Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-08-01

discussion Of the subjess - he people in
} their Congressional dissrics4 and to the
decision Of Congress theresa wholly free
Of Executive interference q dicsation."
This gives 70 the friends cs free trade
sn opportunity Of satisfying the people
that their doctrine is the eoesect one, aud
that il Congress shall 90 deeias their de.
cisioa will not be disspprovsa Of BY Mr..
Greeley.
I Whist more do these gentlemen want
in their opposition to Mr. Gseeley! Did
they desire the nomination of m avowed
Free Trader? With this view did thew
wish for the nomination of Mr. Adams :!
And fthey had succeeded and Mr.. Adams
had declared his adhesion to Free Trade,
do they believe thew could have secured
his election! We have bad experiments
enough Of presenting to the people for the
Presidency . candidate whose opinions
were not in sccordsce With hose Of the
people generally. And ts.i;s. and to
this alsns. was The sleeti. a 2 :, ~. Liaeolo
to be referred. and the subsequent election
Of Get. Grant. Whether Free Trade or
Protection is to receive the sauciiau Of
Congress will not depend upon the opinion
of the President. even it he has one, aud
Is disposed to act upon il. He can effect
nothing except as he may be able to in
fuence Congress by his patronage. and
this uo man fit for the Office would attempt.
because to do SO would be a palrable effor.
to corrupt that department. That Mr.
Greeley would not take such step is GER
tain. because ,.:s - honest, and because
the platform upon which Lc agrees to stand
prohibits it.
Before the war. and occasionally during
its continuance. his treatmen mt of the South
was believed by many to have been un.
necessarily harsh. But in this no one
seriously questioned his motives They
were III no respect personal or other tina Il
patriotic. The war over. what has been
his course? From the frs, moment to tho
present hour he has earnestly desired, and
has done all in his power to effect it. to
restore peace and prosperity to the South
y constart and ardent friend Of general
amnesty and Of universal suffrage. he can.
not but have commended himself TO the
COOL opinion of the white and colored cit
'SChS vi uc per-
h-ps. are more indebted to him and the
Hon. Charles Sumner for the rights now
secured them tLrn to any other two men
in the country.
His generosity and kind reg,rd for
Southern men was strongly illustrated by
his becoming one Of the bail Of Mr.. JEFF.
fcrson Davis, which Terminated his cruel
ly protracted Imprisonment For this
step he was denounced by the RADICALS of
his party. aud particularly by such o. them
as belong to the Union League Club of
New York. They proposed bis expulsion,
and who can forget, who has ever read it.
the proud letter of defiance which be al :
dressed to the League on the 23rd Of MAY.
1867 IN tha. letter he quoted extracts
from the Tribune to show how decided
his opinion was that those who had been
engaged in the insurrection should be en-
frauchiscd. aud their estates exempted
from eonfscation He justified havin.
become security for Mr. Davis. and in his
letter. among other things. .aid: Your
attempt to base great. enduring party
on the hate and wrath necessarily en-
lgendered by bloody. civil war, is a.
though you should plant colony on an
iceberg which had somehow drifted in.o
a tropica! ocean. l tell you here that ou,
of life earnestly devoted to the good of
human kind, your children will select nv
going to Richmond and signing that bail
bond as the wisest act, aud will feel that
it did more for freedom and humanity
than all Of you were competent to do
though you had lived to the age of Me-
thusaleh."
You will have thus seen wha, I think
OF the present political condition of our
country. Unless | ain greatly mistaken.
it must give TO every unprejudiced. intel
ligeut. and patriotic man much anxiety
and alarm. How is this anxiety and
alarm to be removed? BY removing the
cause Of it. BY refusing a reelection to
Gen. Grant, to whom in grea. measure.
it is owing. aud by placing ;r the Presi-
dental office Mr.. Greeley. whvse entire
life has exhibited his generous qualities,
his great ability. his pure patriotism. and
his unsuspected integrity. To be rich he
will accept no preesnts. but would scorn-
fully reject them if offered. He has not
scores of relatives to provide for ou, Of the
public funds. by placing them in Offices
for which they are grossly incompetent.
and, if he hal. he would not so place
them. lie will not exert his patronage
to influence State elections. or to secure q
reelection for himself lie will no, per.
mi, the public funds. by means of a tax
upon the salaries of his officials, to be used
: for party purposes. lie will no, suffer
his Secretaries or th>ir sutoedinates "a
abandon their posts of da,y and their at.
:, ;ention to the public business. to traverse
State after State ON electioneerinr visits.
so as 10 bring the influence Of Office in
conflict with freedom of elections. He
will sec that our foreign relations are 50
managed as TO give honor and no, disgrace
TO the nation He will no, tolerate the
use Of the military for the control Of the
elective franchise. He will no, ,ramrle
upon the rights Of the States or the peo.
pie by declaring States to be in rebellion
when they are not. And nay hope is I,
live to see the day -hen these ~ital chan.
: gcs will be made: when all sclici,ude abou
the fate Of our country will be quie,ed
when peace aud prosperity will be secured
to the entire nation; when the guaranteed
rights Of the citizens will be protected. th,
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