Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-18
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Horace Greeley.

Editor Rutland Herald The most
lamentable instance of political pertidy
to corrupt principles is that of Horace
Greeley. Once the boast aud pride OF
the Republican party he has by his owl
deliberate acts, severed himself from its
organization, proud, recreant to his long
cherished opinions and principles, and
practically affiliated himself with his for
mer enemies and traducers. The once
stern and unainching opponent of sIa-
very the warm and ardent friend of tho
great and growing interests of freemcn,
| the able and efficient advocate of the
protective policy under whose influence
| our country has marched on in a pro
gressive career of prosperity he now
| strikes hands with the advocates of sla-
very, and is ready to join with the army
of free traders who are seeking to I'M
dermine that policy which has confer
red so much prosperity to our country.
and lay our great and growing interests
at the feet of British capitalists and
manufacturers. Since the days of Henry
Clay, no one has more ardently support
ted the tariff policy, or proved an ADLER
advocate of its principles than Horace
Greeley. How scathingly he,has expos
ed the fallacies of the free trade policy,
thereby endearing himself tOevery labor
ing man and farmer in the country.
With fao+o oDJ e o,IraO l,o hoe orro;I,1
the strongholds of the British free trad
ers, and proved himself a host that they
dreaded and summed His name 2cas a
tower of strength and he was regarded
the industrial interests of the entire MT
ton. Like Sampson, he has found his
Delilah, and is bound, while those who
were his late invctcrat" foes cluIcI,Ie on .
their capture and at fitting time vii
sacrifice their victim upon the altar #
their forever hate and malignity And
why this treachery of Horace Greeley
to the Republican party, with its past
and present record of greatness and
power, with also its pure and patriotic
principles? Men he once delighted to
honor, he now seeks to traduce and des-
troy. Principles he once considered
dear to the heart of every true lover Of
liberty and national greatness and hap
piness he now discards and tramples un-
der his feet. And | ask why this {?
Are the great and noble principles of
tho RnrOT1h1ipoo To
true and grand than they We're ten wears
Union among the eX-slaveholders of to-
day than there was when they were
ten years ago, and when
they ruled the nation with a rod of iron ?
Those words were once red-hot with
honest Gas we then thought) Indignation |
at the exhibition of slaveholding inso- |
wards the down-trodden and oppressed |
slaves !? Who was, in few words the |
leading editorial champion of free soil, |
free speech and free men in this coun-
try? | answer, Horace Greeley. Who |
IS now playing second fiddle to the old
Democratic party of the
and who is seeking by every
Effort in their power to reinstate that
party in political party? | answer,
Horace Greeley. He is paving the way
f possible, to bring the Arch traitor,
Jefferson Davis, for whom he became
,ail into the Senate of the United States,
md with him others, if not as able,
qually malignant in feelings against the
rec institutions of the country, and who
will, with intrigue and chicanry, plot
gain to undermine and destroy our fair
eritage, and hand us over to the re-
roach and scorn of the civilized world.
he question is often asked, why should