The Shasta courier., 1872-09-14
THE LOUISVILLE CONVENTION.

Last week We alluded briefly to to the
fact that O'Connor and Adams bad received
the Democratic nomination at Louisville.
Mr.. u onnor, ia a letter previously written,
had declined the nomination although ex-
pressing sympathy with the movement.
Mr.. Adams made his &C. eptance contingent
upon the acceptance OF Mr. O'Connor.-
At this present writing it is in doutt
whether Mr.. O'Connor will reconsider his
decision and accept the nomin alton or not.
He il said to have met the Louisville de.
putation with decided refusal at first, but,
being Informed that many influential citi-
sens were ready to support him; said that if
"any considable number of citizens of New
York felt as represented, he might modify
his decision" We deem it probable that
lie will accept, whether he does or not,
the result will be the same The Demo.
cratic element which was represented at
Louisville can never be whipped in to the
the support of Greeley and Brown. A few
may vote that ticket, more will vote for
Grunt as the least of two evils l.; still more
will refuse to vote at all, unless they can
support nominee whose Democracy is un.
questioned and unquestionable.
These who have been Democrats from
principle, have looked forward to the Louis
vile movement with G eat interest They
preferred defeat with men whom they
could trust as leaders, to victory which
would be gained by the sacrifice of all for
which they have been contending They
knew that Mr.. Greeley had been life long
champion Of ideas Numerically opposite to
those they cherished, that his opinions up
until very recently had been in full accord
with those of the most radical of tile Re.
publican party. They have no reason to
believe that he has changed his views :;
and that if he has, it is not from the sincere
conviction that he has, in the past, been
battling for the wrong, b1t from baser
motives. Why Democrats should, 10 a
representative capacity, take up with such
. candidate, is problem which can only
be solved on the supposition, that recog-
nising that as distinctive party they
would be again beaten, they chose barren
victory rather than an honorable defeat
For the Democratic party aud its priuci lies
We have and have had no sympathy. We
be ieve that the success of that or a anization
WON d revive issues which should remain
buried, aud open questions for discussion
which again woula arouse sectional feeling
and estrangement. But. while entertain.
ing this belief, We could respect the opin-
lou however wrong, which we believed to
be sincere. For such Of that party as
cboose to follow the Greeley leadership, we
cap have no such feeling. They are no
long er Democrats. but siGply, Anti-Repub-
licans. They have thrust aside all which
cou.d give them any claim to the title of
ID snUcrsts, endorsed q platform which
does not represent tneir ideas, and nomlna-
ted ~ Candidate, Que OF those whom they
have exhausted the power to language to
;Teviie. WlIi any SAFE Dap say, that prior
70 the CinciBnau Convention, Horace
Greeley wxs the 6rst, or second. or third
cholce Of any Democrat, in auy OF thirty.
seven States OF the Union. 1t is we'll
.knuwu, that no wlthstanding his attitude
OF opposition to the Presldeut, be yet be-
ieved that tue re s.ectIon OF Gen
srai Grant was in every way preferable to
. Democrztlc success. 1t the Dew ocrats
bad made straight party nomination at
Baltimore, Mr.. Greeley would have with.
drawn irow the contest, knowing that he
could not obtain the electoral vote OF q
single State
It 10 but natural that Democrats, who
believe slnosrely that the the principles of
their party are those which ale best caIcu.
lated to oopduce to the prosperity OF the
country, should rebel at that action Of their
party leaders which has tried to sell them
out 70 the enemy. They look upon the
uew movement ~ CONTEST, not tor princi-
pie, but tor the spoils OF Office. Mr.. Gree
ley, in his Portland speech, held out this