Evening journal., 1892-01-23
A LOT or eLocKHFAps.
Horace Greeley's Letter so the Loyi
men OF the Union League Club.


men OF the Union League Club.
The Republicans OF New York are graft
fed that Dr. Chauncey NJ Depsw has
triumphed over hls enemies who sought
20 defeat his reelection as president 81
the Z 1lon League Club The effort tc
defeat him recalls Horace Gresleys let.
ter, writ en- soon after the war, TO SONS
Union League Club msmbers. AS tn,
venerable editor of the Tribune was
woat to remark, it makes IN lightly inter
ssting reading" Here it is
me y York Daily Tribune. May23, 1867
BY these presents greeting To Messrs
deorg. w Blunt, John A. Kennedy
John o. Stone. stephen Hyatt, ant
thirty others. members Of the Unior
League Clubs
''Gentlemen-I was favored on the 1901
instant by an official note from our ever
courteous president, John Jay, notify
ing me that requistion had been pre-
sented to him for q special meeting OF
the club at an early day for the purpose
of taking In consideration the conduct oil
Horace Greeley, member Of the club
who has become q bondsman for Jeffer
sen Davis, late chief officer Of the Rebel
Government,
Gentlemen, shall not attend your
meeting this evening. have an engage
ment out Of town, and shall keep it,
do not recognize you az capable OF
Judging or OF even fully appreeisting me.
You evidently regard me as a weak sen.
timentalist, inhaled by a maudlin phil.
osophy.
Il arrsign You as narrow minded
blockheads, whowonld like to be useful
to a great and good cause, but don't
know how. Your attempt to base a
great, enduring party on the hate and
wrath necessarily engendsred by a bloody
civil war is as though you should plant q
colony on an iceberg which had some
how drifted into q tropical ocean.
II tell you here that out of life earn
estly devoted to the good OF human kind
your children will select my going to
Richmond and signing that bail bend as
the wisest act and win feel that IL did
more for freedom and humanity than
OF you were competent to do, though
you had lived to the age Of Ne
thuselah.
II ask nothing Of you, then, but that
you proceed to your end by direct,
frank. manly way. Don't slide of into
a mild resolution OF censure, but move
the expulsion which you purposed and
which / deserve, II deserve any re
proach whatever. All care is that you
make this square stsnd-up fight. and
record your Judgment by yeas and nays.
care not how few vote with me, nor
how many vote against me, for / know
that the latter will repent at in ddst and
ashes before three years have passed
Understand, once for all, that dare
and defy you, and that propose to fight
II out on the line that have held from
the day of Lees surrender. So long as
any man was seeking to overthrow our
government he was my enemy; from the
hour in which he laid down his arms he
was my formerly erring countryman. So
long as any is at heart opposed to the
national unity, the Federal authority or
to that assertion OF the equal rights Of
all men, which has become practically
identified with 1t legally and nationally,
shall do my best to deprive him Of
power, but WREN he ceases TO be thus
demand his restoration to all the privi-
leges OF American citizenship.
II give you fair notice that | shall
urge the northumberland Of those
now prescribed for rebellion as soon as [
shall feel confident that this cause is
consistent with the freedom Of the
blacks aud the unity Of the Republic,
and that l shall demand recall Of all
row in exile only for participating 10 the
rebellion whenever the country shall
have been so thoroughly pacified that its
safety will not thereby be endangered
"And SO, gentlemen. hoping that you
will hencsforth comprehend me somewhat
better than you have done, | remain
yours horace GREELEY