The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-27

first smile, the flash Of the first brave
s0ord draWn for vengeance and kberty."
The Quitman (Ga.) Banner, Greeley
newspaper, says:
"The atrocities of the Northern sol.
diery are still too fresh in our memory /;
the sears on our hearts are not vet
erased the names of Chicamauea and
Elmira still sufluse the eyes with tears
aud The heart wih terrible thoughts of ven
!gedncc."
Congressman Beck, of Kentucky, in
q speech declared that Dhen il pas neces-
sary to secure such legislation as the Demo-
cracy deemed Wise, they would demand OF
and compel Mr.. Greeley to yield aegsies-
cence.
Mr.. Greeley himself, in his conspiracy
for the Cincinnati nomination, agreed
to favor the poisoning Of rebel soldiers,
and the indianapolis Ne,ss, whose editor
is n member of the Greeley Central
Committee for the State of Indiana.
denounces as "a shameful doctrine the
sentiment that the rebel soldiers shall
never occupy the same position before
the ldw that Union soldiersoccupy" II. 6,
paid pensions and given land warrantsl.
Gen Hodge, in a speech at Lexing.
ton, KY, declared that he had "seen
thousands throw their lives away upon
the battlefield in defense of the prin.
ciples of the Democratic party :" and
ex.Gov. Randolph, OF New Jersey, and
ex-senator Hendricks, of Indiana, de-
clare that they accept Mr.. Greeley be-
cause they can trust him 5eaer than
Democrat for "a Democratic Admins
tration." Gen. Hodge also declares that
Mr.. Greeley's letter of acceptance
means the restoration of John C.
Breckenridge and other chivalrous sons
of the South to their former positions
Of power and influence" He also says
that Mr.. Greeley's election will be "a
victory for that which they 1.-THE South
ern soldiers) fought y and that, in the
event of the success of Greeley, "my
comrades Of the lost cause have not died in
vain ~
Col. Breekinridge, in speech at Lex.
ington, KY, said: 81 don't care
picayune for Horace Greeley or what he
has said. He represents the daon Of nep
era 10 US, an era that piH restore US 10
posoer."
Capt. Raphael Semmes, commander
Of the pirate cruiser, whose depreda-
tions involved Us in the bitter contro.
versy with England, just peaceably
closing at Geneva under the admins
tration Of Gen. Grant, declared in
letter to the Mobile Register that it is
" Mr.. Greeley who has come to the
Captain of the Alabama. and not the
Captain Of the Alabama that has gone
to Greeley" ....
Lyman Trumbuli, United States Sen.
stor from Illinois, rebukes the loyal
spirit Of the North, and tells il in his
speech at Dixon not to go bowling
around about Andersonville." The
Chicago Tribune sneers at the soldiers of
the late war who were not killed in
battle or starved in prison pens, rs "su-
periluous veterans it insults the vic.
TINS Of Andersonville and Belle Isle by
telling them not to continue showing
their old sores -" see Tibune, August
q it declares universal suffrage "a
serious menace to Republican institu.
tions;" see Tribune, August ii it de-
nounces General Grant, under whose
leadership the Union cause gained vic
tory over the rebellion, as ian arrant
dead beat" See Tribune of August %.
The New York Express, Greeley paper,
says the question now is whether the
negro was really born to be a slave or
not" Mr. Greeley is on record in favor
of secession in favor of paying S4OO,-
100000 for the liberated slaves; in favor
OF paying pensions 10 rebel soldiers,
and in favor of revering the memories
of Lee and Stonewall Jackson equally
with that of Grant and Sherman. He
is on record as saying that the Ku-Klux
spirit is still alive in the South, "reddy
to be revived to morroao." In his Portland
speech he declared that, through this
self-same Ku Klux spirit, when he was
elected President, the carpet-baggers"
of the South would be compelled to
fold up their tents ahd silently steal
away.
These are but samples of much more
Of the same sort that raight be repro
duced, were it necessary. 1t is our de.
sign simply to show the purposes ami.
mating Mr.. Greeley's supporters, and
to apply the Springfield Republicans text
to them "Can They be Trusted 2"
This clamor for the assumption OF rebel
losses, for the payment of pensions to
rebel soldiers, of new attempt at seces
sion, OF a victory for the Los. Cause,
is not " Radical electioneering ticket
these extracts are from the opinions
of the leaders of Mr.. Greeley's support
from the class which the Republican,
attempt to prove have been converted
into loyal and true Union menl i
they have not, but if they are still tain
ted with treason and rebellion, if they
still treasure up right design to forc'
a victory of the principles of the Con
fedcracy through Mr.. Greeley's election
the Springfield Republican says Mr.
Greeley will be, and ought to be, de
feated. We leave the case there. "Cal
they be trusted?"
NASRY