New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-17
A SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS ENDORSEMENT
OF Mr.. GREELEY,


TO the Edtfor Of The World:
SIR II object as you Intimate In your SATURDAYS
issue s ny u 100 r GfnS a
'syndlcate" Washington from their hitherto settled
mended as patriotic in its intentions if slightly Macha
yellian in its method, might say that the end at
such plea is not mere pretense which eonceais
deeper design IL will be difficult TO convince southern
Democrat who read your article Of this morning warn
ing the Democratic party against suicide ana py shoot
ing through its vitas affecting to desire thereby 70 pre-
vent the party from resortng 10 so unhaowed an alter
native Excuse me If say, with more candor than cour
tesy, that that sentence OF your article w1ie9 Is III IN
lease OF few thousand elderly gentlemen from
disability TO hold Office, in comparison Win the great
mental structure OF Government" is unworthy OF
The World - many respects as VIII De ePpcnS 90 he
utter want Of familiarity 1t betrays with the matter III
and Of the CONDITION in Which the party is found
to-day under the powers assumed Dy tne once
Tlecfora College the vote OF the States Of the
South which, TO aud every one who VIII see now u
70 the exclusion OF all others, "the great question"
which peuetrates to the very roots and fundamental
structure of the Governments in comparison win which
men from disability to hold office" Is very
Grant through such Observation-Disclosures Clayton and
others of those Southern States reserves to coerce vote
that will decide the contest But Deneath ths eonsdera
ton other questions of the preservation OF erlye
their property and their most sacred personal and pr
waite rights by the Southern people under the carpet
bag tyrannies from which they suffer- to which the atten
ton OF The World is not directed because me World
cannot feel commiserate, OF hazard little of its
own local interests TO lep TO relieve. beg OF you,
however before again induging similar taunts against
the unfortunate elderly gentlemen" who can't hold
office by OF their disabilities, to look carefully to
the Constitutions the States referred to- and when you
that by those Constitutions ana the election laws
under them the present Governors OF those States with
out interference on the part OF members t o. Their
Grant at their pleasure the power TO declare any
devatae any county at pleasure to exclude the vote
any county at pleasure to review and cut down
pleasure; and then say II you do not think the
arbitrary power thus welded, and which Mr..
Greeley s pledged and Greeley ticket In each State
power affecting tho result OF the election by sS votes
ter OF releasing few elderly Southern gentlemen from
official disabilities and the entire population, white and
black, from the most CALLING and degraded slavery.
FROM letter received from the Secretary Of the
State Central Committee Of Arkansas will quote the
Judge Watkins offered resolution IN Committee Ips,rueng you to
boiling National Convention in the Cincinnati nomi
hat he members you wee rot subject to iSsuoas the
RS%J =. a. s orS Zane he M '' P0A' A'
p AE,n'a; ave iSso Rssy ee choose between Greeley
will be forced to court the Conservative
article Of tie uSdr the bead Of ''e snaS Sse
~. the . sSu, S eu
dead letter there Democratic national nomination Otherwise
spcnt whom lie pssse electors The situation here precisely What
in Missouri the contest that resulted the election Of Graft
These considerations to The World may not seem such
of view confined to local New.York state politics. viii
ne World have the nagnanimty to print this article
ern gentlemen, fear not Other REASONS sOu for
supporting the Cincinnati nominations not limited at
eloquently alluded TO in the speech of Gov John
G. BrOwD, accepting the nomination for reelection by
the Demem0cratc State Convention which met at Nash
tons. and already printed In your columns beg Of
you to refer TO Them Gen. Brown s OF the few sOth
ern gentlemen who though msorgenera in the Confed
crate army not DISTINGUISHED thanks 10 the Senter split
OF the Republican party In Tennessee. 81 by that split
TO throw of the curse OF Brownow and Stokes and
their ragged militia and free TO vote In the coming cleo
ton, but not until those plunderers have sadded with
debt OF sO,OOOOOO. This DEBT would otherwise have
kept increasing until this day. IL is daily increasing
against the Cincinnati movement who have margins"
on deposit for bearing by multiplying these Southern
securities Very respectfully, JOHN NJ HARRELL.
In commenting upon Mr.. HarrelPs letter. The World
says:
II 1t were possible TO admit that the ndorse-
nent Of Mr.. Greeley by the Democratic National Con-
tyranny Southern citizen would DO Justly ncensed at
opposition to Mr. Greeley by Northern Journal which
But we think Harrell miscolceives the whole |
:tuation. He has ridiculous oyerestimate OF the |
Ices not seem to understand that Mr.. Greeley has |
brown away the great ascendency he had over the
dvice TO President Lincoln offer 500 900 as COM
,ensaton TO the Southern Shareholders and his subse
uent signing the babOnd of Jefferson Davis estranged
many OF Mr.. Greeley's Republican friends that his
old on the party Is reduced TO nothing. The assump
large Republican vote is more fight OF fancy
ar Harrell prudently expresses no opinion TO Mr.
ffeeeys hold on the negro vote of the South We pre-
lne he Is aware that the Southern negroes will nearly
vote Tor Grant II So what possible advantage can
ar Greeley have in the South Democratic canddate
Asa Democratic candidate pure and simple In the
Ountry could have "a weaker hold on the marty
assuming That the negro vote viii be given Grant we
dhnOt Imagine what would be gained by Democratic !
OF Mr.. Greeley TO he snre he !
ayois universal amnesty but President
an 90 nothing 10 promote amnesty except /
through the pardOnng power. President Johnson in his
ast amnesty pr0camatOn carried tho pafdoniug pOwer
lis utmost limit, leaving nothing for any sulset.f