Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-10-09

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which they are placed by the former
of Mr.. Summers recent let ers. He
justifies his abandonment of the reg
l ular Republican organization and his
attachment to his new found friends
on the grounds that the whole
Democratic party has become Repub-
licap.
THE TESTIMONY OF GREELEY AND
THE DEMOCRACY.
But Mr.. Greeley, more sagacious
and tender TO the feeling of his DEM
Ocratic allies, is careful not to shock
their sensibilities by premature an
nOuneement of their conversion
: When Informed of his nomination by
the Baltimore Convention he told the
committee that brought him the
welcome tidings that he was "as
much a Republican as he ever was,n
and that they 'were, if possible, more
Democratic than before" The cheers
which greeted this announcement
demonstrated that these leaders of the
Democratic party and the official
organ of their national convention
understood that they had not surren
dered aught of their political faith
We have the supporting testimony of
the recognized standard-beareTs OF the
Democratic party throughout the
country. Such men as Senator Thur
man, of Ohio, Senator Hendricks, of
Indiana, Senator Buckalew, of Penn
sylvania, Governor Whyte, of Mary
land, declare that they have not
abandoned either their party organi
ZatiOn or its principles. They do not
admit tint their party is either dead
or converted to Republicanism. They,
on the contrary, excuse their support
of Mr.. Greeley on the ground that he
Is the nominee Of their party, whose
| commands they must obey. The
/ Democratic press is equally tenacious
in maintaining the identity of the
| party; and equally earnest in eXhOr |
/ tations addressed to the Democratic |
masses for votes for the reason that |
| Mr.. Greeley is the Democratic ROHli- |
nee. We witness also the complete |
organization Of the Democratic party /
in the several States. In every State /
where they suppose themselves TO 4
/ have a Democratic majority they /
nominate straight Democratic tick
! cts, and where they are cOnfessedly 4
in the minority they keep up the /
party organization, and only unite /
with the boiling Republicans for a
division of spOils. With this array of
Democratic testimony no candid man,
with unclouded judgment, can believe
that the Democratic party is either
dead or converted to -puhlicanism.
We have not yet heard from Demo-
cratic lips the confession Of the con-
verted, 1.-The things which we once
loved We now hate, and the things
which We once hated we now love"
THE COUNT Err TESTIMONY OF LIBER-
AL REPUBLICANS.
On the other hand we have boiling
and discarded Republicans only tes-
tifying to the death or conversion of
the Democratic party. Mr.. Sumner
thinks it has been converted because
it agrees with him in his one idea of
opposition to General Grant. With
him this opposition has become n
mania. His hatred of the President
has so engrossed his whole intellectu-
al and moral nature as to OVeTshadOw
every other consideration. With
him party principle dwindles into in
significance i'm the heat of his rage
against the man whom he cannot
CthAAbls LII AclAOAAbE !
under the hallucinatiOn that the
United States are not large enough to
hold two such men as himself and
the President. Like the old Roman
Senator, who came TO the forum eve
~ day with the exclamation, Gar
thage must be destroyed sumner
makes the welkin ring with his dur
nal wall for the destruction Of Grant.
Grant is his MOrdecai, sitting at the
palace gate, refusing TO do him rever
ence. Like Haman, he has built a
gallOws for his enemy fifty cubits
high. Like Haman, who, being un-
able to secure an edict against Nor
decai, resolved on q graudeT ven
geance, invo wing his destruction
with the whole Jewish race. Sumner
determines to de itroy Grant by the
destruction of the whole Republican
party. In his cloUded mental Wis
ion he is no longer able 10 per-
ceive any material difference be-
tween the principles Of the Dem
ocratic party and the party he
helped to create, and processes himself
willing to turn over the guardianship
of four millions of freedmen from the
party thai liberated them to their old
masters. SchuTZ, and Trumbull, and
Fenton, and fOuT-fifths of their lead
ing Liberal Republican associates
have personal grievances TO redress,
and personal ambitions TO crafty, in !
the defeat OF Grant. To cover the
odium which attaches TO deseTters,
they try TO persuade themselves that Z,
they have not Joined the Democratic ,
party, but have converted it TO Re :
publicanism. This gOssamer veil is !
too fimsey TO protect them from the p,
arrows which truth draws from her
ready quiver and hurls at her pre-
sumptuOus foes.
Mr.. Greeley, IN his carefully prepar- I
ed letter of acceptance, flies to their {
rescue with one of his masterpieces j
Of impOtent ssphistry. Hear him on {
the question of the conversion of the L
Dem ocratic party: c
"But that your convention saw fit, in y
adopting the Cincinnati ticket. to re
affirm the Cincinnati platform is to me
a source of the profoundest satisfaction.
! hat body was constrained 10 take this .
important step by no party necessity, d
rea lOr supposed. 1t might have accept L
ID the candidates OF Liberal Republicans &
lpon grounds entirely. its own, or it @
might have presented them ias the first L
W hig National Convention did Harrison G.
md Tyler without adopting any plat n
Orm whatever. That il chose to plant ii
lself deliberately, by vote nearly I
upon Il e fullest and clearest 1
OF principles which are at :
,nce incOnsistably Republican and en- Il
Democratic, gives trustwOr- e
by assurance that a new and more au- ID
picious era is dawning upon our long If
distracted country 81
He. then cOngratulates himself on
lis. having lived until there is na par ="
Y in the country in favor of the rees- II II
of slavery, and adds: -
''Gentlemen, your platform, which is r.
lso mine, assures me that Democracy is -
Ot bencefOrth to stand for Ore thing =.
nd Republicanism for another, but that y,
hose terms are 10 mean al politics, as al
hey always have meant in the dictiOua- &C
y, substantially one and same thing II
amely, equal rights, regardless OI creed, bl
T cline, or color. 1 hail this as geuu- q
Ie new departure from outworn feuds ia
nd meaningless contentious in the di-
ection of progress and REFORM st
Mr.. Greeley is careful not to an n,
ounce the abandonment Of any of its IN
Id tenets by the Democratic party, or
he support of slavery excepted, or OF
IS conversion to the Republican faith. fu
Vht n stripped of surplusssage he as ca
arts nnl lV THAT 1f phtsgn Ia TlqDf IL :