The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-14
s. G.
Friday Morning. June IA, 1872.
Greeley's Record .

w oN0SA'SA J0oV0AonJ AEOm N6W IOThs
IT embraces series of editorials which
have appeared in the Tribune from the
pen OF Mr.. Greelery. on the subjects of
amnesty and reconstruction, from the
time..of the surrender of the army of
Northern Virginia at Appomattox; also.
speeches and extracts of speeches upon
public topics since that time. We wish
chat every Democrat in the land-at
aesst. every Southern Democrat-could
have opportunity to read this pamphlet,
and thus learn precisely what are the
sentiments towards the South, and what
ideas OF reconstruction and of the policy
of the General Government in the re.es.
Establishment of the Union Mr.. Greeley
has entertained and advocated. The
pamphlet is II satisfactory and complete
qefatation of the bitter assaults made by
Bcerbon or Grant Democrats against
Mr.. Greeley, as being the personation of
Radicalism and the persistent antagonist
of,eEery Democratic principle. We defy
Any candid and intelligent person to
read these articles, written by Mr.. Gree
LEY from after the 10th of April, 1865,
and deny that Horace Greeley has been
Che consistent and earnest friend OF the
South; and what is more, has urged no
measures OF reconstruction which were
nnot based upon the broadcast philan-
thropy and purest patriotism. He hos
: been right from the first and invariably
since. The South and the Democratic
party has been wrong freq 1ently, and
there it is where we have clashed and
Found an antagonist in Horace Greeley.
He has not done us single wrong since
emancipation. He has failed to sustain
-us when we were wrong, in matters in
which we can see that we are wrong.
We shonld respect and esteem him the
.1ncrefo 1t.
eOn the 10th day of April, 1865, the
day after General Lee surrendered, MIR.
cGreeley comes out in an article headed
* 'Magnanimity in Triumph" in which
he assumes the same attitude and tone
of reconciliation to the conquered South
as that now maintained by the Liberal
Republican movement, of which he is
'4he standard bearer. Liberal Repnbli-
cauism is nothing more than the deve-
.lopment Of those same ideas, The same
feelings of friendship for the South and
desire for genuine reunion of the
States. which filled the mind and warmed
the big heart of honest old Horace
seven years ago. In the article referred
to. after speaking in deprecatory terms
of the efforts which were being made to
swerve Mr.. Lincoln from his purpose of
issuinga proclamation of amnesty to the
>Confederates, andAo instigate him, in
stead, to institute proceedings to puni, II
che aoore prominent of our Southern
leaders, Mr.. Greeley writes as follows:
1'Nor can we agree with those who
would punish the original plotters of
secession, yet spare their ultimate and
aeareely willing converts. On the con-
resentment against none of them, we
feel far less antipathy to the original up
holders of 'the resolutions of 1798,' to
che disciples OF Calhoun and MoDufIie.
to the nullifiers of 1882, and the States
rights men of 1860, than to the John
Bells. Humphrey Marshalls and Alexan.
der II. 81. Stuarts, who we're schooled in
the national faith, and who. in becoming
disunionists and rebels. trampled on the
professions of life time and spurned
the logic wherewith they had so often
demonstrated that secession was trea-
son"
1--WE plead against passions certain at
this moment to be fierce and intolerant;
bot on our side are the ages and the
voice of history. We plead for resto-
ration of the Union, against policy
which would afford a momentary gratif-
cation at the cost of years of perilous
hate and bitterness.
I've have borne for quarter of
oentury the unjust imputation Of hating
the South, when we hated and sought to
.subvert only slavery, the scourge alike of
South and North-and the sole cause of
.discord between them. We have done
what We could-of course, not always
cwise!y-to battle, to circumsoribe. and
ssih hnately to overthrow the slave power.
~ length. through q succession of
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