Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-18
The Plain Fact.

They'll win the field, and keep it, too
For nothing holds like leatherl
The Plain Fact.
Besides the late Copperheads and GER
tain discontented Republicans, the Greeley
party includes few thoughtful men sim
cerely desirous of reform, and honestly
persuaded that it can come only by the
defeat of General Grant and the Repubii-
can party. They are proud of the his
tory of the party. They do not willingly
mean to imperil single result that it has
achieved. They acknowledge the great
services of General Grant in the war.
They have no faith in Democrats, and
they see in many ways the curious unfit
ness of Mr.. Greeley for the Presidency.
But, on the other hand, they think that
General Grant is badly advised; that the
Democrats have assented to the settlement
of the war; that Mr.. Greeley means well;
that "the South" will be sullen until it
has taken successful part in Presiden-
tial election; and that the only way to
dissolve both parties and form a new is
to defeat the Republican. Therefore, not
without regret and distrust, they think
that they must vote against their old
friends and the magnanimous chief of the
armies that crushed the rebellion, and
Join hands with Beauregard and Fernando
Wood to elect Mr.. Greeley.
Z The Republicans think, then, that Gen
eral Grant is badly advised Do they
think that Mr.. Greeley will surround him
self with wiser counselors? Mr.. Samuel
Bowles says that Mr.. Greeley is the prey
of f1atterers and sycophants. Would he
be less SO as President? These Republi-
cans have seen those who are most con-
spicuous in Mr.. Greeley's support; do
their regulations and careers inspire the
hope of higher tone in administration?
These Republicans know how reluctantly
Senator Schurz came to the support of
Mr.. Greeley, and that, almost without
exception, the better men of the Cincin-
natl movement deplore his nomination.
Upon what reasonable ground do they be-
lieve that Mr.. Greeley will be better ad-
yised than General Grant?
In the second place, these Republicans
think that the Democrats have acquiesced
in the result of the war. But does it
therefore follow that it is wise that
party chiefly composed of Democrats, in
cluding the mass of the late rebels, should
obtain possession of the Government
Why do the friends of Mr.. Greeley claim
the united white vote with a part" only
of the colored vote at the South d? Be-
, cause the colored citizens know that the
Ku-Klux and the entire negro-hating
spirit in the country desires the election
of Mr.. Greeley against General Grant.
Does the victory of that spirit seem to
our friends the way of peace and justice
and equal rights If the Democrats
have acquiesced in the great results of
the war, the Republicans believe in them
With which should they be trusted?
Our friends think also that Mr.. Greeley
means well. Perhaps he meant well when
he encouraged and justified secession
when he stnagged'' President Lincoln to
buy a peace-when he promoted foreign
intervention-when he gravely perplexed
Mr.. Lincoln by his Niagara performances
when he complained to Mr. Seward
long ago that he had not been rewarded
with an office-when lie half apologized
for Sweeney and Tweed-whenever he
has done anything which showed his fatal
want of judgment. Had he been Presi-
dent instead of Lincoln, he might have
meant well in surrendering to the rebel
lion. Do our friends think it enough to
mean well, if you have no judgment I?
Again, they ay-that the South will be
sullen until it has taken successful part in
an election. Why? Because it broods
over the old defeat Now if the Re-
publican policy had been vindictive or
harsh, we would condemn it with our
friends. But it has not been so. It gave
: equal suffrage because it was proved to be
: necessary for the protection of equal
rights. The Southern friends of Mr..
Greeley made black codes in 1S65-they
would make them now if they dared. The
Republicans gave equal suffrage; they
have granted an absolute amnesty, eX-
cept in two or three hundred instances;
and they have protected at the polls, with
MIR. GreeIey's most hearty approval, the
colored citizens whom many of Mr.. Gree
leyis Southern supporters would have
prevented from voting. For the adven-
turers who have gone into the Southern
States, and for the misgovernment there,
the Republican party can in no just sense
be held responsible. While for the ill
feeling that still exists the remedy is not
in the success of those who denounce the
Republican rule as Infamous success
which would revive every spark of old
hostility with an exulting expectation of
revenge. The logical solution of the
Southern situation Is the dissolution of
the Democratic party, the party which is
the perpetual hope of disaffection in the
Southern part of the country, and the
consequent consciousness that the situa-
tion is to be improved, but not radically
changed
ana This Democratic dissolution our
friends anticipate from the election of Mr..
Greeley as the regularly nominated Demo-
cratic candidate! 1t is not by success.
however, that party is usually dissolved.
In 1860 the Democrats nominated two
candidates Breckinridge and Mr..
Douglas were defeated. In '64 they
nominated General McClelland, and in '68
Mr.. Seymour, and were defeated In ~
they will probably nominate Mr.. Greeley.
If they are defeated again, the party nee
essarily disbands, and new organizations
become possible. If they are successful
with Mr.. Greeley, they will be the same
party, with the same general sympathies,
principles and purposes, The. fact that
Mr.. Greeley was a Republican will no
more prevent the Administration being
Democratic, tLan the fact that General
Grant was not Republican before the
war has affected his Administration. The
mass of voters who elect the President de-
termine the character of the Administra-
ton. If our friends think that the success
OF the Baltimore candidate would not be
desirable if it were not Mr. Greeley, they
ought not to wheedle themselves with the
fancy that his nomination essentially
changes the situation. Why will the