The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-05-09
liberal REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
THE NOMINEES.

1t will be seen by the proceedings in to days
T;yg;aiau that the Cincinnati Convention OF
liberal Republicans, which met on the LIST
inst i, nominated HORACE GREELEY, OF New
York, for President, and +. GRAFT BROWN,
of Missouri. for Vice President. The nomi-
nation Of Mr. Greeley, was result that sur
prised most every one in this community, aud
is commented on, in various moods by the
friends of the Conservative Organization
some favorably, and by others uufavorably.
The popular mind in Virginia and the
South, has for many years, been educated ID
the belief that all Of Mr.. Greeley's convic-
tons of government policy, were antagonlstic
to their interest. While there has been ac-
corded to him honesty of purpose, his views
on public questions have been SO entirely
sectional and narrow, and were SO foreign to
a broad national idea, that we were compell
ed to regard him as anything else than
friend. We cannot, in contemplating his
public character, remove from our minds the
guaranteed rights of the South were 10 de-
bate. He did more, probably, than any one
man North of Mason and Dixon's line, to
raise the storm of persecution Of our section,
which flooded down upon the South volume
after volume of Northern passion and hate,
until it eliminated in bloody war and the
desolation of our homes.
Since the close of that terrible ordeal, he
has exhibited more conciatory spirit, ard
has Che credit in the minds of many of being
sincere in his desire to shield our people FROM
further oppression aud outrage. If, however,
he would sing peeans Of peace from now un
til the slose of his life, he could not atone
for tne INDUSTRIOUS wrong he has been, in a
great part, the agent of indcting upon US
1t will require the exercise of a vast deal of
christian grace aud forgiveness much more
We fear, that We can lay claim TOTO forget
the past, and blot out the remembrance Of
the aacaled for prosecutions and unconsitu-
tional and Illegal warfare upon what were re
garded, and justly SO, our rights.
We have much more pleasant associations
in our mind with Gov. Brown. We regard
him as much the ADLER man Of the two
While Mr. Greeley has been erotchety and
contracted in his public life, Mr.. Brown has
risen Into the realm Of genuine craftsmanship,
and grappled with the great questions of the
day as becomes comprehensive patrio: ard
an unselfsh statesman. Were the ticket re-
persed, 1t would commend itself more to the
approval Of the people of the Sou.li, aud es-
pecial!y that element Of the peoplc-the Dem
ocratic party-from whose support. ifsuccess
full, it must receive its principal strength.
1t remains now to be seen what the DEM
ocratic party will do. We notice that the
Baltimore Gazette, and the Washington Pat
riot, two able and Influential journals of the
Democratic persuasion, are decided in the OK
preston Of the opinion that the Democracy
should meet at once in National Convention,
nounces its inability to support Mr.. Greeley.
while the Patriot is less positive in its deca-
rations at this time
The New York World, will not support it,
and Justify calls for immediate action on the
part of the Democratic National Executive
Committee, looking to Democratic Conven
ton and nomination.
The Philadelphia Age urges prompt and
decided action on the part of the Democracy,
with reference to the nomination Of Demo-
cratic ticket.
The Richmond Enquirer in its issue of Sat
urday last, expressed a faint approval Of the
ticket and stated its conviction that it was a
strong one The same paper of the Monday
following comes out emphatically against it,
and fercely attacks, not only the nominees,
but the manner of their nomination, as re-
suit similar in moral tone s'to the corrupt and
uusecmly practices Of the New York ward
meetings" It asserts THAI there was a stud
led purpose to nominate two men as obnoxious
to the Democratic party as possible, and they
admirably succeeded 10 accomplishing that
end-one a "strosg protectionist and aboli-
tionisG. and the other Kentucky emancipa,
t;oDist and Southern renegade" The De-
mocracy, it says, were "content to take Re.
publican of the liberal stripe Of Davis, and
with him might have been satisfied with
Greeley as Vice President, or Brown but to
be thus openly and dcfantiy insu!ed and
scorned. is more than Democratic nature can
tamely submit TO, ard We therefore, fear the
worst"
The WAiy &ad Dispatch, both support the
result Of the Convention, the former rather
enthusiastically, ste latter as a matter of ne
cessity
The Lynchburg Neaes regrets the action of
the Convention, and is not prepared to say it
will support the nominees.
The Firgtnian, of that city, is 10 about
the same humor
The Petersburg Progress flies the names of
Greeley and Brown at its mast head and sup-
ports them warmly.
Throughout the North, especially, and