The true northerner., 1872-08-02
The Confederate Candidate.

At recent Greeley ratification meet.
ing in st. Louis, Col. w. ii. Hatch
pledged to Greeley the support OF
every true Confederate" This explains
the clasping of hands across the
bloody chasm." Greeley is to dwell
together in unity with "every true
Confederate" There was never, in the
days Of old Democratic ascendancy, ANY
difficulty in being at peace with the
shareholders, the Ku-Klux and the
Secessionists. Schoolmasters and mis-
tresses had only to teach that slavery
was the Cornerstone Of the Republic,
God-g given institution, and that it was
the chief end of man to purchase and
"wallop his own Niger" according to
the Constitution, and the Interpretation
thereof by the late venerable Chief
Justice Taney, to insure for themselves
the most generous treatment from the
Southern slave oligarchy. Mr.. Greeley
knows as well as anybody that he can
only "clasp hands across the bloody
chasm" of the late war by keeping these
| laws. Mr.. Greeley knows AS well as
anybody, that there are hundreds Of
thousands of "Confederates," in whose
hearts hate of free institutions, of free
speech, of free black men and of the
Government under the recent amend
ments TO the Constitution, burns as
fercely as it did in the hottest period of
the rebellion. Col. Hatch says all
these thousands upon thousands of
''true Confederates" are for Greeley;
through the mystic power of the secret
oaths and bonds of the Ku-Klux Klans,
Col Hatch is able to ''pledge" them for
| Greeley. Every marked midnight assas.
sin who prowls about scourging, burn
ing and numbering negroes and white
Republicans is for Greeley. Every man
| who owns Confederate bonds is for
Greeley. Every man who ever owned
negro with few honorable exceptions)
is for Greeley. Every man who has
rascally, dishonest claim against the
Government, growing out Of his own
treason to his country, is for Greeley.
Every man who wants TO saddle the peo-
plew with the entire Confederate debt is for
Greeley. Every man who wants to place
Confederate soldiers on a level with
Union soldiers, by adding them to the
pension rolls of the country, is for
Greeley, because he said 4" pray for
the time to come when the names of Lee
and Stonewall Jackson will be equally
revered by the American people with
those of Grant and Sherman"
But no man who was once the prop
erty of another, subject to be bought
| and sold like piece OF merchandise, is
| for Greeley; because he has deserted
the party of liberty and adhered to that
of treason, rebellion and slavery. No
man whose wife and children were once
liable to the polluting touch of a slave
holder who owned their bodies and
souls, and whose virtue, whose hearts
and whose lives were forced to submit
TO a degradation worse than death, at
the hands of their masters, is for Gree
ley because he has clasped the red
hand of "every true Confederate
across a chasln rendered bloody by
crimes which blacken the annals of
modern civilization. Col. Hatch 'pledges
every true Confederate for Greeley u
If "every true Confederate is for Gree
ley" every true patriot should be against
him. If "every true Confederate" sup
ports Greedy, it is expected that Gree
ley will support the ideas and princi-
piles of the Confederacy. Presidential
support of the principles of "the lost
cause" will revive it, will redivide the
country upon old issues and may again
plunge the nation into the horrors of
civil war. The nomination of Mr..
Greeley by the Democracy, his enthusi-
astc support by the worst rebel ele-
ments of the South, and his indorse-
ment by "every true Confederate" all
show that the Confederacy is not dead,
that it slumbers as an organization, but
lives and burns as cherished hope in
the hearts of the Southern people. Who
will assume the fearful responsibility of
warming it into new life e?-Chicago
Inter. Ocean.