The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-06
LIFT UP THE BANNER,
From the Christian Union:

nomination, has brought surprise and I'M
certainty, for the moment, upon the pub
lie mind but it ought not for an instant
throw doubt upon the path Of duty. The
Philadelphia convention is now bound,
even if it were not its duty before, to raise
up the old Republican banner under
which we have. gained such il!ustrious
victories, and print upon it the name Of
General Grant.
1t IS not now question whether Gen
eral Grant has been a little too firm or too
lax, too fast or too slow. BY the conduct
Of those who have abandoned the Repub
lican party he has been placed in posi-
ton where order, public safety, and hon
or, require his re election. We believe
the public peace, order and safety require
the continued ascendency of the Repub
lican party, and that no other man can
now so well lead the party as Gen. Grant.
It is not the fault of the Republican
party that personal piques and private
ambitions, mingled in few cases with
some wo thy aspirations for reform have
broken out into revolt and political revo
luton. But it will be it's fault If it shrinks
from the conflict forced upon it or loses
V Glory through encouragement or indif
ference.
If the danger which lies before rs be
once appreciated, we do not believe that
our citizens will step off from the firm
and stable ground into the morass or
quicksand of experiments.
It is time for making the plain old land.
marks-for rousing again that courage by
which the Republican party has often
carried the country safely through perlls
more threatening than those which en-
viron it now.
What are we to gain by new party
made up in haste, without common prin-
cipleS, jumbled together, not to correct
grave public evils, but to avenge private
griefS, or to reward violent or irregular
ambition?
Every great interest in the land is
fourlshing. Even in the South, enfeebled
by war, and bewilderCd by the total rev.
olution of its industrial economy, there
has been slow but steady rccupcratlon,
exc pit in the cases of one or two states,
where lccal nallana- tis-.,t.r4a1a- tlas le,aaas
eEdeavor OF government for their peat,s
and security. Is it prudent to abandon c
ship that has been tried and proved in u
hundred storms, for o new ship, a new
crew, made up Of deserters, of malconton IS,
of raw landsmen, and of suspicious men
come from we know not where +?
Can that be q safe leader who has so
suddenly become the fayorite Of the whole
Democratic race, by whom he has for
thirty years been immeasurably abused,
and against whom he he has fought that
incessant battle on which his political
fame rests? What is the meaning of this
strange new friendship between life: long
enemies? Such friendships are SUSPECT
Gus Horace Greeley President Of the
United StBtes by the votes of the South
ern men who carried on the war, and of
the Democratic party which hung like q
dead weight on Lincoln's administration!
Ii the Democratic party, in view of its
past history and testimony, shall now en-
dorse Mr.. Greeley, their life long antags
onist, It will not be by conversion nor by
honorable surrender but by an act of pc
lltical immortality as shameful as ever was
recorded There have been, before this,
coalitions between antagonistic elements
for the mere sake of power. TLey have
never been deemed honorable But they
will all turn to the color of virtue by the
side of the infamy If such coalition a.
is Row meditated! Is it IN the hands of
such party that our circumspect mer-
chants, our prudent mechanics, our intel
llgent working men, are willing to com
NIT the government of this great nation
Are we to live to see the man in whom
we have taken such pride conducting an
administration by theGleave Of the man
whose policy he has all his life abhorred,
and against whom he has emptied thou
sand quivers?
Horace Greeley, borne to the presiden-
tial chair by Democratic votes Do the
Democrats love him? Are they in sym
pathy with him in ideas, principles, or
policy? If they adopt him, will it not be
for ths purpore of breaking down the Re
publican party? Failing in an election,
Mr.. Greeley might perhaps yet better save
the Democratic party by dividing his own
former party to let his life long enemies
pass through to victory with a candidate
of their own!
Mr.. Greeley is in bad company. He is
in false position. He is abandoning his
old friends and taking counsel with his
enemies. He is on the wrong path. Pos
slbly, but not probably, at the end of
this new road to which his feet have been
so honorsbly unaccustomed, he may End
the presidential chair. But it will be a
dreary one. He may gain in eminence and
lose in honor. It will be an illust~ious
career effulgently disgraced. We believe
Mr.. Greeley is under providence that
has better things in store for him than
honofs gained at the hands of men who
only use hin to destroy his lifelong
friends.
In such a day as this there should be
no faint hearts at Philadelphia Let a.
declaration of principles be framed wor-
thy of the city from which was issued the
old Declaration of Independence. Give