New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-12

that of the dog in the manger.
He opposed our own Government in the
war with Mexico, which that weak and silly
country began under the instigations of Hor-
ace Greeley's party; and, like Thomas Cor
win, he called upon the Mexicans to welcome
our armies with bloody hands to hospitable
! graves.
| When peace was conquered of Mexico,
| Horace Greeley opposed the exaction of in
demnity for the past. and security for the fu-
ture. in the form of the priceless territory on
the Pacific, which we did secure, and which
has made our country the wealthiest and
strongest in the world, and our people the
most prosperous. Who can estimate the
value to this Union of California land with
that beautiful name, every letter in which is
a damning record of the meanness and mar
rowness Of Horace Greeley's craftsmanship.
Judging from his course on these ques-
tons, if this miserable old scold had been
living at the time. he would have denounc-
ed Thomas Jefferson as a pirate, for add
ing to the Union the vast country spread
ing out indefinitely west of the Mississippi,
then called Louisiana and he would have
berated Mr.. Adams rs buccaneer for pur
chasing Florida of Spain. And this cold
hearte d. white hvered old vegetarian, who
has on all occasions opposed the extension
Of our now imperial Union, is to be com
mended as statesman singly on the ground
Of amnesty, question which he has left
open for his private Presidential capital,
instead of long ago causing it to be enacted
as law of the land.
Breadth of mind, warmth of heart, lib
erdlity, are ideas that take the ague at the
mention of Greeley's name! 1t so happened
that in the lifetime of Edgar A. Poe, Mr..
Greeley lent that child of fancy and sport
of destitution q sum of money. Not long
ago lady wrote to Horace Greeley at a
venture, asking, if he should chance to
have one, an autograph of the poet. This
heartless old man put paragraph in the
Tribune, to say, in answer, that he had an
autograph of Poe that had cost him fifty
dollars, which he would sell at less price
Our chivalrous candidate for the Presidency
could thus insult the memory of one of our
most brilliant poets and offend lady, either
for mere coarseness of nature. or else TO
stimulate bids for the poor dead poets due
bill.
HE IS TO BE OUR DELIvERER FROM opPREs.
SION!
Such is the man whom the sorehead Repub-
licans of the North have given the grumbling
Conservatives of the South as their deliUerer
rum INC OUp cSSfcH WHlCll tHtJ CHILLI W D6
suffering from the national Government
under the administration of General Grant
and control of the " Radical party" "De
liverance," oppression - sufferifigs of
drowntrod people," these are the cries of
the hour; and Horace Greeley comes as sa.
viour, redeemer, mediator, for woe-ridden
and frieudess people. Isometimes ask these
chronic grumblers to specify wherein they
are oppressed, and in what respect this great
and benignant Government of ours is tramp.
ling upon them. / have asserted that the
treatment we have received from its hands
has been the most lenient and generous ever
accorded by victors to vanquished in the
tide of time. | have maintained that we
are now the freest people on this round
globe the best proof of the fact being
furnished by the grumbling party themselves
in their own unstinted and UNPUBLISHED
vituperation of Government, which, although
losing half million of lives in subduing
them, and giving them all liberty-even the
license of abuse and sedition, has hung not
single one of them as a traitor, nor ex-
acted a single dollar ofproperty the forfeit
of treason. A Government which now pro-
claims universal amnesty, and accords to a
million of men lately marshaled in armies
for its destruction, the right to vote for its
own officers, and to participate as officers in
administering its own functions How un
manly, how ungenerous, how unworthy of
the boasted chivalry of our people in this cry
of the croakers and scolds who set them
selves up as mouth pieces of the South.
WHAT OPPRESSION DO WE SUFFER?
Pin them down to specifcations-dema
of them instances of oppression, and what
do they say? They cannot lay their finger
upon an instance of such q thing at home
They are compelled to refer to Nor,h and
South Carolina and instance the convic-
tons which have been had in the courts held
under the Ku- Klux act Of Congress The
men convicted and who elicit so much of
their sympathy, are those who put them
selvesin disguise; who performed their work
in the darkness Of night who took women
out of their beds, stripped them naked, and
whipped them to exhaustion, ifnot to death ;
who burnt houses over the heads of sleep
ing families. and stood ready with guns and
swords to put men to death as they rushed
from the flames, and to inhct upon women
death or a worse fate than DEATH The put
ting an end to such iniamies was necessary
to the reputation of the South and of the
nation; and tbs is the oppression ever
which SO many crocodile tears are shed
The ku Klux act of Congress has been
blessing to the South: it has relieved us
from the cowardly brutalities of the Klans.
and it has established peace and security
where brutality and outlawry had reigued
supreme.
THE HI Ei.uX ACT WAS GREELEy'S LAW, NOT
GRANTS.
But General Grant deserves no credit for
the passage of the law, nor for its enforce.
meni. The credit of its enactment is more
largely due to the exertions of Horace
Greeley than of any other man out of Con
gress. He was clamorous in his Tribune
for its passage; and still more clamorous
for its enforcement, after passage, by the
courts. Congress passed the law: the Uni
ted States courts held in the Carolinas tried
tho persons accused under it; and the
President had as little agency in the bust
ness as the shallow politicians amongst us,
who complain of its expressions, and look to
Horace Greeley for delirerdnce from them
The unmanlness of their cutlery is rs evi.
dent as its groundlessness.
NOW LOOK ON THIS PICTURE.
General Grant contrasts proudly with Mr..
Greeley, in every attribute of man, q
politician, and statesman. Before the
war he was Democrat in the faith of Ste
phen A. Douglass. He helped to fight
that Mexican war which Mr.. Greeley op-
posed; and was apart of that devoted army
which, at every step of its march to the
Mexican Capital, sustained a double fire ;
receiving the Mexican balls in front, and
Horace Greeley's shots in the rear. He
helped to conquer that splendid domain
stretching from Louisiana to the Pacific
Ocean. which Mr.. Greeley did not want this
Union to acquire lest it should aggrandize
the South.
GENERAL GRANT WAS NO INcENDIARy.
General Grant never lifted his finger to
disturb the peace of the South, or to inanpn.