The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-05-23

the political situa' don, we find In tn
Christian Unior., from the pen o
Henry Ward Beecher, one of tn
best writer's In the land:
The detection of Mr.. Greeley, anc
his nomination by the Cincinnati
Convention, has brought surprise
and uncertainty, for the moment up
on the public mind but it ought not
for an instant to throw doubt upon
the path of duty. The Philadel-
phia Convention is now bouRd, even
if it were not its duty before, to raise
up the old Republican banner under
which have been gained such illus
trious victories, and to print upon il
the names of GENERAL GRANT
1t is not now question whether
General Gl ant has been a little too
firm or too lax, too fast or too slow.
BY the conduct of those who have
abandoned the Republican party, he
has been placed in a position where
order, public safety, and honor, re
quire his reelection. We believe
the public peace, order, and safety
require the continued ascendency of
the Republican party, and that no
other man can now lead the party as
General Grant.
1t is not the fault of the Repub
lican party that personal piques and
private ambitions, mingled in few
cases with come worthy aspirations
for reform, have broken out into re-
volt, and political revolution. But
it will be it's fault if 1t shrinks from
the conflict forced upon it, or loses
victory through encouragement or
Indifference.
If the danger which lies before us
be once appreci ated, we do not be-
lieve that our citizens will step off
from fair and stable ground into the
morace or quicksand of experiments.
1t is time for making plain the
old landmarks-for arousing again the
stannch courage by which theKepub-
lican party has often carried the eoun-
try safely through perils morethreat-
eniDg than those which environ it
now.
What are we to gain by new
party-made up in haste, without
common principles, jumbled togetn,
er not to correct greatspublic evils,
but to avenge priy8fa f|r1efs Or to re-
ward violent aud ambition T?
Every great ID the land
is furnishing. IA ia the South.
enfeebled by war, and .bewiIdered by
the total Evolution Of It's industrial
economy, there has been slow but |
steady recuperatiop, except IN the |
cases of one orstwo States, where To-
cal causes hwarted the honest en-
ieavor of Goyernment for their peace
and security. Is Il prudent TO
abandon ship that has been tried /
and proved in a hundred storms. for
new ship, new crew, made az Of
ieserters, OF Indictments, Of raw
andsmen, and of suspicious men
come from we know not where?
Can that be safe leader who has
o suddenly become a favorite of the
Whole democratic race, by whom he
las been for thirty years immeasur-
bly, abused, and against whom he has
ought that incessant battle on which
!ls political fame rests? What is
he meaning Of this strange new
rlendship between life long enemies?
'uch friendships are suspicious, Hor-
ce Greeley, President of the Uni
ed States by the votes of Southern
len who carried on the war, and of
ne Democratic party which hung
Ike dead weight on Lincoln's Ad,
If the Democratic party, in view
its past history and testimony,
hall now endorse Mr.. Greeley, their 1
te-long antagonist, it will not be
conversion nor by honorable sur
nder, but by political immorali.
as shameful as ever was recorded =
here have been, before this, coali- o
ms between antagonistic elements
the mere sake of power. tn
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