The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-19

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interest in the country.
The unsetIement Of everything that
condEces to enterprise and Investment
,0iU .foHow. What the country may,
under these circumstances, be COM
ing to, will be the question of the
day, but none can answer, because
the course of the man nominated, in
the sham he is going on with, stig
matizes him as an unprincipled Office
seeker. The only hope t0e haze IN
the future Of the country Is IN his de-
feat, and to that end we shall, in the |
true interest of the country and OF
the Democracy, labor.
The business interests ofthe coun-
try now SO well assured and promis-
ing for the future, under the
able, safe and sure financial policy
of the government, cannot be risked
by a change, which will "unsettle
everything" and bring uncertainty
suspicion and dismay in the place
of security. There never was a
time when the country was more
prosperous than now, nor fewer
failures occurring in business circles
to occasion a crisis in financial mat
ters. 1t is the result Of the assured
policy Of the government, and of the
confidence begotten thereby. But
read the article which we give from
the Free Press:
The convention at Baltimore has
concluded its work exactly as it had
engineered itself into a position to
do. 1t has, through false practices,
false statements, and false promises
attempted to sell, and hopes to deliUer
to one branch of the Republican party
the entire Uoting masses and the or
ganS Of the Democratic party under
the pretext of reform" 1t has
chiefly found fault with Gen. Grant
because he has filed the pockets of
his relations and friends; and yet it
now proposes to take another Radi-
cal who has until the third of May
indorsed him and urged him on in
wickedness, and through the aid of
the honest Democracy put him in
the position to fill the pockets Of an
other set of relations, friends and ad-
venturers. 1t has stated that it does
this in the interest of the Democrat
ic party, when its members well
know that it is intended, if success
full, to be the death-knell of the De
mocratic party and the construc
tion of an hermaphrodite Organiza
ton, held together without any
principles, save those of keeping the
administration of the financial af
fairs of the country in their hands
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We repudjate such utter aoant o.
principle and honesty. We urge up
on every honest Democract in the
country to do the same. Be they
few or many in each locality, they
will, when this crazy movement is de
feated in November, form the nuc
leus to which everything pretending
to the Democratic must gravitate
and it will be theirs and our proud
satisfaction to know that what is
saved of Democracy, and of a gov
ernment by the people instead of BY
adventurers, will be saved through
our efforts.
/ We do not propose to discuss Oh
argue at any length the independent
course the Free Press will take in
this campaign. 1t is sufficient fol
our own guidance to know that il
: will be truly Democratic; that un.
principled men, individually or col
lectively, calling themselves "a Ma
tiOnal Convention or anything else
cannot sell or give the Democratic
party over to Repubicanism or tc
advocacy of radical and lifelong en-
emy, however politically Ubiquitous
in other matters may have been his
actions. If the proposition was
made that the so-called Democratic
National Convention deemed Grant
the best man for the next four years
administration, and that it comman
ded the support of the Democratic
party in that action. a shout Of trea
son and indignant repudiation would
go up out of every throat in the par
ty. The change of the name of the
indiUidual does not modify this new
; | ly-claimed right of a convention. It
is true and safe principle that nc
convention can change its party with
success; that its powers for choice oi
candidates are restricted to the party
I that it represents, or that the very
extreme Of its powers could only
i, permit it to take the responsibility Of
nominating conUert to our party i
he had but seen an opponent. But
in this case not only is the attempt
made to deliver the Democratic par
ty over to an enemy, but to the mos
conspicuous enemy during an entire
lifetime, and one who has never re-
tracted or modified a single expires
sion of hate and detestation of oal
principles. The man himself is the
nominee of self constituted Repub.
lican Convention of soreheads, to
which no Democrat was admitted
and parcel of Democratic soreheads
have, in their individual desperation,
taken him up in most unprincipled
manner. This cannot be covered up
by declaring themselves Democrats.
They hare either sold themselves to
RadicaltSm or Horace Greeley, OF
they are in dishonest manner seek
ing through Uictimizing him to regain
the prominence and the Offices they
haze held a0ben the Democratic party
t0as IN poWer. There is hardly a
man among them that does not talk
of Greeley as a "bitter pill" as an
"awful dose," as the last man they
would choose if they could individ-
ually have a choice; and yet, with
this almost universal distaste for the
man on account of his principles so
honestly proclaimed thirty years ago
and which are not pretended to be
changed, these men attempt, in their
insane effort for prominence and pIun
der, to impose him upon the Demo
cratic party. 1t a0jU fail, and a0iH
bring into deserUed contempt those
leading men who have deluded and
will continue to try to delude others.