Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-11
TFRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

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IFRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
New YORK, Sept. 9, 1872.
l can conceive of nothing more utterly dis
graceful than the manner in which the present
presidential campaign is conducted by the par
tisan presses on both sides in New York. If we
could believe these papers, Mr.. Greeley is a
knave and fool; a secessionist from the start,
traitor through the war, and double traitor
now; while, on the other hand, General Grant
is almost an imbecile, drunk nine-tenths of the
time, and when sober having barely sense enough
to drive pair of fast horses and accept any gift,
from puppy to principality. Specific charges
are made, and when one Of these is shown to be
false, it is followed by another still more base
less. Thus, not many days SINCE a paragraph
went the rounds, asserting that while General
Grant was accompanying Andrew johnson on
his unfortunate trip, he was on a specified day
guest of a gentleman in Buffalo, where he be-
came beastly drunk, and left his apartment in a
condition which would have disgraced pig
sty. What mattered it that the Buffalo gentle
man met this charge by declaring that General
Grant did not even enter his house on that occa
sion? Thousands upon thousands read and
heard the accusation who will never hear or read
the refutation. So, too, in respect to Mr. Gree
ley. Acts like his balling Jefferson DAVIS, every
way honorable; utterances which, whether well
or i'll judged as we look back upon them, were
at the time thought by us all to be I'll and prop
er, are made ground Of vituperation. Such is
the famous call for the march upon Richmond.
Oddly enough, l have not for three years any
where seen this correctly quoted. As a matter
of literary curiosity, l reproduce it, capitals
italics, and all, just as it appeared in the Tri-
bune, every day from June 26 to July 3, 1861:
"THE NATIONS WAR-CRY. - Fortoard to
Richmond! FOrl0ard to Richmond! The Rebel
Congress must not be aiLotoed to meet there on the
10th Of Jity! By THAT DATE THE PLACE MUST
BE HELD BY THE NATIONAL ARAiYw
lnjudiciOus as we now know this to have been,
it then gave exact expression to the feeling of
almost all loyal men. But be it right or wrong,
Mr.. Greeley had no more to do with the writing
or publication of it than you or |. Mr., Charles
A. Dana, now editor of the Sun, was at that
time the acting editor of the Tribune, and the
The Nations War-Cry" has been universally
ascrbed to him; but the other day the Sun took
occasion TO say that the real author of the war
cry was Mr.. Fitz Henry Warren.
No man can be more earnestly opposed to the
election of Mr. Greeley than am admit that
he is man of decided capacity, of a certain
fashion; that his personal character is unim-
q nd hot B, l. J,
lieying that the present administration should
be overthrow, and that he is the very best man
in the country for president | oppose
him because l believe him about the
man in the country least fitted in any
case for the office; and especially because.
if elected, it will be mainly by democratic
votes; by the vote of the men whose avowed
principles are, and have been the very ones
against which l, as a republican have always
commended; and if elected he must and will con-
duct the government in accordance with and in
suhservency to these men. Granting, for the
sake OF the argument, that there have been
some grave defects in the administration of Gen.
Grant-though for my own part believe them
to be fewer in number, and less serious in char
administration
since have known anything of political his
tory-still the simple question for every republi-
can IS: VIII it be better for the country that
the control of affairs shall remain with the re-
publican party, or pass into the hands of their
opponents; The real issue is not between Grant
and Greeley; it is between republican
policy and democratic policy. In case Mr..
is oil w =.
other former republicans may be perfectly as
sured that they will have no more influence in
directing the course of affairs than tin kettle
tied to bulls tail has in regulating the conduct
of the beast
That the democrats should have nominated
Mr.. Greeley was strange enough; but that any
republican should, now that Mr. Greeley has
deserted them, vote for him, seems to me
stranger still But politics bring about odd
alliances. Take our own state of New York.
The double-enders have nominated for lieuten-
ant governor Mr.. Chauncey NJ Depew. Now
ii there be any man in the state who should be
more than another obnoxious to every honest
democrat, it is this same Mr.. Depew
In 1865 he was the republican secretary
that year was taken under his direction.
Every democratic newspaper, every democratic
stump-speaker, denounced that census as a
fraud williully perpetrated by the republican
secretary Of state in order to cheat the demo-
cratic party out of its votes. 1t was charged that
the population of the city of New York was
returned at barely two-thirds of its real num-
vi ub hor h., I
ed out OF at least two members of congress; and
SO on through every phrase and form of accusa-
ton If any one wants to see how public man
may be abused, l commend to his search the
columns of the New York World, for several
years. II half the charges against Mr.. Depew
were capable of proof he would most iustlv
nave been liable to the sentence inflicted upon
our Judge Barnard, to say nothing Of the state
prison. Now ! do not believe one word of
these charges of fraud. But the democrats be-
lieyed, or proiessed to believe them; and tbcv
must still believe them; for there is not. and
from the nature of the case could not be, anv
new evidence in disproof. This nomination
must be bitter pill for the democrats. bitterer
though smaller, than that of Greeley: but I
"PPN'S my VIII SNhllON IL, One might lmau-
Inc that the boilers from the republican party,
having agreed to put up with nothing more
than the acknowledgements named Mr..
Depew out of spite against his democratic al.
lies. imagine the detection among the repub
licans throughout the country will be far less
than seemed probable a month ago The result
of the election in Vermont confirms this opin-
ion. There is probably no other state in the
Union in which Mr.. Greeley's personal influence
was formerly SO great, and no other one in
which SO large proportional detection was to
be anticipated
Of course, no one supposed that the republic
cans would fail to carry Vermont the question
was, how large their majority would be. If it
ell greatly below that Of late years, there would
Je reason to suppose that the same influences
would draw off enough votes in other states to
rive Mr.. Greeley several in which the regular
epublican majority was smaller. My own esti-
nate was that if the majority in Vermont was
more than 10000, it would indicate that Grant
would carry all the republican states; if it was
ess than $4,000 that he would probably lose
eyeral; if it was between these numbers the
general issue would be doubtful. The democrats
lere try TO console themselves under the blow of
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