The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16

support of men who now throw off the
party armor and affiliate with elements
which they have formerly fought and
profe ssed TO despise. There is no honesty,
no moral sentiment, no real patriotism
in the come cutters from the Republican
party who are personally urging their
Republican neghbors and friends TO
place themselves upon the record in
favor of the Tammany Ring candidates,
Greeley and Brown.
If this campaign, through the position
of men who have been trusted and hon
ored but to turn around at this late day,
like the viper, TO sting us-if from this
class of opponent. it shall become bit
terly personal in its nature, the Repub-
| can D rty and Republican principles
are to be held blameless. 1t is not in
human nature TO endure in silence the
calumny and reproaches which are al
ready being heaped upon the Republl-
can party by these deserters; and
whatever bitterness may enter into the
campaign, they alone will be held re-
sponsible for it. Let every individual
| Republican voter understand from the
start that this movement no longer has
claims upon him as a Republican. 1t is
in the hands of the great Democratic
party; and the fraction of Republicans
who, without any good cause, inaugu-
ted; this movement at Cincinnati,
are swallowed up and lost, and will be
felt in the campaign only by the infiu-
ence they will attempt to exert upon
their late comrades and political asso-
ciates. They do this with the expecta-
ton, hope, and promise of rewa |. The
Democracy are expected, as In the
Union movement of 1862, to nominate
one or two Republican deserters upon
their State ticket. If he will accept it,
ex-Gov. Blair is their choice for Gov
ernor. This question Of expediency de
ponds of course upon thesalary. Wheth-
er the Democratic party will make up
his salary to 81, 900 we are not informed.
Whether George II. House will accept
the nomination of Secretary of State,
he himself is as yet unprepared to de-
eide. These are two nominations that
the Democratic party, or at least por-
ton Of them, propose to make upon the
State ticket for the purpose of wheedling
Republicans into the support of the
Democratic party. 1t is hard fight we
have before US, but one we shall make
successful, and thrust our opponents
back to the wall as we did in 1862,
when Byron G. Stout headed the column
of Republican deserters to the "Union"
movement. That movement recoiled
upon the heads of those who had inaug
urated it. And when this battle shall
have been fought and the victory won
in November, the Democratic party
which has hypocritically laid aside its
principles in order to secure the spoiis
of Office and the promotion of men
whom we have formerly trusted, will
stink away to be heard of no more.
This movement which Carl Cchurz, in
a letter to the Illinois State Convention,
declared to promise little except to
place matters in new position for
successful movement in 1876, will be
defeated. We have too much faith in
the Republican party, and especially in
those men who have fought The battle
for twelve years past, asking no pay in
the shape of political promotion or any
thing else except the approval of their
own consciences for having done good
work not only for themselves but also
for the American people. We believe
that they will not be seduced from their
fealty and allegiance, to the support of
Horace Greeley and the success of Tam
many. And let every man remember
that this contest is not one of Grant or
Greeley, but Involves great moral ques-
tons which were brought to the front
by the rebellion, but which will not be
completely carried out and fundament.
ally incorporated as part of our Re-
publican institutions until the newborn
freedmen of the South shall sit under
his own vine and fig tree without fear
or molestation of his former master, or
the men who still hate him because"
to use their expression, "he is a
niger"
Let these considerations not be lost
sight of. If the choice to-day is between
the party whose principles have been
lived up to and carried out for eighteen
years in the administration of the affairs
of this State and for twelve years in the
nation, and the party which for the
sake of power promises to abide by that
record to betray those who shall con-
hde in them, the result is not doubtful.
The record of the past on our part is
the guarantee of the future. On the
other side We have nothing but prom
ises made at Cincinnati and Baltimore.
The character of the men who made
them inspires neither respect nor con-
fidence in the mind of the impartial
observer. Not only the political but
the financial prosperity of our nation
is in a measure to be controlled by the
honest yeo men of the country; and we
believe that their verdict will be in ia.
vor of those to whom they have given
their trust and have not been betrayed,
rather than with this new political coali-
ton, whose head and front is composed
of the most corrupt demagogues that
ever attempted to attain power in this
Republic.
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