Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-07
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earnest and constant against slavery, full OF
sy mpathy with the coiored race, and always |
foremost in the great battle tor their rights
= am so much of a re-
publican that wish to see in the Presldehtlai
chair life time abolltioHist.' Here, again, |
As in the case of Gratz Brown, you make
claim that cannot be sustained. Mr.. Gree |
lev never was and never assumed to be an |
abolitionist lie never denounced slaveholl- F.!
ing as a NAHUM IN Sc, nor advocated the inn
mediate liberation Of the slaves, nor recon-
menled direct assault upon slavery itself,
nor discountenanced all pro-slavery compro-
misses, nor objected to a slave representation
IN Congress or to the legal rendition of fugi-
tive slaves. nor connected himself with any
anti slavery organic atom, nor sanctioned the
abolition movement. He was trimmer
5hroug tiuut the whole struggle, n0twithstand-
ing that he wrote and published much that
was service able to the cause OF ir' edom. lie
was not even Il Frees sober, but always Hen
ry Gas whig until republicanisnl supplanted
The wti,, and tree-son parties. Even after
the slaves were set free under AhrshIn Lin
coins Proclamation OF Emancipation, lie was
II favor OF paving those who had robbed them
of every right aad rioted upon their unpAid
toll, not less than four hundred millions OF
dollars! Far different WIS the manner in
hich your friend. Mr.. l.. w. Emerson, re-
garled this p culinary adjustment between the
slave master and slave:
"Give the onner COMPENSATION
Full up the bag to the brim
Who Is the owner! The sure Is owner
And ever was Pay MIN"
Not so, said Mr.. Greeley; pay The n oaey to
the siaye-nlas.er. And this, too, after they
had risen in rebellion. and involved the coun-
try in all the horrors of civil war to perpetu-
ale their despotic power. and at the cost OF
thousands OF millions of dollars.
And this is your ''llie-tinie ahslitionist,"
Mr. Sumner, always foremost in the great
battle tor the rights OF the colored race, and
full of sympathy for them Why. even their
colonization in Africa was an agreeable de-
vice to him; for, personally. he cherished
the common prejudice against them, though
certainly ready to befriend any suffering APP
plicant, black or white, being naturally of n
benevolent disposition. 1t IS to his credit
that he was opposed to the introduction of
new slave States into the Union, and also the
annexation of new territory for the extension
OF slavery; nevertheless, with his compro
missing tendencies and sentimental views OF
peace, if he had been in the Presidential chair
when the rebellion broke out, the chances
would have been that the Confederate States
might have dictated terms to the whole country,
to the extent of reorganizing their independ-
ence, and leaving the slaves to their fate.
For Mr.. Greeley belongs to that class Of peace
makers who vociferously cry Peace. peace,
when there is no peace. He believes in cap
ping Vesuvius.
II is exultingly announced by his organ,
the Tribune. that "a few years ago if Horace
Greeley had ventured into Georgia or South
Carolina he would have been hanged on the
nearest lamp post; now his name is cheered
to the echo in every Southern city, and the
ex- aveholders and soldiers of the rebellion,
the men who always made Southern opinion,
are unanimously in favor of electing him
, President" a boast like this should be equiv
aient to tying a mill stone around his neck to
drown him in the depth of the patriotic senti-
ment of the country. 1t is rebel cunning and
duplcity on the broadcast scale.
| In fact North and South, the Greeley move
ment is characterized by the grossest dissim-
ulation. Read what the New York World
says of your letter now under review: eve
suppose all democrats wish to divide the col
ored vote, and detatch a part of it from Grant
| and if they desire the end they must consent
to endure the means. What if Mr.. Sumner
/ does assure the negro voters that the demo-
cratic party have become converts 70 the prin-
ciples of the republican party? He is only
adapting his language to their apprehensons
and preiudices is, he is only attempt
ing to play upon their crednlity. and so Sc
cure their votes for Greeley; Tor the demo-
cratic party have not become converts to the
principles OF the republican party-they are
simply in marguerite 1t is frank, truthful,
but audacious confession
With great show of magnanimity you
say--''I am against tanning ancient flames
into continued life, | am against yaking in
the ashes of the past recalls of fire yet hurn
ing. l am against the policy of hate Freely
| accept the hand that il offered, Art thou
in health, my brother?) and reach forth my
own in feeling. Have you hitherto been an
mated by spirit of vengeance! In your
present amicablc state of mind, where in do
you differ from the whole body of the people
of the Northl TO insinuate that any portion
of then-that President Grant or the Re
publican party-have al any previous period
cherished or do now cherish, any wrath, or
malice, or unkindness toward the people of
the South, is to libel them grievously. To
accuse them of wishing to "fan ancient flames
into continued life, to pursue ''the policy Of
hate" is to bear false witness; for their is
among them but one universal feeling of good
viii, and they desire nothing so much as to
''let by-gones be by cones, in good faith
But, seeing how cUntumacious has been the
rebel spirit toward every needful measure for
lection of all classes alike, they cannot allow
themselves to be- d, cen ed into the belief that
it is ho longer what it was, but thoroughly
loyal and patriotic, merely because of its
verbal assent to any form ofpatriotic averment
however un cepuonable--seeing that 1t has
at this Presidential opportunity, the most
powerful temptation TO lie and dissemble' in
order to clutch the reins of Government as
of old.
1t was liar from the beginning, and full
OF all deceivableness OF unri2hteousness"
having broken the most solemn pledges, multi
piled its per uries, and committed such abom.
nations as to maze the earth stand aghast.
Under these circumstances, it must not and ii
cannot be trusted, even though its shouts for
Horace Greeley are heard in every Southern
city, town and village. THE voice is Jacobs
voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
My letter is already much to long to allow
me space to notice your sweeping impeach-
ment of President Grant, which is but a
repetition Of your speech in the Senate.
Thrice you have slain the slain; yet the Presi-
dentwill not down at your bidding. In
charging upon lis administration that lit is
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