The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-20
CANTHEY BE TRUSTED?
Who are Greeley's Supporters, and
What are the Purposes Ami
mating Them
An Able and Lucid Statement OF the
Issues OF the Campaign.
From the Chicago Inter- Ocean.

and most CONSCIENTIOUS Oh the former
Republican journals which still support
Mr.. Greeley's candidacy, published a
significant article, a few days since, in
which, under the head of "Can They
be Trusted ?" it essayed to present the
true issue in the pending campaign. In
the first part of its argument it conced-
ed the point that Mr.. Greeley would be,
and ought to be, defeated if those who
are supporting him could be proven
guilty OF desire to make way with the
results of the war, to overturn the con-
stitutional guarantees of universal free
dom and citizenship, and either to
again attempt the disruption of the'
Government or TO force the payment OF
Southern war debts and the pensioring
of rebel soldiers. The Republican does
not bubble over the point that it il
Mr.. Greeley, and not his supporters.
that is to &c voted for; but, with a can
dor that is refreshing just now in Con-
federate organs, it comedies that an Adj
mnistration must take its character
from the overwhelming majority of the
men who support it, and, therefore, il
the supporters of Mr.. Greeley can be
truthfully charged with the purpose TO
do or attempt to do any of these these
things before enumerated, he should be
defeated were he ten times the better
man that Mr.. Bowles believes him to
be.
The candor Of the Republican very
greatly simplities the true issue involv-
ed in the contest between Greeley and
Grant, and agreeing with it fully in
this proposition, we are willing to accept
argument upon the. second and vital
question: What IS the purpose of Mr..
Greeleys supporters, and in what direc-
ZION will they color and shape his Adj
ministration? To learn this properly, a
man Of common sense, ready TO apply
the same rules Of action TO this duty
that he would TO the commonest affair
of every day business, must go at once
TO those who can speak &c cdthedra for
the great majority of MIR. Greeley's sup.
porters. For we suppose, by this time,
no man is insane enough to believe
that nine-tenths of his followers will be
other than Democratic, and that the
most ultra and virulent democratic
type developed in the past fifteen or
twenty years. The men who pr.cipi-
tated the country into rebellion who
to the last: whose treason cost us the
long and bloody war; who sacrificed a
half millions of lives and billions of
treasure in the mad effort 10 establish a
Government whose cornerstone should
be slavery-to use the words Of the Con-
federate Vice President-the men who,
in ante-rebellion days murdered,
scourged and maltreated men and wo-
men in the South who were suspected
of enmity to the peculiar institution"
and who, in post bellum days organized
themselves in kuKlux Klans, and
have murdered twenty-three thousand
black and white Republicans for disa-
greeting with them in political belief
these are the men who to-day furnish
the overwhelming of Mr.. Greeley sup
port. The point of variance is not as 20
what these men have been in the past,
but whether their sudden conversion at
Baltimore, on the 9th of July, was real
and honest; whether these Sauls of
Tarsus, who have for years been pursu.
ing with the torch and sword the
friends of liberty and equality have, by
virtue of the Baltimore Convention, be.
come the true and accepted Pauls to
lead the hosts they have heretofore per.
secuted TO a better and higher political
life.
Passing over the question whether
Mr.. Greeley's success would entail an.
other attempt to disrupt the Govern
ment without saying more than that,
should the South desire to secede, Mr..
Greeley is pledged to aid them in their
secession to the full extent of his pow.
er, let us adduce some evidence TO show
that Southern men-and Northern, too.
for that matter-understand that Mr..
Greeley's election means the success OF
the principles fought for in the rebel.
lion, and payment to the South for the
losses sustained by its treason.
The Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian, the
first paper in the United States to name
Mr.. Geeley for the Presidency, and to
whose editor Mr.. G.. addressed friend.
ly letter on the Presidential question,
has for its platform to-day: Estate Sow
ereignty! White Supremacy and lie.
pudlationl Down with the Fifteenth
Bedamnedment! Total Reputation OF
the Monstrous Yankee War Debt in.
CURED in the prosecution of an uncon
stitutional crusade Mr.. Greeley con
coded the right of secession, and OF
course the war TO prevent it was un
constitutional for the accomplishment
OF an unconstitutional and horrid pur
pose! " This is the original Greeley
platform.
Hon. Jere. S. Black, Mr. Buchanan:
Attorney General, the ablest jurst
who espouses the Greeley cause, de
clares, in his letter advocating Mr.
Greeley's election, that "the Recon
strucsion laws were unjust bills of at.
tainder," and the Fourteenth and Eff
teenth Amendments are frauds upor
the spirit and purpose of the Consti
tuition"
Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, il
speech at Nashville, says Greeley il
:" in favor of restoring to the South he
pristine rights"
Hon. J. 5. Golladsy, NJ. C. from Ken
lucky, said at the same meeting
Greeley ,caS in favor Of payinq he .Sop1
fer her slaveS, and believe he is STU"
+. J. Ellis, Greeley candidate 70
Elector, said in a speech in Louisiana