Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-09-25


of the country =? What is the res
purpose of the party? 1t is said ther
are three million Democratic voter
We i'm the United States. Have thes
he three millions, like st. Paul on hi
lar road to Damascus, been suddenly con
,at verted to the Republican faith ? O
ON has Greeley, all at once, abandoned
ise the doctrines and principles of life
bo time and Joined the standard of hi.
of ancient enemies? Which party ha:
r. surrendered TO the other Or ifneithej
ne has wholly surrendered, how has
10 the matter been compromised What
+ principles have the Democracy aban-
is dOned and what ones has Greeley
be given up? What ale the conditions
% and provisions by which these high
ie contracting parties have bound them
I selves together in this strange and
% unnatural union. Does Greeley agree
re that in consideration of three
million Democratic votes, by which
he is to be chosen President, he
will administer national affairs
according to Democratic notions
: that he will surround himselfby DEM
u ocratic counselors-that he will in
y vite the officers of the late Southern
Confederacy to Washington-that he
| WIN 6ANC ONCA lAlC NACdoul . lnC "
the navy into their hands Does he
agree to favor the passage of law,
2. giving pensions to rebel soldiers, and
to favor the payment of the rebel
! debt? The people, whose votes are
: sought, are Interested in these ques-
{ tions. They have a right to know
!. specifically the terms of the negotia-
ton and contract at Baltimore.
There is fraud somewhere. A party
whose elements are brought together
from simple desire for public plum !
der, ought not to be tolerated. A |
, party whose only cohesive power is a |
common hate of somebody, or some |
thing, ought not to exist. The fOun- |
datiOns of political organization |
should be firmer and broader than |
that. Can any man tell what the ad-
ministTation of Horace Greeley will |
be, if he should be chosen, upon any
great question of national import
ance? 1t is not enough to say he is
in favor of reform. Every body pro-
fesses to be in favor of that. But tell
us how and upon what plan national
affairs are 10 be administered-theD
We can judge for ourselves. whether
there is to be ref rm and improvement
or not. Are the opposition going in
to power without any defined plan of
action, then TO be governed by cir
cumstance-? Is it to be only a matter
of chance? After the Inauguration,
are the chief members of this new
political family, soldiers IN the late
rebellion, officers of the so-called Con-
federate Government, Tammany
thieves, Republican sore-heads and
political adventures, to get together
a. nj r,AIfnx- Ara ha !
interests of this great Republic, :
freighted with the lives, rights and !
liberties of forty million people, to be
delivered over to the guardianship of :
such a motley crew as this? ? have q
carefully studied the proceedings of
both Conventions, and take them to-
gether, they constitute simply stu
pendous scheme to obtain power and
plundeI. A voice. THAT'S so."J
But leaving out ofview all proceedings y
and bargains in Conventions, and y
judging alone from the character of y
Greeley and his supporters, what is =
his administration likely to be if he Z
should be chosen President
The Creator is greater than the crea-
ture. If Greeley is made President y
he will owe his election to the Demo '.
cratic party, as represented by the y
Baltimore Convention. The two great h
wings of that party are the Tammany y
Society, with its headquarters in the II
city of New York, and the men who y
lately engaged in the rebellion against ~
the Government. Tammany and the u
Southern Confederaey are the two az
political forces which nominated al
Greeley and Brown. Without this a.
support these men can never be elec- u u
ted. Greeley therefore depends for 70
his elevation to power upon the active y, ~
efforts of the two most corrupt and W u'
wicked organization or bodies of men Ie
ever known upon the Western Cont Pe
nent- The Tammany Society has al
ready agreed to support him, and fired vi VI
1 hundred guns in honor of his nOmi- " "
nation. Tweed is not only his friend, cL
1ut is one of his business partners al
and Hall are his earnest ad- Ii'
7ocates. The rebels of the South as a ua
lody support him. These men are an
lot voting blindly. They have some omn m
what the administra- ~
ion of Greeley is to be. Is Tweed oe
because he wants an hon uIe Ie
st administration of the Treasury ? III III
No. Are Toombs and DaYis and Yer III
er the assassin, supporting him be- iei
anse they want the Union preserved,
nd order and liberty established P
10. The eX-rebel dreams of the res n Z
Oration of the Southern Confedera- wi
V, and the Tammany men have Wis mi
1ns of Treasury plunder. Let Gree
sy be chosen President, and these To-,
len who have made him such will ~
ather around him, insist upon rec Ice
gnition, and dictate the policy of his /
They created and fen
hey will be Obeyed. The throne of WI
ammaDy will be transferred from Gle
lew York to Washington. The cause snC
'hich was los at Montgomery and
richmond will hope for resurrection an,
] the National Capital. Neither inn,
republicans nor honest Democrats me
esire this condition of things to be bIo
rought about. In February, 1871, fro
IOrace Greeley, in writing upon this q
inject, said: cat
1.-The brain, the heart, the soul of Tho
le present Democratic party is the off
.bel element at the South, with its of
orthern allies ana sympathlZers. II she
rebel at the core to-day. 1t would on
,me into power with the hate, the
lagrin, the wrath, the modification GRO
ten bitter years to impel and guide lax
S steps. 1t would devote itself to lev
king off or reducing tax after tax q
ntil the Treasury was deprived of the eni
cans Of paying interest on the Ma red
Onal debt, and would hail the tidings and
national bankruptcy with unalloy- s
gladness and unconcealed exulta- fort
on. Whatever chastisement may VIII
, deserved by our national sins, we of q
ust hope that this disgrace and hu- as :
iliation will be spared u.s." m
This party, which in the language the
Greeley would come into power bIe
ith the hate, the chagrin, the wrath ecu
e modification of ten bitter years to mo-
lpel and guide its steps, is the one to b
hich he himself is now now seeking han
enthrone in the National Capital. reIi,
embers of the Cabinet, Foreign Min inss
-ers, Governors, Judges, Custom of /
ouse officers, Collectors of the pub ried
revenues, are to be selected from in e
is disloyal band of meu. The fruits to b
the long and bloody war and of sooI
lndreds of hard earned victories are and
be yielded up. The Republican brai
rty, whose record of glory fills the III
Jrld with edmiration-uncOnqu eyel
d uneOnquerable in open battle, by wou
,achery and fraud, is to be rent in beeI
ain. In the name of truth, justice he
d liberty, in the name of four huh- den,
ed thousand soldiers, whose blood edit