Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-01
Horace Greeley.
NJ. IL. I.
BY ELI PERKINS"

am for Greeley!
The Commercial may not be for him,
but Eli Perkins is going to support Hor-
ace.
We have nominated Mr.. Greeley on
the g-e-l-o-r-i-o-Us Democratic Republican
platform, and now my friends we must
elect him. Our candidate is man of a
great many principles. He has been on
both sides of almost every political ques-
tion, and there is such a chance for our
OF ators
Listen to me and I'll tell you how we
can elect Mr., Greeley.
l. For the New England States we
must instruct our orators to talk the
high-tariif dodge. They must show Mr..
Greeley's record, and point ont how he
has always stood for the highest protec-
tive tax Oh cloth, hoop-skirts and oroide
watches, aud favored keeping foreign
cheap articles out of the market Then
how the Yankee manufacturer will go for
him, but
Oat West you must lay low on the
tariff. You must say that Horace has
gone back on protection, and that he
don't care darn about it, for the West
ern fellows hate the New England shoe
makers like the devil. They wouldn't
vote for President who would protect
manufacturers, for they are sharp as
lightning out there, and they know when
they wear the boots that if they didn't
pay for the protection whistle, they
would come a good deal cheaper. Our
western orators must say that Horace
will leave the taritf question in Congress
for you know well epough that he is
head aud ears for the present high tariff,
and that when he is President he can
veto any act of Congress to repeal it.
The Western fellows will catch at this
ambiguous dodge, and they will all go
for Horace like political sheep.
2. To the respectable old slave-owners
of the South, read Greeley's old 1862 ed
itorials about Compensation to Owners
for Emancipated Slaves" but
That national slave buying idea would
kill us with the old New England Aboli.
tionists. To them read Mr.. Greeley's
defense of John Brown-his editorials
on Sharp's rifles for Kansas slave owners
ard say how be stood for Owen
Lovejoy. This will take such men as
Gerrit Smith, Fred. Douglas, and Mr.
Beecher. r-.
81. For the old Southern Secessonists
like Alex. Stephens, jeff. Davis and
Wade Hampton, republsh Horace's edi
torial, 4" Let the Wayward Sisters go in
Peace" If this don't satisfy them thai
our candidate is sound on Secession, read
them the sentiment which Mr.. Greeley
wrote in 1850: "If any respectable
number of the citizens OF a Stale desire
to secede from the Government, know
of no power which can or ought to res
train them" That will satisfy any rea
sonable secessionist that in case Mr.
Greeley becomes President he can wall
straight out of the Union without be
ing troubled by such men as Genera
Grant.
To the lovers of Peace say that cul
candidate went 10 Niagara Falls to trea
with Jake Thompson and q. c. Clay IL
regard to acknowledging the independ
ence of the South, and that he cam,
back and wrote advising Lincoln atte
Harrison's Landing, "to make peace
upon the best attainable terms" but
To tho war men talk about Mr.. Gree
ley's " On to Richmond"
5, Fool the editors into believing tha
Horace is a great farmer, and
Make the farmers believe that he is 4