The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-09

ING, AUGUST 8, 1872.
re that had become fre,. That was
nd the midst of the heat and turmoil {
inn battle; but years after he delibel
ng ately writes it down and makes it
nd part OF the history of the country
He was first in favor OF secession
as and secondly in favor of payin
Ily s4O0, 100000 as compensation fc
as the loss Of their slaves.
81 We will go ahead q little farthel
O. jeff. Davis was considerable of
m character in the south during th
at rebellion. We, up north, men an
Is, women, boys and girls, all said W
n would "hang Jefr. Davis on a sou
IL apple tree" Yet the first man to g
and back his bail bond was Horac
Ill Greeley.
r. l have now made three point
n against Horace Greeley. I thin
he they are pretty good points, and
r DEFY any one to prove that ar
d. wrong.
ly This conspiracy against Genera
I'd Grant has been brewing about tw
is years, and it was and is based on tn
s, idea that the Democracy are purchas
it able and deliverable. 1 suppose
was in the inventory on the lst {
Q, January last, but, gentlemen, the
" can neither sell nor deliver me.
is Suppose we see what Horace Gree
le ley has done in the past, and espe
;e cially, in recent times. He went T.
d Texas, and all through that grea
70 State he made the same kind o
IT speeches-patting rebels or the back
II and doing all he could to make re
d bellion comfortable theory. III,
o then went to Vicksburg, among rebe
n soldiers, and said that he hoped the
d time would come when the soldier
q that fought with Lee and Johnston
e would occupy as p,oud a POSITION in
/ the hearts OF the Amercan people as
It the soldier that fought under Grant
and Sherman. DID he not then place
lhiWSiak,;za position to be the rebel
Candidate for President? Was there
J any Democracy in that? There new
er was Republican nor Democrat
north of Mason and Dixon's line that
: spoke out plain and plump for secess-
ion except Horace Greeley. 1t is
J written in his own hand and publish
J ed in his own paper. 1t is in his
own language, which is sunmistakable,
and this amnesty resolution at Gin
cinaati is almost in the identical Ian
guage. He went bail for JEFF. Davis,
and then he advocated giving pen
sions to southern soldiers. Some of
you may say that to do so would be
inconsistent with the constitution of
the United States. Great God
What does he care for the constitu-
ton? He says, "if the constitution
ia in the way, rub it out.' In the
New York Tribune, for the last twenty
years, you can get advice and doc
trims to rub out any section OF the
constitution.
But there is another thing. They
are making a great iuss about the
Leet snd Stocking business. / believe
it possible that some men, who were
unworthy orincomPetent, or both,
have got Office under Gen. Grant. l
also belisve that there have been de-
falcations in the accounts OF such
men. The most that is claimed by
the opponents of Grant is 100000.
Now, what did Tammany do 1t
had sold $4,000, 900 of bonds on the
treasury of New York city. They
thought that with this money they
could drive five hundred thousand
people into the doubtful state of
Indiana--that by dropping some
more in Pennsylvania, and a similar
practice in other states, they could
buy their way to the treasury of the
United States, and quarter them
selves and their thieves on the life
blood OF the nation.
"The best laid plans O. men and mice
VIII gang aglee.
And so in this case. There was
little Irishman named Jenny 'Brien.
He wanted to be mayor ofNew York.
They went to him and offered him
5000 900 to withdraw from the can
didature. He refused. They then
told him he was Irishman, and could
not have the position anyway. He
replied, 81 will show you.' He went
and got the best accountant in New
York and contrived to get him into
office under Boss Tweed. Six months
transpired, and then he went round
and said, 81 want my 100000" He
could not have it-they told him to
get it if he could. What did he do
He went round to the Times Office
opened his buget, and all these men
we're discounted and Tammany was
busted.
The only difference between Grant
and Tammany society is this, that
Grant sends thieves to tie peniten
tiary, and Tammany sends her thieves
to New York city offices. This
is all the difference. --
FAT this point the hand, by request,
played "Yankee Docale,"ls >
Gentlemen that is the tune we
march to. Horace Greeley and his
friends sing "Dixie." Mr.. Greeley
has held out, and the south expect of
him, that In the contingency OF his
election, from eight hundred to
thousand millions will be voted to
them in the shape Of compensation,
to pay for property destroyed and
negroes freed by the rebellion. There
is where the issue comes in. There
is where difficulty occurs. You see,
that from my standpoint, no consid-
Grafton could induce me to go for
Mr.. Greeley. He was never in our
household-neyer with us--always
denouncing us-despising us--hatnig
US. His position to-day is disgrace
full to us as it is disgraceful to him,
and disgraceful to the American name
and people. i am not willing to see
the Democratic party, to which /
belong, placed in any such false po-
sition.
GRANT AND HIS POSITION.
There is another man before the
country--a man who, twelve years
ago was selling leather and shoe tags
in Galena. lie came from the COM
mon people; he did not belong to
the aristooracy; he was not an
Adams, but he has the fresh, honest
blood of the common people of this
country in his veins. He wen. into
the army as private. He got down
to Springfield, and that noble man,
then our great governor, Richard
Yates, gave him q commission as
colonel Of q regiment. He went to
Belmont, and met with an accident
there, licked some rebels. He went
to Donelson met with another acci-
dent, and whipped some more rebels.
He went to Vicksburg, and another
accident betell him, and some more |
rebels were thrsshed. At Mission |
sry Ridge, the same fate befell him. |
In VirginiA even up to the time of
/ Lees surrender, be was peculiarly
lliahle tn the same kind of accident. |