The Placer herald., 1872-07-06
TWISTING, WRlTHING AND SQUIRMING.

in America. In one column we are told the
Democracy cannot possibly accept Greeley
on account of his thorough Republican prin
ciples; and in the next we are again told
that Greeley has changed his principles, and
is now bedrock Democrat and, therefore,
70 Republican can support him. While
they have been tearing their shirts and
swearing that neither Democrats or Liberal
Republicans can or will support Greeley,
they have Leen searching the Union over to
find third candidate for the Democracy.
Most noble Grant "dirt eaters" don't you
know that rendered services unasked always
stink? The Sacramento Union furnishes the
brains and ammunition for these small political
pettifoggers, and it is lost in the fog and
practising the blind leading the blind. 1he
Union has conjured up every possible ex-
pedient to cndeavor to defeat an honest,
hearty and fraternal combination Of the great
honest masses to beat Grant and his thef
Congress in this campaign. 1t was an
Adams paper, and gave the public TO under
stand that if he was the nominee Of the
Cincinnati Convention it would support the
ticket; and yet Adams would have bee'.
bound 10y the same platform and principles
that Greeley is. Was this because Adams
is an Englishman at hear. and an admrer Of
her policy towards Ireland. and therefore
would lose p large clement of the Democratic
vote which is enthusiastically for Greeley :
Possibly Adams remaining mum while Gree
cy was denouncing Grant for selling arms to
France to shoot Germnns with would have
weakened him among The GermanAmeric ms,
while Greeley gained their gratitude and vii
receive an erwhelm;ng majority of then
votes, may explain the Unions hostility to
Greeley. Is it possible that the Union
never thought of these two great clements of
strength which Greeley carries with him in
the contest that Adams would have lost, oil
did it wart Adams because he could surely
be beaten while Greeley will as surely be
elected? But Greeley was nominated al
Cincinnati, and the Union has been setting
4 up pins at the end Of the Democratic alley
: ever since for the Democracy to knock down
1t now clearly secs that the Baltimore Con
vention will make ten strike for Greeley
hence it flies to new expedients to damage
Greeley and save Grant. The Union bar
70 th,t
{ Grant and his thieves and apoosists is a
grand tidal wave of the masses, carrying
with it the better elements Of all sects and
parties in the country, and that it will SWEEP
4 down all opposition and triumph in Novem'
O Der next. The Union now hopes that sucl
= men as Alexander Stephens, Toombs. SAILS
bury, etc. will create a cism in Grants favor
Why, bless your innocent soul, that would
lhrow all there IS Of odum on the Democratic
{ party over to Grant-t would result in {
perfect fumiga,on of all the opposition ele
ments TO Grant, and render doubly SUR
Greeley's election. But it has found anohe
It straw and, drowning man like, seizes it. ]
is the absolute ee traders. 1t says thi
e element will support Grant. Grant is, ant
e has been, the tool Of the monopoly manu-
. featuring interests, while Greeley has pledge
a himself to carry out the will of the people, al
} expressed through their Cong eressmcn, on th
tariff question. This element can hope fo
relief with Greeley while Grant utterly de
stroys all hope. Already has nine-tenhs o
this element declared for Greeley. while TN
= other tenth nominated Groesbeck whom the,
: knew would decline IN Greeley's favor, ant
thus afford them decent excuse TO also de
4 clare for the Cincinnati nominees. But tn
y Union has found that the New York Ere,,
u ing Post, the World, the Chicago Times ant
The Richmond Enquirer may 60 ngans
Greeley even if he is indorsed at Baltimore
) This will not be the case unless Grant buy
; them and in that event the fact will becom
i both strength and respectability he added T.
!, the Liberal cause. The last hope Of tn
: Union is that fifty or hundred delegate
d may draw out of the Baltimore conventio
- and find some fellow stupid enough to ae
" cept an independent nomination from them
u We rather hope for such a sluifug off of til
G corrupt and impraciicable material of on
G party and would hail it as the sure harbin
. ger of success to the Liberal cause, as "A re
:, lief from the last weight that has oppresse'
= and horne us down for years. We hav
e only mentioned the Union in this connection
II because it has been the originator of all thes
5 hoped for and predicted calamatics to tn
s Liberal cause, and we fad that they max
# up the staple of the smaller fry Giant pres
, editorials. We regard the Endorsement @
ihe Cincinnati platform and nominees a
Baltimore as foreordaned fact, and th
k election of the ticket as the seqnelas sure +
. follow as election day arrives. The monstros