The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-05-31

Believing, as do, that the non-nomina
ton of candidates by the National Demo
cratic Convention as being essential, il
the present condition ofpolitical sentiment
to the overthrow of the Administration
and as most certain to accomplish that de
sirable object, it matters not who may be
nominated by the Philadelphia Conven
ton as the candidate Of the Radical and
ol1iceholding Republicans. l trust none
may be made, and that the Convention
will content itself with re .afIirmation OF
the principles of Democracy and recon.
mending to the people as being necessary
in this crisis which has arrived in the po-
litcal affairs of the nation, that all the ele-
ments opposition to the Administration
should unite in common effort for its
complete and final overthrow. As peril
nent to the communication it may not be
amiss to briefly refer to the course Of the
New York World and some other Northern
journals advocating Democratic principles,
but Judging from the course that they have
heretofore pursued and are still pursuing,
we have every reason to believe that their
advocacy of Democracy is strongly Tine
tured with selfish motives.
Previous to the assembling of the Cincin-
natl Convention, these prints, the New
York World more particularly, contained
elaborate articles in reference to the course
proper to be pursued by the Democracy of
the country, counselling the most rigid
non-interterence with the views, purposes
and conclusions to be arrived at by the
Liberal Republicans who were to assemble
in Convention but Just day or so before
the Convention did meet. After having
thus advised all other Democrats from in
tertering, which advice was most generally
and promptly followed, the World, in its
leading editorial, plainly, and without any
reservation, dictated to the Convention
the terms upon which the Democratic par
ty would endorse their acts, and that was
the nomination of Charles Francis Adams
as the candidate of the Liberal Republicans
for the Presidency. Very properly, and
with just regard for its own dignity, the
Convention refused to be thus dictated to
by the New York World, or any other Or
gan protesting to represent the Democratic
party, and saw fit to nominate Horace
Greeley.
So far as Horace Greeley, the individual,
is concerned, we have nothing to say.
But as representing the idea of restoring
the country to its normal condition, we do
think he will serve as its embodiment quite
as we'll as Charles Francis Adams, who is as
deeply imbued with that idea of Massa-
chusetts perfection and infallibility in its
political and social doctrines as Sumner
himself, but without his outward fanati-
cism, or as Lyman Trumbull the recreant
Democrat.
For this refusal upon the part of the Gin
cinnati Convention to nominate its favor
lite, whose nomination would be hailed by
the entire Democratic party with the great
est enthusiasm, the World, without a mo-
ment's hesitation, commenced and contin-
ues the most bitter opposition to its candi-
dates, and is calling upon the National
Democratic Convention ia the most AFRO
CANT and dictatorial manner to make NOM
nation.
Does such course as this indicate either
consistency or patriotism?
SToNEWALL.