New National Era

Greeley on Cochrane.

"Gen. Cochrane has taken his stand in fact, whatever he may profess, with those who to-day refuse to colored Americans the right of suffrage, whether in the North or in the South, and will soon deny them the right of education, the freedom of the press, and (if they dare) the right to sue and testify in courts of justice. Let him say what he will, the triumph of the party to which he has apostatized is the triumph of oppression, the disfranchisement of a race, the branding of our fathers as knaves or idiots in proclaiming that all men have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that 'governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' Hell from beneath is stirred to demoniac joy by the spectacle of such a treachery, and every traitorous ruffian who, in the dark dens of this emporium, gleefully drank health and success to Jeff. Davis, while Lee's guns were thundering at Gettysburg, or, a few days later, fired draft offices and devastated orphan asylums in aid of the rebellion, will now rapturously hail Gen. Cochrane as a compatriot and a brother."

This is the opinion of Horace Greeley of Gen. Cochrane in 1864. To-day Gen. Cochrane is Chairman of a Greeley Committee, and Horace Greeley, like Gen. Cochrane in 1864 "whatever he may profess" has taken his stand with or for the benefit of those who to-day refuse colored Americans the right of suffrage wherever the protecting arm of Gen. Grant is not present. Horace Greeley can well apply his strictures of Cochrane to himself.