The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-02

PRESIDENT Would Mr.. Greeley

,.,- he Providence JoafnAl' ..-
F', n,, ~ /. no, what we set out to say
bg. .lI has persisted in the deClara.
i,oa 'i IVIelDrblican as ever. He insists that
Of W. ~, changed any OF his political
Be lh an, nj that, consequently, he Is as
rieg'' m, Ss opponent Of the Democratic
nasa w aver IN so far as the ideas, the
9ils IN, I thoughts, aims and objects Of
l'On Rscco o party. A plain man
lHs IA Ia AMI 10 ask, Il this Is SO, and this
NoI T, M how happens 1t that Mr.. Horace
G,e eek l. the nominee Of the Democratic
O U.T,v; But waving this enquiry, and,
PI i,H2on, arguing its absurdity, also the
H ~" ~, snmDer that the Democracy
{ eau, ~ bccone converted to Republlcanlsm,
i h,' tnrn to the arguments offered by
~, y, + democratic supporters OF Greeley to
Wv, .no lingering hosts who do not quite see
S taS Il that the man who has so long
aSo..J them, and whom they have so ar
I ioOtIy And sincerely fought, Is the man
v T5o9 they should vote for President'
Ne sball now SEQ the other side OF the
,S,sd Says the World, which Is the
i.,jiDr Democratic organ, tive have a
Sook IN Greeley's nose" says Hodge, we
5,ye NdireCt pledges" that Mr. Greeley
viii restore the South 10 its former power;
,sI now Senator Stevenson, oil Kentucky,
,anporter Of Greeley, gives his view Of
lbc situation as follows:
"Theysay that all men arc equal 10 the ego Of
u. law; th4t the fourteenth and hfecDth
,Ssndmenlr are not 10 bo disturbed. II lwere
"a ,t,td in Judgment at the bar OF God before
rI,,Inr into tho immortal state, should SSy
,S,,e IWO amendments were perpetrAted In fraud
"a IhInulty. There 10 not any power 10 the
lad II eTtOrt ron me the cOniefslon thLt DO
Isys they were right, legally contaminated,
hi he people had right 10 adopt them. No,
nv eouniJmen and country women tell !ou,
An ihlguity brought forth In JrdHd, and bar,
a. ,arU.drES Of q party MGt from ltI Inception
did moi NIIsvt In SsV'0orsrnnItEt or free IH'tItu.
HoaI Now, can We change them" When o
man cannot change thing he butts his head
SoIInstA brick wall In the attempt. The only
Wv hey can DO changed is by the people seeing
tSsIr ibiaulty but II will never DO done BY Re-
nabcats God knUws. The only trdy you can do
Z 10 bring your olra party Into Popsr,"
Nov, the point we make is this, and it
i, both relevant and important, if there Is
Suythng in morality or in truth, then the
Greeley campaign Is carried on dishon-
estly. In the North il is said that Mr..
Greeley is Just as much Republican as
ever, aud il he is be supports the cOnsti.
mtiOnaI amendments, and Is In favor Of
their continuance rs part Of the supreme
law Of the land. But in the South 1t is
said by those who are urging the election
Of Mr.. Greeley, that electiDg him will bring
the Democratic party into power, will re.
store the predominant influence OF the
Confederate leaders in the principal OIL
fees aud in national legislation, and that
heresult will be to overthrow the Con-
stitutiOn in so far as 1t gives liberty aid
civil rights 10 the negro, and, In fact,
open up, or rather decide against liberty,
and in favor oil slavery, the questions de-
Cded by tho suppression Of the rebellion.
and It Is to be noticed that Mr.. Greeley
permits these antagonistlc claims TO be
nsde without the least endeavor Cd his
part to reconcile them or deny either. lie
found time in Portland to declare that he
would give offices TO his Democratic
brethren in the South who voted for him,
but he did not feel a freedom to say that
he would not favor the pensioning Of the
rebel soldiers; be did not say that Gen.
Hodge and Col. Breckenridge had made
claims and uttered statements which were
not fair and true. This is pretty serious
business. 1t goes deeper even than the
tariff question. Are We, in fact, if Gree
ley should be elected, to have all tho work
Of the war undOne, or attempted to be I'm.
done: The South says "Yes!" Horace
Greeley does not say "No!"