Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-10-08
Why RefOrmers can't Support
greeley.
Extract frcm a speech by Judge HoadIey.

| leaders in the Cincinnati movement, be
fore it was captured by !he politicians,
in speech at Avondalc Il few days since.
told Why true reiormers could not sup
port Mr.. Greeley. He said:
Now, why can't support GroeleyP
have got TO talk in the first person.
can't help it; but Am not candidate
Tor Congress. Why, in the first place,
can't support him, because in the history
OF the past lour years there is not any
thing in tho Cincinnati platform by way
OF complaint; there is not anything
wrong that General Grant has done
which Horace Greeley has not sither in
dorscd or procured. He is the father oI
almost ali that is odiou, in the action oi
the administration, and what hs has no,
pl ocurrd ho has indorsed, and no stands
in tho position to-day either OF au acces'
sary after the fact, or an accessory before
The fact. and don't care which. BY the
rule which lawyers call the rule ol es'
toppel. it don't lie in hio mouth TO com
plain OF Ulysses s. Grant. not a bit OF it.
Why. these gentlemen from The Southern
States, Gov. Hamilton told me II AIN moi
going to vote Tor your Missouri call but
am free trader. We don't care any
thing about your tariff. but NO want 10
be delivered from the cent,alizins lesis
lature at WashngIon-trom your ku'
K!uI isws' Congress. Who approved
.hem Grant. Who induced Congress
to legislate Horace Greeley.
Now let me read II little. Jusl tax,
this platform:
'Locsl self government, with impartial
suffrage, will guard the rights OF NJ
citizens more securely than any central.
lied power. The public welfare requires
tho supremacy of the civil over the mi u
tary authority, and the freedom OF pcr.
son under The protection Of The habeas
corpus We demand Tor the individual
the largest liberty consistent with TIE
/ public order, for the State seIt.govern
meni and for the nation. return to Tie
methods Of peace and lie constitutions
limitations of powor."
What does that mean ? 1t means, &c
peal all Jour ku.Klux laws; t.hs irOn
the President The power 10 suspend ~.
wit OF haosas corpus a lue south
That's what it means. Who gave tha
power 10 the President Horace Gree
ley.
Let mo read you what Mr.. Greeley
said in his Tribune not longer ago thar
June oil last year:
Il hold our government bound by its
duty of protecting our citizens in theil
fundamental lights 10 pass and enforce
laws ioi the eXtirpalion OF the execrable
ku kuX conspiracy; and il it has no
the power TO do it. then ! say our gov
ornment is no government. but a sham
|, therefore, on every proper occasion ad
vocated and justified the Ku-kiuX act.
hold it especially desirable for the South,
and if it does not prove strong enough to
effect its purpose, | hopc it will be made
stronger and stronger"
And the man that wrote those words i:
now tho candidate Of the men who art
hcaping curses upon Grant, because they
say he has failed to keep the promise o.
his slection-"Let us have peace"
Now, l say that Mr.. Greeley stands in the
position of an acoomplce who has turnot
States evidence 10 escape punishment
He is 4 man who stood outside while Tho
burglary WAS committed, to watcl
against the police, and now that The bur
glar has been caught, he has turned
States evidence, and is not only seeking
to escape the Penitentiary, but actually
wants TO be Governor. In the last day:
of Aaron Burr, he entered n church, on'
day, where Jedediah Burchard, the grea
reviralist, was preaching. Burchar'
spied him as he entered, and said
There comes one sinner, the chisfest O
sinners, against whom |, even |, wi,
bear witness in the day OF judgment.
Burr stopped in his tracks, and replied
"Yes, in fifty years OF criminal practice
have found the greatest scoundrel'
turning States evidence" There is toc
much Capitalization at Washington. Lo
cal self-governmont and impartia
suffrage are going TO do it. We hav,
had our newspapers full of the method:
OF war. The country wants TO return tc
the methods of peace, and to give up th'
bayonet bill. What did Mr.. Greeley say
on that subject
at is urged by the Democratic organ:
that The law is to be enforced in State!
and municipal elections. This is done
TO make it more obnoxious, if that he
possible, to their party. But. unlortU
nately, this is an error. The law applies
only to presidential and congressional
elections, though we heartily wish il
could be made to apply to all others"
/ That is Mr. Greeley on the methods 81
peace; and the platform, which he says