The Hickman courier., 1872-08-17
reasons for voting for greeley

Reasons for Voting for Greeley
The Democracy of the North are
yielding to Horace Greeley an ardent
aud enthusiastic support. The canvas:
10 Pennsylvania is full of bitterness, aud
the Democratic press aud speakers give
the following reasons for supporting
Greeley
FIRST Because We want a change oi
administration, aud we see no other way
to get it.
Second Because be received the
unanimous nomination Of the regular
we'll qualified representatives Of the
Democratic party.
Third-Because he is more intelligent
and quite as honest as Grant On the
score of honesty, the Radicals canuo,
justly claim any superiority for their
candidate
Fourth-Because he has some heart
and feels for the sufferings Of his fellow
men; whereas. Grant is 3 selfish, cold
blooded man, without such heart.
Fifth-Because Greeley has pledged
himself 20 a course of action in harmony
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party, and in no other way than by his
election can the people now hope to see
them once more iu the ascendant.
ixth-Because Grant, and the party
of men who handle him-or whom be
hanoles-it makes little difference which
have shown, unmistakably, that they
do not intend to allow our Southern
brethren to be free men, or the Southern
States to have any real sovereignty, or
any rights such as States should possess
Seventh-Because Grant, and his men,
forming the Grant government, have ex-
hibited before the whole world the meau
est spirit ever shown by great govern
ment. They cannot disgrace the Ameri-
can people, but they have disgraced
themselves, and lowered our people
government in the estimation Of fair men
among all nations.
Eighth-Beeause Grant aud his tools,
as INSCRIPTIONS as himself, have seut
bordes of Radical thieves into the homes
of our Southern brothers and robbed
them of their pittance left by the war,
and involved them in vast debts, in the
most barefaced and outrageous manner.
Ninth-Because Grant and his men
have no respect for the people, North or
South; caring only for what they can
make off them; whereas Greeley is him
self one of the working men, aud alive
to their feelings, and both kind and con
siderate
Tenth-Because the best men amoug
the Radical leaders, who kno,o Grant
have pronounced him unfit to 10 the
ruler of a free people.
Eleventh-Because he makes self aud
his own personal greed aud qualification
primary, and the affairs of the Govern.
ment mere plaything, and entirely sec
ondary.
Twelfth-Beeause he appoints men to
public Offices who are unfit and dishon
est, knowing them to be so, aud retains
them, to the serious iojury OF the people :
pockets.
Because Grants poll
ces" have been simply ridiculous. He
came into the Office with the public dec
laration that he he'd .-oo policy ,SIssr0
as his whole action, from beginning TO
end, has been a succession of Grant poll.
cies.
Fourteenth-Because his San Domin-
90 policy is not dead. but sleeping, and
IN casa OF his re election it will be put
through by his tools as surely as the
sun shines, and it is notorious that il is
wicked scheme-nothing more than
corrupt and most dangerous Graut lob
Fiiteenth-Because Greeley. nomina
ted as he has been, aud supported as he
will be, by the well disposed meu of the
United States, will naturally rally
around him the best meU, and secure an
honest administration of the Govern
ment
Because we can stand an
honest administration of the Govern
ment
Seventeenth-Because although Gree
ley as an Editor has, through long
political life, opposed many of the prin
ciples Of the Democratic party. our nom
mating Convention has satisfied itself
that he is now ready 10 harmonize with
them upon great measures vital to our
countrys prosperity, and the exitence Of
free Government.
Eighteenih-Because we have ever
since the war condemned the policy in
by the dominant Radical par.
ty as inimical to the true interests of the
Southern States, whilst Grant not only
supports it but aggravates it by his mil
itary tyranny over them.
Because Greeley con
demns this tyrannical and wicked course
and stands ready to discard it from our
as dark modern ciyili-
zatien.
Because there is Dothiug
whatever, no policy and no act of our
government more important, more fraught
with high consequences in the immediate
and distant future. than the real frater-
nization Of the North and the South
Twenty Because such fraterui-
sation under the rnle of Grant and his
men, is an impossibility while under
The action of Democratic principles it
will he osrtaintv spsadilv realized