He says:
"We have repeatedly asked those
rho dissent from our view of this
latter to tells Us frankly whether
hey do not assent to Mr.. Jeffer-
on's statement in the Declaration of ..
Independence that Governments ,
derive their justpower from the con-
mt of tie governed and that when.
yer any form Of government, be-
Omes destructive OF these ends, tits
he right Of tho people to alter or a5ol-
h it, and to institute q new Gov
&c, &c. We do heartily
ccept this doctrine, believing it in
'insically sound, beneiicent, and one =
lat universally accepted, is calculat- y
l to prevent the shedding seas of a
uman blood. And if IL justified the 7
cession from the British Empire of b
rec millions Of colonists IN l776, .
G do not see wty 1t gould not jiusti- J, =
, the accession of .fos millions of n n
outherons from the Federal Union a
1861. II we are mistaken on this :,
)int, why does not some one at A
mpt to show wherein and whyP :,
Or our own part, while we deny the :, ~
ght OF shareholders to hold slaves
,ainst the will Of the latter, we can
i see how tDe'aty millions of people "
n righyully hold ten or even frs in g
detested Union acith them, by mill G
ry force. A
"If seven or eight contiguous q
ates shall present themselves au- A
entically at Washington saying t.
We hate the Federal Union: we A
we withdrawn from it; we give you h
9 choice between acquiescing in 81
II secession and arranging amicably So
incidental questions on the one Il
nd, and attempting to subdue US W
the other .'-s0e conH not stand up
, coercion, for SuIju9atios, for noe do h,
It think 1t tcould be Just. We hold q
e right OF self-government sacred, 10
en- when envoked in behalf OF those w
10 deny it to Others" N
Further along in the same article hi
may see him invoking the incom. u
? Administration, to precipit ate sil
elf against '.fugitice Slaves" and th
W it is expected by some that he Sc
Il receive the "negro vote," with 2:
ateiul acclamation. He says: bl
''We fully realize that the dilem- Sc
of the incoming Administration
L be critical one. 1t must en- ST
avor to uphold and enforce the an
vs., as well against rebellious slave hl
lders as fugitive slaves. The Presi- IN
ut must fulfill the obligations as sir
med in his Inauguration oath but pI
ever 'sevsn or eight States" send iib
snts to Washington to sag, "W iu
mt to go eas Of the Uni6n,' ve shall Ol
constrained By our decosion to hu- co
~ liberty to say, Let them go! And
donot see how we could take the
Ter side without coming in direct VI
nhict with those rights Of man ne
ich We hold paramount to all &c
litical arrangements, however con- m'
1ient and advantageous. Oh
One week later, December "a, 80
80, MIR. Greeley poured out his
IL with philanthrophy at which
4. Davis and his yet unrepentant Ir
lowers may clap their hands and ex
1 brother secesionist. He says: a
Most certainly we believe that he
vernments are made for peoples, ha
. peoples for Governments-that ha
, latter 0deriye their iust nnver