Show GREELEYS grievances I 1 1 1 A violent rabid abolitionist by the name of plumb was recently arrested inver york for violent and denounce denoun cn and execrating mr lincoln and discouraging enlistments which with other occur ances cis give great offense to mr greeley who assailed president lincoln in a kocg 01 ol letter which he styled f led the prayer of twenty millions in in which among other things of an imperative and accusative nature be he bays pays you must know already that a great proportion of those who triumphed in in your e election e 1 and of all who desire the qualified unqualified ilu iju suppression of the rebellion now desolating our t count country rV are disappointed and deeply 1 pained bythe policy you yon seem to be pursuing i with regard to the slaves of 0 rebels we require of you aa as the first servart of the republic charged especially and pre emi 1 bently with this thib duty that you execute the laws alost emphatically do we DEMAND that such laws jaws aa have been recently enacted which therefore may fairly be presumed to embody the present will and to be dictated by I 1 the present needs of the republic and which I 1 after due consideration have received your personal sanction shall byyoure by yon you be carried into full effect and that you pu pub llcy ilcy licy bliey and decisively instruct your subordinates that buch euch laws exist that they are binding on all bunc tion aries and citizens and that they are to be obeyed to the letter we you are strangely I 1 and disastrously remiss in the di discharge e of your official and imperative duty with regard to the ema emancipating and ca provisions of the new confiscation act i we e complain that the union cause caule has suffered and la is now au sti fiering immensely from mistaken deference to rebel slav slavery ery try had you sir in your inaugural address unmistakably given notice natice that incase in case the rebellion ilion already commenced should be persisted in and your extorts efforts to preserve the union and I 1 enforce the laws should be resisted by armed force you would recognize no loal joal person aa as rightfully held in slavery by a traitor we believe the rebellion would therein have received a staggering if it not a f fatal fatai blow nid hid you then proclaimed that rebellion bellion rt would strike the shackles from the slaves of every traitor the wealthy and the cautious would have been supplied with a powerful induce ment to remain loyal we complain that the confiscation act which you approved is habitually disregarded by your generals and that no word of rebuke for them from you has yet reached the public I 1 ear proclamation and hunters Hunt erys I 1 order favoring emancipation were promptly Prompt lT I 1 annulled by you while hallecks Hal hai lecka leeka ko no 3 forbidding fugitives from slavery to rebels to come within his hia lines an order as unmilitary aa as inhuman and which received the hearty approbation of every traitor in america with scores of like tendency have never provoked even your remonstrance and ana finally we ve complain that you mr president elected as a republican knowing well what an abomination I 1 is slavery is an and d i how bow emphatically it is the core and essence tol toi of this atrocious rebellion seem never to interfere with these atrocities and never givel give a direction to your military subordinates which does not cot appear to have been conceived in the interest of 1 slavery rather than of freedom |