The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-07-18

tic but Merited Rebuke-fSacy Reading
for Greeley Men. iiYo 32lif1t %
Extract from letter written in 1sG7.)
At once q concerted howl of de-
nunciatioh and rag was set up from
every side against me by the little
creatures whom God, for some in
scrutabie purpose, permits to edit a
majority of the minor. Journals, ech-
oed by yell of - Stop my paper,~
from thousands of imperfectly in
structed readers, of the, @Tribune.'-
Ore impudent puppy wrote me to an
swer catagorically whether l was in,
favor of hanging Jefferson Davis, ad'
ding that / must stop his paper if L
were not. Scores volunteered assur-
ance that l was defying public opin-
ion, that most of my readers were
against me, as If could be induced
to write what they wished said rather
than what they needed to be told. l
never before realized, so wildly the
baseness of the editorial vocation ac-
cording to the Vnl gar conception of it,
The din raised about my cars nov is
nothing to what 1 then endured and
despised. am humiliated by the re-
Election that it is or was in the. power
of such insects to annoy me, even by
pretending toldiscoxer with surprise
something that i have for years been
publicly and emphatically proclaim
ing. ~ = .I'ia- Z 81 81 = - er
goi ~ s3s, ~ ~
"Gentlemen4'I shall not attend
your meeting this evening. i have an
engagement out, of town, and shall
keep it. lido not recognize you as
capable of Judging or even fully APP
pretending me. q on evidently re-
gard me as weak sentiments4ist, mis-
led by amaadlin philosophy. L ar
raign you as narrow minded block
heads, who would like to be useful TO
q good and great cause, but don't
know hoWs Xonr attempt to base a
great enduring. party on the hate and
wrath necessarily engendered by
bloody civil war, is as though you
should plant ecoionys on an ice-
tropical ocean. tell you here, that
out ora life constantly devoted to the
good of human kind, your children
will select my going back to Rich
mond and signing that bail bond as
the wisest act, and viii feel that it did
more for freedom and humanity than
all gof you were competent to do,
ahough You had lived to the age of
Methuselah. Il ask nothing OF you
then, but that you proceed to your
end by direct, frank, and manly way.
Don't slide offinto a mild resolution
of censure, but move the expulsion
which you proposed, and which de-
serve, if j, deserve, any reproach
whatever.faAllI i care for, is that you
make this q square, stand up fight,
and recover your Judgment by yeas
and nays. care not how few vote
for me, or how many vote against me,
for / know that the latter win repent
in dust and ashes before three years
have passed. ia Understand once for
ALL that dare and defy you, and that
Ipropose to fight it out on. the line
that have held from the day of Lees
surrender. So long as any man was
seeking to overthrow our government
he was my enemy; from the hour in
which he laid down his arms, he was
my formerly ,erring pountryman. So
long as any IS at heart Opposed 70 ma
tional unity, the federal authority, or
to the assertion of equal rights of
all men, which has become practically
identified with loyalty and nationality
shall do my best to deprive him of
power but whenever he ceases to do
this demand his restoration TO all
the privileges of American citizenship.
I give You fair nolice that i shall urge
the re-enfranchisement of those now
prescribed for rebellion, so soon as
shall feel confident that this course ID
consistent wiki. the freedom of tho
blacks and the unity OF the republic;
and that shall demand q recall of all
noYginsexile My for partlcipatipglin
the rebellion, whenever the country
shall have been SO thoroughly paciiied
that It's safety will not DO endangered.
And SO, gentlemen, hoping you will
henceforth comprehend me somewhat
better than you have done, remain,
Yours. rr 4 HORACE 0REELEY.
Congressman Beck, of Kentucky,
who is in Baltimore, says that Ken
tucky will roll up its customary ma
jority of 10000 at the State election i'm
August, and that the Democracy are