Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-01
Rats will Leave a Sinking Ship.

AT no period in the campaign has the
prospects of GREELEY looked so insignif-
can't as now. In the Southern States, where
it was expected he would get his main
support, they are pulling down the GREE
LEY flag and hosting that of OCoNoR.
We have but space for few extracts
from the Southern press, which will give
only a reflection of the sentiments in that
direction. The first ia from the Austin
(Texas) State Gazette, edited by the Chair
man of the Democratic State Central Com
mittce, as follows:
Greeleyism is dead--dsad- Nothing
earthly can be more obvious. No candid man
can longer deny il. No patriotic man will
strive to deceive himself or his fellow citizens
into the belief that there is a hppe for IL. The
elections in Pennsy ylvania, Ohio and indiana,
have resulted, nnder Greeley leadership, in such
overwhelming disaster, as must silence the
shallow trcksters whose shameful treachery
has wrought such terrible results.
An immediate and most vital duty now de-
wolves upon the Dem cracy. Organization for
the support Of the Democratic ticket nominated
at Louisville must be instantly perfected.
Greeeyism must be buried out of sight. There
can be no sense in setting up and whining over
the corpse until the sexton comes for it in No
vember. Let it be inferred at once, and let us
clear the deck for the best possible fight under
true culurs.
FROM THE TEXAS STATE RKGIsTRR.
The great majority OF the Democratic jour
nails, aud ninety -nine out of every hundred Of
those voters who had hitherto supported Gree
eyism, were deluded With assurances promises
aud hopes that are now exposed in all their
falsity. No sort Of moral obligation, thon, can
longer commit them to the hopeless cause on
which they have been wasting their effnrts.
But the m)st sacred AMI solemn obligations
do appeal TO them to step forth at once aud lend
all their aid to the rescue of Democratic princi
pies and as much as possible o: Democratic or
gauization, from the ruins Of the Greeley
wreck. There is but one way in which any
thing can be saved, and that is to at once run up
the Democratic ticket Of O'Conor and Adams,
AM adjust the organization of the party to Its
support. -, !,
in ample tune to sweep Texas By fifty thousand
clear majority. But no tipe is to be lost, and
every selfish instinct must be sacrificed to the
great duty of preserving Democratic integrity.
FROM THg TIsHoHISGo (mss )HERALD.
The cry Of expedency will no longer do.
Greeey's hopes are AS de ID as the flowers that
perished with the frosts of last winter, and who-
ever now sticks to him will have the odium Of
Radtcalism hung to him like the shirt of Nessus.
Mississippians. leave the sinking shipl Cut
louse from the dead carcass of horace Greeley
aud vote for true and tried Democrat the
only one now who can possibly defeat Grant,
and the only one who can inspire southerners
with enthusiasm, and make them feel they had
honored themselves and their section by voting
| for him. Come along brave MssisSippians and
do not longer degrade vnur manhood or hu nbe
your pride by supporting the miserable old
thing who has ever been against US and has
done more to blast the G,rtunes and insult the
honor Of southern people than everv other RAdi-
cal and blatant bolIianist in the Union
! The lesson taught by these elections, is that
Greeley stands not the ghost Of chance to
succeed. Now is the time for Democrats to
rally to the standard Of 0'Con0r and Adams,
and ii defeated, they will have the proud satis-
faction of knowing that they voted for men. who
at least. are the exponents of their political SEN
| timen's.
Other papers in Mississippi and North
Carolina talk equally emphatic, and have
taken down the names OF GREELEY and
BRowN and put up those of OcoSoR and
ADAMS, Where the stampede will end
can only be known after the results OF next
Tuesday reach us.