The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-18


nor and his party have been ruthless pro-
scriptionists of Republicans and Republi.
canism in every department of our civil
administration. Is the present adoption,
by the same political managers, of another
New York politician, as their candidate,
the beginning of another unblushing game
of deception? Are the supporters of the
hod'y New York politician any more sin.
eere. than were those of the handsome New
York politician? | will borrow some of the
infantilc crcdulity of Franklin Stearns, who
never did a foolish thing in business, nor a
wise thing in politics, and believe that the
Greeley Conservatives in Virginia otto day,
the managers excepted, are better Repubf-
cans than the Walker Conservatives were
who called themselves "true.n | have
more faith in the sincerity of Mr.. Greeley's
Virginia supporters, than i have in their
new idol. Whatever change the logic of
events may have at last wrought in the
sentiments of his supporters, it is certain
that, as party, their policy has heretofore
been one of bitter hatred, vilification and
prescription, towards national men. And
this is my first point against him. that, if
he were an honest national Republican, he
would not accept, much less would he have
bought the support of such party. None
but a traitor to the Republican cause would
accept favors from its enemies. NV lead
ing and insurmountable objection to Horace
Greeley, is, that he is a traitor to the faith
he Processes. The enemy would not adopt
him as their leader if he were faithful.
When | see soldier escorted with ban
ners into the camp of the enemy, and plac-
ed in command of their chosen brigades.
/ think of Benedict Arnold and / not
merely. fight him as an enemy, but / despise
nam as a traitor, 1t costs native South
ern man much of feeling, all that is EN-
braced in the good will of his own people,
to be national man against the passions
and prejudices of the populace surround.
ing him; and when we see Northern Re
publicans taking sides against us, and Civ
ing countenence to the prescription of
which we are the victims, betraying the
cause to which we are martyrs, there is no
word IN the language, not even the hateful
word traitor, that can express the indignant
contempt and resentment which we feel for
such men.
HIS TREASON Is NOT ONLY AMBIGUOUS, BUT
MEAN. #
The treason Of Mr.. Greeley has in it.
moreover, an exaggerated degree of mean.
ness. We have had in the South hard
struggle over the questions of liberty, citi.
zenship and equal rights for the colored
race. We have fought those questions,
loaded with mountain of prejudice,
through TO Uicto,y, against the anathemas
of the men of whom Mr.. Greeley is now
the leader and patron. His treachery to
our cause is baser, because he has forsaken
the poor, humble and lowly class amongst
us, to take sides with the rich, intoerant,
arrogant and proscriptive. We are the
prescribed and oppressed class here. And
he, Enthusiastically denouncing prescription,
and hypocriticaly preaching hberality,
colleagues with our oppressors and perse
cutors. He is accepted as their leader by
the powerful and tyrannical, on the avowed
grounds that he is liberal to them. All
the world over, all history through, human
experience teaches that Hberalitv to the
oppressor is persecution to the oppressed.
Away with this shallow plea of h6erality,
in favor of a party whose administration
of affairs in Virginia, for the two years of
their power, has been dsgraced by every
judicial and political crime that could be
committed in the spirit of a shameless and
ruthless prescription of national men.
He Is A MAN OF cRorcHErs AND 1sMs.
l repeat that poor an opinion as have
of the managers of the party in Virginia
who have accepted Mr.. Greeley as their
leader, | have more faith in their sincerity
than in has. If there is q man on this
earth whose opinions are unreliable on
every subject, and whose career has been
marked by continual chicanery, it is Hor.
ace Greeley. There is no conceit that
was ever Matched in the brain of a fanatic,
which he has not countenanced, if he has
not espoused and advocated it. He is the
walking encyclopedia of all the trashy isms
that have been born of this speculative
age. He is the living Employment of the
whole brood of modern isms, all of them
pernicious, most of them repudiated, many
of them putrid.
HE is NOT THE TYPE OF THE AMERICAN MAN.
Our country is new, young, vigorous,
progressive, powerful, great and growing
it is all this, because the genius of our
people is practical and matter-of fact. And
yet. it is gravely proposed to take this fam
tastic bundle of isms, this stumbling theo-
rist this paragraph writing sciolist, this
ungainly scare crow statesman, this dotted |
old woman politician, who has outliyed her
day and generation, to set him up as the
type of the bold, dashing American man,
and to make him the president of the
foremost nation of the earth, empowered
to administer its government, to command
its armies, to direct its navies, to conduct
its foreign relations and to impress the
world by his own Qualities with its vigor,
its power and its prestige. tits not posi-.
BILE that an act of popular caprice and
folly. so ridiculously homogeneous with all
that is fit and appropriate, will ever be
committed, as the making of such a man
as Horace Greeley the President of our
great country.
1t is almost true to say, that Horace
Greeley has attacked everything that was
good, and upheld everything that was bad
in morals and politics, for the last fifty |
years. Yet he, the opposite of George
Washington, in his history, his mind, his
character and his FORM is selected by a |
set of scheming politicians, as the Gttest
man in the living age to occupy the Office
to which Washington gave honor and |
dignity.
Horace Greeley began his public life as
a bitter anti,mason; preaching crusade
against that ancient and benevolent broth
erhood. He was a socialist in the faith of |