New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-23


aMov;co whore four millions of your race
% would have been held as chattels, and TINS
"by the deliberate consent Oh tho pcop'' ',
"tbe Free States. This is the. man whom you
care asked TO support, as Lifetime Adult
"ti0nist."
Anv one who is curious may see, by con-
sulting the files of The Ne,o- Yorker, that Mr..
Greeley's opposition to Slavery was avowed, at
the latest. directly after the murder OF Elijah
p. Loyejoy by d pro-Slavery mob at Alton,
Illinois, in 1885, 1t was evinced at the Wing
Young Mems State Convention held at Utica
in 1885, 1t was emphatic throughout the ardu-
GUS struggle for and against the Annexation
of Texas in 1884. Mr.. Greeley opposed the
measure Gas Mr.. Clay and many other Wings
did not expressly because it was designed and
calculated to strengthen the Slave Power IN
this country, and he deplored its success
mainly for that reason.
In 1S46, the present Constitution of New York
was formed and submitted, with the Right
of Suffrage impartially conceded to Blacks as
separate proposition. Mr.. Greeley iii these
columns earnestly advocated Impartial Suf-
frage; he distributed votes as well as voted
for this righteous measure at the polls, but
was voted down by a large majority though
a Wing Governor was chosen at this election.
Again, in 1860, Impartial Suffrage was sub
mitted, again advocated by Mr.. Greeley In
this journal, and again decidedly voted down
by large majority, though Lincoln LOT rreSi-
dent and the Republican State ticket were al
the same time sustained by $4,000 majority
II pleases Mr.. Dana to speak OF Mr.. tree
| ley's pusillanimous and vacillatlng course III
" 1850 and during the war" That course was
imnelled and governed by one controlling pur-
nose namely. that Slavery should In no case
nroft nv the struggle it had instigated. when
there was imminent peril that Thurlow Weeds
counsel would prevail, and Slavery be au-
| tborized by compromise to grasp all federai
territorv south of SO 80, Mr.. Greeley infiex-
ibly resisted, preferring, II we should DE re,
duced to that alternative, that Slavery shouid
take her States out of the Union rather than
that il sbould master all the States IN the
Union. This was the well understood meaning
of all his articles now quoted to prove HIM
champion of the Right of Secession. lie de-
liberately chose that-if the choice should DE
narrowed to those two alternatlves-oiaVery
should secede from the Union rather than thaV
the Union should further abase itself 10
Slavery. Wendell Phillips then puDilciy ae-
monstrated in the same key-now, he JOINS
in the cry against Mr.. Greeley Tor saying
more guardedly what he loudly proclaimed ana
glOried in.
War having been initiated by the Seces-
sionsts at Pensacola, in Texas, at Fort SUMTER
and by the invasion of West Virginia, MIR.
Greeley did his best to make that war short,
sbarp. decisive on the part of the Union.
To this end he early proclaimed and insisted
that Slavery was the core and main
snring of the RebelliOn-that prO-Slavery
Generals issuing pro-Slavery orders like
Halleck's and Buell's, &C., never would
nor could conquer the Rebels. His prayer
"of Twenty Millions" urging these views upon
President Lincoln, with Mr.. Lincoln's answer,
evincing his equal willingness TO save the
Union with OF without Slavery, must still be
fresh in the public mind. And it any man
especially rejoiced when Mr.. Lincoln at length
threatened emancipation, MIR. Greeley was
| that mau.
| How do Mr.. Dana's assertions accord with
| these truths
MIR. Dana sums up his own candidates I'M
| official career as follows:
"As to President Grant propose to speak with frank
ness and not enter panegyrc. In early lfe he
was not potcian but, against all the influences at
West Point and the in favor of the Democratic
| party he remained, like Mr.. Greeley, Whig Once,
under the effect that dislike and dstrust which the
army felt for Fremont he voted the Democratic ticket
This is decidedly too modest. Ulysses 5.
| Grant became Democrat upon the formation
of the Republican party, voted for Mr.. Bu-
| chanan as Democrat in 1856, was Democratic
candidate for City Surveyor of st. Louis in
| 1853 (he year of the struggle for and against
| the infamous LecomptOn Constitution,
whereby Slavery was to be forced upon
protesting Kansas), and, as Democrat, voted
against Mr.. Lincoln for President in 1860, I'M
less he happened to be too sick to vote. And
in 1862 when Mr.. Greeley was urging the
President TO strike at Slavery as the vitals of
the Rebellion, Gen. Grant Gas has been a
thousand times asserted, by his friends as
well as his enemies, and never denied)
declared that, if the war for the Union were
perverted into war upon Slavery, he would
break his sword and carry it over to the de-
Tense of Southern rights.
If truth is truth, what is Richard III. Dana 7
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