Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-09-03
GREELEY WILL ''Do HIS BEST TO HELP
THE Seeding STATES OUT"
(From the Tribune, Dec. "a, 1891

| IRON the Tribune, Dec. "a, $780,
Most certainly we believe that
governments are made for peoples,
not peoples for governments-that
the latter "derive their just power
from the consent of the governed !"
and whenever a portion of this Union
large enough to form an independent
self-subsisting nation, shall see fit to
say, automatically, to the residue,
ave want TO get away from YOU"
we shall say-and we trust selfre-
spect, if not regard for the true prin-
ciples of self government, will con-
strain the residue of the American
people to say-"Go" We never
yet had 80 poor an opinion of our
selves or our neighbors as to wish to
hold others in hated connection with
us. But the dissolution of a Govern
ment cannot be effected in the time
required for knocking down house
of cards. BET THE COTTON
STATES, OR ANY SIX OR MORE
STATES. SAY. UNEQUIVOCAL-
LY, I'VE WANT TO GET OUT
OF THE UNION" AND PRO
POSE TO EFFECT THEIR END
PEACEABLY AND INOFFEN.
SIVELY, AND WE WILL DO
OUR BEST TO HELP THEM OUT,
NOT THAT WE WANT THEM
TO GO. BUT THAT WE LOATHE
THE IDEA OF COMPELLING
THEM TO STAY,
HE WILL FORWARD THE VIEWS COZ Sc.
CEssIoNIsTs.
From the Tribune Of 2sd of February 1861 Ave da,.
after the Inauguration of Jen. Davis.
We have repeatedly said, and
once more insist, that the great prin-
ciple embodied by Jefferson in the
Declaration of American Independ-
ence, that governments receive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed, is sound and just and that
If the Save States, Cotton States, or
the Gulf States only, choose to form
an independent nation, THEY HAVE
A CLEAR MORAL RIGHT TO DO
SO. : Whenever it shall
be clear that the great body of the
Southern people have become cons
clusively alienated from the Union,
and anxious to escape from it, WE
WILL DO OUR BEST TO FOR
WARD THEIR VIEWS.
What y you to these sentiments,
Republicans who still insist, "You
can't make me believe that Horace
Greeley ever was a Secessionist"?
| t not, what was he? Was he true
Union man? Was be a patriot ?
When you make him President, will
he resist or will be assist the next
attempt at Disunion? What has
made him the favorite of the rebel
element, if not this position, which
he shared with Buchanan. that coer-
cion was wrong; to which he adher-
ed when ho wrote "IHe american
Conflict" and holds to this day \?
As to the effect of the position
taken by the leading Republican
journal, through the wavering
southern states, we have ample proof
that Greeley thereby gave powerful
aid to the cause of Secession. and
helped precipitato the nation in CIV
al war. One witness ia Frank Blair
the man who, as Gratz Browns
cousin, engineered the Cincinnati
Convention to bring about the pres
ent Liberal" ticket. We close by
quoting some words from his speech
in the q. S. Senate, which is found
in the Congressional Globe, part Sec
ond, 3 session, 4lst Congress, 1870
and II, page 1927, as follows:
swords were never uttered more
fatal then these to the peace of the
country. Mr. Stephens was defeated
in his efforts to prevent secession in
Georgia by few votes only, and
nothing is more certain than that these
,Cere obtainedby Mr.. GreeIey'S declara-
ton that secession ,oac right;m and
,oould be peaceable. / have been in
formed that these declarations were
read in the Georgia convention as q
full reply TO the warnings of Mr..
Stephens. The refusal of Georgia
would undoubtedly have arrested
the movement. WHO, THEN. Is
MORE DIRECTLY RESPONSE
BILE THAN MR.. GREELEY, AND
THOSE WHO ACTED WITH HIM
AT THE NORTH, FOR THE
BLOOD WHICH HAS DRENCH.
ED THIS LAND and who is more
directly responsible than Mr.. Gree
ley for the vindictive spirit which
animates the dominant party 10 the
prescription which has pursued and
is still pursuing the whole people of
the South r.