The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-06-20

] th'lll' litN ltNt Dctn wrong hil
their lives and they know il but i,
is 80 hard for them to make confes
sion Of this fact They want to get
into office. Ont ofolicc they cannot
i've. They cuuno. succeed il they
stand whore they are 1t is certain
and sure political death Ifthey join
the Liberal movement, it looks about
the same. In either event they see
the pale horse and his rider
They arc in about the same posi-
tion rs the fellow on the burning ship
If lac stood whore tho fire was he
would burn to death il he jumped
into the scG hc would surely b.
! drowned; 80 between the two chan
GEES he had bat little choice. -
II Greeley could only change his
,nmuo what . blessing it would be to
the Democratic party, AMI then lac
might hclp them out Of this dilemma.
lac! GO d u lIAe '''h' because ne
whipped General Lee, nn1 by the aid
of the Boys in Blue aul the loyal
people Of the county, suppressed tho
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,' 49, ''''.,' 'V 4''''
VhI' All F.'s.s ant diSs'yal Par
do They hltl Greeley; but
Greeley hates Grant. They
sln,,ot Grool,y t,- tris ron
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Two i''' Ni'o''s "n'' '"o I'''H
gree
agreed in somc things before
Greeley was in favor Of
ra. cotton SN' IS - ont ot
inL " that time We were
Direr ,wo mean before the war;
1,ucr Greeley; We relied upon
/ibHn,, indeed We almost, not 10
.r j. tao strong. sWorc 10y the
r'b,la,. But our conf loucr In thgt
r.. aud in Horace Grc"lcv. was
shaken when. in the YrjbU1c, which
we have carefully hilni. jntcd Noy.
/ y. $50. ha wrote The following:
/ 1T llc cotton States shall become
/ '-a'i.fo that thov c2n No better oht
"uf tine Union tlau in if, ", insist i'm
|"'.,,iug them 80 in peace. Tho right
ITO sccodo may be revolutionary ,
|"hu. 1t exists noyor'u.',S.
I'VE must over resist the righ. Of any
state to remain in the Union and
I"uuiiify and defy the laws thereof
10 withdraw from the Union is quite
another matter, and whenever n
considerable section Of our Uniou
"shali dc,iberttcly resolve to 80 ont,
I'VE shall resist al cucrsiyo measures
"to keep them in IL, We hope never
to live in n Republic whore one sec
"tiou is pinned to another hy the
"bGyoncts.
This was when we let go our hold
on Horace Greeley, The language
suited jeff Davis and his rebel Dem
ocrats Of the South. Andwc suppose
| It was this kindred feeling which
caused Greeley. after the war, to ira
vel hundreds Of miles to become, un-
asked aud unsolicited. the bondsmcn
II Jefferson Davis. Again, the Fri.
|LVug Of November 2Gth, 1859, and we
Iquotc il "rrbatim d Htera''Dh Mr..
Greeley said:
Iii the cotton States uuiteiiy and
earnestly wish b withdraw peace
fully from the Union, we think they
"ehuuld be allowed to do SO. Any
''dttompt to compel them by force tp
''rcmain, would be contrary to the
fundamental ideas on which human
liberty is based. -
Was it not such yoglrics and false
logic MS this which drove the South.
ern robcls 10 believe that they couli
Ipeaceably secclc from the Union !
| Was not Horace Grccly inconsistent
in these uttcrnuccs with his lifelong
Opposition 10 slavery? And DO thoy
mot 60 30 prove th.t il there hpd
been no moro reliable men than Nh,
Greeley and the leaders Of the Dem
ocratic party in ,thc country, We
would today have 10 Union, no
United States Government; but in.
stead. Union split in twain, dissoly
ell, isscyerod--two distinct Govern
ments and inteIminable war! 1t is
these yagarios # Nh Greeley which
recommended him to the Cincinnati
Convention, believing that the Demo