Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-03

into the conviction that their future safety
depends upon cutting loose from the Re
publican party of the North, and throwing
themselves into the arms and under the
domination of their enemies and oppressors.
Leaving out a few vague, formal expressions
of regard for the rights of the colored
people, the speeches might have been made
by Wade Hampton or General Forrest. lie
represents the people of the North who have
gone to live in the South as carpet-baggers,
adventures and robbers; he employs every
exaggeration that can make the State gov
ernments of the South odious, contemplate
and powerless. In short, these speeches,
while prattling of reconciliation, and "shak-
ing hands across the bloody chasm," in
every part are calculated to beget violence,
the South, and, as all candid men must ad-
init, are brimf of aspersions upon the
Administration of General Grant.
And now, how entirely in the same direc-
tion is that declaration of Horace Greeley in
his letter of the Goth of May last, accepting
the Cincinnati nomination, in which he de-
clares 'that there shall be no Federal sub
version of the internal polity of the several
States and municipalities, but that each
State shall be left free to enforce the rights
and promote the well-being of its inhabitants
by such means as the judgment of its own
people shall prescribe"
| Here he gives the pledge that IL he shall
be elected President there shall be no Federal
| Intervention for the protection of the loyal
| people of the South; but that each State
| shall be left free to govern or dispose OF
them without molestation or hndrance from
the National Government. Here he gives
| the pledge that the Ku-Klux Law and all
other legislation for the protection of the
| helpless people of the South shall be nulli
| fled and set at naught. In the redemption
OF these pledges the Ku-Klux will obtain al
that they desire. All that they ask is to be
let alone, that the protecting arm of the
| National Government shall be withdrawn
| In their ranks they have nearly all the
arms and the officers and soldiers but
lately disbanded from the rebel army; they
have nearly all the property, the most of the
education and political experience, and
with the assurance that they shall be lei
alone they can speedily take possession oi
every southern State, reduce the colore6
| people to a condition of vassalage little bet
ter than slavery, and drive the white Repub
llcans into submission or exile. The fata
language employed by Mr.. Greeley in thi:
letter, he had himself hundreds of times, be
fore he sought to become the Democratic
candidate for President, described as the
wicked jargon of Southern States rights and
| treason to the Government of the nation
Fresh from denunciations of the Ku-Klu1
| horror and wickedness-fresh from argu
ments in defense of the Ku-Klux law, it:
Justice and necessity-fresh from the pas
| sionate declaration that if the Government
| of the United States should fail to protect
| the helpless people of the South it was &
| fraud and a sham, he has accepted the prof
Tered bribe of a Democratic nomination, anC
| is to-day, to all intents and purposes, the
ku-KluX candidate for President.