Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-14

claim, of course. that these things were done by
| the president alone, any more than claim that
| he took Nicksburg or DonelSOn or Henry, or
| conquered Lee alone. But as the army would
| not conquer without a competent general, no
| administration could be successful without
| competent president As the steadfaSt intieXi-
Bile will, the unerring judgment, the answering
| purpose of Grant pervaded our vast armies as
| if they were the body Of one man-so through
| out the whole administration has the president
| been steady, constant, force in the right di-
| rectiOn. You will find all these great measures
| foreshadowed in the clear and simple messages
| of the president. Sometimes he has been in ad-
| vance of congress and people. The ink was
| scarce dry on the record at the state department
| of the adoption of the 18th amendment by the
| last state, when the president sent in his mes
| sage to congress urging them to go to the eX
| tent of their constitutional power in assisting
| the establishment OF institutions of education
| in the states lately in rebellion. No man,in
| Washington has taken deeper interest in the
| solution of the great problems which affect the
| welfare OF labor. In the matter of reform in
| the civil service, in removing the appointments
as far rs possible from politics, he is far in adj
vance Of majority of his own party and has
| no supporters elsewhere.
| Our distinguished fellow citizen, Gen Devens,
| quoted, some months since, in an address to his
| fellow soldiers, the description of Oliver Cron-
| well, which Macaulay puts into the mouth of
Milton:
| Wherefore you speak conIemptibly of his
| parts know not; but ! suspect that you are
/ not free from the error common TO studious and
| speculative men. Because Oliver was an I'M
| graceful orator, and never said, either in public
or private, anything memorable, you will have
| il that he was of mean capacity. Sure this
| is unjust. Many men have there been ignorant
| of letters, without wit, without eloquence, who
| yet had the wisdom to devise and the courage
| to perform that which they lacked language to
| explain. Such men often, in troubled times,
| have worked out the deverance of nations and
| their own greatness, not by logic, not by rhet-
oric, but by warineSs in success, by calmnesS in
| danger, by fierce and stubborn resolution in all
| adversely. The hearts of men are their books,
| events are their tutors great actions are their
| eloQuence; and such a one, in my Judgment,
was his late highness, who, il none were TO treat
| his name scornfnlly now who shook not at the
| sound of it while he lived, would, by very few,
| be mentioned otherwise than with reverence.
His own deeds shall avouch him for a great
statesman, great soldier, true lover of his
| country, merciful and a generous conquerOr.
The whole country recognized the felicity Of
| the comparison Certainly no person since has
| more nearly fulfilled Millions own portralturc
| of the great Puritan.
| "Our chief of men, who, through a cloud
| Not of war only, but detraotiOns rude,
Guided by faith and matchless fortitude
To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed
| And on the neck of crowned fortune proud
Hast reared Gods trophies and his work pursued
| Yet much remains
| To conquer still peace hath her victories,
| No less renowned than war.
But the parallel goes no further Cromwell
| usurped the supreme power and turned Parlia-
| meut ont of Westminster Hall by main force
| Our soldier disbandS his army and dessts grace
| fully from urging his cherished measures when
| they do not meet the appreciation of his fellow
/ citizens.
Against this great record of public service and
| public capacity our democratic opponents have
| no man in their own party to oppose. They
| have, therefore, put in nomination Mr.. Horace
| Greeley of New York.
have no desire TO underyalue Mr.. Greeley.
He is entitled to the credit of having established
| and built up a large influential New York news
| paper; difficult work requiring eXtraOrdlna-
| ry business qualities. He has edited it ably, and
| has shown himself TO be man of generous
| sympathies. There are many men in America
| of whom we can say as much. But we are not
| now seeking TO- build up newspaper establish
| ment, or man to write editorials. We are
| looking for a man TO be President of the United
States for the constitutional head of our ar
mics in war; a man TO suggest and execute great
measures, and 10 select the men who are to adj
minister the executive department of the gov
eminent in peace.
| believe Mr. Greeley to be unfit for this great
Office. He is unfit by his declared opinions He
is unfit by timidty and want OF judgment as
shown by his conduct in great public ext
gonCieS. He is unfit as shewn by his changing
his opinions for the sake of the presidency.
