Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-05-11


mongrel Convention which met at Cincin.
natl last week, closed on Friday, after
placing in nomination Horace Greeley, of
the New York Tribune, for President, and
b. Graiz Brown, of Missouri, for Vice
President. The Convention did not prove
the most harmonious. The adoption of
the platform was the most difficult part.
1t appears however, that in the beginning
all the factions were ruled by the Free
Traders and malcontent Republicans. The
convention having been summoned by a
body Of avowed free traders, advocating
n low tariff, and some of them no tariff at
all, it was natural that much dissatisfac-
tion would result when il came to the erec-
ton of platform whercon the two oppo-
sites were to take their stand. This, how
ever, was accomplished by a complete de-
feat of the free trade factions which the
convention exhibited. Its material was of
their choosing. 1t was not n delegated
body that could be packed by hostile influ-
ences for particular purpose. 1t was a
mass convention open to all agreeing with
known as malcontens with the national
administration. The result shows that,
while the protectionists as mass are salts
fed with the Republican administration
and Congress, the friends of protection are
so numerous everywhere that no conven-
tion, claiming to be composed of members
of the Republican organization, can be
held in which they will not be powerful.
In the delegations from New England and
the Middle States, the votes for Free Trade,
in the Cincinnati Convention, would have
been hardly worth counting.
The nomination Of Horace Greeley by
the convention was received everywhere
with a broad grin of merriment, and the
deliberations of the convention, as far as
his nomination is concerned, were looked
upon as fitting conclusion of movement
which had its origin in the bitter notes of
disappointed and played out politicians
which crowns itself with farcical effect OF
Mr.. Greeley we cannot say anything disre-
spcctful. lie is venerable citizen who
has spent long life in an honorable call
ing, in which he has won great and de-
served distinction, but he will not bear
comparison with the patriot soldier who
terminated gloriously the civil war in one
year after he was chosen commander-in-
chief; who has paid off three hundred and
twenty millions Of the national debt,
and suppressed the Ku Kiux conspiracy at
the south.
Mr.. Greeley has made himself notorious
for singular want Of even temper, and n
disposition to use rough, unmannerly cpl
thcts. In fact, he is n man of sharply de-
fined prejudiccs and personal likings and
dislikings full of whims and crotchets, and
with an unaccountable fondness for maxi
ing extreme concessions at the most untor-
tunate crisis. We cannot imagine q more
indiscrcet or imprudent party leader ;
while as the chief magistrate Of a great ma
tiOn he would somewhat resemble n bull in
n china shop. His course in going bail for
Jefferson Davis was supplemented by his
severe censures of the unfortunate Union
lists of the south, during his southern tour,
and taken together these instances leave no
doubt that as President his proclvites
would be all in the same direction.
i. Gratz Brown, the nominee for Vice
President by this convention, is one of the
most radical free-traders in the country
an agitator and mischief maker of the
purest quality, and has been for years iden-
titled with the corruptions which have rem
dered Missouri politics so fearfully obnoX-
ious. How Greeley can cast off his old "a
miliar protective garments and adopt free
trade Gratz Brown as his companion is not
easily understood, unless it is in the hope
, Of reaching the Presidential chair in his
latter days, to which nc has been casting
an eye for a number of years past. But to
expect to place free trader along side OF
him, in position where he can do an in
jury to the nation, in this age, is impossi-
f be. The people have not yet forgotten
"polk, Dallas and the Tariff Of 49, and
, how they were betrayed by the Vice Presi-
|, dent. 1t is not likely they will at this time
, elect one who il is known would cast his
vote against them. Breckenridge, Blair,
buu Ollltl lllCiltS VI cNh LIV'iSI hhO pNi
| sonally interested themselves, at the Gin
cinnati Convention, TO secure the nomina'
ton Of Greeley and Brown, will find thai
their adherents are few, and that the Lib
eral movement is well understood aud viii
= end in smoke.
, 1t would be folly TO speculate on the
probable course of the Democratic party
! Our impression is that they will nominate
/ a separate ticket in the hope of electing it
: But if they should not, we see no likelihood
j that the body of the Democratic masses
can be induced to vote for Horace Greeley
in preference to Ulysses S. Grant. If th
. Democratic party is to be disbandcd we d.
= not doubt that the majority of them will
: join the Republican standard. Should ;
separate Democratic ticket be nominated
the Cincinnati nominees will have smal
and extremely select body of supporters.