Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-09
Tae DisgraosfuI Bargain.


part, belief in them becomes with us set ,
tied convictions, and statements or reports
in accordance with our views, or in unison
with our feelings, too often find Hady ac- ,
ceptance.
But there are facts and circumstances al
most daily presenting themselve. to our
notice whichcSn we not ignore, and however
unwilling, are compelled to believe. Some
of these are so repu3nant TO our feelings,
and 30 Sbhorrert to our cherished thoughts
OF human nature, and exhibit so glaringly
the depths OF degration to which men stoop
as means to crafty their ambition, or to
accomplish some ulterior design by them
unatainable except through the Shiny mazes
Of intrigue and the most abject chicanery;
that VIC can not and will not believe them
until they become too palpable and notori-
ous to admit OF further doubt
These remarks apply to the disgraceful
coalition effected between HORACE GREE
LEY and his adherents. The preliminary
steps taken last October, matured three
months later, were contaminated IN CIncIn-
natl in May, and lately ratified in Balti-
more, BY that bargain and sale, he became
the nominee of the Democratic party as a
means to an end, namely, the restoration of
that party to power.
Thousands of Democrats stand aloof from
the unholy alliance. They see as plainly
az Republicans do, that the triumph
of the conspirators means financial revul-
sion, and national disaster if not ultimate
ruin. We speak advisedly and in sober
earnestness when we say that the election
of HORACE GREELEY to the Presidency
would be followed by incalculable evils,
some of them immediate and others remote.
The immediate results of such triumph
would be, first, lack OF confidence in the
new order of things; this would be induced
in the minds of all law-abiding persons,
who take an enlightened an1 unprejudiced
view of the facts, by knowledge of the
incongruous, discorlant and reasonable ell
cments which cluster around the new
regime The facts involved, and some OF
which have been attested under oath, war
rant us in saying that these views are far
from chimerical.
That the cause is championed by such
creatures as the BLAIRs, the SEYMouRs, the
WooDs, and others of that ilk, is Of itself a
sufficient stigma, and the fact that few if
any clergymen are found under that banner,
should awaken in the mind of every patri-
OF the most profound thought and the most
anxious reflection.
The most disreputable classes of society
are the rank and 6le in the GREELEY move
ment, we will not defle our columns with
the vile epitbets applied to the Democratic
party by Mr.. GREELEY, for he has in times
past nearly exhausted his vocabulary In
this respect, but it is notorious that the
most debased and corrupt men in the coun-
try are the most prominent among his sd-
herents, and the most active in promoting
his party or factional purposes. And these
men invariably espouse the cause and at
tlch themselves to the party from which
thcv expect the greatest tolerance, and
which, prospectively, affords the greatest
scope for plumber.
But these facts, bad as they are, pale into
insignifcance in the view of more startling
truths which we know to exist. The mani
feet instability and palpable lack of firm.
ness in the Tribune man, has encouraged
the friends of "the lost cause" to support
him in the belief that, if elected, he would
be subservient tool in their hands, or il
refractory and capricicus, he may, as cor
respondent writes, be taken sick as HARRI
SON and TAYLOR were, with an incurabl'
mllady. He has already made express ol
implied promises that in the event OF hi
; election, his followers shall be rewarded
: p.thout reference to the past, and that rebe
soldiers may reasonably expect pensions, il
fact that general amnesty, &C., shall full,
restore all the disaffected and disqualified
7 10 all their former privileges
This expectation has already had the ef
feet of stirring up the latent fires OF seces
: SION and resuscitating the slumbering EN-
b,rs of rebellion, while its deluded votarie
are already jubilant with anticipated tri
umph.
: Their wishes being father to thei
thoughts and their future course 30 clearl
n delineated, their over-weening con6denc
betrays their exultation, sanguine hope
and indiscretion. Hear these rebels shout
. Gen. GEO. B. HODGE, in Lexington, KY
August I'd, said at Democratic barbecue
= Looking back now upon what he ono
n considered the shattered and fruitless hope
9 of the South, he saw that the equal right
and sovereignty Of the States would be re
stored, and that his comrades of the los
cause have not died in vain, but this antiC
a ipated triumph would be the victory fo
/, which they fought" These were hi
9 identical words. He also said that the lei
n ter of acceptance of HORACE GREELE
} meant the restoration Of JOHN c. BREcKIS
RIDGE and other chivalric sons OF tn
South to their former positions Of powe
and influence in the nation.
Col. BLACKBURN also said : "Shoul
Greely, ii elected, attempt to be dishonori
:, BILE or endeavor to enact any obpoxior
Z principle of radicalism, a Democratic Coz
gress, that was sure to be chosen with hin
% would hedge him in and that when it WI
)" necessary to secure such legislation as ii
y Democracy wish, they would demand {
!, and compel Mr.. Greeley to yield acquic
A. cence. '''
a Col. BREcKIFR4p0E said at the san
r. place and time, "thst he considered Gre
g ley az nothing he didn't care apicayur
for him but looked forward to the restor
Z, ton Of the Democratic party to power.
's RAPHEEL sESnirs pirate Of the Al
bspas, said, "the Captain Of the Alaban
has NOT gone to Greeley but Greeley h