The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-06

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Extrsct from Mr.. Gfeeley's lettsr to
the club in which il was proposed TO
censure him for signing Mr.. Davlss bsai
bond:
From the New York Tribune. Aay4 1857.
Ry fhe.e presents Greeting 10 Messrs.
George w. Blunt, John A. Kennedy.
John o. Stone, Stephen hyatt, and
thirty others, members of the Union
League Club:
GeutlemenLI was favored On the 18TH
inst, by an official note from our ever
courteous President. John Jay, notify
ing me that q requisition had been pre-
sented to him for a special meeting OF
the club, at an early day, for the Puf-
pose of taking into consideration the
conduct of Horace Greeley, member
of the club. who has become o bonds
man for Jefferson Davis, late chief OH
Ger of the Rebel Government
Gentlemen, / shall not attend your
meeting this evening. L have an en-
oaoement out of town, and shall keep 1T.
i do not recognize you as capable OF
Judging. or even fully apprehending
me. You evidently regard me as weak
sentimentalist, misled by q maudiin
philosophy.
/ arraign you as narrow-mlnded
blockheads, who would like to be usefui
O a great and good cause, but don't
enow how. Your attempt to base q
+ eat, enduring party on the hate anu
wrath necessarily engendered by a
BLOODY, civil war, is as though you should
plant a colony on an iceberg which had
somehow drifted into tropical ocean.
I tell YOU here that, out of q life ear
nestly devoted to the good OF human
kind YOUR children will select my gong
TO Richmond and signing that bail bond
as the wisest act, and will feel that 1t
did more for freedom and humanity
than all of you were competent to 90,
though YOU had lived to the age OF Me-
thuselah.
/ ask nothing of you, then, but that
YOU proceed to your end by direct
frank, manly'way. Don't slide on INTO
a mild resolution of censure, but move
the expulsion which you proposed, and
which L deserve, if 1 deserve any re-
proach whatever. All / care for Is, that
Won make this a square, stand-up hgnt,
and record your judgment by yeas and
| nays I care not how few vote with me,
| nor how many vote against me; for L
know that the latter will repent it IN
dust and ashes before three years have
| past. Understand, once for all, that L
dare YOU and defy you, and that pro-
nose to fight il out on the line that /
have held from the day OF Lees surren-
| der. So long as any man was seeking
to overthrow our Government he was
nv enemy: rom the hour in which he
LAID down his arms he WAS my formerly
erring countryman.
So long as any is at heart opposed to
the national unity, the Federal author,
ity. or to that assertion to the equal
rights of all men which has become
practically identified with loyalty and
nationality, I shall do my best to de-
priye him of power; but whenever M
ceases TO be thus, I demand his resto
ration to all the privileges OF American
citizenship. 1 give You fair notice tnai
| / shall urge the re-enfranchlsement ol
those now prescribed for rebellion sc
soon as shall feel confident that thu
course Is consistent with the freedom o
the blacks and the unity ofthe republic
and that shall demand recall OF al
now in exile only for participating II
tbe rebellion whenever the country shai
have been 80 thoroughly pacifed tina
Its safety will not thereby be endan
gered. A.. 80,
will henceforth comprehend me some
what better than you have done, re
main yours, HORACE uREEhsi'
New York, May 90, 1867.