Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-06
Why One OF the Original Cincinnati
RefOrmers will not Support Greeley.

JUDGE GEORGE HoADLEY, of Cincin.
natl, in a recent speech at Avondale, said
have been announced to speak to the
question, "Grant or Greeley" which !
should have been glad to have avoided. The
choice is between these two candidates. Be.
lieving, 40 do, that the Cincinnati platform
contains reasonable statement of just dis
satisfaction with the Administration of Gen
eral Grant, | should have preferred, had the
privilege been allowed me, to have voted for
Mr.. Adams, or Judge Trumbull, or Governor
Cox, or Chief Justice Chase, had either of
them received the nomination of the Cincin-
natl Convention, but recognizing that vote
in the minority is something more emphatic
as protest against misgovernmentt than par
tieipation in victory, Iwould cordially have
supported Mr.. Groesbeck, notwithstanding
the certainty Of defeat, although it is but
fair to say that the use of my name as Chair
man of the Executive Committee of his
friends was without my knowledge. But the
choice is between Grant and Greeley, and |
cannot support Mr.. Greeley. Neither his
opinions, his character, the manner of his
nomination, nor his surroundings, entitle him
to support. The Administration of Grant is
at least entitled to the credit of having i'm
perishably linked its name with one of the
greatest achievements of the Countrywide
adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment
which has given the right of suffrage to
every black man in the nation. 1t has uni
versal peace with foreign governments. II
has faithfully applied the revenue to the pay
ment of the debt. From an Administration
directed by Horace Greeley, supported by
John Cochrane and Fenton, of New York,
Mcclure in Pennsylvania, Gratz Brown In
Missouri, Warmoth in Louisiana, and Reed
in Florida, we have right to augur nothing
but disaster. An alliance between Tamma
NY and Greeley, with Frank Blair as High
Priest, conducting ceremonies, means q
greedy scramble after office, and rapid de-
pie tion of all the res Ources of the nation.
shall say nothing of Gratz Brown or Wilson.
The question is between Grant and Greeley
Mr. Hoadley here went into long his
tory of the Reform movement, with the
details of which the public are sufficient
ly familiar. Bringing his history down
to the Cincinnati Convention, and the
failure of the Free Traders to get theil
plank in the platform, Mr.. Hoadley con
cluded:
Greeley and Brown were nominated, and
and others left the Convention in anger
which has not yet cooled. Many of my
friends, who left the Convention with me-
and whom greatly esteem, among them the
President of the Convention, Mr.. Schurz
one of the ablest and purest of American
statesmen, urged the support of Greeley
They said "The movement is not what you
wished; the candidate we don't admire, but
it is better than Grant" l don't think So
That which we most condemn in Grant
Horace Greeley either procured or has in
dorsed. The centralizing tendencies which
constitute the chief item of the indictment
of the Cincinnati Convention against the Re-
publican party were forced upon the party
and upon Grant by Horace Greeley, He
urged the Ku-Klux legislation; he urged the
suspension of the hdbeGs corpus he urged
the Bayonet bill, and he regretted that IL
cNul6 NOT ha annliad tO Stata n1 rnunioi nal
legislation. think, therefore, that he Is
either the principal sinner or an accessory
before or after the fact. In January, 1871
after Grants nepotism, and gift-taking, and
San Domingo, and his other acts of oifense
had been committed, Horace Greeley In
dorsed him as more tit for the Pres
idency in 1872 than in 1868. In May,
1871, against the attacks of the independent
press, he defended the Presidents course
with regard to the San Domingo and the Ku'
KluX legislation. In January, 1871, he had
denounced the independent press as fraud
He sustained the prescription by which the
bolt of Schurz and Brown in Missouri was
attempted to be neutralized, He is thus in
the position Of one who, having organized
It burglary and kept watch to prevent inter
ference while the crime was committed, to
avoid punishment turned States evidence
and now seeks not only to escape the peni
tentiary, but actually to be elected Governor,
Jededah Barchard, once preaching revival
sermon was interrupted by the entrance OF
Aaron Burr. Here comes one" said the
reyiyalist "agamst whom even will testi'