The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-06-21
GREELEY AND THE PRESIDENCY
Tne rrotest of n Mother OF two Dead
We Forget:
TO the Editor ofM Leader:


nv l am an old lady sixty-three yea
OF age, and widow. This is Ii
first time l ever attempted to writ
ia an article for publication. But l car
wv not keep silent. 1t is out OF the full
Id ness of my heart my pen speaketl
10 During our late fearful war, l dc
10 voted every energy of my being t
Is working for the poor, brave sufferin
10 men and boys who were perilin
I'd their lives for their country's honor
e l deemed no sacrifices too great.
< Two precious sons remained to me
o. while the grass was growing greel
al over the graves of six. When tn
r first call was made for volunteers
g after the fall of Sumpter, among tn,
st foremost to rush forward and glv'
/ his name, was my darling boy-liter
e ally a boy-only nineteen years o
e, age. CrOwding back the hot tear
II of agony, ] gave my consent anG
o kissed him for the last time. He fel
a dead-shot through the head--in hi:
i first battle. For his country he died
r and early and late from my aching
bleeding heart, went forth the prayer,
Teach me, oh Father, to say,
: Thy will be done - Then, when the
s cry was heard for "three hundred
D thousand more,' l gave up my last
and only one! my precious boy Harry.
= With streaming tears and quivering
e heart-strings l bade him go at his
3 "country's need.' That brave young
boy was slowly, cruelty murdered in
Andersonville. A few scrawled lines
) with pencil. on the margin of an old,
torn newspaper, was brought to me
by more fortunate comrade who
was exchanged: They are starring
as to death, mother. L shall never see
: you again, dear, dear mother. Pray
for your boy Harry" That was all
the record left, save the after message,
Dead!
Then, when cur war was over, and
his murderers were escaping un-
scathed, when JEFF Davis and his cold
bloOded satellites were set at large,
unpunished, l strove to strove to still
the angry murmurings of my heart
by remembering that there was
Just God, who hath said, Vengeance
is mine >" l will repay"
am an old fashioned woman, Mr..
Editor, Que who has always felt that
woman's province was home. l have
disproyed of and coldly ignored |
everything pertaining to the So called
woman's rights movement. In
fact | have felt that wOman's clamor
ing Cor the ballot was uncalled for,
indelicate and unwomanly, having its
origin only in an ambition for nOto-
riety and a desire to usurp a mans
place.
When I read of Horace Greeley's
nomination for the Presidency, the
bosom friend of JEFF Davis, his SYM
pathizer and bondsman--Jeff Davis,
the black hearted traitor, the cold
blooded, inhuman butcher, the de
moniac slaughterer and torturer of
thousands upon thousands of fathers
and sons, husbands and brothers.
when | read, l repeat, tha. Greeley I
had been nominated for the highest ;
and most honorab.a position in our
land, to take the place once occupied
by Washington and the murdered {
Lincoln, l sat paralyzed for hours. I
Had my country fallen thus low =? {
Was this to be the reward of the {
wholesale massacres and the fearful {
sacrifices made? Were our dead sol I
diers to be thus lnsulted in their c
graves? Was the grief of the broken I
hearted wives, mothers, sisters and t
daughters thus to be made mockery c
of? Just as well nominate jeff Davis 7
himself as his warm sympathizer, +
bosom friend and coadjutOr, Greeley. b
In fact, extreme sophistry might pos a
sibly, by a mighty effort, call up some q
things in partial extenuation OF some
of Davis crimes, but what can the q
most charitably inclined urge for l
Greeley ? Not one extenuating shad- @
ow can be put forth for the Northern t
renegade, who proffered aid and sym G
pathy, thus virtually indorsing every c
barbarous act of the arch traitor jeff. t
and his minions. 1t has been said that 6
Horace Greeley had not one single
relative serving in the Northern army, t
while his wife did lose two cousins c
fighting beneath the rebel flag. Per- I
hans this solves the riddle Of the rene /
gade's course. Can he be infatuated Q
enough to suppose that one brave T
Uniou soldier in the land, can so far l
forget his selfrespect and manhood as G
10 become his alder and abetter by G
helping him into the White House '
To-day, Mr.. Editor, from my inner l
most heart, and for the first time in /
nv life, | wish that it were woman's /
privilege to vote. Old as l am, and I
shrinking as / always have from pub /
licity, l would make it my mission to (
labor among my sex ''from early morn +
till dewy eve" for sixmonths to come. c
if need be, to prevent the shadow OF
possibility of that mans being elect /
ed. But he will not be; he cannot 9
be- 1t is disgrace heavy and black t
enough to the country, that he has j
been nominated. Why there are sure I
lv in the land staunch and true, in {
numbers sufficient,to rally for theright 6
and crush down this vile attempt of t
the friends of treason and the South,
to hoist into the White House a per- I
son acknowledged to be the sworn ally I
of the rebels, through his warm sympa- {
thy with its leaders.
I the now childless mother of two
dead soldier boys, appeal to every
brave noble fellow who has worn the
.sblue {, to be true to himself and his
country, true to the memory of his
fallen comrades, "who tho dead yet
speakelh;" true to every principle OF
honor, manhood and self respect, in
this hour of temptation to himself, and
peril to his country.
Wives and mothers, sisters and
daughters, now is the "sllent gentle ]
home influence to make itself felt
perhaps you feel "no interest in poll
tics;" arouse yourself if never before,
and think who the man is that was
Nominated at the Cincinnati Conven-
,ion for the next President. Think
Who and what Horace Greeley has
nroyed himself to be! Even if you
shaye 10 interest in politics. think
how you would feel if jeff. Davis
were nominated for the Presidency.
Horace Greeley is second only to him.
Heis his sworn ally and friend, the
man who stepped forward and rescued
the arch demon from even q slight
nuuishment. Did the cruel war snatch
from you loved one, father, or
brother, husband or son? then by
| their blood which crieth to you from
the grave, adjure you to use all the
influence We possess, to prev ent this
insult to the memory of your loved
and lost, and the sickening Obloquy
and foul disgrace to our beloved coun-
try, should Horace Greeley be elected
to the Presidency. A. w. X.
The Rev. Mr.. H. had large fam
ily of unruly boys, and one OF them
did sometheng very wrong, but as
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