American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-11
The Cincinnati Convention.

AhC ACSOitHnS ScpuOlICstHS WIZ
met lately at Cincinnati, have adopt
ed a platform, and nominated can
Oates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency-HOrace Greeley of New
York, and Gov. b. Gratz Brown of
Missouri, is their ticket. While, as
all know, The AMERICAN CITIZEN
has ever been, and ever will be, i'll
favor of a square Democratic nOmi-
nee for these responsible positions,
aid square fight with the Repub-
lican party Of the nation upon the
principles which underlie both par
ties respectively, and although we
favor the assembling ola Democrat
ic Convention, and the prompt
adoption of its nominees as the can
didates of that Grand Old Guard of
the Constitution,-yet We believe
from the signs of the times, that
"Old White Hat" as Greeley is
called, will draw off to his support
q large fragment of the Republican
party and the mass of the Demo-
Gratis.
Whenever a National Convention
has met in this country, and some
man little thought of previously has
been put in the field, it has usually
resulted from the fact, that pOliti-
Clans in conventions, struggling to
nominate their choice, have aroused
all the sympathies of the mass of
body for some good hearted man,
not specially hated by any, but look
ed on rs an Oddity tor the plao e.
This thing is electric in its effect on
q convention, is repeated when it
gets to the people, and now hardly
q man that You meet, but what says,
"Horace Greeley is not as good as
Adams or Trumbull," but winds up
by saying F" But he is an honest old
fellow" And that expression, we
fear, will get into every mans mouth,
and SO to get rid of a little present
stealing and oppression, We are to
be called ON to witness the funeral
Of the Democratic party
Everybody is saying tina. Greeley
must have been honest in his Abo.
litiOnism, and that he can't hurt
any body by it now-that We had
better profit by his present DISPOSE.
ton to extend sympathy to. and
he p out of the clutches of robbers,
the dOwn-trOdden people of the
Southland thus away goes the
principles that are vital to Republi.
can Government. This old man has
q crotchet on the subject of the allie.
Walton of human suffering, as he
terms it, and because we being
about the only fit subjects for such
sympathy as his, he turns his eye
in this direction, everybody is ready
to Hurrah for Greeley!
Now this is all very well in its
way, but what will come of it, if old
man Greeley is elected He believes
q negro is as good az a white man,
and will so act, and We will not get
rid of black men in Office or any
where else. He does not believe in
States Rights, hence we can't ex
pect anything on that score. He
believes in protection, opposes free
trade, and although he gracefully
says President has nothing to do
with the matter, and RENTS the
whole business to Congress, and
promises to carry out their will, still
there is old Horace Greeley, Adolf
tiOnis-, Negro-lOving, Pro ectionist
about whom nobody can say any
thing except that he is honest and
philanthropic.
Now if the Democracy will just
stick together and nOmina some
such man as Hendricks or Pendle
ton, all will be well. Go slow, l e
mOcracyi
e. The Richmond Enquirer states
that arrangemeptS have been made