The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-28
"The Grant C0nyentiOn.o
Translated from the editorial columns Of
Staafs-Zniinnn Lima IL |

IL the beatitude in the Bible is true
-" Blessed are the poor in spirit"-the
writers for the Liberal" press may be
assured of the highest degree of bless.
edness. For "A more dreary poverty of
spirit than they exhibit in their scan
dalous attacks upon the Republican
party cannot be found beyond the mar
row limits of lunatic asylum. The
up of such words as these" Grant
slaves" hirelings," mercenaries, '"
purchased knaves." The unanimity
OF the Republican Convention is rep
resented as a consequences at the bold
est bribery. While of the 500 delegates
there were not more than two dozen
Federal office. holders, the statement is
impudently circulated that the entire
assembly consisted of band of Gus.
tom House officers, revenue officers, and
postmasters." This is an impudent and
brazen lie, which Horace White, who
in the last eight days seems TO have lost
his head, does not hesitate to repeat,
although from personal observation on
the spot he lear.ed beyond peradven.
ture that the assertion is baseless lie.
could not excel this bowling band Of
Liberal" brothers in sheer and blank
stupidity.
But as the ignoble ISLANDERS of Sum
ner not only failed OF their desired re-
suit, but returned to curse their inven-
tor, in like manner the still more stupid
and coarse attack upon the "Grant
Convention" will accomplish directly
the contrary result from what had been
intended. The thousands of people
who congregated from all quarters of
this great land at Philadelphia, and
were there personal witnesses of the
intense enthusiasm with which the Re-
publican party gathered around its old
time victorious banner, cannot be de.
ceived by such simple lampoons. They
have taken the glad news to all States
OF the North, East, South, and West,
that the mighty popular army of the
Party of Freedom stands unbroken and
undismayed, and that the detection OF
a handful of traitors from the party has
not weakened, but strengthened il as
the human body is strengthened, when
some internal disease which threatens
to poison the blood system finds its
scapevalve through an abscess. No per.
son, competent to generalize from facts
and opinions, attended the great Coun-
Gil of the People at Philadelphia, with
out returning home convinced that the
Greeley movement within the Republi.
can ranks is wholly dead, and that of
the Republicans who allied themselves
to the Missouri treason in 1870, not one
IN a thousand is now willing 10 vote for
Greeley or Brown.
These facts may be gall and worm
wood to those popular demagogues, but
ISLANDERS and lampoons cannot change
the facts.
In nearly every State care had been
taken that few Federal offic holders
should be sent as delegates to the con-
vention. The most liberal estimate
shows that they did not constitute more
than three per cent. of the membership.
An additional circumstance (to which
every Greeley man o: Democrat then
present will bear witness which great
ly added TO the enthusiasm, and brought
1t to the boiling point, was Sumner'S
speech Of May 81. The frigid malignity
with which Sumner had labored over
the speech for months, the Infamous
venom with which he magnified the
most descipable SANDERS, the careless
unconcern with which he fired his in
fernal machine, at an hour when il
seemed SO late that the fire could not
be returned these circumstances ha
awak ened in the mind not only Of
every honorable Republican but of every
impartial, right-minded man, feeling
nearly akin to contempt for Sumner,
and called forth a feeling of benevo-
lent sympathy for Grant. Thanks TO
certain natural qualities, the American
is always inclined to favor the under dog
in the fight, and this national sympathy
was developed in the contest between
Sumner and Grant. The same was true
with regard to Wilson. Had the con-
vention met week earlier Wilson would
have received a respectable minority OF
votes, but Colfax would have had the
majority.
But Summers speech gave an impe-
tus to Wilson, whose election would be
rebuke to Sumner.
The StaatS-Zeit,ng here pays high
compliment to the character and con-
duct of the n gro delegates, and dis
cusses at some length the present status
and future probable condition Of the
negro element in our politics. The ar
ticle concludes with the following elo-
quent passage
This the civilization and political
education Of the negro race is a giant
step in humanitarianism and legal re-
lations, proof of the great vitality and
adaptability of the American national
lty,-and it is guarantee that, in spite
OF all the conflicts of contending par.
ties, and of the gloomy passivism of
certain Ia pochondriacs who are weary
OF American life, the development of
the American republic in freedom, jus.
tice, morality, and humanity. is pro.
gressinp by sure and certain starns y