The Placer herald., 1872-05-18
GREELEY AND THE DEMOCRACY.

We announced last week that VIC believed
the greatest victory positively within the grasp
Of our party, for the Democracy, this year
was in its Endorsement and election Of IIor-
ace Greeley President Of the Uuited States.
This we can do, and this in Our judgment we
should do. No patriot can dare take risks
when his country is vcrsins into theiving
dcspoiism, as ours is to-day. All men con-
cecd that the Democracy will be responsible
for who will be President for the next four
years, and for this fearful responsibility its
members must answer to the American pco-
pie, both now and in all the future. If we
cannot elect President from our own ranks
then by attempting it we make Grant Presi-
dent again, with bis hundred thousand
thieves to wrong, ruin, rob and destroy the
Republic. This responsibility places US, as
it should every man deserving the name of
Democrat, above and beyond all political
prejudices or private desires until this great
national danger is past. We know that we
differ in our views on these questions with
some of our Democratic editorial brethren Oh
this coast. They believe that it is within
the power Of the Democracy to nominate
aud elect a candidate of their own. This we
cannot see, and if it was within the probabili-
ties we would have no Congress to sustain
our President in correcting single evil that
curses the country under Grants blghting
and corrupt administration. Let us speak
plain. No intelligent man dare deny the
fact that Grecley's nomination has already
made inrolds upon the strongest elements of
our party; that it has detached from us
thousands of votes in every quarter Of the
Union, that cannot be recovered or regained
by any platform or nomination we can make.
Grceley's course on the Fenian question has
attached to him an Irish American vote, all
direct loss to our party, that we cannot re-
gain in this contest without loosing other
eemcuts equally important to us Indeed, it
would not be too much say that lie would
have the larger portion of this vote against
any man we could nominate. His course
on the Franco Prussian war has had the
same effect on the German American vote ;
going further, however, aud making both
Democratic and Republican German-Amcri
cans his friends. lie has been tho enemy
of Know Nohingsm and the friend of emf
grafton and adopted Americans from all
Countries all his life, and thus has the friend
ship Of all national'ties now citizens Of this
country. Since Lees surrender and the
abolition Of slavery he has made both
the former master and slave in the South
his friends, and by him only can we expect
to carry an electoral vote in that section of
the Union. The Democratic State Convcn
ton in Tennessee has already endorsed Gree
ley and Brown. The Democratic vote COM
bined with that of tho Liberal Republic IN
will sweep the whole South; it will be sue
cessful in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kan
sas, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Con-
necticut, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon
and O. lfornia, with an even chance for the
other States excepting Iowa and Vermont.
1t is clear to us that these arc facts that
Democrats dare not close their eyes agains
indeed. blind men, politically, must see and
acknowledge them.