Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-26
GREELEY'S INSULT TO THE SOL
OIERS.

OiERS.
Mr.. Greeley's speech on Thurs
day night at the St. Charles Hotel
was one which certainly did not sat-
isffy his auditors or advance his
cause in the slightest degree. 1t
was:utterd in the spirit of a cross,
peevIsh, grumbling old woman who
is never content, even with herself.
At the very outset he exhibited his
ugly dispotion by insulting the sol
diers and sailors Of the Union. The
fact that scores of thousands of
loyal people had met in Pittsburg
on Tuesday and Wednesday friend
ly to President Grant and General
Hartranft, seems to have irritated
and stirred up his bile to its bot
tom depth. To vent his spleen up
on them was natural. He was al
ways an adept at calling men op-
posed to him harsh names and apply
ing to them vile epithets, as the
Democracy well know.
Mr.. Greeley opened his remarks
by asserting that "a very large num-
Der of men were collected here, at a
vast expense, cith the single par-
pose Of rekindling the bitterness
and hatred, the animosity and an
Itipathies, the fears and Civilizations
of civil war, for the advantage of
political party Now Mr.. Greeley
knew if he knows anything that he
was then telling, and that deliber-
ately, an untruth. The gathering
of men who defeated his friends
and cemented by their toll and
blood the unity of the Union, was
not called for ''the single purpose of
rekindling the bitterness and hatred
of civil war;" They met for no.
bier purpose. They assembled to
counsel how that this bitterness
and hatred which exists among Mr..
Greeley's supporters toward the
good men and the best welfare of
the nation, shall be prevented from
again kindling the fires of civil war.
They bore in their bosoms the spir-
it of conciliation, but they do not
propose to surrender into the keep
ing of the men who attempted to
destroy the Republic its dearest and
most vital interests To avert the
danger now threatening the coun
try in the efforts of Mr.. Greeley and
the political schemers at his back to
obtain power, the soldiers feel it to
be their duty once more to step to
the front They know the peril
ahead, and are as ready now to meet
1t as they were when they faced
wounds and death upon the carnage
fields of Shiloh, Chicamauga, Antie-
am, Gettysburg and the Wilderness.
1t is simply insulting to them, and
to the people Of the land, for Mr..
Greeley to make such a charge as
that Of Thursday night. He has
been credited with having some
thing of candor and honesty! HIS
partisans call him "Old Honesty"
but when he asserted that the Con-
vention Of Tuesday and Wednesday
met.to rekindle the bitterness and
hatred of civil war, he was guilty
in the eyes of all honorable witness
es, of Misrepresentation and gross
dishonesty. s'-
Another palpable falsehood utter
ed by this travelling candidate for
the Presidency was, this; ''they do
greatly misunderstood and malign
this American people, when they
assume that in cold blood, before
there had been any clash of arms,
the people in the South, any more
than the people in the North ,desir-
ed disunion." This is SO glaring a
perversion oftruth that we feel as.
tonished that Mr. Greeley could find
it possible to give it expression.
He knows as well as any public man
living, that the Southern leaders
and the great mass of the Southern
people favor secession for years'an
terror to the war, and he knows
that the people of the North were
Iopposed to it. When he asserts
that the free States were as willing
as the slave States for disunion, he
ISLANDERS their people and makes a
statement which he knows is un-
true He was talking at the time
to an intelligent audience, not to
a New York rabble, and there were
but few persons present who did
not feel that he was uttering a
falsehood, knowingly and intention
ally. 1t may be that Mr.. Greeley
has been reading the New York
Tribune and other Democratic
sheets so much Of late that he is
unable to discern the true from the
false. He is certainly getting along
well in the line of misrepresenta-
tion. If he thinks it advantageous
to his cause, why, well; people gen
orally will view it in another light.
Swinging around the circle used up
Andrew johnson. Horace Greeley,
who ridiculed him so much at the
time, should profit by his example
and his fate.
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