Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-25

DAN. VOORHEES, and Others, North
and South, take especial delight in
holding up. to the public gaze, the
antecedents of Horace Greeley, and
invoke public justice upon his multi
form iniquities. We are nota Greeley
man, per Sc, and have no eulogies to
pass upon him. We know that he has
been the consistent and dangerous
enemy of the South for many years;
that he was the most efficient among
abolitionists and the founder of the
Radical party that he was the pioneer
of every departure from safe prece
dents and, overlapping constitutional
barriers, appealed TO higher law for
justification Of those innovations
which have eliminated in the tyranny
and corruption that distinguish the
present administration of the govern
ment.
Such have Been his acts; his motives
we leave to be adiudged by his con
science and his God But, whilst
the lamp holds ont to burn, the vilest
sinner may return Mr.. Greeley has
sounded the depths and shoals Of
speculative philosophy, as bearing up
on social and political economy; he
has pursued the igais tat,mS of mis-
taken humanity and pursued it thro'
carnage and rapinc, until material and
moral desolation mark every step of
his progress, and the sad experience
of the last twelve years ought to
change the convictions Of all who are
not fools and reverse the policy Of all
who are not Enaycs If Mr.. Greeley
has 1.-THE of the talent and integrity
for which he has credit the full and
disastrous Development in practice.
of his former visionary theories, will
not fail to disclose to him the fatal
errors into which lie has fallen, and
prompt corresponding effort to cor
rect the evils ,hat have resulted from
them.
We conceive the difference between
GrceIcy and his prominent co-labor
crs TO be, that whilst he was striving
earnestly, for the abolition Of slavery
he contemplated no wrong beyond thi,
act of mistaken humanity; but no.
so with his co-workcrs in New Eng
land, who made abolition the pyctcxt
whilst the overthrow of the govern
mont and the desolation Of the pa
triotic South were the real objects t,
be accomplished And whilst thcl
trn,ann ovoilol it-clf Of Greeley
Gmatici.m, his blind inlatuation mad,
him their useful ally even beyond III,
lluits which included his original pur
pose. This alliance was too clcarl
offensive and defensive to admit an
other paliation Of guilt than may b
found in Original intention, and thi
difference is mainly dcduciblc iron
the fact that the original traitors to tn
government itself are still working to
It's overthrow. whilst Greeley has cu
loose from them. and proposes TO say
~ many of the original elements O
tree government as were not necesSo
yily sacrificed for the full enaucipa
ton of the nation pets.
ia the sudden revolutions which s.
materially change the motives an
convictions of men, tits but charity I
poor human nature to believe thG
such changes, often from better t
worse. may somtimes be from worse t
hotter. Upon this hypothesis, we ca
a., readily torcsco that Greeley, wit
the lights before him, will cxperienc
powerful reaction towards popula
government and public integrity, as W
could have iorcSccn that Andre,
Johnson, Longstrtct, Alaorn, llill am
others. from patriotic defenders O
'iIri., and the South could have lie
Generated into iawning sycophmts O.
Radical tyranny and corruption--m
hlushing upholdcrs of traitors VIII
have dc,olatcd their homes and ovcl
thrown the Constitution which mad
thosc homes once secure against GOV
eminent incendiaries and licensed but
Glars. Atcr such astoundiug chang,
IA ,outhcrn men, it may not be idle
han, that changes, from worse 10 be
fer. may take place in Greeley AN
those northern men who adyoratc h
election. Upon this hope and n
Cincinnati platform, We base our a.
,o,acy Of thc Liberal Republic,
,;ckct and oppose the hazardou. C.
pertinent of separate Democrat
nomination. I'm purity ofmotiycs, ,
Weld 20 the prctcn-iuus oi no mo,
covered Democrat nor Ia the !
higher claim or any comct-liGc va
dcrcr through political space, who
substance is but cis and whose eth
pcucc scarcely serves 10 light up
own devious pathway
DURING the months of Scptcmb
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