Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-13
Grccley'S Stab mt New England.

electioneering tour and probably will
come to Maine. Until he left the repub-
lican party and became the democratic
candidate for President he seemed to
think New England was behind no part
of the country in the character Of its peo-
pie and institutions. But since he was
nominated New England republicans
have given him the cold shoulder. They
look upon him as having abandoned his
party and sold himself to the enemy.
This is not satisfactory to him, and so
like Benedict Arnold who sought, after
his treason, to be employed by the British
in active service where he could do the
most damage to the country he had
wronged SO deeply, Mr.. Greeley has
taken an early opportunity to stab New
England, the place Of his birth, and the
home of his childhood. In his letter Of
acceptance he taunts New England with
illiberality because her Senators voted
against the admission of Zebulon b.
Vance to n seat in the United States Sem
ate. Vance was elected by the democrat
ic legislature of North Carolina in viola
ton OF the Constitution and laws Of the
country. He was the Governor of North
| Carolina during the rebellion and inelegi-
| bic to the Office on account of his disabli-
ties as q rebel, which had not been re-
moved, and SO the Senate rejected him.
| What sort of man this Vance is, for
whom Mr.. Greeley slandered New Eng
land, is told in recent speech of Judge
Touriee, citizen of North Carolina, as
follows:
HE BECAME A CONSCRIPT HUNTER
AND A WOMAN TORTURER. WITHIN
THE LIMITS OF MY OWN DWELLING
PLACE THERE CAN TO-DAY BE FOUND
FORTY WOMEN CONFINED FOR
WEEKS WITHIN AN OPEN PEN BY OR
DER OF THIS MAN, AND IN THE SAME
TORTURED BY THEIR THUMBS BEING
PLACED BENEATH FENCE RAILS,
WHILE BRAVE HEROES SAT- UPON
THE RAILS IN MAJESTIC EASE; AND
THIS MAN WAS THE AUTHOR OF
THESE OUTRAGES. HE WAS THE
MAN WHO SAID HE WOULD FIGHT
THE YANKEES UNTIL HE'LL FROZE
OVER AND THEN DIE ON THE ICE.
HE PROPOSED TO FILL HE'LL SO FULL
OF YANKEES THAT THEIR FEET
WOULD STICK OUT OF THE WIN
DOWS. He is the man who, in 1868, before
the State convention of his party, declared
that when they got hold of power in North
Carolina, cit WOULD BE LESS TOLER-
A
THAN FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH
IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT" lie it
was who said only last spring that the Con-
federate dead believed that their cause was
righteous, just and holy, and, he added,
THE CAUSE VAST!
This is 4 picture of the man for whom
Mr.. Greeley is willing to stab New Eng
land since his conversion to democracy
He may say the Senate should have adj
mitted him because the Legislature Of
North Carolina had seen fit to elect him,
but he might as well say the Senate
should admit a State prison bird to seat
if he happened to be sent up claiming
one. The Legislature knew he was not
eligible, and it was no wrong to the State
to reject him. But when Mr. Greeley
wrote his letter of acceptance the election
in North Carolina was pending, and so to
help his friend Vance down there and the
democratic ticket, which was of course
to help himself, he made reference to
Vance in his letter and the action of the
New England Senators in voting to re-
ject him, in order to arouse sectional ha-
tired against the republican ticket. We
have had some candidates for President
who would stoop to pretty low things as
partizans, but we have no recollection of
any that ever stopped so low as Mr..
Greeley did in this instance. He pre-
tends TO be DESTROYS of having all section
al feeling eradicated but he goes to work
strangely to accomplish it. All his life Mr.
Greeley has fostered sectional animosity
No man has done more to create unkind
feelings between the North and the South
than he. For the most of his life his
shafts have been levcled against the
South, but now with the change in his
politics he turns upon New England. He
is ready to clasp hands with rebels "across
the bloody chasm, but the loyal men in
New England must feel his resentment in
full measure because they have no eecto-
raj votes for him. The people of New
England. although they sacrificed thous-
ands of their brave sons in the cruel wal
forced upon them by such men as Vance,
are not filled with hatred towards the
South. As Mr.. Greeley journeys among
them in his political travels he will dis
cover no unkind feeling toward THEN
southern brethren. They ask for Justice
equal rights, security for the future; these
they expect to obtain by electing General
Grant, not Horace Greeley President
Glad 10 get rid of Summer.
A gentleman well known in Boston, and