Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-08

military, financial, and in fact every
question, been "all things by turns
and nothing long"
| The New York Tribune publish
ed list of defaulters to the Gov
ernment the other day. Three of
them are dead, five are fugitives,
and the other thirteen are support
ers of Greeley. There is not de-
faulter in the country but favors
Greeley's election. If there is one
that does not, he is as great a curl
osity as white elephant.
From the moment Mr.. Greeley
should enter the White House,
doubt and uncertainty would agi-
tate the minds of the business COM
munity, embarress trade, unsettle
values, and possibly bring about
that great financial crisis, so often
predicted but which under Grants
Administration has been steadily
receding from view.
The "grand" Liberal Republican
gathering at Columbus on Wednes-
day was failure in point of num-
bers. Lockers on made estimates
more or less affected by their bias
for or against the objects of the
meeting, the estimates being five
hundred on the one hand to two
thousand on the other. During the
speech Of the Democratic candidate
for Vice President there were pres
ent, perhaps, fifteen hundred persons
of whom two-thirds gave respect
able attention to his speech.
The atlantic Monthly for August
thus photographs the Democratic
candidate: "Mr. Greeley is believed
to be capricious, ,conceited, peculiar
ly open to flattery and prejudice,
bold in opinion, but timid in action,
and with that indeinable something
in his character which makes it i'm
possible not to laugh at him, how
ever much we may esteem him. He
is unsteady, grotesque, obstinate and
ridiculous-epithets never yet just
ly applicable, all at once, to Pres
ident of the United States"
The Vossische Zeitung, of Ber-
lin, says, "We are at loss to know
how any German-American can al
low himself to be misled by the so
phistries by which unscrupulous
men try to make the candidature of
Horace Greeley palatable to our
countrymen in the United States.
No! They cannot and will not sup
port him-an incarnation of incon-
sistencies, or crude theories, of ex-
ploded notions on public economies,
weathercock always and never
consistent. Thank God every mail
from America brings us assurances
that the number of the German
Americans who will go for Greeley
is very limited"
The Provincial Correspondent,
Bismarck's immediate organ, says
in an article on the Presidential
election in the United States: ave
notice with intense regret that GER
tain politicians and newspapers in
the United States are unscrupulous
enough to array the German voters
in that republic against President
Grant on account of the course he
pursued towards Germany during
our war with France. We have
said it before, and we repeat it now:
This government has found no fault |
with the conduct of President Grant |
toward our country during the war
On the contrary, he has given US
many and valuable proofs of genu-
inc sympathy for our cause"
In 1859, Horace Greeley wrote:
"If the cotton States shall become
satisfied that they can do better out
of the Union than in it, we insist on
letting them 60 in peace. The
right to secede may be revolution
ary one, but exists nevertheless.
Il Il We must ever resist the
right of any. State to remain in the
Union and nullify and defy the laws
thereof To withdraw from the
Union is quite another matter; and ,
whenever a considerable section of
our Union shall deliberately resolve
to 60 out, we shall resist all coer-
Give measures to keep them in. We g
nope never to live in a republic o
where one section is pinned to an |
other by the bayonet." ,
If Horace Greeley should be
elected President, the United States Il
Court might as well dismiss all Grim e
nal trials for the four years of his t
erm. The man who bailed JEFF.
Davis would pardon every SNUG \
liar, and mail robber, and counter h
eiter, and Ku-Klux, and defrauder o
If the revenue of the land. What y
,ood would it do to try and convict y y
uch rogues with weeping senti-
mental philanthropist who don't be-
ieye in punishment, here or here
lter, in the Executive Chair. Gree. n
~ would bail the devil, if he could. NJ
tut the time of such universal am r
esty'' has hardly come as yet in r,
his bad world, which, we think, will m
e better governed, for at least four RI
ears to come, with Executive JUS m
ce rather than maudlin clemency in VI
le Presidential seat. co