Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-08
GyRRrrr SMITH TO HORACE GREELEY

4 letter from the veteran abOlitlonist, Mr.
GcrrltL smith, To Mr.. Greeley has Just been
printed. II any man In the country has the
right to speak for the Republican party 1t Is
he. lie was one OF lis founders, one Of the
four or five who long before II thought Of
naming Presidential candidate met In fear
and trembling to give 1t shape aud FORM when
Mr.. Greeley and men who now claim to be
Republicans were anything but friendly to tue
young organization.
Mr.. Smith takes Mr.. Greeley to task for his
recent speeches, in which he says that the
present ain Of the Republican party Is to per-
pctuato feeling Of hate and luminosity toward
the South. lie believes that the great duty
Of the hour Is reconciliation between the two
sections, but he repudIates the idea that the
Republican party has stood or Is standing In
the way Of II, for "lrOm the day when Gen
Grant allowed Gen. Lee to surrender on terms
50 generous ~ to melt the rebel army to
tears, the Republican party has been re-
Concilcd to the SOUTH Mr.. Smith writes:
"ln all your pleas for this recOncllemeut you
persist In putting the saddle on the wrong horse
DO, my old friend, 10 correct this mistake,
You know US we'll as any man that the only
lack Of this TecUnciUInent Is on the part OF the
| democratic party toward the cOlUred people.
| Why then, should you not say sUR | beaeeCh
you, by your love VI truth and GAndOr, and by your
lifelong advocacy OF lair play, u say 80. Not
even tue Presidency could compensate you for
| suppTesslug this truth. You IdUllEed Henry
CLAY. Would that you, too, mig ht say MS he said
| i had rather be right than President No one
knows better than yourself that, Tor tho last
hall century, the Democratic party has planted
| itself lmuuyaby against our CUluTed brethren;
| and that, for much longer than tho last quarter
o. u century, It's spirit against them has been
| little less than Internal You do not forget liza
| never tagging AMI eyoT-Olttor opposition 70 the
abolition VI slavery, aud how Intensely hostile
II was To the Ffuulmen's Bureau and To all
other measured for Cnlighttning and protecting
the poor freedmen. You do not tYTgut how IL
hBNlbly II CUnttHded against grating tho bal.
lot aud equal civil rights To the black lnln both
| vi tho North and south; and It's persistent cry
| luF "a white mans Government cannot Yet have
| Voorhees,, aud other CuppurheadB who are going
! about with you, sun continue 10 hiss at any
| other than "a white mans government
| - need not 20 further back than the last Pres.
! dental election Tor dalnuIng proofs Of the muF-
| defOuH war which tho Democratic party has
| carried on against the black man. The sympa-
thes Oi H. cAudidut0 Tor tho Presidency with the
| negrO.oIushing rebels were too marked 10 10
| denied. II WAS he who called the New York
Tiui sTs, while they were burning COlUrvd orphan
| asylumB and hanging and burning UUleTed men /;
| My friends II was no who promised these
rioters his best efforts 10 got tho draft stopped
and this, too, at the most critical period VI the
| war. But II tho Democratic party showed It's
negro hating heart In the selection, At that time
| Ui It's Presidential candidate, TAT more 6mphatl-
| cally was II shown In the selection Of It's Vice
| Presidential candidate. Only hye days before
| the Democratic nominating convention Hen
| Blair wrote his famous letter to Col, BFOdhead
IN which he recommended resort to force and