The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-05-10
GREELEY AND BROWN
IFrom the ST. Louis Republican of the 4th]

with success, and imparts to the in
surgent cause new force. It i.
needless to inquire whether Adams
or Trumbull, or Davis, or Palmer
| would Or would not have been a bet.
ter candidate for the first place the
distinguished man actually nomina.
ted for that first place is so good ano
fit as to leave little room for regret
among the partisans of the defeated
aspirants, and to produce among the
people feeling Of emphatic satisiac.
ton. One, thing, at least, is certain :
neither of the opposing aspirants is
a stronger man than Horace Gree
ley. His name is a power in the
North and in the South. His simple
act, of going on the bail-bond of JEFF
ferson Davis, and thereby securing
his release from Stantonis pitiless
imprisonment, won the hearts of the
Southern Confederates, without los
ing for him an atom Of the good will
of single Union man whose good
will was worth having. He is popu-
lar with the colored people, whose
steadfast friend he has been !; he is
popular in Maine, and more popular
still in Texas in fact, he possesses
a wider a more equable popularity
than any other man in the United
States. He has some infrmities, in
deed but they are inirmities OF
manner rather than serious faults
They do not weaken him they do
not impair his usefulness, nor, de-
tract from his power. The people
regard them with a fond forbearance
and it would not be far out of the
way to say, like him all the better
for them. His inirmities are GER
tainly not vices beneath them and
in them the people detect the ster-
ling worth of a faithful, upright and
just man. Not one of the latter in
dividual acccssions to the Liberal re-
volt brought to it so large a measure
of strength and influence as he sin
deed, ever since he espoused it, he
has been recognized as the most for
midable champion, after Carl schurz.
His opposition to Grant is positive
and unqualified, and he will prove
more than a match for his antagon-
list.
B. Gratz Brown, as candidate for
Vice-President, Strengthens and COM
pletes the ticket. He was the sue
cessful champion of the Liberal
movement in Missouri, two years
ago, and inflicted on Grant, then, the
first humiliation he has encountered.
In fact, he struck the administration
a blow from which it has never re-
covered and from which it never will
recover. Brown is popular in the
West and South, and has recently
made speeches at Topeka and Da-
venport, which will do much to give
shape and direction to the canvass,
and compact the opposition to Grant.
Greeley is IN avowed protection
list, while Brown is an outspoken
free-trader, and this fact will be
made most Of by the Administration
party. But all the force of the APP
parent contradiction has been des-
troyed by the action of the conyen-
ton in RENTING the tariff question
to the Congressional districts. MIR.
Greeley himself declared in the Til
b,tne of Wednesday, that 6" if ma
jority of the American people want
free-trade, they ought to have it, no
matter this or that individual be dis
pleased thereby intimating that if
Congress should pass a free-trade
act, the President would have no
right to veto it.
How will this ticket and this plat
form strike the people ? Particular
ly, how will they strike that great
body of Democratic voters, who, hav-
ing no party ticket of their own in
the field, are, for that very reason,
arbiters of the opening contest p
These are interesting questions. The
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