The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-01
TWENTY REASONS.
Hon. Geo. w, McCrary, of Iowa, Presents
Twenty Reasons Why Greeley should be
nefenfed.
From the KeOkuk Gate City.

! Plain, Iowa, Hon. Geo. w. McCrary
gave twenty sound reasons why Repub.
leans should oppose the election OF
Horace Greeley to the Presidency. We
have procured them for publication,
and present them herewith
oppose the election of Horace Gree
ley to the Presidency for the following
among other reasons:
/. Because he is the regular nominee
and standard-bearer of the Democratic
party, and Is seeking the disruption and
defeat of the Democratic party.
,. Becarse ! believe that if elected
he would be controlled by the men who
elected him, and would therefore be
compelled to administer the Govern
ment in the interests of the Democratic
party. To turn his back upon that
party after it had elevated him to power
would be to meet the fate of John Tyler
and Andrew johnson.
3. Because, in addition to this, Horace
Greeley has given his pledge in writing
that if elected he "will treat all who
support him alike, not asking whether
they had been in the past Republicans
or Democrats" which means that his
administration shall be Democratic, if
it means anything.
4. Because the nomination of Greeley
by the Democratic National Convention
does not satisfy me that the Democratic
party has come over to Republican
ground. 1t was rather the result of a
bargain, which, if successful, will secure
Democratic Congress, a Democratic
| Cabinet Democratic State Governments,
| A trAl 90 all tln Eal
eral patronage. This whole coalition
was a piece of Democratic strategy, and
was not-as some Liberal Republicans
clalm--intended as means Of sustain
ing Republican principles, but was in
tended to defeat and overthrow them.
5. Because the leading men of the
Democratic party now supporting Mr..
Greeley unite in declaring that they are
doing so in the interest of the Demo
cratic party and its principles.
6. Because the men who would con-
troll a Democratic House of Representa-
tives, should one be chosen with Mr..
Greeley in pursuance of the coalition,
are unslterably opposed to the contin-
uance in force of the laws passed by a
Republican Congress for the enforce
ment of the amendments to the Consti-
tuition, and for the suppression of Ku-
| Klux.
/. Because the Cincinnati. Baltimore
platform contains no pledge in favor of
enforcing the amendments to the Con-
stitution by national law, but does, on
the contrary, declare in favor of guard
ing "the rights Of all citizens by and
through local elf.government.'
regard this portion of that platform as
emphatically Democratic" and | can
never give it my support. The freed
people of the South must be permitted
to look to the National Government for
protection. The local governments in
the South, especially if turned over to
the control of the Democracy, will
afford them no protection, as the eXpe.
rience of the past few years abundantly
proves.
s. Because the great amendments to
the Constitution will not enforce them.
selves, but must depend for their en-.
forcement upon appropriate legislation,
and | do not believe We can expect
such legislation from Democratic Con
gress.
9. Because | cannot indorse coali-
ton between dissatisfied Republicans
and the Democratic party formed for
the purpose of defeating the party to
which belong and in whose principles
! sincerely believe, and which promises
nothing in the place of Republican rule
but the restoration to power OF the
Democratic party, 10 which | am unal-
terably opposed, and whose supremacy
| would regard as dangerous to the
liberties OF a large class of our people,
and to the best interests of the country.
10. Because cannot indorse that
species of political trickery by which
Horace Greeley has become the candi-
date of a party which Off he has told us
the truth heretofore) he despises, and
with which he agrees in nothing except
it be in personal hostility to Gen. Grant,
and in common desire for power and
the spells of Office.
lifelong protectionist, he becomes
the candidate of free traders. A zeal.
Gus advocate of the Constitutional
amendments, he becomes the candidate
OF men who persistently opposed them
and who still denounce them. n most
persistent advocate of the Congressional
acts for the suppression OF Ku-Klux
outrages and the enforcement of the
right 10 vote, he becomes the candidate
of party that is pledged to the repeal
of all these laws, and is now urging his
friends to vote for the election to Con
gress Of the most violent opponents oil
all this beneiicent legislation. The pro-
fessed friend of the freed an, he would
now abandon him to the tender mercIes
Of those who believe he was created tC
be slave. The earnest advocate of the
annexation of San Domingo, he non
joins in the cry raised against the Presi
dent for having favored that measure
Until quite recently the defender o
Gen. Grant and his Administration, hC
now stultiies himself by joining in tn,
very charges against the Presiden
which few months ago he denounced
as both false and unjust. Until very
recently the most violent opponent o
the Democratic party, declaring 1t to b
''simply the rebellion seeking to achiev,
, its essential purposes within and through
the Union," he now joins hands will
Q that party, becomes its candidate anc
1 promises to build it up with patronag
: in case of his election. Having urge
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