Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-22


to save themselves from cruel betrayal.
You can shed no light on their pathway; for
they have much clearer vision than your
own, and practical knowledge of men and
things around them that you do not possess.
Talk not to them in disparagement of Presi |
dent Grant; tell them not of the superior
virtues of MIR. Greeley AS a matter of com
mon sense and ordinary prudence, they only
ask-they need only ask-on which side are
their despise RS and prosecutors rallying ku-
hluNes and all, to come to the sensible, con
clusion that their safety lies in the opposite
direction. Yet it is Charles Sumner who is
exerting all his powers to persuade them to
the contraryl By what witchcraft has this
been brought about?
80 madness of discourse,
That cause sets up with and against itself!
Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt
Without perdition, and loss assume all reason
Without revolt; this is, and is not, Cres sid.
The special point that you press upon the
grateful consideration of colored voters is
this "Horace Greeley, from early life, was
earnest and constant against slavery, full of
sympathy with the colored race, and always
foremost in the great battle for their rights
am so mudh of Republican that
l wish to see in the Presidential chair life
time abolitionist." Here, again, as in the
case of Gratz Brown, you made a claim that
cannot be substantiated. Mr.. Greeley never
was and never assumed to be an abolition
ist He never denounced slaveholding as
liberation of the slaves, nor recommended
direct assault upon slavery itself, nor dis
countenanced all pro-slavery compromises,
nor objected to a slave representation in
Congress, or to the legal rendition of fugi-
tive slaves, nor connected himself with any
anti-slavery organization, nor sanctioned the
abolition movement. He was a trimmer
throughout the whole struggle, notwith-
standing that he wrote and published much
that was serviceable to the cause of freedom.
II = C.~sI.
Henry Clay Whig until Republicanism sup
planted the Whig and Free Soil parties. Even
after the slaves were set free under Abraham
Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation, he
was in favor of paying those who had robbed
them of every right and rioted upon their
unpaid toll, not less than S400, 000l Far
different was the manner in which your
friend, Mr.. K. W. Emerson, regarded this
pecuniary adjustment between the slave
master and slave:
''Give the O1oner compensation;
Fill up the bag to the brim;
Who is the owner? The Stare is owner!
And ever wasl Pay him"
Not so, said Mr.. Greeley; pay the money
| they had risen in rebellion, and involved the
country in all the horrors of civil war to per-
petuate their despotic power, and at the
cost of thousands of millions of dollars!
| And this is your "life-time abolitionist,' -
| Mr. Sumner, 'ialways foremost in the great
full of sympathy for them!' Why, even their
colonization in Africa was an agreeable
device to him; for, personally, he cherished
| the common prejudice against them, though
| certainly ready to befriend any suffering ap-
| plicant, black or white, being naturally of a
benevolent disposition. 1t is to his credit
| that he was opposed to the introduction OF
new slave States into the Union, and also to
| the annexation of new territory for the ex-
| tension of slavery; nevertheless, with his
| a,,1 t,l
views of peace, if he had been in the Presi-
| Dental chair when the rebellion broke out,
| the chances would have been that the Con-
| federate States might have dictated terms to
the whole country, even to the extent of rec
| ogniZing their independence, and leaving the
| slaves to their fate. For Mr.. Greeley be-
longs to that class of peace-makers who vo-
| ciferously cry, "Peace, peace, " when there is
| no peace. He believes in Gaping Vesuvias.
1t is eXultingly announced by his organ,
the Tribune, that, "a few years ago, if Hor-
ace Greeley had ventured into Georgia or
South Carolina, he would have been hanged
on the nearest lamp-post; now his name is
| cheered to the echo in every Southern city,
and the Shareholders and soldiers of the re-
| bellion, the men who always made Southern
opinion, are unanimously in favor of making
| him President" A boast like this should
| be equivalent to tying a milestone around
! his neck to drown him in the depths of the
patriotic sentiment of the country. 1t is
| TcOtI OH tuC bIOuuCot
| scale.
| In fact, North and South, the Greeley
| movement is characterized by the grossest
| dissimulation. Read what the New York
| World says of your letter now under review
| "We suppose all Democrats wish to divide
the colored vote and detach part of it from
| Grant and if they desire the end, they must
| consent to endure the means. What if Mr..
| Sumner does assure the negro voters that
| the Democratic party have become converts
| a. IL af 4bn rtx-
He is only adapting his language to their ap
prehensions and prejudices"-i. G., he is only
attempting to play upon their credulity, and
so secure their votes for Greeley, for the
| Democratic party have not become converts
to the principles of the Republican party
they are simply in masquerade. 1t is {
frank, truthful but audacious confession.
With great show of magnanimity you
say: 81 am against tanning ancient flames
into continued life. / am against raking in
the ashes of the past for Goals. of fire yet
burning. ana against the policy of hate
Freely accept the hand tnat is offered Art
thou in health, my brother?l and reach forth
my own in friendly grasp" Why this gush
ing display of fraternal feeling? Have you
hitherto been animated by a spirit of ven
mind, wherein do you differ from the whole
body of the people of the North? Toinsinu
ate that any portion of them-that President
Grant or the Republican party-have at any
previous period cherished, or do now cher
ish, any wrath, or malice, or unkindness to
ward the people of the South, is to libe
them grievously. To accuse them of wish
ing to 'fan ancient flames into continued
life," to pursue 'the policy of hate" is tt
bear false witness; for there is among then
but one universal feeling of; goodwill, anC
they desire nothing so much as to 'let by
cones be by-gones' in good faith. But, see
ing how contumacioGs has been the robe
spirit toward every needful measure for tn,
restoration of public order and the protec
tion of all classes alike, they cannot ALLOW
themselves to be deceived into the belle
that it is no longer what it was, but thor
oughly loyal and patriotic, merely because o
its verbal assent to any form of patriotic
averment, however unexceptionable-seein
that it has, at this Presidential opportunity
the most powerful temptation to lie and dis
semble in order to clutch the reins of Gov
ernment as of old.
1t was a liar from the beginning, and "ful
of all deceivableness of unrighteousness,
having broken the most solemn pledges
multiplied its perjuries, and committed sucl
denominations as to make the earth stanC
aghast. Under these circumstances it mus
not and it cannot be trusted, even though
the shouts for Horace Greeley are heard il
every Southern-city, town and village. 9TH
voice is Jacobs voice, but the hands are tn
hands of Esau."
My letter is already much too long to ALLOW
me space to notice your sweeping impeach
ment of President Grant, which is but a rep
etition of your speech in the Senate. Thric,
you have slain the slain; yet the Presiden
will not down at your biddingl In charging
upon his Administration that ''it is marked
by acts of delinquency Especially toward th
colored raceD, by the side of which the allie
cations on the impeachment of Andrew
johnson were technical and trivial" ant
that, 'unquestionably, he deserves impeach
ment for high crimes and misdemeanori
rather than a denomination" your extrava
gance of speech is its best refutation. TIL,
blow is not felt by him; the recoil is upoI
yourself.
"If any valued friend separates from m,
now," you say, 'it will be because he places
a man above principles" Pardon me in say
ing that think the very reverse of this viii
be true. The separation will be mainly will
reference to those principles and measures
which have made the present Administra
tion illustrious, and to President Grant onl,
as one deemed worthy to be intrusted will
ministerial powers for another term. Th'
issues presented make all mere personal con
siderations comparatively insignificant.
Remembering that 'the price of liberty il