Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-04
FALSEHOOD EXPOSED.

OF all the falsehoods the Radical
papers are circulating concerning Mr..
Greeley we found one in the Sacramento
Uuion of the 2Sth of September, which
is fairly entitled to take the premium for
entire lack of truth. The Union writes
as follows:
The late speech of Horace Greeley at
Plttsburg has attracted much attention
IN the East and principally for the reason
that 1t contained most remarkable con-
LESSON OF present principles, which
leaves no doubt as to his political posi-
ton. The words used by him should be
published by every journal in the
United States which has any regard for
the Union or the cherished institutions
of the country. The following is an
extract from Greeley's speech: Fellow
citizens! l demand that there shall be
open, free discussion before the South
ern people. If after an honest, unterified,
unconstrained vote they prove that the
people of the South say they want dis
union, will consent to it," Here is a
bold and unblushing declaration from
this vain and persistent Office seeker that
at will Of Independent States. liable to
be discovered and destroyed on the mere
fancy of a minority, a doctrine which
was long ago upset by Webster in his
famous speech on Foot's resolution and
thoroughly killed, rs has been supposed,
by the surrender OF Lee at APPROXIMATION.
Can conscientious, Union-lovimg Repub-
hcans or Democrats support such man
after this public avowal?
In reply to this, we say that Union
loving Republicans and Democrats can
and will support and elect just such a
man, for the simple reason that he did
not in his speech at Pittsburg make use
of any such expression, and for proof
we refer to Mr.. Greeley's own words
uttered at Cincinnati on the goth of
September, one day after the date it is
alleged that he made use of the remark
in question. At Cincinnati Mr.. Greeley
spoke as follows:
He had, however, been attacked since
coming here for the remarks made in his
speech at Pittsburg last evening, which
he considered had been unfairly inter
preted and misrepresented, and he would
trust to the hospitality and generosity of
his entertainers to permit him to rcpel
the charge. The remark he referred to
was as to what he had said in explana-
ton of the circumstances under which
he was impeled in the winter of lSGO.Gl,
to offer In good faith to submit the whole
question of union or disunion to the fair
and unconstrained vote of the Southern
people. He believed then as now that
if such a vote could have been had the
Southern people would have voted
against disunion, and this was what he
stated at Pittsburg. The remark has
been perverted into an expression of his
present belief and present conviction
that any State has the right to secede
from this Union at its own good pleasure
He utterly repudiated and condemned
that doctrine.
This explanation, so full and satisfac-
tory, was published in the Geographic
intelligence of the Union of the Dist of
September. In spite of this, and know
ing the utter falsity of the charge, the
Union ION the 2Sth ult., gravely repeats
it, after publishinga complete refutation
flew days before. Such proceeding
on the part of widely circulated journal
can only be attributed to the venomous
spite and malice felt and expressed
towards Mr.. Greeley by all the. Grant
organs