The Portland daily press., 1872-08-16
The Harangue of a Philosopher


The Harangue of Philosopher.
The speech of Mr.. Greeley at City Hall
Wednesday, considering the man who madeit,
has a parallel only in the railroad station de-
carnations of His Accidency, thelate Andrew
johnson. In its egotism, fallacious reasoning
and irrelevant defamation it even exceeds
any of Johnson's efforts
Mr.. Greeley first made the statement that
he has struggled all his life; first, for impair
tial and universal liberty and second for the
unity and greatness of our common country"
with all the positiveness of mathematical
axiom. Modesty is not one of his virtues !;
but if the statement was true we might pass
it over. Now, Mr.. Greeley, great and good
Sir, were you struggling for impartial and
universal liberty and for the unity and great
ness of our country when before the war
when all were unsettled, you advised the
government to let the rering States go in
peace and found nation the corner stone of
which was human bondage?
The next point of any Importance in the
speech is that relating to the patronage ofthe
President. Mr.. Greeley has always consider
ed this matter of the first Importance in the
management of the government. 1t was
!, about patronage that he quarrelled with the
President. And now especially that he is
surrounded by hundreds of hungry politi-
clans who, while they desplse him, hope for
public plumber through his election, it is nee
essary to keep the rewards of Office before
them as the incentive to desperate work.
Mr.. Greeley forgets the letter to Carl Schurz.
He simply says, Gentlemen, have not
promised an office, 1 shall not until l am elect
ed. Then he who has done most to bald my
Presidential Mansion, shall be best reward
ed. If you, Commodore Churchill, expect
to have the Portland Custom House, and you,
Henry T. Carter, languish for the Portland
Post Office, you can win them only by doing
harder and more effective work than any
other of my unselfish followers. ''Reform-
er" Lang and Immaculate Carleton, you
must not only forge lists but you must null
tiply votes if you hav set your great hearts ON
$4,000 offices.
If you, Frank Blair, defender of KuKlux,
want large patronage for your numerous
friends, you must in your peculiar way more
ehectuatly aid my election than any other.
If you, Gen. Forest, with your half million
followers, want rare reward, you know how
to obtain it by aiding to secure my election.
If you, Mayor Oakley Hall, want larger con-
trolling interest than you otherwise would
have, your aid and that of your Tammany
ballot-box suffers will be appreciated when
come to ''make up my jewels" To the vic
tors, and of those the most efficient in the
use of any means in their power, belong the
spoils of Mr.. Greeley's victory. This is the
keynote of the speech-the battle cry of Mr.
Greeley to his supporters
Having thus melted his Democratic follow
ers to a jealous rivalry, Mr.. Greeley next
makes an artful bid for Republican votes, and
makes pittiful bubble unworthy even a
Democratic candidate for the Presidency. No
Southern man, forsooth, has asked pledge,
or in the remotest manner limited about the
payment of the rebel debt. No one expects
that Mr.. Greeley can pay the rebel debt. The
constitution puts it beyond his power, conse-
quently any Southern man would be simply |
stupid to speak of it. He further declares |
that no Southern man who could be elected |
to legislature has ever suggested the pen
sioning of rebel soldiers. Now with Dem
ocratic Congress, as Mr.. Greeley and his |
friends hope to have in two years, bill pen
sioning rebel soldiers would not only be pos
sible, but would probably be enacted.
Mr.. Greeley cannot deceive intelligent REQ |
pie by this way of putting it. Did you or did |
you not, Mr.. Greeley, say to your Democrat
ic friend, Mr.. Carmichael, that you endorsed |
his ideas ofpensioning rebel soldiers? 1t is of |
no sort of consequence what Southern militia
colonies say or do not say about this matter
what do you say?-do you or do you not look
favorably upon the scheme?
In the next place this Presidential orator
tells us that all his friends at the South de-
mand is Justice. Now precisely what do you
mean Mr.. Greeley? What measure of Justice
that every American citizen enjoys, do they
not have to the fullest extentp Are any de-
barred from the Courts? Is there any inyi-
dious taxation imposed upon them? This
talk about justice, Mr.. Greeley, is what your
organ would term ''fapdoodle' and unworthy
of you and will be scoffed at by intelligent
people. Your Southern friends have only one
INSTRUMENTATION. And pray what does
this mean if it means anything?
What will reconcile your friends Mr. JEFF Day.
Is? year or more since you said that these
same gentlemen were still rebel to the core.
nave they or you changed? Is it amnesty
they WantF All except two hundred of the
perJured leaders have that already conferred
upon them. Even your friend Zeb Vance who
recently desired to see shell so full of Yam
KEGS that their legs would stick out of the
has been pardoned. Jeff Davis
recently said that he would accept no amnes-
ty-that he had committed no sin to be mar
1oned. Are six or eight millions of Southern
people refusing to be conciliated because two
1r three hundred men like jeff Davis have
not been included in the amnesty act-the
most of whom could receive that boon by ask
ng for itp Will they not be conciliated until
these men are again in Congress there to I'M
10 the results of the last ten years?
VIII they be conciliated when by your cleo
ion, they can be admitted to places of trust
ma honor-when in Congress they can de-
Troy the national credit pension their MAIN
u soidlers, and by allowing thousands of
claims, practically reimburse the South for
is losses in the late war? The people of the
South have had every measure of Cancellation I
Except complete surrender to their bebests +
What Mr.. Greeley says about the STATE
governments of the South and his abuse Of 7
,arpet-baggers is frivolous. That there has
'een corruption there no one denies; but can | {
Ar. Greeley, should he be President, remedy {
t? Does he hold President Grant RESPONSE
de for the railroad plunderings of Bullock, q