Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-07-25
AND THEN UPON THIS
GREELEY.
A Candid Opinion.

A Candid Opinion.
We like Gen. Grant; but we care
more for Republican ascendency than fol
any ans personal fortunes. 1t is in our
view of great Importance that the opposi-
ton shall be kept out of power. whilst il
is of comparatively small moment that a
or b should tenantthe White House. FOa
a Democratic national triumph means
a restoration to poacer of those who desert.
ed their seats in Congress and their places
under the last Democratic President to
plunge the country into the Red Sea OF
Secession and Rebellion. Though you
paintan inch thick, to this complexion
you must come at last. The brain, the
heart, the sout, ofthe present Democratic
Party IS the rebel element at the South,
suith its Northern allies and Sy0epathizcr.
1t is rebel at the core to-day, hardly able
to reconcile the defeats of LEE. JOHN
sToN, BRAGG. HOOP and PRICE, and the
consequent downfall of It's beloved Confed-
eracy, with its traditional faith in Divine
Providence. 1t would hail the election
of a Democratic President in 1872 as a
virtual reversal of the A%ppomattox sur
render. 1t would come into power with
the hate, the chagrin, the wrath, the NOR
ti1cation, of ten bitter years, to impel and
guide its steps. 1t would devote itself to
taking off or reducing tax after tax until
the Treasury was deprived of the means
of paying interest on the national debt,
and arould hail the tidings Of national
bankruptcy scith u~naLoyed 9ladness and
unc0ncealed emulation. Whatever chas-
tisement may be deserved by our national
sins, we must hope that this disgrace and
humiliation will be spared us.-N. Y. Tri-
6une, February, 1872.
Point rhercerer you please to dn cleo
tion district achich yO.t rM pronounce
morally rotten giuen up IN great part to
debduchcry and cicc, achosc cOtcrs subsiSt
mainlyby keeping policy Offices, gambling
houses. grOJ ships and darker dcns Of
infdmy. and that district piU be found at
nearly or quite every election girtng a
majority for that achich styles itself the
DEMOCRATIC" party. Tuke all the
haunts Of deJdaehery IN the land. and you
aoiu .fnd nine-tcnths Of their maSter-spiras
actiUe partisans Of that same Democracy.
What is tie instinct, tie sympathetic cord,
,ohich attaches them so uniformly to this
party? VIII you coasit.r?-doRACE
GREELEY.
Ofthc secessionists he said:
"But nevertheless we mean to conquer
them-not NEARLY to defeat, but to con-
quer, to sUBJUGATE them-and we shall
do this the most mercifully the more
speedily we do it. BUT WHEN THE
REBELLIOUS TRAITORS ARE
OVERWHELMED IN THE FIELD.
AND SCATTERED LIKE LEAVES
BEFORE AN ANGRY WIND. 1T
MUST NOT BE TO RETURN TO
PEACEFUL AND COMMENTED
HOMES. THEY MUST FIND Pow
ERTY AT THEIR FIRESIDES, AND
SEE PRIVATION IN THE ANXIOUS
EYES OF MOTHERS AND THE
RAGS OF CHILDREN."-Edtoral
article Acaded'ISo Half Measure" 1ri-
bune, Nay 1.1861, p, 4, col. 4.
This was not the only occasi on on which
GREELEY expressed the same ideas.
Read the following:
1--WE hold traitors responsible for the
work upon which they have precipitated
us, and we warn them that they must
abide the full penalty. + = y The rebels
of that State (Virginia) and Maryland
may not fatter themselves that they can
enter upon a war against the Government
and aJtcracard return to quiet andpedccful
homes. They choose to play the part Of
ira tors, and thy must suffer the penalty.
The oUornout race Of enaascaLated first
families must gire place to starlier
people, sohose pioneers are mouU on their
,oay to Washington, at this moment, IN
regiments. An allotment of land in Vir-
ginia would be a fitting reward to the
brave fellows who nave gone to fight their
country's battfes."-Editerial article
headed 'Confscation," Tribune Aprl
%, 1861.
"Every one who chooses to live by pu-
gilism or gambling or harlotry, with near
ly every keeper of a tippling-house, is po-
l~itically a Democrat. "-HoRAcE GREE
LEY.
eff there we're not a newspaper nor a
common school in the country, the Demo
cratic party would be far stronger than it
is. "-HoRAcE GREELEY.
ssThe essential articles ofthe Democrat
ic creed are love rum and hate niggers.'
The less one learns and knows, the more
certain he is to vote the regular ticket
from A to Izzard.'-HoRACE GREELEY.
.We thereapun asked our c~ontempora-
nv to state frankly whether the pugilists,
blacklegs, thieves, burglars, keepers Of
dens of prostitution. etc., etc., were not
almost unanimously Democratic."-HoR-
ACE GREELEY"
s.To smoke is a Democratic virtue; to
chew is that virtue intensified to drink
rum is that virtue in the superlative."-
HORACE GREELEY.
GA purely selfish interest attaches the
lewd, rufianly, criminal, and dangerous
classes to the Democratic party."-HoR-
ACE GREELEY.
"This would mount to six in q bed,
exclusive of any vermin, for every Demo
cratic couch in the State ofNew York, in
GLIDING those of Sing Sing and Auburn"
HORACE GREELEY.
"The brain, the heart, the soul of the