Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-31


Should Vote for Grant.
lCrssfeld johnson, in Buffalo Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
ALL that is desired in this article is to
prove:
First-That no Republican ought to vote
second-That no Democrat ought to vote
for Horace Greeley.
Third-That no one else ought to vote for
Horace Greeley.
Fourth-That every Republican ought to
vote for Ulysses 8. Grant.
Fifth-That every Democrat ought to vote
for Ulysses s. Grant.
Sixth-That every one else ought to vote
for Ulysses s. Grant.
GREELEY.
GREELEY's TREASON TO HIS COUNTRY.
No Reput lican ought to vote for Horace
Greeley, because he has repudiated one of
the most vital principles of the Republican
party, the perpetuity and indivisibility of
the Union. Again and again, in that winter
of discontent' which followed the election
tion of Lincoln, Mr.. Greeley sent forth on
the wings of the far-fying Tribune those
messages of despair which proclaimed that
II the Southern States, the Cotton States, or
even the Gulf States alone, should erect
themselves into an independent nation by
the deliberate voice of their people (that is of
their shareholders, who then constituted the
"people" of those States), the most inf1uen-
tial journal of the North would sustain the
treason.
Nay, he had the audacity to base his argu-
ment in favor of secession On the Declare
tion of Independence, ignoring the fact that
that instrument only asserts that the people
may justly alter or abolish the Government
when it becomes destructive of the rights
to secure which it was established-the
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness; while the Southerners were
anxious to overthrow the Government be-
cause they feared it would promote those
rights more thoroughly than ever before.
Jefferson said when liberty was endanger
ed, the people of the nation had right to
abolish their Government. Greeley said
that when slavery was jealous, a majority of
the slaveholding minority of small section
had right to destroy their country.
This fallacy, childish in theory and mon
strous in practice, he has maintained on
every convenient occasion, repeating it at
Pittsburgh but few days ago; and then,
cinnati, for the first time in his life, within
six weeks of election, to convey the impress
sion that he held different views, without
directly recanting his previous heresy.
GREELEY's TREASON TO HIS PARTY.
No Republican ought to vote for Horace
Greeley, because, after protesting extraordi-
nary devotion to the party, he has suddenly
its opponents. A party cannot live con-
siderable portion of whose members reward
betrayal with promotion; and if the Repub-
lican party dies now, those inseparable sis
ters, Liberty and Columbia, will go down
into the valley of the shadow of death, even
if they do not descend forever into it's dark
est abysses.
Mr.. Greeley's conduct is especially despica-
BILE, because he sought at the hands of the
Republicans the same nomination he after
IL e II
letter of March 4, 1871, to William Larrimer,
in response to one inquiring whether he
would be; candidate for the Presidential
nomination of the Republican party in 1872
he said: 81 fully propose, also, never to de-
cline any duty or responsibility which ma
political friends see fit to deyolve upon me. ;
At that time his political friends were all
Republicans; he never dreamed of Democrats
as his political friends, unless when he haG
the nightmare. He thus placed himself or
the course as candidate for the Republican
nomination.; but when he found there was
no response in his favor from the politicians
or the people, from the conventions or jour-
mails, he bartered his party, his principles
and his honor for the f1eeting odor of a mesi
of Presidential pottage, as il is carried pas
him in the distance.
GREELEY THE HOPE OF SECEssIoNIsTs.
No Republican ought to vote for Horac,
Greeley, because there is strong probabili
open revolt of more or less of the SoutherI
States. This will be sneered at, but it can
not be sneered away. Men are not plat
forms; hearts cannot be changed at easily a.
caucus resolutions. Let my readers bring il
right home to themselves. Suppose you hal
been fighting four years for a cause you be
ieved to be right, against what you consid
cred tyrannical government; suppose yor
had been defeated after terrible struggle
and compelled to submit to your hated foes
suppose what you called your property haG
been taken away from you and made YOU
political equals; and then suppose that afte]
eight years of gnashing your teeth in impo
tent rage you had succeeded in electing tC
the Chief Magistracy of the nation the mar
who had most strongly insisted on your sub
stantial right to do just what you had dont
would you not think that then was youl
chance? Then or never? I certainly should
Were a citizen of Mississippi, as I am cit
lzen of New York-had been a soldier O
the Confederacy, as have been soldier O
the Union-and should hear on the 9th da,
of November next that Horace Greeley hai
been elected President of the United States
should get my rifle ready for a crack at tn
Yankees, and the fetters ready to place OF
the wrists of the negro. There might be N
opportunity to use either one; but, in vie,
OF Mr.. Greeley's strong secession principle
and his notorious timidity, I should live i
hope and watch my chances. Under sue
circumstances, wouldn't you? But we ar
asked Is not war in the South ended? Ce]
tairly, and we mean it shall stay ended
And for that reason we want man of eagl
eye and lion heart at the head of the Go,
ernment, who will crush the serpent eggs {
treason wherever they may be found, instea
of a benevolent but misguided old hen VIII
will warm them into venomous existence
GREELEY's CARE FOR THE NEGRO
No Republican ought to vote for Horac
Greeley, because, even if open war did nc
follow his election, there would certainly b
outrages of the most hideous character o
the Unionists of the South, both white an
black. If Mr.. Greeley is not the most D,
tlent, persistent, heroic and sublime liar th
world ever saw, it has been a general pra
tice among the conquered rebels, whenevt
they could do SO, to compel the negroes, an
and often the white Unionists, to do the D,
litical bidding of the rebels, under penalt
of robbery, house-burning, torture and dealt
do not believe that Mr.. Greeley is the mo
patient, persistent, heroic and sublime Ii,
the world ever saw; therefore I must belle,
that the eutrages he has SO often describe
have occurred with terrible frequency. II
men who committed those crimes still liv
the communities that tolerated them still e
ist; the causes that produced them still O
crate; there is no public man in all this n
tion SO totally incompetent as Horace Gre
ley to prevent their recurrence. Mr.. Sur
ner, in his letter of advice to the colort
doubt as to their safety; for he says tn,
must hold the Democrats and Southerne
responsible for the fulfllment of their pls
form principles. What a sweet boon it w
be to the Unionists, either white or blac
who may be beaten, logged or shot, to thin
in the agonies of torture or death that he c,
hold the Democrats, the Liberals, or ev
Horace Greeley, responsible for his miser
Hold them responsible? Hold them respo
sible? Why, you might as well try to ho
the old cow that kicked over the kerose
lamp responsible for the Chicago fire.
The Republican who votes for Hora
Greeley votes to indorse the doctrine of
cession, to destroy the great party that b
made Liberty a citizen of America, to rex
die the hopes of rebellion, and relight t
tires OF persecution from Carolina to Tex,
GREELEY OPPOSED TO DEMOCRATIC PRINt
PILES.
No Democrat ought to vote for Hors
Greeley, because he is the rabid opponent
every Democratic principle that ever