New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-05


The New York Lee"mg Post, "Reforn
republican, but opposed to the election
ne reform F." candidate for President, tel
lie country in very plain and truthful tern
% hat might have happened if Greeley hi
cen President when the shareholders IT
DIT was first threatened, and during the re
elton. 1t asserts-what Mr.. Greeley
hole life proves to be fair inference
what his course would have been-that hi
'ould have shown greater weakness tina
hat which has rendered Mr.. Buchana'
lmost infamous; for Buchanan simply denie
he right of the national Government
;oerce State, while Mr.. Greeley maintane'
that the secessionists ought to be allowed t.
20 in peace. This was no hasty and I'M
,atient outbreak of sentiment, but fxe
onviction, which likened their revolt to tina
f our fathers in the Revolution. If Nj
ireeley had been the President after th'
disaster of Bull Run, that temporary success
If the insurgents would have brought about
total surrender of the North. He was Sc
limp, flaccid, detected, broken down by thai
event, that he lay supine and sprawling upon
The floor, with no more stiffness in him than
there is in an empty sack; and in that spirit
ne wrote his pusillanimous card of the next
lay, signed H. G. At moment when the
nation was shrouded in gloom and every
manly voice was lifted to encourage it and
quicken its recovery, this one voice sounded
l base and despicable cry of alarm and It
treat. What would have been the effect had
he possessor of it been high in authority ::
Again, in 1864, when perhaps the most
lelicate and trying crisis of our history had
arrived; when the Bourbon Democrats were
lear producing reaction in the sentiments
If the North; when everything depended
upon the firmness and consistency with which
public opinion at home supported the efforts
Of our brave boys in the field; when Lin
coin, Stanton, Sumner, Grant, Sherman, and
the whole loyal community were making
almost superhuman endeavors to give final
stroke to the rebellion-a stroke which would
bring about not only cessation of HOSTILE
ties, but the other glorious results we have
since attained-if Mr.. Greeley had been the
President instead of Abraham Lincoln, we
should have had none of this patriotic exer-
ton with its grand fruits, but peddling nego-
tiations on the Canada frontier with the
Clays, and Sanderses, and others, in which
was to be bought by money,
and not won as right.
From this faithful description of what
would undoubtedly have been Greelcy's con-
duct as President during the rebellion, we
may form correct and safe conclusion as to
what his course would be were he to be
elected in November next. He would beyond
all question make the weakest, and there
fore the worst President that has ever filled
the Executive chair. He has placed himself
under the absolute control of the men who
inaugrated the rebellion and perpctuated the
stupendous Tammany frauds. If he were
ever an honest man he has decided to
" throw conscience to the DEVIL" and go in
to win by any sacrifice of principle that may
be required by his keepers. Ku-Kluxism
would be tolerated, reputation of the public
debt encouraged, the public money stolen,
and such wholesale system of fraud and
villainy carried on as the country never be-
fore has witnessed. Do the people want
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