The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-08-14
GREELEY AND THE SOUTH.
Letter Of nm Intensely Indignant Sir-
ginfa Gentleman--The Choice BE-
tween a Renowned Warrior and n
Renowned Fool.

RICHMOND, Va, July 26.-Hon.
James Lyons, of this city, having
been invited by committee TO ad-
dress Grant and Wilson ratification
meeting, TO take place at Frederieks-
burg on the Sth of August, has writ
ten the following letter in reply:
RICHMOND, july %, 1872.
To ~ j. Griffin, Esq, Chairman,
dc,
DEAR SIR: | have the pleasure to
acknowledge your letter of the goth
on behalf of the Republican Commit
tee of Fredericksburg, inviting me to
address Republican meeting at that
place on the sth prox I am COM
PEELED to decline the invitation, as |
have done others, although duly SEN
sible of the honor done me- have
business engagement in Richmond on
that day which will prevent me from
accepting, if there was no other i'm
pediment But nothing would tempt
me to take the stump this summer ex-
eept the conviction that by that means
only, can Horace Greeley be beaten.
and as that cannot be, because he viii
be beaten certainly without it, and if
not, any speech from me would be of
little avail. | must beg to be excused.
To he candid as well as serious, how
ever. must say am not prepared at
present to take the stump for Gen
Grant. | am Democrat (by which
mean Constitutional Republican,
on principle, and not without hope
that the Louisville Convention viii
nominate a straight-out Democrat in
September, qualified by character and |
ability TO fill the high Office of Presi- !
dent. fit does, | shall vote for him. |
If it does not | shall vote for Gen.
Grant, and will then do anything
which can with honor to promote
his election. because | think him far
better man in all respects than Hor-
ace Greeley, and far more tit to be
President of the nation.
One is a renowned warrior of whom
the South NAV well say: "Great let
me call him, for he conquered me y
who enjoys the respect of the civiliz-
ID nations of the world, except the
nation of Baltimore
whose great error has been that he
ollowed 700 much the devices and de-
'ires of such men as Greeley and
Sumner and Trumbull and Sehnrz
md Brown. until they have nearly
Indone him, and now betrav Kim for
price. II
The other is q renowned lunatic. [
amous for nothing but his follies, his |
arming and wood-ehepping, his pol
tical venom and vices, and his total :
want of principle. A Fourierite, a
ree-lover of the Mcfarland order, |
nd a woman's rights man, must be ,
ither fool or knave. If he sincerely
'elievcs in those dogmas in n state of [
rganized society, he is fool. If he ;
loes not, then he pretends to believe /,
for consideration) what he does .
ot. and is knave. Ifthe Almighty {
laker of US all had intended that
his world should be without govern
lent and man without property, he 4
,ould not have inculcated obedience 6
D ''the powers that be, y or denounced Z
be man who fails to provide for his I
WI family as worse than an infdel {
Tould have said charity begins !
broad and not at home, and would t
OF have said, Thou shalt not steal, y t
3 man can steal property oaly. If G
e had intended to tolerate free-loye, I
c would not have instituted mar Q