Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-04-17
VIZ THE CINCINNATI FIRE MUST
COOK.
yE,enent, DR. greeley Must Unite.

e opposition to President Grant num-
bea great many voters, but it is compos-
ted so many different elements that II
thr succeed in uniting, it will be one OF
thwonders of the age. Let US take
lok at some of the elements.
rhe Courier Journal, of Louisville, goes
nto high dudgeon because Trumbull, IN
lis New York speech called the Southern
,eople Traitors" 1t says:
But we are surprised that man of bis
culture and enlightenment should, on the
threshold of an effort at national revival
apply so rash an epithet as traitor " to
tHse from tUhom he must erpect to dertUe
kTiStdfatidJ support. 1t is hard word; IL
sin off:shoot OF partisan gabble and mai
Lac; it implies Il want, not only OF sympa-
Ii, which is always cOnslderate, but OF
| osideration itself; and what is more, 1t
| is falsehood.
| proceeds then to demand of the Glib
Gs" more sympathy and to stop abusing
tlSouthern people. 1t says:
| he Liberal Republicans can not afford
| tb gnore it, and they can afford, for they
Olht, to consider it. If they miscOnceive
| itif it puts them in a passion to have 1t
panly stated-they are not Liberals, but
nee factionists who consult their hatred
If irant more than their love for their
tilw-citiZens. All of us profess to want
eae-union-reform. What are we ready
o give? Thus far the South has given
Everything. Now let the North give,
with substantial reform, the fellowship
which is the basis of real union, the SYM
bathy which is the bell-tower of genuine
peace.
This represents the feeling of the liberal
Element South.
We come now to what the Liberal Re-
bublicans demand. The Cincinnati Com
pcrciaL, says:
"The defeat of Grant is assured if the
Democracy are capable of the admission
before the country that there is no further
lse for their party organization. But II
he Democratic party appears, as party,
O claim q share of offices, spoils, or con-
liberation, and there is bargaining and
(ickering and platform building and can
dilate-shuff1ing, Grants reelection Is as
ce,tain as his nomination at Philadelphia.
sThe Democracy can do as they please
of course. They should understand that
tie alternative is simple and plain. Their
neddlesomeness as a party in this cam
p.ipu elects Grant. And if they will drop
their party, and foIoU the lead Of the Lib
erfL RepubGcdns, Grants defeat is secured,
nroyided. of course, the Liberal candidate
il Adams or some one about whom there Is
no nonsense"
is what they demand. The New York
Post, speaking of the Cooper Institute
meeting, says:
As for the resolutions passed, their chief
merit is their brevity; but brevity which
leaves many essential things unsaid, and
says at least one needless thing. If the
liberal Republicans are to hold theiI
breath in this way, let us say to them that
they will not carry with them the masses,
who like q bold, honest and untrammelled
utterance of sentiments. Free soil, free
speech and free men was the grand desire
of the old Republican party, but that de-
sire will be complete only when it COM
prises all free labor and free trade"
Then comes the Protectionists who fol-
low Greeley. The latter has compromised
away great deal for himself, but the
manufacturers and those WhO HrC through
the protection the tariff gives them will
hardly concede what he has. These are
the elements. Can they be reconciled
We shall see when the first of May
comes