Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-06-18
Greeley Dissected
BY AN OXFORD COUNTY DEMOCRAT.

Some oil the Old "BeafS are growing
aul showing their teeth at the idea of
their swallowing their old and despised
enemy, the representation of every ism
that has been started, and the advocate
OF every religion but tina, OF the Bible.
A correspondent in the last Oxford Regis
ter, evidently an old line leader, thus
ventures to protest against the suicide OF
his party, rs follows; 80.
Mr.. EDIroR:-By your paper you do
not yet appear to have stuffed oil on 10
Horace. am glad of il. Democrats
should look before they leap, Before
swearing allegiance 20 an old white hat
they should inquire what there is under
il. Can the three millions OF democrats
ofthe country either consistently or safely
support Mr.. Greeley for President OF the
United States
Perhaps no other man in the whole
Union has SO abused and slandered and
villitied the Democratic party rs he. But
to say nothing of thisto say nothing of
the spaniel-likO spirit that they would ex-
hibit in thus licking The hand that has so
long, so severely and so persistently APP
piled The rod. can the democracy with
any degree ol safety trust him ? Can the
Ethiopian change his skin. or the leopard
his spots, OF Horace Greeley his princi-
ple.? II not then can consistent DEM
ocrat support him II may be said that
his platform is all right Suppose it Is,
and what then ? Heretofore he has
deemed .oaths but words aud words hut
wind" The constitution OF the United
States was once the pride of the demo-
cracy-- the embodiment OF the nations
wisdom and craftsmanship 1t was the
price OF the blood, aud the treasure and
the auifel ing ol the revolution. 1t secur'
cd, not only 10 tn. citizens OF the United
States, bul To the down,lroddcu of the
earth who saw lit 10 seek its protection,
u saier refuge and Il greater degree OF
iDeity than any insuumcn. OF form OF
government the world had ever before
produced. The writer once heard this
same Greeley swear to support 1t. Yet
what man OF the whole country did more
Tor it's overthrow or proved more vile
traitor TO its provisions than Horace
Greeley ? Who else did so much even
to revile and subvert it as he ?
The following poetic eiiusion first
made its appearance in the Tribune in
1884. on the occasion OF tho negro Buns
arrest and is doubtless the production OF
his abolition and wicked brain Ii was
fatally pregnant in its effects. Behold
how great \ lire little spark kindlcth.'
Il was at once committed 10 memory by
every black person in the land il was
read from the pulpit, it was sung in the
prayer meeting and in the Sunday school
instead of Old Hundred and the dsxolo-
gy, throughout the puritanical north; it
was borne aloit with every abolition BAN
ner. In word it set the abolition ball
To rolling, which continued To roll and 10
gather strength and to crush as 1t went
until the negro was nominally rolled out
of slavery, and until the prosperity,
wealth and liberty of the white man,
excepting the liberty TO toll and 10 be
taxed. were crushed TO the earth. Here
il is--a gem in its way.
IAN hail the flauntin. lie.
The stars look pale aud din,
The stripes are bloody seats,
4 lie the Wanting hymn.
Il shields pirates deck,
IL binds man ia chains,
II yokes the captvcs meek
And wipes the bloody stains.
Tear down the nsuutiug lie,
Half mast the starry flag,
Insult no sunny sky
Tith hers polluted rag.
Destroy it ye who can,
Deep sink II in Ike waves
Itbears fellow man
To groan with fellow slaves.
Furl, furl the boasted lie,
Till PARTON lives again.
To rule once more IN truth
Among untramlnelcd m,n.
Roll up the starry sheen,
Conceal It, bloody stains,
For Ia IT. folds are seen
The stamp of ru3tlins chains"
The above is fair sample OF his patri-
otiSm and love tor The constitution and
flag of his country. Could more wick.
ed production have been conceived in
hell itself. Let the loaves and fishes
democracy, Argus-like, throw up their
hats and shout Greeley if they choose.
but let the true and the candid, those who
have the good of the nation and not the
offices at heart, wait until after the
Baltimore Convention. think Greeley
shonld be diSsected instead Of being
creased and Svallotced wh0le by the de-
mocracy.
! We should remember that the old wing
party had its Tyler, and that the present
corruptionists had their Johnson, and
from such examples we should be slow
to take Greeley without why or u
wherefore. Ii.