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traitor. but he had done 80 to secure Demo-

seemed to be prearranged desertfon
to the Democracy, and TOR that reason 1t
was permitted to dwindle to the Insignificant
proportions which 1t exhibited In the canvass.
The Baltimore Convention did not intend to
kill the movement; but 1t did effectually kill
1t. The Democracy should not have
made nomination at all; 1t should have for
mally and conspicuously Withdrawn from the
field, announced its resolution not to make a
contest for the Presidency, either with Its own
candidate or any other candidate, and thus
yielded fighting ground TO any foe OF the ad-
was the "passve policy" ltshoHld have been
adopted before the Cincinnati Convention.
Had 1t been 80 adopted and strictly adhered to-,
the Liberal opposition to President Grant
would have burst into the proportions of a
powerful popular movement, and Its nominee,
whoever he might have been, would have
been elected over Grant as certainly and de.
cisively as Brown was elected Governor OF
Missouri over McClurg In 1870.
The Business Mems View or Greeley.
From the Chicago Tribune.l
The first thing that occurs to the rejecting
mind, In reviewing the recent campaign Is,
that the business men Of the country took an
early dislike and almost an alarm at Mr. Gree
ley's candidacy There were some notable
exceptions to this rule. The three or four
wealthiest men In the country were his sup
porters, and respectable body of merchants
and bankers In every city could be counted
among bis friends. But, with few excep-
tlOns, they were against him. They feared
that his election would produce hard times
that he would do something with the cur
renoy-that he would cause some precipi.
tate action to be taken regarding specie
payments. They feared change. Things were
we'll enough In dollar.and-cent view, and
your genuine business man does not look deep
into questions of reform unless the reform
programme tallies with the dollar-and-cent
programme which he has In bis minds eye.
In this case 1t did not. 30 Inc business classes
"lay down" on Mr.. Greeley at the oulset.ay
down hard on him.-msde little noise about 1t,
but said to each other, "Grant ls bad enough.
but ANYTHING is better for us than Greeley"
No reasons were given tor their anLipathy
to Greeley-reasons are seldom given for
a commercial scare-there were no rea-
sons. The hard times they, dreaded have
come without any Greeley In them.
They might as we'll have predicted horse
disease or hog cholera to come In With
Greeley. But we are now stating facts, and
Il is an obvious fact that the business men OF
the country generally were alarmed at Gree
ley, and when, In the month OF July, his elec-
tion seemed probable, and the Grant party
got into real panic, they proceeded to ''shell
out" TO prevent II. We esteem
this factor of opposition TO Greeley IN the
recent campaign, on the whole, the most Inn.
portant one in it-st least equal to the solid
negro vote which was cast against him, and,
perhaps, stronger even than that.
Hotspur Crttioa.
From the Wilmington Journall
We have been surprised and mortified at the
tone of few of our Southern Democratic con-
temporarIes In commenting on the disastrous
result of Tuesday. We say "e few" because
most of the criticism has been eminently i'm
martial. unclouded and lust. Our Journals, as
a general thing, rightly assigned as causes the
recalcltrancy of the Northern Democrats, the
general Indifference of the people to reforms
and governmental perilsf land che gigantic pat.
ronage and money power OF the government:
But some papers. giving way to feelings Of
many Northern Democrats who refused to
support Mr.. Greeley, have rashly attributed
the result to sectional animosity, and charge
that the North still cherlshes against the SCUM
feelings Of the btterest i1stred. Now we de-
precate this sort of criticism not only as being
unjust to the Northern people, bnt as misrepre-
sentiug Southern sentiment. It is the crlti-
clsm OF Hotspurs, unreasoning, rash, foolish
and hurtlul. Tue Southern people do not be-
leve that The Northern people deliberately re-
elected Grant for the purpose Of wreaklng
spIte upon us. Some OF their Understandings
lights of Radicalism, like Chandler, Butler and
Morton, hate us; the great body OF the people
are rapidly forgetting the narrow, illioerai ana
harsh issues of the war. True. broad over
lures made by us for peace and amily were
seemingly sllghted In the reelection of a man
who has done us nothing but harm since he
has been In office. But we are 10th TO believe
that this ia the real Specification of last Tues,
days work, We unhesitatingly say, we 90 not
believe any such thing. And We think The
expression of such opinion is imprudent aud
tends to damage us In the eyes Oh renecLng
men everywhere. On this subject The
CHAaLEsroN NEWS has sensible and timely
article.