Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-09-11
LETTER TaoMHOSl lczsHErLzy.
Let the Little Radsn v Ring OF Mo-
Arthur Nehas

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The "Narrow-mIhded bloekheads," who
run Yinton County Grant Conventions
to suit Themselves cnN Iee what Honest
Horace Greeley Thinks "a Them.
Horace Greeley has wrltle nany good things,
but none surpass, we thIne none equal In spirit
and vigor, the letter In which Ne replied 70 the
New York Union club thai ,hseatcned him with
expulsion, when he and Coriitt Smith and 9TH
ers signed the Jefferson pa'is bail bond. This
was not the letter OF a po lloI9n or nominee
for oflCe. TWAS written hYP years ago. The
date oft Is May 20, 1867 iAt Il anticipates and
fully warrants the attituao ~ Horace Greeley,
now on the platform Of {incNlhatl and Balti-
more After referring to ''eklarations consist
ent with It, the letter tls|s celrladcs, with q
prQphecyof the way sill Whis net would
come TO be regarded--a prophecy already full
filed:
GKNTLEMEN:-I shall not attend your meet.
Ing this evening have an engagement out Of
town and shall keep IT. | do not recognize you
ns capable ofjndging oreyen fully apprehend-
ing me. You evidently regard me as q weak
sentimentalist, misled by mahdlin philosophy,
who would like to be useful to d great and good
cause hut don't know how. Your attempts to
base great, enduring party On tho hate and
wrath necessarily engendered pya bloody civil
war, Is as though you should plant q colony on
an iceberg which had somehow drifted into q
tropical ocean. tell you here that out Of life
earnestly devoted TO the good of human kind,
your children will selectm going TO Richmond
and signing that bail bond US the wisest act,
and viii feel that 1t did more for freedom and
humanity than all Of you were competent to do,
though you lived to the age Of Methusaleh.
ask nothing Of you, then, but that you proceed
TO your end by a direct, frank, manly way
Don't sidle on into mild resolution Of censure,
but move the expulsion. which deserve, II
deserve any reproach whatever. All care
for is that you make this a square, stand- up
fight, and record your Judgment by. yeas and
nays | care not how few vote with me, nor
how many vote against me; for know that the
latter win repent 1t In dust and ashes before
all, that / dare you and defy you, and that
propose 10 fight IL out on the line that have
held from the day of Lees surrender. So long
as any man was seeking to overthrow our gov
| ernment he was my enemy, nom the hour In
which he laid down his arms he was my former
ly erring countryman. So long as any Is oppos-
cd to the national unity; the federal authority,
or TO that assertion Of equal rights of all men,
which has become practically identified with
loyalty and nationality, shall do my best TO
thus, L demand his restoration to all the priyi-
leges of American citizenship, / give you fair
notice that shall urge the Northumberland
Of those now prescribed for rebellion as soon as
shall feel confident that this course Is consist
Of the Republic, and that shall demand recall
OF all now In exile only for participation in the
rebellion, whenever the country shall have been
50 thoroughly paclfled that Its safety will not
thereby be endangered And so, gentlemen,
hoping that you will henCeforth comprehend
me somewhat better than you have done, re-
main yours, lg l-N' siiri3.l @'f so
May %, 1867. HORACE GRERLEY