The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
TIE IRHEPRESSiBLE CJNfLICr OF
Io-DAi.

Leu no man deceive iiinSeH INTO Inc DciIeI
that this is an ordinary political contest, ard
especially those who are co temp'ating throw
ing their votes away or hot voting at oil.
The irrepressibe conflict oyer slavery is past,
and now the people must meet another OF
more power and magnitude, in the shape Of
mouopoes, corporations and money power
as aggregated wealth. The Union justly
says:
/ The man is not intelligent who cannot see that
the issue between crlat corporations and the
people is bound 70 BE- met, and that the sovereign
VII o. tne masses must conquer lie must Ls
/ peryeIseiv blind who VIII not see the uprising,
not only IN own land, but in Luropo, OF pop
ular sentiment against the encroachments Of
railroad power and aggregated capital The
question which shall dominate, the interrupted
masses Cr money kings aided by purchased
! scounlrcls and gNtuitoos ti-nkey3 is the great
/ one Of the generation and is rapi ly pressing to
an arb tIamcnt.
This conflict should end with the setting Of
next Tuesdays sun; but if it does not, the
/ fehtmust and will 60 on until victory perchcs
on the banner Of the people. The masses
are slow to perceive danger and act in
body, but when once aroused, conquer they
will. Would TO God that each man in the
country could to-day see the precipice over
which our liberties and property hang as
plainly as those great Statesmen ard patriots,
Trumbull Hendricks, Greeley, Thurman,
Brown, Pendlcton, Banks, Seymour, ulian,
Hancock, Schurz, Bncl>lew, and the great
host Of Liberal and Democratic statesmen
who struck hands at Cinciunt and Baltimore
and swore before High Heaven, and
the American people, that past political DIFF
lercnces and prcudcos should die with the
past, and that their country should be saved
from the grasp Of official thieves and tyranls
and their pnrso-woud, mouopoIisins conlcd-
crates. This contest involves principle as
sacred to mankind on Garth as did that be-
tween Michael and the devil to God and the
angels in Heaven. This great hoard Of con
federated villains, with their supes and sa-
tclites, that have seized upon the lcins and
machinery Of government, must be expelled
from power cs was the devil from Heaven
or our liberties and property are gone, gone
forever swallowed up in the great mael-
strom of corruption and tyranny that is
spreading over tie land under Grant. If
every man does his duty on next Tuesday,
the victory will be ours in his contest, and
Horace Greeley will take the Presidential
chair ON the 4th of March next and do as our
Saviour did in The Great Temple of Jerusa-
lem, drive the thieves, scoundrels and money
grabbers from the capitol Of the nation for
ever. The great national cancer, Grant and
The myriad Of monopolists and thieves that
surround and control him, Is fast eating into
lhe yaIs Of the body polite; gathering to
itself the power that belongs to the people
feeding upon the toll of thirty millions Of
people, and becoming bloated as does the
ccch from the blood of its victim, ard oX-
tending its hbcrs % the rcmotest eXtrcmilies
cf the country. The essence of four million
of votes may nov kill and eradicate il if ap-
piled next Tuesday, but give it four years
more growth and nothing but the knife will
remove it. Let American liberty fail and
or country pass into The hands of deE potic
and dcspicable o,igarchy, ard the black pail
of monarchy ard human slaveryw ensmoud
the world. 1t is our example that has given
hope to lbcrty-'oying men in all the world
and has caused tyran's to hemble on their
thrones in all countries, and shall we now,
producing men Of Placer county, of Califor-
MIA, of the United States, by our latchcs,
supneness, spite or petty greed, let all these
hopes Of mankind perish and oar own Nber-
ties and property with them? Let God
forbid; let American manhood forbid; let the
shout of liberty and reform 60 out and up to
arouse the masses, and Tuesdays setting
sun may yet give joy TO patriots; joy to the
toilng masses; joy to the hopes of universal
working mankind and JOY to all who love
and long for a pure, honest, cheap, simple
government a-ain as in the purer days Of
the Republic.
CLOSE Up THE RANKs.-Democrats ard
Liberal Republicans, are you ready for the
contest next Tuesday? This is a contest
that involves the veal or woe of our common
country for the next four years, and perhaps
for all future time. 1t is a contest between
liberty and tyranny, between capital and Ia
Dor, between the rich and the poor, between
reform and rascality, between honesty and
corruption, and between the great, toiling,
producing masses and governmental thieves
and grasping monopolies. The chiefs Of the
two parties represent these two classes Of our
people. Greeley and Brown are the cham
pions of peace, honesty, liberty and reform,
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