Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-22
ELEGANT EXTRACTS.
From the New York Post.

puUllSueu, IL VIII pfOOaDly Dc Iue
most astonishing farrago that has
ever appeared in political literature.
Meantime, while it is i'll preparation,
we give our readers the benefit of a
few selections now going the round
of the press. Of course. the Trib-
une will at once reply: Some of
these things were said by the Trib-
une, and not by Mr.. Greeley at all.
But this is no answer. for the Trib-
une is completely identified with its
former editor. An editor who prints
leading srticles with his initials for
signature, and continually allows his
name to appear in its columns in all
sorts of ways, can not avoid the re-
sponsibility of the connection by
turning round and saying that there
is no connection at all. For thirty
or forty years the Tribune has been
used to advertise Mr.. Greeley's
claims upon the public, and the re-
suit has been the complete identifi-
cation of the editor with the paper.
This identification can not now be
explained away.
But to turn to our extracts; it
seems in 1868 Mr.. Greeley made
what the French would call brief
judgement social of Daniel Webster,
in the course of which he declared
that Mr. Webster sfailed only in one
respect; and in this respect l differ
from him-he wanted to be Presi-
dent, and 1 don't" He also COM
mented upon the fate of Mr.. Cass:
"Gen. Lewis Cass died at about
eighty-two, and up to the day of his
death he wanted TO be President.
No one ever escapes who catches
the disease he lives and dies in the
delusion. Being a reader and an
observer at an early age, / saw how
it poisoned and paralized the very
best of our public men and have
carefully avoided it, This is not
bad; but his views of the party
which has just nominated him at
Baltimore are better:
eff the Democratic party were
called upon to decide between Grant
and myself, 1 know that their regard
for what they must call principle
would induce nine tenths of them to
vote against me. Why? 1 am a 6e-
cIded enemy of that party, even in
its most respectable aspects"
"Point wherever you please to an
election precinct which you will pro-
nounce morally rotten-given up in
great part to debauchery and vice
whose voters subsist mainly by
keeping policy Offices, gambling
houses, grog shops, and darker dens
of infamy and tha. district will be
found given large majority for that
which styles itself the Democratic
party" '.What is the instinct, the
sympathetic chord which attaches
them so uniformly to that party ?"
"May it be written on my grave
that l was never it's follower name
ly, of the Democratic partyl, and
lived and died in nothing it's debtor"
Still better are Mr.. Greeley's
views of his own claims upon the
Liberal Republ can support. In a
letter written blfore the Cincinnati
convention, he says:
"You only err as to the proper
candidate. / am not the man you
need. Your party is mostly free
trade, and i am ferocious protec-
zionist. l have no doubt that /
might be nominated and elected by
your help; but it would place us all
in a false position"
Mr.. Greeley's views of the neces-
sity of mild policy toward the
South are curiously illustrated by q
comparison of his opinions now with
the following opinions expressed a
few months since:
''It is urged by the Democratic
organs that the law is 10 be enforced
in State and municipal elections.
This is done to make it more obnox-
ious, if that be possible, to their par
ty. But, unfortunately, this is an
error. The law applies only to
presidential and congressional elec-
tions, though we heartily wish it
could be made to apply to all 9th:
crs.'
81 hold our government bound by
its duty of protecting our citizens in
fundamental rights to pass and en-
force laws for the extirpation of the
execrable Ku-Klux conspiracy; bnd
if it has not the power to do it, then
l say our government is no govern
ment, but sham. / therefore, on
ever proper occasion, advocated and
justified the ku klux act. l hold it
especially desirable for the South,
and, if it does not prove strong
enough to effect its purpose, l hope
it will be made stronger and strong
err"
We may add that Mr. Greeley in
1861 said:
whenever a considable portion
of our Union shall deliberately re-
solve to go out, we shall resist all
coercive measures designed to keep
it in." eff the cotton States shall
decide that they can do better out
of the Union than in it, we insist on
letting them go in peace" eff the
slave States, the cotton States, or
the Gulf States only, choose to form
an independent nation. they have a
clear moral right to do So"
And recently, speaking Of Gen.
Grant, he has said:
"That the President has made
some mistakes in appointments is
obvious. 1t would be strange, in
deed. if one so inexpenced In the
conduct of political affairs had Who'll
ly escaped them. While asserting
the right of every Republican to his
untrammelled choice of candidate for
next President. until nomination is
made, l venture to suggest that Gen.
Grant will be far better qualified for
that momentous trust in 1872 than
he was in 1868"
This is a nice consistent kind of