The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-26

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ond Of England. had heard that house divided
against itself could not stand. saw the house Of
nv political adversary divided against ITSELF and
knew nom the rules or the wisest ancient phioso-
phy that it could not stand. did not see that my
own house was divided against ITSELF and saw no
Wh e hi n naew t we mad votes
believe we could beat Grant with pure and quail
fed statesman, even II he was alone In the field He
is not strong before the people he was confronted
by candidate who had not advised and endorsed
his entire policy as Mr.. Greeley has. l was not
therefore, bowed down when heard from Cncin-
natl. MY FACE was rather lifted up and frightened
with hope, and talked and wrote and telegraphed
In the tone in which ! am talking to you now,
taxing lor granted that Israel would 20 to her tents
and display her honOred flag. I recalled the fact
that Mr.. Lincoln was elected because two demo-
crats were running, and was convinced, as still
am, that we had better opportunity for success
than we had known since Pierce was elected
twenty years ago. The path Of duty and Of policy
was the same; our party principles and our party
pohcy conJoned. They were Identical You can
hardly imagine, therefore, the feeling with which
saw certain uncertain newspapers hauling down
democratic names at their mastheads and placing
In their stead the name of one who has more fairly
earned and more fully enjoys the hostility and
sion OF the democratic party than any other man in
ment while Grant and Morton and their coadjutors
are In existence. Impartial history, however, win
sustain me IN IL.
GREELEY's ABUSE OF THE DEMOCRACY.
For thirty years. commencing far back, when
these gray heads before me were black and young,
and continuing until within the last three weeks,
there has been no form OF coarse brutal and ina
nous assault which Horace Greeley has not made
on the democratic party, IN the aggregate and in
has been unceasing, unsparing and universal. He
has ragged everywhere for objects OF his hatred and
vindictive abuse. He has not hesitated to call
foremost men, like Horatio Seymour liars and VII
lains and traitors He has also singled out the peO-
pie in private life and denounced them ignorant,
sOrdid and vicious Tor selecting democratic officials
One OF his special calings for years has been to
assail the constituents Of gentlemen who voted
against his heresies In Congress. Our own extern
sive and magnificent district has often received
his maledictions, because represented 1t and al
ways denounced his favorite theories In his esti-
nation majority OF this noble population of $50 OOO
extending nearly two hundred miles up and down
one OF the oldest and wealthiest and most
snyatsd valleys vest the Allegheny
wallowing In mire, because they do not
look at public questions as he does and elect man
to make such man the democratic candidate for
trayed you. But let us make a still
CLOSER EXAMINATION OF MR.. GREELEY
as proposed candidate. do not object to him as
republican candidate. He is the best embodiment OF
can vote for him consistently and ought to. He is
an older and far ADLER republican than Grant. He
was violent republican when Grant was
commend Greeley, therefore, to his own party !;
but how can mine support him. Sometimes o man
is supported for a small office on purely personal
grounds, simply because he is an amiable and
worthy man with good qualifications for the posi-
ton such motives alone, however, never governed
the choice of President, who to vast extent
shapes the whole policy of the government for veal
OF woe. There is nothing, however, in Mr. Greeey's
him for the high position to which ne
aspres. On the contrary man. personally
more unfit to al the ONCE Of Chief Ma
mentioned in connection with it but when dis
tingushed gentlemen are spoken Of In connection
with that lofty station their principles determine
anything else. Tried by this standard, Horace
Greeley Tesstably repeis every democrat IN the
against at this timer One of the living issues that
have been before Congress during the whole Of the
Il establishes by law and enforces with heavy pen.
ties of fine, damages and Imprisonment
the the pssSs with and the vSss equality q
school house, seminary, college, church, tavern,
boarding house, railroad car, steamboat, theatre,
IN 5oe
measure, injurious to both races passed the Senate
on two different occasions Senators Morton and
thought Of making an Issue against these two Sem
ators before the people OF Indiana during the CON-
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MI. Greeley, warmly endorses this mea:
censure the Indiana Senator's. A bill substan-
TALLY the same as that which passed the Senate
has been before the House for months past, and
the democratic members under the lead on that sub
tect ofthat very able reliable and upright states
law TO prevent its passage. Mr.. Greeley is SO
much in favor Of the principles which it contains
that, within ten days after his nomination, he went
NEGRO CHURCH AT PoUGHKEEPsIE,
New York. and there declared "a, them as his own,
What harmony there will be between the entire
democratic side OF the House In Congress and their
Baltimore on the point OF equality in the schoolsl
Let me call the especial attention OF the poor and
laboring classes to It's workings. You must rely on
the common schools. You are not able to take
them away as rich man can his.
as YOU You School soar ch %aR
with the negroes or not at all. would provide
schools for both races but apart from each other.
tunites for learning; but, II history has recorded
any one lesson for our warning In more striking
colors than any other, 1t is the evil which follows
and distinct races Such policy elevates neither
and finally degrades both;
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Mr.. voorhees, then took up the question OF the
tariff and asked whether 1t was a live issue not
at this time in the American mind. For weeks past
Congress has been engaged upon 1t, and the labor
ing people of the country have been hoping for a
reduction OF the high protective tariff taxation on
all the necessaries OF life The democratic members
Cling to obtain this reduction. Mr. Greeley, on the
other hand, has 'abored," in season and out OF
tury to fasten ali the robberes of high
protection on the industry OF the land.
The public opinion which has eliminated in
such legislation is more the offspring of his lifetime
work than of any other man In America. The far.
mers, the mechanics and the labortng classes gene.
rally are now paying over four hundred millions q
year to the manufacturing monopolies of the
country, not one dollar OF which goes into the pub
lie treasury all of which is the clear gain OF capital
from the toll and sweat Of labor. This appalling
fact has been again and again demonstrated
year after, year in Congress, and out
puted. We. as democrats, have denounced
THIS VAST SYSTEM OF PLUMBER
from the birth Of our party to the present hour.
We arraigned the old whig party on It, and we have
fought the republican party inch by inch upon II.
We have shown that every five years the oppressed
and outraged labor OF this goodly land pays enough
In the increased cost Of living owing to high pro-
tective tariff, to liquidate the national debt not
dollar OF which is ever applied to that or to any
other public purpose; yet we are now asked to sup
port for the Presidency the man who has always
said and now says that this monstrOus system OF
licensed pillage is right He is known as far
IA the keels Of commerce extend, and wherever
the plow turns a furrow as its b0ldest and most
avowed champion In the world. II il claimed, how
ever in some quarters, that he has changed his po-
stion on the great question; that he has agreed to
leave 1t to the people. MY answer to this Is brief.
man Of mature age changing the deliberate and