New-York tribune., 1872-07-15
.BRUMNAGEM JEWELRY.

Consistency may be jewel, or mere paste
The sole resource of the denomination jour
nails is to assume that the elements repre-
sented at Baltimore in 1872 are (tO use the
language of TheBufdIo Eypress) "exactly the
same that were represented at New-York in
(" 1868 and Chicago in 1SG4.n This would lie
all very WELL if it were impossible for party
men to change their opinions with changing
times and under different political emergen-
ses. 1t will hardly do for the Renomination-
Hts, who are strenuOusly supporting an
Old Democrat themselves, to assume That
10 man who has been in that company
is ever to be trusted. DR.. Grant thought
it at one time a shrcwd thing to boast of his
vote for James Buchanan, and to say that it
WIS the only Presidential vote which he had
csst for years. In fact, the denomination
p,Ity is full of old Democrats, in Office or out
OF oflice-ln Massachusetts especially, where
some of the Grant men and newspapers are
doing their best to prove themselves Hunkers
Of the strciest sort. We can remember well
enough how several of these most indignant
gentlemen did not dsdain to take office by
the aid of Democratic votes, and when cOall-
tons had no terTOIs even for their scrupulous
natures. Mr.. Wilson, we see, is going to
North Carolina on sporadic excursion in the
Administration interest. Is he the man to
say much about unhOy alliances2
The main question, we take it, for an honest
citizen to ask himself is whether he can con-
scintiously plant his feet on the Cincinnati
Platform. The Baltimore Convention having
done so much, the question OF candidates was
secondary consideration. Now, is it un-
Democratic to recognize the equality of all
men before the law, or to ask for "equal and
"exet justice to all, of whatever nativity,
"raCa, color or persuasiOn-religious or p0lit-
"ical"f Is Universal Amnesty un-Demo-
cratis7 or local self-gOvernment with
impartial suffrage or the supremacy of
the civil over the military power2 or
freedom of person under the protection of the
habeas corpus or a Civil Service without
partisan tyranny and personal ambition But
why should we go through all the clauses of
the Liberal PlatformP EIt is printed and may
be read by all men. Having fairly and square
ly adopted this, the Baltimore Convention had
no more difficulty in indorsing the nomination
of Mr.. Greeley than if he had been Demo
crat, ab initio. What were the differences of
the past when all the conditions of the past had
been changedi Believing as Mr.. Greeley be-
lieved, and finding him already in nomination.
the Baltimore delegates accepted him as their
candidate, and were not, we solemny aver
guilty of one particle of inconsistency in doing
so. The inconsistency abundant and gross
would have been in rejecting him.
We can tell these grumblers styling them
selves Republicans of an Inconsistency real
complete, and infinitely immoral. 1t consists
in protesting to be party Of political purity
while upholding political corruption-in pratt
ing Of freedom while crushing a whole people
under the heels of Federal coonels-in
babbling of Civil Service Reform while using
the offices Of tho Government FOR tho purposes
of ambition and groed. It consists. too. tAh