Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-28

ing Administration, to precipitate
itself against '..f4qitive slaves," and
now it is expected by some that he !
will receive the "negro vote" with
grateful reclamation. He says:
1--WE fully realize that the dilemma of |
the incoming Administration will be a |
critical one. It must endeavor to uphold |
and enforce the laws, as well against re-
bellious elave holders as fugitipe slaues I
The President must fulfill the obligations
assumed in his Inauguration oath, but
If eoer "seuen or eight States" send agents
to Warrington to say, I'VE want to go ont
Of the Union," zoe shall feel constrained
By oar dsootion to human liberty to cay,
Let them 60! And we do not see how we
could take the other side without coming
in direct conflict with the the rights of
man which we hold paramount to all pc.
litical arrangements, however convenient
and advantageous"
One week later, December "a,
1860, Mr.. Greeley poured out his
soul with a philanthropy at which
jeff Davis and his yet unrepentant
followers may clap their hands and
hail a borther secessionist. He
says:
"Most certainly we believe that Gov
ernmcnts are made for people, not pco-
pie for Governments-that the latter
'degive their just power from the con-
sent of the govcrnod;" and whenever a
portion of this Union, large enough 10
form an independent, selfsubsisting ma.
ton, shall see fit to say, automatically, to
the residue, 'Wc want to 60 away from
you," we shall say.--and we trust self-re.
spect, if not regard for the principles of
selfgovernment, will constrain the resi-
due of the American people to say "Gow
We never yet had SO poor an opinion of
ourselves or our neighbors as to wish to
hold others in a hated connection with
us. But the dissolution of Government
cannot be effected in the time required
for knocking down a house Of cards. Let
the cotton States, or any six or more
States, say, unequivocally, eve want to
get out of the Union" and propose to ef.
feet their end peacefully and inoffensive-
ly, and we will do our best to help them
out-nOt that we want them to 90, but
that we lOthe the idea Of compelling them
to stay"
Five days after the Inauguration
as President Of the Confederate
States, of that distinguished citizen
who was subsequently bailcd with
such alacrity by Mr.. Greeley, the
latter, in the Tribune of February
%, 1851, spoke thus:
We have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist, that the great principle en-
bodied by JEFFERSON in the Declaration
Of American Independence, that Gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent OF the governed, is sound
and just; and that if the slave States, the
cotton States, or the Gulf States only
choose to form an independent nation,
they hare clear and moral right to do
so: We have said, and still maintain,
that, provided the cotton States have
fully and defnitively made up their minds
to 60 by themselves, there is no need
Of fighting about 1t for they have only
to exercise reasonable patience, and
they will be let off in peace and good will.
Whenever it shall be clear Mat the great
body Of the Southern people are conclu-
sisety alienatsd from tile Union, and anr.
ious to escape from 1t, zee wiU do our best
to tornard their riees.
AS men and even philosophers,
not unfrequently persist in opinions
which appear preposterous to the
majority of mankind, so our states
man, continued to repeat his prev
ious declarations. In the Tribune
of Sept. PC, 1862, in letter to H.
McChesney, of Troy, N. Y, Mr..
Greeley says:
"But | shuW insist that, if it had been
proved that the people Of the slave States
or even of the cotton States alone
had already desired to dissolve the Union
and peacefully, deliberately, ana author
itatively expressed that wish, ace should
have assented to it, At all events I
should
These extracts show that Greedy
might be styled seccessionist as we'll
as any Southern fre-eater of the re-
bellion. If we contrast him with
Lincoln during this period, it is Hy-
perion to Satyr. And yet when
Mr.. Lincoln had been nominated,
when certain disconnected Repub-
licans had held a convention at
Cleveland, and nominated Fremont
and Cochrane, when the fortunes of
the republic were in a most critical
condition, and our patriotic Presi-
dent needed all possible aid and
assistance, this Tribune secession
list treacherously and secretly stab
bed Mr.. Lincoln by sending out the
following letter as private and conf
Dental:
New YORK, Sept 2, 1864,
Your ExCELLENCY: The undersigned
have been requested by a of body influen-
tial Unionists to communicate with the
loyal Governors, for the purpose Of elici-
ting replies to the following queries:
l. In your judgment is the reelection
of Mr. LINCOLN probability?
2. In your judgment, can your own
State he carried for Mr.. LINCOLSs
5. In your judgment, do the interests
Of the Union party, and so of the country,
require the substitution of another can
didate in place of Mr.. LINCOLN?
In making these queries we give no
opinion Of our own, and request yours
only for the IN ost private and confidential
use
Yours truly, HORACE GREELEY.
Editor Of the Tribune, land two othcrs.)
The people answered Mr.. Gree
ley's interrogatories as they will
answer those of Cincinnati next
November. We have other spcci-
mems Of this mans opinions and
consistency, but the length of this
article admonishes us to postpone
them to a future occasion.
S. J. w. T.