Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-08-16

icy oeiohgs 10 that class OF peace-maAoIS
who vocIferously cry " Peace. peace"
when there is no peace. He believes in
Gaping Vesuvius.
1t is exultingly announced by his or
gan, the Tribune, that " a few years ago
If Horace Greeley had ventured into
Georgia or South Carolina he would have
been hanged on the nearest lamp-post;
now his name is " "cheered to the echo in
every Southern city," and the "ex-slave-
holdersof the rebellion" the men who al
ways made Southern opinion, "are unar-
inously in favor of electing him Presi-
dent r A boast like this should be equiv
alent to tying milestone around his
neck to drown him in the depth Of the
patriotic sentiment of the country. 1t
is rebel cunning and duplicity on the
broadest scale.
In fact, North and South, the Greeley
movement is characterized by the gross
est dissimulation. Read what the New
York World says of your letter now un-
der review: "We suppose all demo-
Gratis scish to divide the colorcd vote, and
detach part of it from Grant; and if
they desire the end, they must consent to
endure the means. What if Mr.. Sumner
does assure the negro voters that the
democratic party have become converts
to the principles of the republican party?
He is only adapting has language to their
apprehensions and prejudices"-i. e., he
IS only attempting to play upon their
credulity, and SO secure their votes for
Greeley; for the democratic party have
not become converts to the principles of
the republican party-they are simply
in masquerade! 1t is a frank, truthful,
but audacious confession.
With great show of magnanimity,
you say " am against tanning ancient
flames into continued life. am against
raking in the ashes of the past for Goals
of fire yet burning. l am against the
policy of hate. Freely / accept the
hand that is offered, Art thon in health,
my brother II and reach forth my own in
friendly grasp" Why this gushing display
of fraternal feeling? Have you hitherto
been animated by spirit of vengeance?
In your present amicable state of mind,
wherein do you differ from the whole
body of the people of the North? To
insinuate that any portion of them
that President Grant or the republican
party-have at any period cherished, or
do now cherish, any wrath, malice, or
unkindness toward the South, is to libel
them grievously. To accuse them of
wishing to fan ancient flames into con-
tinued life," to pursue the policy of
hate" is to bear false witness for there
is among them but one universal feeling
of good will, and they desire nothing SO
much as to :" let by-gones be by-gones"
III good faith. But, seeing how contu-
macious has been the rebel spirit toward
every needful measure for the restora-
tion of good order and the protection of
all classes alike, they cannot allow them
selves to be cheated into the belief that
it is no longer what it was, but thorough
ly loyal and patriotic, merely because of
its verbal assent to any form of verbal
averment, however unexceptionable-
seeing that it has, at this Presidential
opportunity, the most powerful tempta-
tion to lie and dissemble, in order to
clutch the reins of Government, as Of
old
1t was liar from the beginning, and
" full of the deceivableness of unright-
eousness, having broken its most solemn
pledges, multiplied its perjuries, and
committed such denominations as to make
the earth stand aghast. Under these
circumstances it must not and it can not
be trusted, even though its shouts for
Horace Greeley are heard in every
Southern city, town and village "The
voice is Jacobs voice, but the hands are
the hands of Esau."
My letter is already much too long to
allow me space to notice your sweeping
impeachment Of President Grant, which
is but repetition of your speech in the
Senate. Thrice have you slain the slain;
yet the President will not down at your
bidding In charging upon his admins
tration that " it is marked by acts Of
delinquency, especially toward the col
ored race, % by the side of which the
allegations on the impeachment of An
drew johnson were technical and triy-
ial, and that, unqestionablv, he de-
serves impeachment for high crimes and
misdemeanors, rather than renomina-
tion," your extravaganza of speech is
its best refutatioE The blow is not felt
by him the recoil is upon yourself.
I" If any valued friend separates from
me now" you say, at aoiH be because he
places man abOue principles" Pardon
me in saying that l think the very re-