New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-15
what the South Expects Of Greeley !

| notorious rebel of Kentucky, who is running
on the Greeley ticket for Elector-at-Large, is
stamping the State. In his speech the other
day he assured his rebel friends that in the
election of Greeley the equal rights and
sovereignty of the State would be restored,
and that his comrades of the lost cause have
not died in vain, but this anticipated triumph
would be the victory for which they fought"
And Mr.. Congressman Beck, of the same
State, declared in stump speech on the
eve of the recent election there, and in the
presence of Gratz Brown himself, that after
Mr.. Greeley's election nearly all the States
will wheel into line with the new order OF
things, and soon the Democrats will have the
control of both the Senate and the House.
The House will be Democratic before the year
is out"
SIN speech at New Liberty, he, on the
Both of July, said: He had accepted Greeley
because he had seen q Democratic victory
growing out of it. And tie Democratic aoould
see to ii that Greeley roald do no HARM"
And at the same time and place, Hon.
Thomas L. Jones, former Democratic men,
Der Of Congress from the COvington, Ken
lucky, District, said to the Democrats as
sembled that " in voting for Greeley they
would vote to keep the Democratic party to-
gaher; that this talk of dsintegrating that
great party was foolish. He was of opinion
that Greeley ~suld become, IN fact, Democratic
President, and that the Democrats would elect
q simon-purc Democrat for the next four
years following him. And in this Admins
tration the Democrats would have control,
for they could not be erpected to gire acay 10 the
Liberal minority. Greeley could not get along
without the great men of the Democratic
party; he rould hare a Democratic Cabinet, and
Democrats would represent the country
abroad. AT least half, if not two-thirds, Of
the offices in the gift of the President would
90 to the Democrats
At recent Greeley ratification meeting in
Tennessee, Governor Brown, of that State,
declared that he supported Greeley because
he Greeley loved the South and bailed jeff.
Davis, advocated universal amnesty, and had
no kinsfolk. He did not care what Greeley
had said in the past against the South and its
institutions. 1t was enough for him to know
that now he was in favor of restoring her to
her pristine rights. Greeley, if elected, scould
pay the losses Of the South, and set her people
on the high road to wealth and happiness"
Hon. Edward 1. Gollday, rebel sympa-
thizing member of Congress from Tennes-
see, at the same meeting at which Governor
Brown made the above announcement, de-
clared that his reasons for supporting Greeley
were that g at the outset of the war, he was
in favor Of letting the 'wayward sisters de-
part in peace,'" and afterward went single
handed and alone to meet our commissioners
in Canada, to treat for peace. Not Demo-
crat in the North dared go with him or mani
Tested any desire to GO. lie iCas Then in faror
Of paying the SOUTH for her sloces. end I be-
Aere lie is still"
Gov. Whyte, of Maryland, in recent
speech made use of a now favorte expression
among the Democrats. He said: $50 far
from Democrats abandoning their principles,
or, indeed, abandoning their party name, l
consider that, as party in its solidarity-to
use Kossuth's expression-it has taken Gree
ley and the Cincinnati platform for temporary
purposes"
And Mr.. Greeley himself has testified from
his own observation at the South that the
people Of the Southern States are bent on re-
ceiving indemnity from the Government for
all their losses, including slaves, by the war.
In letter written by him at Memphis, Ten
nessee, June 8, 1871, during his visit to the
South, and printed in the Tribune of June sth,
he said:
81 am confident Mot tco-thirds of tie men,
aciM nine-tenths Of the rome,4, who formerly
composed the slave-holding caste, would this
day give half their houses and lands to have
their slaves back again, just as they pos
sessed them in 1860. Thcp CONSIDER
Memselre, robbed by emancipation, and pouH
like their property back again, @, as ralue in
some eQuiuatem.'
Mr.. Greeley's testimony is in perfect har-
mony with that of every man no has taken
pains to acquaint himself with Southern SEN
timent, and is sustained by the letters and
speeches of every prominent Southern ex-
rebel now supporting the barsain-and-salc
ticket. And they are more in favor of Gree
ley's election because they have became sat
isfied that they can use him to accomplish
their purpose. And as Mr.. Greeley declares
in the same letter from which we quote
above, thus sums up the whole matter:
"They propose 10 reneso tic fight, but not with
gun and sabre. They expect to regain, as Dem
ocrats, through election, the porer they lost as
rebels through ,rar."
Here is the case in a nut shell. Beck, and
Jones, and Hodge, and Brown, and Golliday,
and Greeley undoubtedly stated the naked
truth. There is no more doubt that if Gree
ley should be elected through the madness
and ingratitude of the people, his would be a
Democratic Administration than there is that
Grants will be Republican. If Greeley does
not voluntarily make it Democratic, they
will find way to make it SO. Three times
IN one not very long life an unfliendly Presi-
dent has mystcriously given place to plant
Vice President. And Mr.. Beck gives the
country fair warning that the Dem cc,ats ,oould
see to that Greeley rOuld do no harla in other
words that if necessary Crate B,sun would be-
come President. OF course he would if Gree
len sLsnlI more intracf1JIe.