Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
2 ooo ooo Democratic voters on this continent

your life-that you must cast away your |
hate, your love, your very name, and in |
lifelong enemy-the man you have always |
abhorred, scorned and detested--then / say |
1 cannot go with you. (Cheers.]
If in Wing times there was a principle to |
carry, peculiarly obnoxious to the Demo
cratic party, Horace Greeley held that prln- !
ciple in the extreme. If at any time there
was any measure brought forward dangerous
TO the liberties of this people, Horace
Greeley was its earnest advocate. If there
was anything proposed by the Republican
party peculiarly obnoxious to you, Horace
Greeley was its strong supporter. If there
was anything in the Constitution that was
unsuitable to the uses of the party, Horace
Greeley was the first to want it set aside, if
there was ever any principle that you cher
ished, since your party wss organized,
Horace Greeley was your antagonist in that
principle. l can assert, without fear of
contradiction, then, that, as far as principle
is concerned, there never was one single
principle held by you and he in common,
not even this much-lauded one-term prln-
ciple, In Democratic times, when we had
good man, we kept him. We elected
Jefferson twice, Madison twice, Monroe
twice, and old hickory Jackson twice. Loud
cheers. And when We came to the i'm
beetles, and do-nothings-the old bachelors,
and worn-eut politicians like Buchanan, we
let them slide after one term, and nominated
some one else. l say, then, that in every
principle you have advocated before the
American people-in every principle that has
been emblaSoned on your bannerTyour
avowed and lifelong enemy has been Horace
Greeley. Looking at the question in this
light, where is the man who dares ask
Democrats to vote for Horace Greeley as
the representative of their ideas and princi-
ples?'
Let us look little further. He has not
only been our antagonist upon every cues
tion of principle, but he has gone further;
he has gone beyond the bounds of ordinary,
legitimate and gentlemanly conduct in his
hatred of US. Not only has he denounced
and spit upon every principle that we have
held, but he has gone further; he has said
of us, in the mass, he has said of one county
in Illinois, in particular, that the people used
| five gallons of whisky to one spelling book;
| he said that we were born in dens of infamy,
and raised on whisky; that we were thieves,
| gamblers and traitors; and he hoped it might
be said of him when he died, that he owed
| nothing but hatred to the Democracy. Loud
| cheers.]
Candidly, as a Democrat that has been
prescribed, socially, financially and profess
sionally; as one who has been a martyr to
Democratic principles; as one who has al
ways advocated those principles, believing
them to be right; 1 say to him that with
that record, with those surroundings, Mr..
Greeley can die ere l will consent to owe
him anything or pay allegiance to him. Zap
plause.]
The Democratic party, like all great par
| ties, has rendered great services to the State
1t has also committed great faults. But it
is the party in which l was born-the party
of my father and of my grandfather-the
party which my family has loved and cher
ished and acted with since the foundation of
this Government, and, with all it's faults,
with all its shortcomings, 1 love it still.
When some political gamblers, dickerers
and traitors--men who say that the heart of
the people is utterly debauched, based upon
the proposition that the people are like SO
many cattle, to be bought and sold-get to-
gether and say, 'here-we will lay down the
| principles of our lifetime, Danish all the ira
ditions of our fathers, Danish home itself,
and take man whose whole life, up to sixty
/ five years of age, has been spent in denounc-
| ing, maligning, and trying to destroy us''-I
| say, as Democrat, that if, like "the last
| rose of summer, left blooming Alone" 1
stand solitarily, by myself, | will not go Hor-
ace Greeley under the circumstances.
There is not Democrat here-there is not
man here, who has brains enough to be
| clerk to second-class huckster-but knows
| that tell the exact facts. [''Bully for yeu,"
and laughter.] Can any man, with Horace
| Greeley's record thus made up, with his po-
sition before the American people for long
| lifetime, question the Democracy of anybody
| on earth?
| Ordinarily, when the Democratic Conven-
tions assembled, they assembled for the pur-
/
they do at Baltimore? They would not even
| fix upon a platform. The gentlemen at Gin
| cinnati said that the Democrats should not
| have anything to do with it. They cooked
up lot of resolutions and made platform,
| and placed Horace Greeley upon it as its
| figure head After doing that they come to
| you, Democrats, and say to you, stHere is
| your platform-you did not make it nor have
anything to do with it; here are some candi-
dates that never belonged to you in the
I IL I,,@
| low them all down: you three millions of
Democrats have nothing to do with it; you
have to take the platform that was made at
Cincinnati" [Laughter.]
| Now the Democratic party in National Con-
vention assembled, have right TO nominate
| a Democratic candidate and run him but
whenever they choose to select Republi-
| can as the standard-b bearer of the Democrat
| ic party, that is something beyond their ju-
risdiction. They say we have to vote for
Horace Greeley. I say he is, of all Republi-
cans, the most obnoxious to a true Demo-
crat, of any man on this continent. I never
was secessionist myself; but look at the
record of Horace Greeley! Away back in
November, 1861, right after the election of
Lincoln, Horace Greeley, as editor of the
| New ork Tribune, came out and declared
| that If the South wanted to get out of this
| Union, they might go. John c. Calhoun
| never expressed or advocated secession
| clearer. stronger and less adulterated than
Horace Greel y did then. You may say that
| it was an ephemeral production of the hour
i but seven years afterward he takes that par
| agraph from his newspaper article, and re-
| peats it in his History of the Rebellion, :"
thus making it a part of the permanent his
tory of this country.
| In 1864 some Rebel Commissioners were at
| Niagara Falls. Horace Greeley went to
work and contrived to enter into negotia-
| tions with them. What were the results ?
| He advised Mr.. Lincoln that we had better
| pay the South S400, 100000 for the darkies
| that had become free That was in the
midst of the heat and turmoil of battle; but
| years after, he deliberately writes it down
| and makes it a part of the history of the
country. He was first in favor of secession,
and secondly in favor of paying S400, 900, 600
as compensation for the loss of their slaves.
! We will go ahead little farther. jeff.
Davis was considerable of a character in the
South during the rebellion. We, up North,
| men and women, boys and girls, all said we
would hang jeff. Davis on sour apple
tree" Yet the first man to go and back his
bail bond was Horace Greeley.
I have now made three points against
| Horace Greeley. l think they are pretty
good points, and 1 defy any one to prove
that am wrong.
This conspiracy against Gen. Grant has
| been brewing about two years. and it was
and is based on the idea that the Democ.
racy are purchasable and deliverable. sup
pose l was in the inventory on the 1st OF
January last. but, gentlemen, they car
neither sell nor deliver me. Enthusiastic
cheers.l
Suppose we see what Horace Greeley has
done in the past, and, especially, in recent
tunes. He went to Texas, and all through
that great State he made the same kind o
speeches-patting rebels on the back, anG
doing all he could to make rebellion com
Portable theory. He then went to Vicks
burg, among rebel soldiers, and said that hi
hoped the time would come when the soldie
that fought with Lee and Johnston woul(
occupy as proud position in the hearts G
the American people as the soldier tha
fought under Grant and Sherman. Did h,
not then place himself in a position to b
rebel candidate for President? [Cheers.
Was there any Democracy in that? Their
never was Republican or Democrat nortl
of Mason and Dixon's line that spoke ou
plain and plump for secession except Horace
Greeley. It is written in his own hand ant
published in his own paper. 1t is in his owl
| language, which is unmistakable, and thi