New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-08

success, and lmpartS to the lnSurgent cause
a new force. 1t is needless to inquire
whether Adams or TrumbulI or Davis or
Palmer would or would not have been a
better candidate for the first place the dis
tinguished man actually nominated for that
first place is so good and fit as to leave little
room for regret among the partisans of the
defeated aspirants, and to produce among
the people feeling of emphatic satisfac-
ton. One thing, at least is certain neither
of the opposing aspirants is a stronger man
than Horace Greeley His name Is a power
IN the North and in the South. His simple
act of going on the bail-bOnd of Jefferson
Davis, and thereby securing his release
from StantOn's pitiless Imprisonment, won
the hearts of the Southern cOnfederates,
without losing for him an atom Of the
goodwill of a single Union man
whose goodwill was worth having.
He is popular with the colored
people, whose steadfast friend he has
ever been; be is popular in Maine, and
more popular still in Texas in fact, he
possesses a wider and more eqUable pOpu-
larity than any other man in the United
States. He has some intirmities, indeed
but they are infTmities of manner rather
than serious faults. They do not weaken
him; they do not impair his usefulness, nor
detract from his power The people re-
gard them with a fond fOrbeaFance, and, it
like him all the better for them. His in
tirmities are certainly not vices; beneath
them and in them the people detect the
sterling worth of a faithful, upright and
Just man. Not one of the later individual
accessions to the Liberal revolt brought to
it so large a measure of strength and inhu-
ence as he indeed, ever since he espOused
it, he has been recognized as its most for
midable champion, after Carl SchurZ His
To
fed, and he will prove more than a match
for his antagonist.
B. Gratz Brown, as candidate for Vice
President. strengthens and completes the
ticket He was the successful champion of
the Liberal movement in Missouri two years
ago, and inflicted on Grant, then, the first
humiliation he has encountered. In fact,
he struck the administration a blow from
which it has never recovered, and from
which it never will recover. Brown is pop
ular in the West and South, and has re-
Gently made speeches at Topeka and Daven-
port which will do much to give shape and
direction to the canvass and compact the
opposition to Grant.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.J
The convention yesterday, after mature
deliberatiOn and consideration, selected
Horace Greeley as its nominee for Presi-
dent. In this action we can say with truth
it did not make a mistake. 1t nominated
the strongest man-One identified with the
movement from its earliest inception, and
one who was richly entitled to such a recOg-
milton at its hands. The name of Mr. Gree
ley carries with it all the essential elements
that are at the basis of this reform move
ment.
A purer man, in private or public life,
and one who possesses more capacity to
carry out the wishes of the people in that
particular, could not have been chosen. By
a happy and felicitOus expression, he has
been well styled ''Our later Franklin"
There is certainly a great resemblance be-
tween his character and public services
and those of the illustriOus man with whom
the comparison is made. If there ever was
one connected in feeling, thought and
aspiration with the masses, it is Mr.
Greeley. He has known privation and
suffering, and from the humblest begin
ming has worked himself up to his present
proud position. A more generous, warm
hearted man-One whose ear is ever Open
to suffering, and who is prompt to alleviate
it-dOes not exist. He possesses an indie
pendence that is most peculiar, and which
rendered him fit and appropriate repre-
sentative of those who have had the manli-
ness to strike out boldly against the tyranny
and usurpatiOns of the present administra-
ton. Like Franklin, the basis of his char
acter is common sense. He has an I'M
usually sound mental constitution, and no
one possesses to a greater degree all the
industrial and economical virtues. This is
a great quality in the conduct of public
affairs There are none who are better ac-
quainted with the country, its resources
and its leading men than he is, and none
who, in his selection for offices, would be
governed with a more masculine Judgment ,
and integrity.
From the Chicago Tribune.l
Horace Greeley is known to all the land. |
HIS personal integrity is unquestionable. |
He has won his distinction before the people |
by life of industry, toll and ability The |
Presidency can hardly add anything to his |
fame. BUt, in a movement by the people |
for reform, there is no person to whom the |
task can be more tittinglv Or confidently /
committed than to him. That he will root
out corruption in every branch of the gov
eminent, no one doubts; fraud will not APP
prOach him, nor will he tolerate incompe-
tencY or dishonesty for the sake of friends
or party.
He has been from the close of the war
the unfaltering advocate of amnesty and !
impartial suffrage. He has been the friend
of the cOlOred race, rendering them more
aid perhaps than any other man in obtain
ing their political freedom. He has been |
in like manner and on all occasions the
friend of the suffering and the oppressed of
race, and the millions of foreign
born citizens in the Union will attest the
many years he has devoted to their welfare
and their protection.
In the matter of protection, Horace Gree
ley has been among the foremost champions
Of that system of taxation. We differ from
him wholly on that subject. He has been
nominated on a platform substantially sug-
gested by himself, which declares that the
matter of revenue is purely Congressional
question, to be decided by the people.
through their representatives free Of exec
ltive interference, and that the decision of
the majority of the people shall be the law of
The land. The foremost leaders of revenue
reform in the country ask no more than
his, and they viii accept the popular de-
3isiOn as the only binding one that can be
made.
Horace Greeley is presented to the Amer.
can people as a candidate for President
who, If elected, will execute needed re-
forms, and put an end to existing abuses.
He enters the field not as candidate Of
politicians, but as their persistent foe. His
election will be a new era in national poll
les. To his support will rally every man,
If whatever party, who really wants re-
Orm. He will carry, with one or two ex-
,eptiOns, all the Southern and Southwestern |
States. He will carry Pennsylvania and ;
New York, and three at least of the New
England States. In Ohio, Indiana and Hi
lois, his nomination will be accepted as a
IGN of deliverance, and around him will
,ather host that will unite their efforts
With those Of their cOuntrymen in other
states to restore the government to its
yonted constitutional powers and duties.
This is from the New York Tribune:
Mr.. Boutwell, reports the national debt
educed by Sl2588,OS8 within the month of