The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
WAIT FOR THE BALTIMORE CON.
VENTION.

Greeley and Brown tlcket, anu tnaC ny
inaction, or by direct support of Grant,
as many Democrats are lost to that
ticket as there are Liberal Republicans
who support it, what will be the result?
1t will not do to say there are no DEM
ocrats who will not vote for Grant in
preference to Greeley, or who, PREFER
ing not to touch either, will not vote at
all, because every observing citizen
knows better. These men say Greeley
has advocated and approved every
measure passed by Congress to break
down the Democracy or to trammel
and injure the South, and that where
he has differed with his party it was
generally in advocating policy that
would more certainly have prolonged
Republican rule, and that, therefore, he
is the more dangerous man of the two.
Again, suppose the Democrats elect
Greeley President; has he made any
pledge, or taken a single step, to assure
the Democrats he will not break their
necks, if he can? Has he ever advocated
even new party? Does he not stand
before the country now the Adonis of
Republicanism-the issue of tho inces-
tuous connection of the King Of Cyprus
with his own daughter Myrrha? His
love of Radicalism, like that of Leander
for Hero, has made the Tribune, like
the Asiatic city of Abylos wherein
Leander dwelt, famous in history. He
is chaperoned by Carl Schurz who went
through the South soon after the war
and could see nothing but rebellion
and treason; when Grant, making the
same tour, concluded with report
which the Radicals stigmatized as
withdrawing report and by George
w. Julian, the most odious man to our
friends in his State, Indiana, and as
rank Radical and fanatic as ever sat
in Congress, Butler and Thad Stevens
not excepted.
What does all this mean: Shall we
drift along, rudderless and without
compass, ladened only with ballast, to
put into any port, or no port, just as
President Greeley and the men who
nominated him, may direct? Admit
we are not able to win the race alone,
shall our three millions of votes be
transferred to Greeley without pledge
or promise and as less than an offset
against his three hundred thousand
Liberal Republicans? Ought not the
Democrats to take a bond of indemnity
from Greeley and his friends, before
they consent to make him President:
suppose, again, that the Philadelphia
Convention makes platform fully as
conservative as that framed at Cincin-
natl, how can Democrats urge the
claims of Greeley, the Mercury of Re-
pub1icanism, against Grant, who has
only executed the orders which Con-
gress, ut the behest of Greeley and men
will thus be narrowed down to per-
sonal canvass, in which, taking the
record, quite as much may be said, to
secure Democratic votes, for Grant as
for Greeley.
There is IL danger here that will be
made apparent at every public discus
sion throughout the South in the APP
preaching campaign. If it should do
no more than cause Southern men to
become indifferent us to tho issue of the
INSTRUMENTATION Grant be elected, or
Greeley DO elected-the supporters of
Greeley will be heavy sufferers. And
that the Grant Republicans intend max
ing Il bid for Southern votes, and there
by neutralize the claims of tho Liberal
Republican ticket, we think will be
made clear enough ut Philadelphia,
and they will have evidences to pro-
dncc from political annals that their
course toward the South has been alto
gether as liberal as that of Mr.. Greeley,
Mr.. Schurz, Mr.. Trumbull or Mr.. Jul
liam, as every one knows who is f;,mil-
lar with the newspaper literature, Con-
gressional debates and federal adminis-
tration of Southern affairs since the
Surrender of Lee ut Appomattox.
Said the Fox in the pool to the Goat
on the bank: o, come down and get