The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-05-16

what an indelible inlamy npdn the sense
Of sell-respect of the country such an outra-
geous proceeding would entail.
Greeley, President of the United States of
America What a caustic piece Of sarcasm
upon the intelligence Of the American people
and Republican Institutions. An agrarian,
an amalgamationist, uuiversalist, free
lovisr, the patron saint Of one-ideaism, MINI
ic philosopher, whose investigations have only
resulted in an attempt to distort the moral
and political sentiment of the age, and in
adopting as badge of distinction secdy
white hat and .hreadbare white coat!
Such is the philosopher-statesman the Dem:
ocratic Convention appointed to assemble IN
Baltimore on the 9th of July will be asked
to present to the American people as their
representative man for President of the Uni
ted States A man who never feta DEM
ocratic emotion-whose life has been con-
slant warfare against conservatism-who IS
the Corypheus of Radicalism in everything,
and who has been the boon companion and
twin brother of Charles Sumner in every step
he has taken to degrade the white people or
the South, and place over them the rule OF the
carpet-bagger and negro!
! IF the Democratic Convention dare to en-
dorse the nomination of such man, 1t Will
split the party into fragments, secure the per-
petuaticn Of Radical supremacy and transfer
political power in the State of Virginia to the
tender mercies of the Republican party at the
next election HORACE GREELEY WILL
NEVER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES BY THE ASSISTANCE OF THE
!, ELECTORAL VoTE OF VIRGINIA Mark the
prediction.
The very fact Of the endorsement of Gree
ley would be the destruction Of the organlsa-
ton Is il presumed that few feverish and
addle- pated politicians, could transfer the
Democratic and Conservative masses to a
policy that would reverse their lifelong con-
victious? VIII the delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention dare to nresume
that the people have ceased to think, and
that .hev can be badgered about like so much
dead matter-a mere foot ball to be tossed
up and down, hither and yonder, as, the de-
signing or sportivc fancy Of the thoushtless
and corrupt may indicate? If they shall do
SO, they viii dad in the sequel, they have
been much mistaken The high mission of
the Democratic party can never be prostitutcd
to such base ends, nor can the rank and file
be cajoled into the belief that the elevation
of Greeley to the Presi lency would be carry
ing out the principles and policy for which
they have ever commended Where would be
| the difference between them, if such should
! be the case, and the Republican party? They
would not only contribute to the election Of
the chief of the extremists in that party, but
stultify themselves and break up their own
organization in the strange transaction. Let
others do as they please, but as for us, we
will never give in our adhesion to zeaot
and enthusiast who has devoted his life to a
warfare upon the section OF our home, and
the home of our fathers before US. and who
was the most Wind ctive and relentless agitator
of the very policy that has brought desolatlon
az mourning to almost every household in
thirteen States Of the Union.