The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-11
selected by this pie bald mass meeting
to preside over its deliberations.

that Scburz could grin all the hot pots
cool, aud all the rough places smooth.
The convention then proceeded to the
business of nominating candidates for
President and Vice President of the
United States; and by process of
trickery, false representation, and
knavery, known and practiced only by
such men MS manipulated that Cincinnati
thing, called a convention, Horace
Greeley of New York was nominated
Tor President, and B. Gratz Brown the
present Governor of Missouri, for Vice
President of the United States.
Horace Greeley was then, and is now
the editor of the New York Tribune,
his published notice of withdrawal to
the contrary notwithstanding. That
convention impudently asks the people
of this country to select, and elect as
their chief magistrate, a man who has
not now, and never has had any stability
of principle in politics, or morals, and
those who from actual, personal and in
innate acquaintance with him for years,
never supposed that be ever pretended
or that his warmest friends ever claimed
for him any decision of purpose or
character. He has fingered on the
very borders of that modern heresy, and
ruiner of families, free -love-he has
been the advocate of female suffrage and
woman's rights He has declared that
the female candidate for President of
the United States must be one who
would share her name with one man
and her bed with another (very likely if
he were the latter) He has been his
life long the champion Of protection, and
yet he stands to-day pledged not to veto
iree.trade measure, if he is elected
President and Congress should pass a
free trade bill.
He counseled peaceaOle secession
when the clouds of rebellion were
thickening over our land in the fall and
winter of 1860, and in 1861 counseled
and urged "on to Richmond" with n
poorly equipped raw army in the field,
and the disaster OF the first Bull run is
the historic monument of his counsel in
times of war.
In 1864, when the Chicago Demo
cratic National Convention that nomi-
mated Geo. B. McClelland for President,
resolved the war failure and demanded
cessation of hostiites Horace Greeley
constituted himself peace commissioner
aud met Jacob Thompson and others of
the Rebel Confederacy at Niagara Falls,
and gave assurance that the weight o.
his influence should be brought to bear
upon President Lincoln and his Cabinet
to make overtmes of peace; and then
abused the administration like a pick
pocket because he refused to acknowl.
edge the war against treason, the Con
stitutiou, ard the Union failure.
Since then Horace Greeley has de-
nounced the Democratic party in tbs
most unmeasured terms. now he is q
miserable trucker at its feet, begging
its Endorsement and nomination at Bali
more. He says all manner of pretty
things in the columns of his New \ Iork
Tribune about his old enemies, hi
enemies of but yesterday, indeed hi
enemies of to-day for that matter.
Susceptible OF fattery in the mos
disgusting sense, he has placed hlmsel
in the keeping of VIM B Tweed, Johl
Morrisey, John Cochrane and others o
the Tammany persuasion. simply be
= cause they tickle his ears with the mos
: loathing fattery This is the ma
characterized by VIM. L. Garrison a
being as "shifting as sand bank, an
as yielding as the water that covers it,
e this is the sort of man then that til
D soldiers who fought for, and saved tn
lite of the Republic, that the loyal me
, are asked to vote for by 800 men headc
by revolutionist equal in disposition t
Jeff Davis, but lacking capacity to b
e the peer of Davis in success.
AN official statement from the Inter
Z nal Revenue Department shows that o
May 2, the quantity of spirits in bond i
q thn IInitnh Stnt.s rnS GO 117 milan,