He is unfit as easily affected in his public con-
duct by low personal considerations. He is
unfit for it as totally unable TO form sound |
Judgment as to character and TO discriminate |
between good men and bad.
Mr.. I1reeley is unfit by his declared opinions.
viii convict him of diSloyalty TO the idea of
the republic in the two great cardinal points of
the right to put down rebellion and the equal |
rights Of the citizen.
Mr.. Greeley is dslOYal 10 the republic because
he believes in the right of secession.
tfNhauavpr considerable spctipp of fbis
Union shall really insist on getting out of it, we
shall insist that they be allowed TO 90 and we
feel assured that the north generally eherishes a
kindred determination. So let there be no bah
BILE about the ability of the cotton states TO
whip the north If they will fight they must
hunt up some other enemy, for we are not 60
lug TO fight them. 4 II the people (not the
swashy politicians) of the cotton states shall
ever deliberately vote themselves out OF the
Union, we shall be in favor of letting them go
in peace. Then who is TO fight? And what
forp-Ne'o York Tribune, NoU. 2, 1860
"AS TO secession, have said repeatedly, and |
here repeat, that if the people of the slave |
states, or of the cotton states, really wish to get
out of the Union, l am in favor of letting them |
out as soon as that result can be perfectly and
eonsttutionally attained. If they will
only be patient not rush to Selling federal forts,
arsenals, arms and sub-treaSuries, but take first
deliberately fair vote by ballot of their own
citizens, not being coerced or intimidated and
lldl Nule Sudll Il oSllltu IcSOlN6 ~ YET
out of the Union, will do all can to help them
out at an carly day."-Neao York Tribune, jan,
IA, 1861.
''Mr Garrett Davis, this tremendous civil war
was dreaded and deprecated by no one more than
myself 1 am one of the few northern men,
who, to avoid it, would have preferred to let the
cotton states 60 in peace "-NelC York Tribune,
april g. 1862.
ssThese are not the dreams of a theorist They
were uttered at a period in the history of the
IL hi Il. i
significance. Those six little sentences cost hun
dreds of thousands of loyal lives
They turned the vote in the Georgia conven-
ton, where Robert Ioombs read them to the
majority against secession, 10 convince them
that there would be no war. They came from
the leading republican paper of the north. They
convinced the rebel that he would meet no re-
sistance. They convinced the Unionist he would
have no support. | have been told by many
eminent southerners thatthey opposed secession
until those articles came out in the Tribune,
| satisfying them that they would get no support
in the north, but were to be left to their fate
Mr.. Greeley is said by his supporters to be a
man OF great tenacity of purpose, maintaining
his opinion against all opposition. Win you
put this seceSsionist in the presidential chair?
What Union soldier with an empty sleeve, what
father who gave his son to his country, will give
his vote to the author of those counsels?
Mr.. Greeley is also disloyal to the idea of the
republic on the other great cardinal point of
equality OF civil TIGHTS OF the citizen. Mr. sum-
ner declares this the most important issue be-
fore the people, and think he is right. | read
10 you from the New York Tribune of January
II, 1872, remarkable extract from a speech de-
liyered by Mr.. Greeley 10 the colorcd men at
Poughkeepsie:
81 hope the time will come when our educa-
tioUal institutions and seminaries will be open
TO men of all races with freedom, with hos.
pitality which has never yet been enjoyed.
trust the time will come when no mans color
will exclude him from any church or any re-
ligious organization whatever. But though that
time should come, am not at all sure that the
colored race will not, as they now do as a rule,
prefer their own society, and. prefer TO have
churches and semnaries and colleges of their
own. Nor am | clear that this would not be a
wise choice So then, say, with regard to our
common schools, where rural district contains
but rs or 30 families it is simply impossible,
where TWO or three Of those are colored, TO have
separate schools; and in those cases, to say that
black children shall not 20 to school with white
children is to say they shall not have any school
whatever. But in communities such as these,
while if were a black man, should not ask
| separate school, yet ! should still say if the
whites chose TO have separate schools / should
| not object TO 1t. should only ask that the
/ schools for my children should be made as good,
| as sufficient as schools provided for other mems
| children Then If tho rnoiorftt, ..hoeo tbot tbo