The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-16
90 nothing; but You, General Seward. ought
. have asked that be Postmaster q New

but this lest Spring, after the Eebaska
ue9aon had created new state Of thinQs AZ
ne taoEtn, one or two personal friends, Of no
Poll.ls15 confederation, suggested my name as
Ior Governor, and did not dis
/ OOlAd39 them
am sure Weed did not man A bun;i;.t.
me, but ne did It. The upshos Of bis diseour-s
very cautiously stated) was this: III were
candidate for Governor, should beat NOT mn
self only, but you. Perhaps that was trne
But, as l had. In no manner solicited his or
| your support, thought this might have been
/ sad TO my friends, rather than me. suspect
/ it Is true that could not have beeu elected
Governor as Whig. But had he and vou
] been favorable, there would have bean a 1ar-
/ y Ia the State, ere this, which could and
1 would have elected me TO any post without
is55aring NY, myself or endangering your re-elec-
r,a1,r - was IN vain that urged that had in no
-attIoS 41sked nomination. At length, I was
-.. -os--S- ~ ms language-Wel intended, but
veg o1s.il9, as addressed by him to me-to
say, N substance, We'll, then. make Patterson
| 6OVernOr' anu ny my name for Iieuteuant
Governor To lose this Diace = 80. -
no importance, and we can see ,Tbstbs- ~,
really 30 odious. ''' an
Having quoted from the early let
ters Of Gen. Grant, it is proper To
quote from the early letters ofGree.
ley, so that the men may be fairly
contrasted.
HIS ENCOURAGEMENT OF SECESSION.
Before Abraham Lincoln was in
augurated in March, 1851, seven
States had seeded. They did not
secede believing the tWenty-one mil.
lions Of the North, would deny their
right, and desolate their land bv
war. They relied upon a divided
sentiment in the North.
They thought the Democratic par.
ty in part would sustain them and
they did not believe the Republican
party could be brought up to the
point Of coercing them. No man in
the land said or did so much to Gre
ate that impression as Horace Gree
ley. The election was not more
than known before Greeley uttered
the following, dated November 9th,
1860:
And now, if the Cotton States consider the
value OF theUnion debatable,we maintain tbei7.
perfect right 10 discuss 1t. Nay, We hold wifb
JEFFERSON to the inalienable right OF communi-
ties to alter OF abolish forms of govsrnme1t
| that have become oppressive OF injurious. and
II the Cotton States shall decide that thew can
do better ont Of the Union, than in it, We in
slst on letting them 60 IN peace. The right
TO secede may be revolutionary one, but Il
exists nevertheless; and We do not see how one
party can have right to do what another
party has right 70 prevent. We must ever
resist the asserted right Of any State TO remain
/ In the Union, OF nulify or DEFY the laws tbsrs-
! OF; to wIthdraE from the Union is anita an
other matter. And whenever 3 considerable
section OF our Union shall deliberately resolve
to go out, We shall resist all coereive measures
designed to keep it in. We hope never TO
live in Republic whereof one section Is MIN
ned to the residue by bayonets.
On the II of December, 1860. inst
before South Carolina seeded
South Carolina being the first State
to go, Mr.. Greeley published the fol-
lowing editorial:
We have repeatedly asked those who dis
sent from our views Of this matter n al ,,s
frankly whether they do or not assent - 1f.
Jeterson's statement in the Declaration ~ n
dependence that Governments Hderive tbsir
/ Just powers nom the consent Of the Governed.
and that whenever any form of govsrnmsnt
becomes destructive Of these ends. Il e ~
right Of the people to alter OF abolish n and
to institute new government &c. 80 We
do heartily accept this doctrine, believino Il
intrlnsleally sound, bensheent and one that
| universally accepted, is calculated 70 yravsnt
/ the shedding Of seas of human blood 49, iF
1t justified the secession from the British EN-
pre- Of three millions Of colouisss in I776. vgs
do not see why it would not Justify the ssos.-
sion Of i've millions Of Southerus from thaF,.5-
eral Union in 1861. If we are rnigtal-sn -,
on thus point why does not some one attsmnf
TO show wherein and Thy7 For our-ov7n ~.
while we deny the right Of sIayeholdsrs to
hold slaves against the latter, we cannot ses
how twenty millions Of people can rightfnIIv,
hold ten or even five in q detested union V-itb
them by military force.
We could not stand up for coercion. or mb.
| lection, Tor we do not think Il yreuld - i,st
We hold the right Of self-govsrnmeut saersd.
even when evoked in behalf Of those who dsn1
it to others. So much for the question Of prin.
ciple. : 49,
We fully realize that the dilsn1ris Of tba in.
coming administration viii be a critical on.
1t must enforce and uphold the laws, as Esli
against rebelhous slaYsholders "a fuOitivs
slaves. The nav President raust fuIa7 fbs
obligations assumed in his Inauguration oath.
no matter how shamefully his prsdecessor NAV
have detied them. We fear that Southern
madness may precipitate a bloody coIligiou
that all must dsplOre. But II evss. nisavsD ~.
eight States send agents 70 Washington TO
say, ave want to 20 out OF the Union.1 Ne
shau teel constrained by devotion 20 human
liberty 20 say let them gol And we do not
see how We can take the other side. without
coming IN direct conflict with those riqhts Of
man which we hold paramount to al political
arrangementsB however convenient and ad-
vantageous.
On the oath Of December, 1850, Mr..
Greeley published the following ed
itorIal:
Most certainly we believe that governments
are made Tor peoples, not peoples for govern
ments-that the latter "derive their Just pow
ers from the consent of the goyernensd.'5
and whenever portion of this Union. large
enough to form an independent, self-subsistinz
nation shall see tit to say automatically, to the
residue, 1--WE want to get away from you.D wa
shall say--and We trust self-resDect, Il not re-
gard for the the principle Of self-goVernmsnt
VIII eonstraln the residue Of the American
people to say-f'GoP We never yet had so
poor an opinion of ourselves OF our neighbors
as to wish to hold others in a hated Connection
with US.
Two months later, Feb. %, 1851,
five days after the Inauguration Of
JEFF Davis as President, Mr.. Greeley
published the following editorial:
We have repeatedly said, and We onoe mora
insist, that the great principle embodisd bv
Jefferson in the Declaration Of American Indie
pendence, that governments derive their inst
powers from the cousent.-cf the Governed. ia
sound and Just; and that Z The Slave States,
the Cotton States, or the Gull States ONLY
choose to form an Independents nation thsV
have clear moral right to doso. Ws.hsTs
said and ST maintain, that, provided tha
Cotton Statas have fully and dsdnidyely made
up their mlnds % go by themsel7es, there a
no need Of fighting aboutit, for they have onl7
to exer 18assnabls patience, and thsv viii
be Sd oil in Peace and good win. .FhenevsT
it shall be clear that the great body Of Sonfb-
eTpGieopis hano become capclusifelT aiionatsd
from the UaioD and anxioda 20 escape from 4.
Fe VIII Dc 3 @ best to ID d their 4isrs.
When Stephen IA the Georgia
lei a5ure was II ne to prevent the
secession of q orgia. Toombs re-
piled by simPk reading tie above
editorials from & q me -.
We give the testimony OF tile last
candidate of the Democraeg fer Vfoef
President, as to the effect ofGresE
ley's editorials in Georgia.
In speech in the o. S. Senate
July II, 1871. Frank Blair spoke as
follows:
FRANK BbAlR's TESTIMONY AGAINST
Mr.. GREELEY.
We all know the instance Of that very dis
fiy,crniaba5 y,s-, AIawaudar n Gko-,-s W,