Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-06-26
The Coalition.

pHfioaH calls with eausiic satire. I
beneficial revOluticnr begun at Cilci
natl is how apparent. The movement
the most unprincipled coalition in our ,
litical history. Nobody is deceived
callingit great moral aud Olitical re-
oiution, because everybody knows III
the worst things have often the 6ne
names. The lDquisition was no less inf
nous because it was called the Holy o
fee, and the Cincinnati coalition is D
less disgraeeful because il is called b
many good names. Mr.. SchurE, MI
Wells, Gen. Cox. Mr.. Atkinson, anC
their friends may have had high purpose
in the Convention at Cincinnati. Mr.
Schurz may even desperately decied, i
Mr. Greeley isnomiBated at Baltimore
to take the chance Of Greeley rather thar
the certainty of Grant He may paint
in repulsive colors what he believes to be
the misdeeds of this Administration, and
declare that VIC ought 10 overthrow it,
and secure a pure and noble Administra.
ton, in which only honest men with IN.
selfish motives, will take part. But Mr..
Schurz cannot deny that the Cincinnati
movement has not founded new party
with great principles, but must end either
in ridiculous failure or in mere coali.
tion.
After the recent Democratic conven.
tons the coalition is probable. And will
honorable and patriotic men who may be
alienated from the Administration, and |
have hoped for a kind Of political millen-
mum from Cincinnati, consider Just what
that coalition is? 1t is combination of
every element Of discomfort, of disloyalty
and disorder in the country; Of the great
mass Of unrepentant rebels. of negro ha-
tiers and regulators; of the actual and
theoretical enemies of the Union; of an. {
clent and malignant Copperheads; of Re.
publicans with personal grievances; of no. I
torious and played out" Republican d
politicians; of the Tammany and Brooklyn n
rings, aud of the worst classes in local Y
politics; Of the Ku-Klux and its abettors |
and apOlOgists; and of some welI-meaninp 4
men, utterly bewildered by the company t
which hustles and heaves them along. 1t a
is coalition which Mr.. Schurz is not vet G
willing to support, and in which the sole G
Republican name of national Importance st
If MIR. Greeley be exceptcd-is Mr. NJ
frumbull. 1t is combination whose crv b
Anything to beat Grant" and whose r
empowering element is the motley mass tn
'nown as the Democratic party, and vet NJ
combination which can hope to hold "
My the worst part of that party.
The Cincinnati movement, as such
as no general organization, and is mere. fro
contemplate in numbers and force
I, however, the coalition be made by
OCULAR Democratic nomination of Mr. W
-reeley, the coalition will be conducted
the Democratic organization, and will VI
the campaign of the Democratic party.
Will be the last desperate struggle of
lat party to recover power. "Anythinp
beat Grant" is its cry, even the nomi. =
'tlon of Greeley, if regularly mad c, be. -
use, though it will convulse the party nav
will still leave the organization. ANY. me
ing to beat Grant means merely any.
ing to save the Democratic party. But pc
the real question of the election be one 'a"'
principle, does any intelligent and pa. a'u
QUO citizen prefer the principles which !
G Democratic party has supported, now este
Ppolts.or processes its willingness to ing
Renter support, to those which are the TAX
Try. OF the Republican party? Is it We
'olute equality before the law3 Il il thu
lntenance of the national faith? Is il 7
eihhclent protection of all citizens com
II wise generosity in dealing with not
results of the war? And upon auy and
these does such citizen believe Dem ente
atic ascendency to be the most desi. of q
lie 1t, 90 the other hand, the cues. "
Oh the election be one of administra. ton,
h solely, does the same citizen expect of II
alter honesty, efficiency and economy estiu
the coalition. composed as we all
" y to be, than from the Republican ~
tyr st tn -ia
\ politics we deal with men and with ~ ~
erection. If any Administrator EN-
ia be judged by individual failures aly
cad of general results, none could wv"
d. Batin every great election we l'op
to decide upon probabilities. II il 'ef'
Tvs an d toorna,;r. M 800 meme
Of Gen Gran, h.. ,Hhls - alum
unprecedented ferocity. But look. y, VI
at II II as it stands to-day, the object Of lAo0
eastn ora falsehood, what sensible lam
'otlc' honest man would not prefer ~.
Il
stability and security, the justice and ca !,
IA a.ao ON m - PROMISES TO cred.