The weekly clarion., 1872-05-09
ALABAMA,
What the Mississippi Press Says
About the Nominations.
Says the Vicksburg Herald

Says the Vicksburg Herald
Both are representative men, and they
are both founders of the party. Mr.. Gree
| ley is too well known to the reading pubIfsf
TO require an introduction. Emphaticat
| a self-made man, from the position of
/ poor printer boy, Mr.. Greeley long since
became recognized power in the land as
the most influential journalist in the coun-
| try Through the columns of the New
York Tribune, Mr.. Greeley has welded an
| influence unequalled by any man in Amer
! lea. His honesty has never been cues
1 toned, while his generosity and kindness
OF heart are recognized wherever he is
! known. Should he be elected President of
/ the United States. the people nay rest sat
/ ished That he will neither rob them himself
I nor allow others to plunder thm. He will
not beSrow offices and honors Upon thieves
and drunkards, and he will not like Grant.
ger drunk aud make spectacle of himself
al circus.
The Herald adds:
If the Liberal movement shall have de-
veloped sufficient strength to command
attention, the Democratic Convention will
then consider what course duty and patri-
otism requires from that great party, and
until it has spoken in authoritative terms
we hope that Democrats and Democratic
journals will SNAKE haste slowly
The Citizen-News says:
in this view, then, we feel assured our
Democratic leaders will not decide to run A
separate candidate. unless his chances of
election are almost beyond peradventure
but Ii there seems no such reasonable chance
will advise that the party give its influence
to the success of the anti-Grant party.
The Meridian Mercury is characters
ically emphatic. 1t says:
Horace Greeley has been nominated. and
the Mercury goes tor Greeley TO be the next
President. 1t does net wait to take its cue
from any man, clique or party. If the
Democratic party is wise, it will leave its
individual members free to act as their in
clinations may prompt. If it should be
unwise and attempt to run in a man he
tween the divided factions, we are commits
ted and will remain steadfast to the position
now taken.
The Mercury does not turn its back npon
its principles. In politics there is NOT much
in common between the Mercury and ira
Presidential candidate.
In what there is, We believe our candidate
to be as honest as we claim to be. We want
immunity from the tyranny of the Federal
Government specially directed against our
Southern people on account of the late war |
With Greeley rs President, we have a per- |
feet confidence that there will be an end of |
military arrests in the South any more than |
in the North, and that there will be an end |
of the disreputable scenes which lately we /
nave sc IN III dChSOl anu OAlOTU. Nt WANT /
the corrupt and carpet-fag thieves who |
have been put in official position by Il cor
rupt and malignant administration, and en-
to plunder the South like a con-
1uered territory turned over TO raplne, to
be driven from place and power and pun
shed.
The Meridian Gazette says
so far as our opportunities for observa-
ion extends we can say that they have
1een received with satisfaction by cur citi-
sens and have served to revive a hopeful
Ind cheerful view Ofthe future. The ticket
5 undoubtedly a good one and strong one
the acknowledged honesty, in I
egrity and solid common sense of Mr.
Greeley with the briliancy of talents and
political influence of Mr., Brown. Liberal
has grown to such astonish-
ng proportions and holds out such certain
hopes of consummation earnestly desired 5
~ all good men, that the nomination of [
candidates by the Democrats would be !
tightly impolitic. Events may arise which {
will render it necessary to run Democratic l
icket. though they now seem improbable
nd would certainly be unfortunate, vet c
We may safely assert that the fight will be t
'etween Greeley and Grant, only, and in /
uch contest all honest men will know t
ow to choose.
To the hour of going to press, the d
embrace all the expressions we t
ave received from the Radical c
ress of the State. r