The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-26

truth on which It's r1ghtfulness was
sental c5ngress of y will no hg-
er be be- garded as aittering lem
|eralitica but will ha = becolft the
universally accepted and htAored
foundatfon Of our pd 1tical fs6ric. !
demandfhe prompt spplid16on Of
those principles to our existing con-
dition. Having done what l could
for thee omplete emancipation of the
blacks, l now insist on the full en-
reimbursement of all my white coun-
trymen. Let no one say that the bar
has just been removed from all but q
few hundred elderly gentlemen, to
whom, eligibility to -ofRce can be of
little consequences. My view con-
templates not the hundred proscrib-.
ed. but the millions who are denied
the right to be ruled and represent
ed by men of their unfettered choice.
Prescription were absurd If these
did not wish to elect the very men
whom they are forbidden to choose.
/ have q profound regard for the
people Of that New England wherein
was born, in whose common schools
was taught. / rank no other people
above them in intelligence, capacity
and moral worth. But while they do
many things well and some adInira-
bly,, there is one thing which / am
sure they can't wisely or safely, and
that is the selection for States remote
from and unlike their own Of the per-.
sons by whom those States shall be
represented in Congress. If they
could do this to good purpose, then
republican institutions were unfit
and aristocracy the only true politi-
cal system. Yet what have we re-
Gently witnessed ? Zebulon B. Vance,
the unquestioned choice Of large
majority of the present legislature of
North Carolina, q majority backed
by majority of the people who voted
at his election, refused the seat in the
Federal Senate to which he was fair
ly chosen and tho Legislature thus
constrained to choose another in his
stead or leave the State unrepresent-
ed for years. The votes of New Eng
land thus deprived North Carolina Of
the Senator of her choice, and COM
PEELED her to send another in his
stead, another who in our late contest
was, like Vance, rebel and fight
ing rebel, but who had not served in
Congress before the war as Vance
had, though the latter remained faith
full to the Union till after the close of
his term. 1 protest against the dis
reimbursement of a State, presump-
lively of q number of States, on
grounds so narrow and technical as
this. The fact that the same Senate
which refused Vance his seat pro-
ceeded to remove the disabilities after
that seat had been filed by another,
only serves to place in, the strongest
light the indignity to North Carolina,
and the arbitrary, capricious tyranny
which dictated it. / thank you gen.
tlemen, that my name is to be SO con-
spicuously associated with yours in
determined effort to render amnes-
ty complete and universal in spirit as
well as in letter. A defeat in such a
cause would leave no sting, while
triumph would rank it with those
victories which no blood reddens,
and which evoke no tears but those
of gratitude and joy. Gentlemen,
your platform which is also mine,
assures me that Democracy is moi
henceferth to stand for one thing and
Republicanism for another, but that
those terms are to mean in politics as
they have always meant in the die
tionary, substantially one and the
same thing, namely, equal rights, re-
CARELESS of creed or cline or color.
hail this as a genuine new depar-
ture from oItwOrn feuds and mean
mgless contentious in the direction
of progress and reform. Whether j
shall be found worthy to, bear the
standard of the great Liberal move
ment which the American people
have inaugurated is to be determin-
ed not by words but by deeds. With
me, if l steadily advance-over me,
if L falter-this- grand army moves TO
achieve for our country her glorious
beneficent destiny. / remain, gentle
men, yours, HORACE GREELEY