Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-08

Approach him on one side and he pre-
sents the genial face of Henry Clay, and
holds out to you an admirable essay in
favor of protective tariff, go round to
the opposite of him and you behold the
"irOn man, the grin and terrible John
c. Calhaun, the prime mover of the
doctrine of secession, and who says to
you he shall resist all coercive mea-
sures" to keep any considerable portion
of our Union from seeding which shall
desire so to do; pass to the Republican
side of him, he presents you with the
philantrophic face of Gerrit Smith, and
has a kind word and a good deed for
the oppressed of all lands; pass to the
Democratic side of him and mark well
the contrast as ''presto change" appears
the sharp and well defined features of
Jeff Davis, who, through the MEDIUM
II. g." insists upon letting the Con-
federacy ego in peace, and take every
slave and hold the same in bondage till
time shall be no longer, and is now in
favor of universal amnesty to every I'M
repentant red handed rebel in the land,
and as head Of the Democratic partymust
now be connving at the disfranchise-
ment of the colored people of West Vir-
ginia, which is now being attempted by
the amnestied rebels of that State in
the struggle now being had over the
constitution of that State.
Well may the colored people fear
Horace Greeley. -Four faces on on
body may be turned on pivot and coz
ceal the chest, but it cannot be done IN
two large bodies. If two other bodies
can be showed under this figure i"ad''
of H. G. it might answer for an jdrl to
worship, and it would not amolat to
idolatry, for there is nothing under Eeay-
en- like the position which Horace Gree
ley and his two proteges now occupy be-
fore the world.
But, say the Democrats, no matter
about the adaptation, old parties and is
sues are "dead past" If the Democratic
party is dead, why are they carrying
this Democratic corpse and hugging it to
their bosoms, and why the once manly
form Of Horace Greeley down on his
marrow Lones before us for favors which
once he would have been scorned to ask !?
If dead, why do they not bury the ugly
thing out Of sight? No, it is not dead,
although it stinketh-of a copperhead
flavor. It's playing dead poasum! Every
votary of the lost cause believes, rs you
and do, that
Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The eternal wears OF God are hers:
But error wounded. writheS in pain,
And dies amid her worshipperS."
From anything you and | heard, every
mothers son of them regard the over
throw Of the lost cause as ''truth crush
ed by Grant. and their confidence and
hope, believe that in and through Gree
ley, it will rise again" | submit, is it
safe to keep Jeff Davis out of the Prcsi-
dency and put in his bail as President !?
This being done, Davis will triumph
through Greedy on principle, "Qui facio
per alium, facet per So" And l had as
lief ''facet" in Davis as in Greeley in
any event Further, it is extremely haz-
ardous to experiment IN this matter; the
people will tire out some time, and those
who do not want Davis had better yot"
for Gen. Grant
How any fair-minded man can bring
himself to believe that it is the ''nt0rai
right Of the South to secede and take the
Louisiana purchase, the Florida pu"-
chase and the Texas purchase without
compensation to The North, and in direct
violation OF the Constitution Of the UHij-
ed Statr<, and the direct violation of tn"
farewell address Of President Washing
ton" passes my comprehension Tn"
idea is either very sublime or very ridi-
culous. Please do not take any stock in
',the dead past" and dead issues"
well remember that in 1914 the Demo-
cratic rallying cry was "Polk Dallas
and the Tariff of 1912. and in 1845 or
1916 this same Democratic party repeal
ell the tariff of 1842 and cheated Penn
sy'vania out of her vote. "Trust' no
man or party that You know to he dis
honest
In 1914 the old cry of coalition helped
defeat Henry Clay. In 1916 Hon. w.
C. Bradley published a letter which eX-
onerated Mr. Clay from this charge.
Mr.. Benton believed the charge to be
true, and for that reason alone was a
fierce and bitter opponent Of John
Quincy Adams administration, and said
it was the duty of every honest man to
vote against a man who was elected to
the Presidency by coalition, when some
one remarked that Mr.. Adams admins
tration was pure. Mr.. Benton replied
with energy. Il do not care if it is as
pure as the angels at the right hand of
the throne of God it shall come down,
it was the result of coalition, sir" and
down it came.
Mr. Benton being dead, Democrats in
full view of the public are making a
coalition for compromise truck and
dicker candidate, whose political status
is Everything by turns and nothing
long" and like the Irishman's residence,
when asked where he was from, replied,
"From livery place but this, and soon
from this" And at some time in his
life, Mr. Greeley thought of death and
made his own epitaph, and in it he
thanked God he died in nothing debtor
to the Democratic party, and now he
has got to change his epitaph as he has
his politics and associates and be buried
on the Democratic side of that political
graveyard of Presidential aspirants he
has so much dreaded and deprecated
The coalitionists charge the Republicans
with Capitalization. First ask them to
define what they mean by the term
then point out where it had been made
manifest. Theywill say something about
the administration of the Ku KluX law