Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-09-18

organ. Do you say that those who favor
ed impeachment are "conspirators" and
"wicked schemers against the constltu-
tional life of the country and
the safety of the people ~ DO
you? Then by your own NOUNS
and by ti,e mouths of your friends, let us
convict .;ouof supporting c9hspirator for
the highest Office in the land. You sup
port Horace Greeley for the Presidency.
Hear what he says and then tell us, is lie a
conspirator, or was he conspirator or
wicked schemer against the safety of the.
people? On the oath day of February,
1868, Horace Greeley said:
''The time has come to cease trifing with
Andrew johnson. This man who reeled into
the Presldency who has debased his high Of
fee by unseemly and indecent demonstrations
who has surrounded himself with the worst
members OF the worst phase of Washington
lie; whose. retinue consists of LOBBYISTS,
REBELS and ADVENTURES who has polluted
the public service by making espionage honor
able and treachery the means of advancement;
who has deceived the party that elected him,
as we'll as the party that created him +; who has
made his own morbid and overweening vanity
sought to entrap illustrious servants of the peo-
pie into ignominious evasion of the law, and
who now Claims to break that law with impuni-
ty-THE MOST INFAMOUS CHIEF MAGISTRATE
SHOULD BE SWEPT OUT OF OFFICE, Let him
be in1peGched And let the Republican party
show that it not only has the power to preserve
the country from rebellion under Jefferson
Davis, but also from treachery under Andrew
Johnson
All the readers of the Tribune will re-
member how, day after day, Mr.. Greeley
poured forth food of abuse against Mr..
Johnson and demanded his impeachment.
Congress was importuned to act promptly
in the matter, and we are safe i'll saying, that
no outside influence was brought to bear
on that body, that operated with half so
much power as the vigorous editorials in
the Tribune from the pen of Mr.. Greeley,
the present Democratic candidate for Pres
ident. Not only this, but after he had
been tried by the Senate, Republican Sen
atos who failed tovote for impeachment,
one of whom is on the Greeley electoral
ticket in this State, were denounced in the
most Incorporate manner, as traitors to
their party, and were openly charged with
having accepted brides in consideration OF
their votes.
Among the other "conspirators " who
voted for impeaching Mr.. Johnson,
we find the names of Ashley, Banks,
Blair, Farnsworth and Julian, all
of whom are now supporting the
Greeley ticket. If Mr.. Maynard, (who
did not vote in favor of impeachment,
but who is willing to bear all the odium
attached to one who favored it, is to be os-
tracised and held accountable to public
opinion, pray tell us if Mr.. Greeley, Messrs.
Ashley, Banks, Blair & Co., are purged OF
their iniquities, and ifso when i?
Pray tell us, if Mr.. Johnson's retinue
consisted of lobbyists, rebels and adven-
lures - if he made treachery the. means
of advancement was he not most in
famous chief magistrate" and did he not,
as Mr.. Greeley says, deserve to be swept
out of office" Let honest men decide, il
Horace Maynard is culpable for his con-
nection with the impeachment of Andrew
johnson, is not Horace Greeley doubly SO
But said at the outset when the paid
tools of corrupt ring are engaged to hide
the crimes of their masters, they never
stop to consider the consistency or incon
| sistency of the means used to accomplish
their design.
The writer of the article we have allud
ed to had double motive. In the frs
place, he delights, in infiicting on Mr.
Maynard what he supposes to be an i'll
jury, (but of which he is wholly incapa
ble,) and secondly, he hopes to divert tn
minds of the people from the wrongs ant
corruptions of the present State Govern
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