The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-22
: Bur there are principles common to

Dotn democrats and RepublicanS) and to
all patriotic citizens who desire to prolong
republican government on this continent:
the principles of the constitution - the
principles that will preserve to the people
of the States their local self-government
and their freedom from arbitrary arrest and
trial under military authority without the
protection of ha6eds corpus and a fair trial
before properly constituted tribunals of their
country, before jury Of their peers, and
according to the constitution" --Dispatch.
This reads excelently well in print.
We have seen good many utterances just
like it, but none of them has as yet so far
warped our judgement as to make us be-.
lever in Horace Greeley's love of State
rights or his desire to preserve local self
government to the people of the States.
No journal in all this wide country has
more persistently assailed the doctrine of
State rights, or more villainously lampoon-
cd the Democratic idea Of local selfgovern-
ment, than the New York Tribune; and
this it has done for years, never abating one
jot or one title of its animosity to Democ-
racy as principle demanding State rights
and local-self government as essential cor
olaries in political faith and practice.
1t is not little remarkable that the Dis
patch should have been among the first of
the more influential journals of the South
to snatch at the nomination of Mr.. Greeley
as a movement in the interest Of liberal
principles, when that journal must have
known that the editor of the Tribune was
the incarnation of all illberality towards
the South, and that he is too old and per-
versely fixed in his animosities and preju-
dices against Democratic principles ever to
change plan or purpose for their utter
overthrow and defeat in the end. The
Tribune was the first American journal to
declare that our government had undergone
complete revolution in its principles and
organic structure by reason of the war-a
! greater revolution, in fact, than that which
resulted from the successful throwing off of
the British yoke in the struggle that achev-
ed our national independence, and secured
us distinct and separate government from
that of the crown and regal authority Of
Great Britain. According to the Tribune,
the States no longer had distinct and in
dependent local self-government, but were
crushed and bruised down into consolida-
ted mass of States, over which the central
power at Washington was permanently to
dominate and be supreme.
This is Mr.. Greeley's idea of our govern
ment, as modified by the issues and results
of the late war. With such radical change
as this, it is amusing to hear the Dispatch
talk about the sacredncss of local selEgov-
eminent in the States. Mr.. Greeley dis
tinctly declares that he has changed in
nothing in becoming the candidate of the
Liberal Republican party which met at
Cincinnati. He runs simply as the nom-
nee ofthat party, and does not even vouch-
safe word in reply TO the Baltimore nom
nation, further than to tell the gentlemen
waiting upon him with written notice of
his nomination by that political body, that
he is none the less a Republican than he
ever was, and that his nomination at Balti-
more is an event that calls for no other or
further response than he had already given
| to the Cincinnati committee. He fairly
snubs this Baltimore committee, as much
as saying to them," You have acted as
you should have done in this matter, and
are deserving of no special recognition at
my hands, further than what you have all
ready received in advance of your
action at Baltimore. | can accept the
sutfrages Of your party, but as for rec
ognizing myself as your candidate, that is an
| other natter" If this is not Stumbling, %
then let us know what constitutes snub-
bling in the political sense of that term.
Mr.. Sumner, who is incontestibly, the
best and most persistent hater the Soath
has ever had, says, he goes for Greeley ''to
sare the Republican party" And does any
one doubt that, with Mr.. Greeley elected,
Sumner will have the first place Should he
or his friends demand it) in his Cabinet I?
1t will be impossible to turn off the ''great
Massachusetts, Senator" (as he prides him
self in being called) with any second place
in the Greeley Cabinet. He will be first or
nothing-aH Cesas. AIT nullus-and all
Democrats and Virginia Conservatives will
have to take back seats, with Sumner at
the head of the Greeley Administration.
This result we deem as inevitable, in the
event of Mr.. Greeley's election. And will
not the South have jumped squarely out Of
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