Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-17

may be deemed prudent and essential.
For the CHRONICLE.
Hints to a Greeley Republican.
si go NO. I.
They tell me, my friend, that you are
thinking of voting for Greeley. Thatyou
have a perfect right to do so, I will moi
dispute; but are you quite certain thai
you have looked over the ground care.
: fully, soberly, and discreetly! Have
you been influenced in arriving at this
determination by honest, dispassionate
reasoning; or have you given way to
the impulse OF the moment, and Jumped
to a conclusion hastilyf
You and I have worked together these
many years in sustaining the principles
Of the Republican party. We have
elasped hands, and stood shoulder to
shoulder, in all the momentous events
Of the past ten years, using all. our en-
deavors to preserve our government
intact to overthrow a wicked rebellion,
to restore the supremacy of our flag, to
give freedom and equal rights to all men,
to sustain the credit of our nation and
to put down traitors North and South.
This is our record. We are proud of
it, and our children's children will meyer
be ashamed oft. Can you or can I now
atfold to do anything to stain or destroy
this record? Four years ago we voted,
you and /, for the Republican candidate
for the Presidency. Who voted with
usH Va it not the soldiers who had
fought down the rebellion? was it not
the men who had sustained the flag?
wa it not the ones who had stood by
the country in her hour OF greatest
peril? .F
And who were our opponentsY We're
they not the Democratic party? were
they not the rebels Of ths South and the
trsitorous copperheads of the North
Re shouted for Grant; heyfor Seymour
and Blair. Words could scarcely express
the indignation you and L felt at the
efforts Of our opponents to defeat the
election Of Grant. Indeed had any one
been so presumptuous as to have then
said that in four years more you and 1
would be standing and voting side by
side with Democrats of the North and
unrepentant rebels of THE South, and be
arrayed against the Republican party,
in our hot indignation we would have
felled the foul calumniator to the ground.
b Ifit would have been such a bad thing
to nave supported Seymour and Blair
in 1865, why is it not equally objection
able to vote with the Seymour and Blair
party in 1927
But says one, the Democratic party
has taken for its candidate q Republican
Horace GFeeley-and I surely cannot
go far wrong in voting for him, even as
the nominee of the Democratic party.
To be sure, my friend, the candidate
is different, but does that prove that the
situation is chsnged7 By no means.
Horace Greeley was not the choice free
and untrammeled OF the Liberal Repub-
Hicans at G urinnaH@HatHas =faistad on
that convention by the interest of the
Blair family and other Democrats in
accordance with a bargain made long
before between Greeley, Blair and Sey-
mour. Afterward he was nominated as
the straight outr Democratic candidate
at Baltimere.
Why have the Democracy nominated
Greeley?r8 Why do Southern leaders
endorse Greeley3 Think you it is be-
cause he is a Republican? Not a bit of
it. They wish power ; they want to
control the government as of old. and
they hope by the aid of disaffected Re-
publicans to succeed in this undertaking.
.E Shall you and Ihelp themf Let us
look around and see what sort of COM
pany we are going with, when we vote
for Greeley, who has deserted the party
which saved the Union. You see Beau
regard and Wade Hampton endorsing
Greeley you see Virginia sending Lee.
Johnson and three other rebel generals to
Baltimore to vote for Greeley; You see
Yerger, the assassin of Col. Crane. a dele. /
gate for Greeley; you see Gov. Magofhn
Of Kentucky, who defed LineoIn's pro-
clamahon, pronouncing for Greeley ;
you hear every rebel from MARYLAND to !
Texas shouting for Greeley; You hear
the New York World declaring that thew
viii put q stout Democratic hook in
Greeley's nose, and bind him to Demo.
cratic principles; you hear Boss Tweed
and his Tammany Ring crying out "We
accept the nomination at Baltimore; Won
hear right on the streets or Warren, day
by day, words spoken in favor of
Greeley, and votes for him pledged by
the men whose faces grew long at the
news Of every rebel defeat in the war.
and whose faces grew all radiant with
smiles when news came that the men in
grey had triumphed; youhear men say
they are going to support Greeley, who
preached openly the rights Of the South
secedei you hear and see all these
and must know what company
you are getting into. Can you, my Re- {
publican friend, afford to go with "that
crowd ~ +,
Four years ago Mr.. Greeley said that !
the support of these rebels was the =,
strongest argument that he could find
against MI. Seymour's election. Ifsuch
was IN argument against the 4
Democracy then, why is it not so noef
But the war is over. say you, and we 3
want good feeling between the North .
the South, and. we ought to forgot I
III these things, and Mr.. Greeley is a
good, kind soul, and with him all
bitterness viii be healed up, etc. :
Now, my friend, don't let your senti- !
mental notions induce you to overlook !
acts. There has been a change of ean- :
but no change Of situation. :
What the Southern leaders want is not :
paternity and reconciliation SO much as J
'oaOer. They want to get the cid Demo- J
party into power again. That is !
Why they voted for Seymour, and that
s why they will vote for Greeley.
Gov. Vance. of North Carolina zavs. '