Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-05
CINCINNATI.
The Commercial,

The Commercial.
CINCINNATI, May 4.-The Commercial
warmly endorses the nominations made
yesterday, while at the same. time express
ing the opinion that the nomination of
Adams and sTrumbull would have been
more acceptable. 1t says: ''Whether we
will find it our duty to urge upon our fell
low-citizens Mr.. Greeley for the Presidency
depends upon that which may be done by
the regular organizations of the old exist
ing political parties. Mr.. Greeley, few
weeks ago, frankly stated that be would
support the Cincinnati nominee provided
the Democratic party did not appear in the
field in the form of attempting to take ad-
vantage of Republican divisions, and that
in case there was regular Democratic
nomination, he would support the strong
est Republican candidate. We have made
a similar reservation as to our position
ia case of the nomination of Mr..
Adams, and we repeat it il respect to Mr..
Greeley. Disagreeing always with Mr..
Greeley in his tariff nations, we have from
the beginning believed in his doctrine that
with impartial suffrage, universal amnesty
should be associated, and we share the pop
ular faith in his perfect integrity. His tenn
perate and modest life, his industry, bis
hatred Of shams and warfare upon wrongs,
his courageous candOr and abounding gen
erosity, have commended him to the heart
and conscience of the American people; and
in whatever their confidence may be shaken,
he can safely defy the ingenuity of malice
even through the tOrments of a Presidential
campaign to affect his reputation as an hon
est man. Among the things that ara ElalE
-0tTcCcFOua DE IN The candidacy of Mr..
Greeley, want of popular strength viii
not, in our opinion, be numbered. We
have no doubt of the immediate and tho
rough cooperation Of the Democratic party
in the Greeley movement.
Thomas A. Hendricks. ...
of Indiana, has, we weunderstand, IpromisedI
TO go for Greeley, and will run for Govern
or of the State on the Cincinnati platform.
His point, Of course, is TO beat Morton for
the Senate. The Hon. Geo. ii. Pendleton
did not hesitate, last night, TO declare him
self for Greeley.
"a Democratic National Convention will
be called, and will indorse the work of the
Cincinnati Convention, ticket and plat
form. Under these conditions the strength
of Alr. Greeley in the South will be over
whelming. The colored people have much
confidence in him, and the old Confeder-
ateS will remember his magnanimity in
bailing their chief, and the generous meas
ure of amnesty with which it has been his
plan to soften the Tudeness of their calam-
lty. Liberty and Union and suffrage for all
being secure, he has thought kindness the
best policy and charitableness the better
part of craftsmanship. The general result
is that Mr.. Greeley is so popular in the
South, and the conditions of the can
vass are likely to be such that
he will carry every State South of the Po-
tomac, Ohio and Missouri rivers. There
will De a flood in that land that viii not
leave dry spot sticking out from the Ches-
apeake to the Rio Grande. The undoubted
protective doctrines of Greeley will give
him immense strength in Pennsylvania,
which, confronted by the weakness of the
Republican State 'ring' ticket, gives him a
bond for that State. New York NAV be
counted certain for Greeley by sn enormous
majority; and, indeed, if the Democracy
will not make nomination, and if the
Philadelphia Convention nominates Grant,
it will be difficult to name any State as
being certain for the official and regular
Republican candidate. But will not this be
a process of restoring the Democratic party
to power? We think not. 1t seems to re-
solve all parties into chaos. 1t will be the
breaking up and crushing out of the existing
organizations. We shall have, as Henry
Ward Beecher said the other day, q new
DEAL"
The Enquirer.
The Enquirer says: "The platform of the
Convention is a splendid one upon which
every honest mau and friend of republican
Institutions can stand. Its adoption by &C
clamation was the death knell to the hopes
of the friends Of the Grant military dy-
nasty. They felicitated themselves withth
idea that the Convention would break up in
a row over the tariff question. Those of
them who were present at the session on
Thursday night, could readily be distin-
gUisheG by their ezulting applause when,
for a time, there was a little excitement
growing out of the hasty and i'll considered
remarks of an Ohio delegate (Judge Mat
thews). They have in this experienced
their first, but not their last, disappoint-
ment. They hoped the Convention would
nominate that ticket. 1t is certainly one of
strength. They hoped the Democracy
would rally to its support. We think they
Will BE Deceived. -
The Convention has done itself honor by
the manner in which it has settled this
veXed business of platform, and proved
themselves worthy representatives of the
masses OF their cOuntrymeD, who, disagree
ing upon the question, are determined to
unite to save the Government from being
destroyed by military tyranny and by the
cancer OF corruption pervading every branch
Of the public service
The Gazette.
The GGzette.says: Several hundred persons
called from various parts of the country
by a cry of opposition to Grant, and repre-
senting nothing but themselves, Constituted
themselves a national nominating conven-
ton and nominated Horace Greeley and
Borer Gratz Brown. Their number and
character have about the same proportion
to their assumption as in case of the ...
Three TaiIOrs of TOOIey Street
who issued proclamation: 'We the peo-
pie of England The conTiYers trust that
the Democratic Convention win also nomi-
nate this ticket. What can they promise
on their part? Can they pledge even the
votes of their sO-called convention (? On the
other hand, what evidence have they that
the Democratic Convention viii ratify these
nominations2 There We're some Demo
cratic committals with regard to Mr..
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