The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-05-25
The Ed,.cntialn .Process.

Nrhe virtual surrender by the Democratic par
ty of its hostility to Equal Rights, regardless of
color, has divested.our current politics Of half
their bygOns intensity. However parties may
henceorth rise or fall, it is clear that the funda-
mental principles which have hitherto honorably
distinguished the Republicans are henceforth to
be regarded as practically accepted by the whole
country. The right of every man to his own
limbs and sinews-the equality of all citizens be-
fore the law-the inability of State to en-
slave any portion of its people-the duty of the
Union to guarantee to every citizen the full en-
joyment of his liberty until he forfets it by crime
such are the broad and firm foundations of our
National ediice, and palsied be the hand that
shall seek to displace them Though not yet
twenty years old, the Republican party has COM
pleted the ueble fabric of emancipation, and may
fairly invoke thereon the sterper Judgment of
man and he bsnignant smile q God 2
These are the words Of Hor; q Greeley 10 the
New York IL
fhe virtual -.erender By Il Den 49, per-
" Of its hostility to equal rshts regardless Of
COLOR II
Has this surrender been made? If so, when
and where and by whom as the authoritative
representative of the Democratic party Has Mr..
Greeley become convinced of Democratic repen-
lance ty their exultation over his nomination at
Cincinnati Does he consider that this demon
stration is tantamount to free-will endorsement
of him, his platform and emphatic announce
mentss of hi ideas in the Tribune? Does be think
the Democratic repentance and conversion to
GreeIeyism so thorough and intrinsic that there
is no probability of their backsIiding2 We trust
that be may be right. We hope we shall never
have occasion to expose his mistake. II this be
the case, Mr. Greeley, if he be entitled to the
credit Justly entitled to the grateful thanks of
the American people.
If his candidacy and his enforcement by the
Democratic party bring about "a consummation
so devouty to be wished" be will have accom-
plished more for the good of the country and the
Democratic party than it were possible for any
man claiming to be Democrat to accomplish.
Every Democrat in the land, when be accepts
Greeley with his principles, thus proclaimed, and
votes for him in November as an evidence of bis
conversion, will feel less like Democrat and
more like man than he ever did before in his
life.
The support of Mr.. Greeley, bis platform and
his enunciations as above set forth, by the Dem
ocratic party will operate as powerful educator
upon the Democratic mind 1t will divest them
of half their prejudice against the eolored race.
IL Ill IL nf lin idnd
narrowness into the broad liberalism of Republi-
can ideas The sudden exit of Democrat into
the pure sunshine of Republication by the intro
ductory bow of Horace Greeley, will take him so
much by surprise that he will imagine himsalf
transmogri6ed and, like Rip Van Wrinkle, will
be tempted 10 inquire in this wise: "If am not
Democrat, and the Democrats are dead, who
in the devil ami"
When the Democrats endorse Greeley, will the
needle Of politics float free from the Democratic
prejudice to the negro? We are fondly inclined
10 the opinion that it will. We believe that
even Democratic hardihood cannot shrek mig
ger'' at Republican when be is voting for Mr.
Greeley who advocates ''the equality of all citi-
zens before the law" To end q democrat on
an electioneering tour under circumstances that
forbid him the use of bis life long staple in poll
tics will put him to such excruciating torture as
will justly excite the sympathy of every humane
man. The Democratic party going into the can
vas without the "nigger" for text will be like
an army without ammunition. But the purging
influence of voting for Mr.. Greeley will bring
an untold beneficial result to the individual
Democrats who do it. Taking prejudice from
individual Democrats will take the breath away
from the Democratic party and leave its corpse
upon the strand Of politics.
If Mr. Greeley educates them out of Democrat
ic prejudice into Republicanism, he will earn the
nations thanks.