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Editorial August 13, 1872

Daily Kennebec Journal

Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine

What is this article about?

An editorial criticizes the Weekly Caucasian newspaper in Lexington, KY, for supporting Horace Greeley and Brown with an extreme platform promoting state sovereignty, white supremacy, debt repudiation, opposition to the Fifteenth Amendment, and calls for counter-revolution against the Grant administration.

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A Greeleyite's Flag.

The Weekly Caucasian, published at Lexington, Ky., flies the names of Greeley and Brown at its mast-head, and hurls its shafts at the Grant administration with border-ruffian violence. Immediately over the names of its candidates it prints the creed it believes in, appropriately displayed in capitals and fancy type. A glance at this epitome will show the business men of the country the character of the entertainment to which they have been invited by the intriguers who met at Cincinnati, and whose plan of a campaign to put down the present administration was indorsed at Baltimore. To what a depth of degradation has the name of Horace Greeley fallen when we find it coupled with such declarations as these:

The Greeley organs claim 10,000 majority for their candidate in Kentucky STATE SOVEREIGNTY! WHITE SUPREMACY: AND REPUDIATION! THIS IS LIBERTY: OUR MOTTO NEVER DESPAIR OF THE REPUBLIC OUR PLATFORM. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1860. AND THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES! OUR DOCTRINES. This Is A White Man's Government, Made BY White Men. For White Men. And Their Posterity Forever! DOWN WITH THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT! Total Repudiation of The Monstrous Yankee War Debt-That Accursed, Unconstitutional Burden, accumulated by an Unconstitutional Mob styling itself a Congress, in the prosecution of an Unconstitutional crusade, for the Accomplishment of an Unconstitutional and Horrid Purpose! DOWN WITH BOND-HOLDERS AND TAXATION! Subordination of the Military to the Civil Authorities! DOWN WITH THE SATRAPS! Equal Taxation and the Rightful Representation of all the States, or ANOTHER REBELLION! Revolution must be met with Counter Revolution!-Force by Force!-Violence by Violence!-And Usurpation should be Overthrown. if needs be. by the Bayonet! DOWN WITH TEST OATHS AND REGISTRATIONS! VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE!

What sub-type of article is it?

Partisan Politics Constitutional

What keywords are associated?

Greeley Brown Grant Administration White Supremacy Debt Repudiation Fifteenth Amendment State Sovereignty Counter Revolution

What entities or persons were involved?

Horace Greeley Brown Grant Administration Weekly Caucasian Cincinnati Convention Baltimore Convention

Editorial Details

Primary Topic

Criticism Of Greeleyite Newspaper's Extreme Platform

Stance / Tone

Strongly Anti Greeley And Pro Grant Administration

Key Figures

Horace Greeley Brown Grant Administration Weekly Caucasian Cincinnati Convention Baltimore Convention

Key Arguments

Greeley's Name Degraded By Association With Extreme Declarations Weekly Caucasian Promotes State Sovereignty, White Supremacy, And Repudiation Opposition To Fifteenth Amendment And War Debt Calls For Counter Revolution Against Usurpation Critique Of Cincinnati And Baltimore Conventions' Campaign Against Grant

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