The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-26
State Saatnal.
M oSRY.
His Speech at Bealton OIL Saturday-Be Goes
for the Liberals and Uncle Horace.
From the Washington Chronicle.

HIS speech at Bealt0n oil Saturuay-Be G0cs
for the Liberals and Uncle Horace.
From the Washington Chronicle.
Colonel John S. Mosby delivered the
second of his course of independent cam
paign speeches at Bealton, Fauquer county,
Va, on Saturday. An audience, respecta-
Bile in size, numbers. and quality, gathered
in the new township hall, near the railway
station, and gave Colonel Mosby respectful
attention during his address. A few col
ored voters listened outside by the open
windows, but the great majority of the
audience were white.
Colonel Mosby disclamed at the outset
any motives of personal ambition in ASSUME
ing to address his Conservative fellow citi-
zens, and to show them why they could
not as honest men and true Democrats fol-
low the lead of the Baltimore Convention,
and proceeded to review at length the politi-
cal situation and the causes which have pro-
duced the present state of affairs. The
common argument that the Democrats
could not afford to be beaten again, be said,
was new maxim in politics, meaning in
effect. that as soon as a party is in the
minority it must renounce its principles,
and in this particular case that the Demo
cratic party couldn't afford to be honest any
longer.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, may
be able to sing this new Greeley tune, but
he couldn't, and there would be Just as
much sense in Christian congregation
singing "Old Grimes" as in the Democratic
party's voting for old Horace Greeley.
The Cincinnati Convention was captured
aud perverted by disaffected soreheads and
Radicals. Liberal Republicans, Mosby
said, were those who had been disappoint-
ed in getting into Office, or kicked out of it
when they were in, and suddenly they be-
came "lberal'-liberal toward themselves
they were never suspected Of liberality
to ward any one else.
The Baltimore Convention represented
constituencies, but no principles, and the
Cincinnati Convention principles but no con-
stituencies, and the efforts of the two were
to secure the support of the remarkable
coalition for Greeley. Among the "Liber-
ais" who are now leading in this venal
transaction are Mcneil, of Missouri, whom
President Davis outlawed at the time he
outlawed Beast Butler; fitzpatrick, who
led the ''pitch, tar and turpentine" raid on
Richmond, and afterward of unsavory Chill
ian notoriety, and Charles A. Dana, editor
of the vilest and most malignant sheet on
earth, next to the New York Tribune, and
who was sent by Stanton to Fortress Mon
roe to see the chains put upon Jefferson
Davis. These are the men who in this new
dispensation are to prescribe my political
duties and control my political acts.
Mosby then reviewed Greeley's record,
showing that whatever oppression the
South had suffered from the present Adj
ministration it had all sprung from Gree
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the most severe and obnoxious measures of
Radical legislation. Greeley, however,
says that the old issues are dead, and then
in his letter Of acceptance declares that he
hasn't changed, and in another place that
if the Democrats didn't support him he
would support Grant. This proves the
for, said Colonel Mosby, | have always
Democratic party, not the bastard, hybrid
the Cincinnati platform.
Then as to Greeley's record. None of
the Greeley orators defend his record. And
isn't this an admission that his record is in
defensible? They say Greeley, like st.
Paul, has repented; but st. Paul the mo-
ment he was converted, didn't assume to
be leader and chief man among the
Christians, but remained an humble disci-
pie for years. Having disposed of Greeley
the Colonel next ''went for" the platform
upon which he was placed at Cincinnati and
accepted at Baltimore.
He admitted that the South was beaten
in the war, but he never would say that he
thanked the North for it neither would he
acquiesce in the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution. He SUBJ
mitted to them simply because he hadn't
the physical power to get rid of them, and
had always hoped that the North, when
calm reason returned, would repeal them.
This, he maintained, had been until with
in the last few months the position of the
Democracy, and cited the solid Democratic
vote against Representative Peters, resolu-
ton at the last session in proof Of that fact.
The Cincinnati platform was manipulated
by Fenton, who owns and runs Horace Gree
ley, as old uncle Jno Harper owns and runs
Longiellow. All of Greeley's talk about
"clasping hands across the bloody
chasm," Mosby said, meant nothing more
than that he would shake hands with those
who would vote for him, which most
candidates were always willing to do.
Greeley's share in the enactment of the
ku-klux and election laws and the suspcn-
sion of the ha6eas corpas was also fully
examined and explained, altogether to the
disadvantage Of Greeley's cause among the
Democrats.