The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-01

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unexampled as to take her out OF the
list of doubtful States and practically
to pronounce in advance the decision
of at least lbs votes in the electoral col
lege. To this number it is only neces-
sary to add 80 votes to elect Greeley
and Brown. In Pennsylvania the dis
tinguished chairman of the Liberal
committee has eloquently characterized
the method by which the result of the
election there was accomplished. We
commend his statement to the thought
full attention of the country. In Ohio,
despite most unprecedented gains for
the Liberal Democratic ticket, the
Grant managers have carried the cleo
ton by q reducsd majority, having
brought to the polls their entire reserve
vote Had our Democratic friends In
certail localities of that great common
wealth shown the same earnestness and
activity, and enablA us, Like our enc
mics, to record our entlfe strength,
they would now be e1alting over q
brilliant victory Indiana, the
Democratic and Liberal forces have
achieved q most important success ON
the Pennsylvania tactics, most unscru-
pulously employed by theAdministration
and its allies, showing thus that free
people. when aroused, know their rights
| and dare maintain them. Indiana has
fully demonstrated that she can neither
be bought nor bullied- The moral of
these results is, that the victory is still
in plain view for our national ticket,
and that energy and courage will assure
it. That victory must be won. live
mean to preserve free institutions on
this continent, we must assure 1t. The
event in Pennsylvanis On Tuesday last,
when considered in its causes, is the
most appalling political catastrophe
that has ever taken place in this coun-
try. Should the system through which
this catastrophe was brought about be
condoned by the the people and foisted
on the other States, it seals the the
doom of freedom in America, A sad
contrast it is, surely, that the city In
which our republic was born, amid the
anthems of q free people, should nov
be the first to toll the knell of its hber-
ties. It is for the free unbought people
of all the States to calmly review the
fearful crime against suffrage In PENN
sylvania, and to decide whether it shall
be repeated within their own borders.
For the first time, the system OF Tree
government and the sanctity OF the bal
lot are really on trial In the United
States. From this hour forward the
preservation of the franchise in its in
tegrity dwarfs all other issues. Let our
friends in each of the States catch IN
spiration from the heroic conduct of
our fellow-citizens in Georgia and IN
Indiana, and from now till November
let their struggle be manful and unceas-
ing for liberty and an untalnted
ballot-box, for reform and an honest
administration of the government.
AUGUST SCHNKLL,
Chm Natl Democratic Committee.
THE VOICE OF THE LIBERALS.
HDoR's N. Y. LIB. REF. STATE COMMITTEE,
St. Nicholas Hotel, Oct. IA, 1872
The results of the October elections
have not fulfilled our just expectations
Though Indiana has elected Liberal Gov
ernor and Superintendent of Education,
chosen by decided majorities, while OHIO
has so reduced the adverse maturity that
our brethren in that State confidently hope
to be successful at the coming election,
while Georgia declared for US by q majori-
ty which insures the choice of Greeley and
Brown electors in nearly every Southern
State, yet the enormous majority counted
against us in Pennsylvania has gwen our
adversary assurance that by like lavish
disbursement and fraudulent practice they
may carry almost any state they choose,
including even New York. There Is no
intelligent citizen of whatever party, who
does not realize that the $4,000 majority
scored up in that State of Hartranft over
| Buckalew represent, not the convictions OF
the voters, but vast sums whereby those
convictions have been overborne, and that
this majority could have just as easily
been given to either of the two undoubted
gigantic peculators who were pardoned out
of felons cells, where they had spent but
few months, in order that their testimony
might smooth the way to Hartranfts cleo
ton. A contest is now forced upon us oe-
tween money and manhood. All the ex-
penditure of all parties in former Presi.
Dental elections do not equal in the ag'
cregate the vast sums with which every
contested State is sluiced, in order TO make
them seem to desire and consent to the re-
iention of the present rule at Washington
| Not only are officeholders, landgrant job
bers, subsidy mongers and Government
contractors of all kinds assessed and re-
assessed to promote the reelection of Gen.
| Grant. but we are Sell assured that Eur
ropean bondholders and fundmongers,
who never saw this country, whose rights
we never questioned, whose interest we
never assailed, have been induced to sub
scribe and contribute bounteously to the
same end. We cannot raise dimes to meet
the dollars thus poured out against US. No
credit mobilier has dexterously transferred
millions to our pockets and fastened u cor
responding debt upon the industry AID
prosperity of the toiling masses; no Sec
retary of the Treasury stands ready TO
help us fill our pockets, or our campaign
chest, by stock gambling. in which he
loads the dice so as to make II certain that
we shall win In short, We have but the
few dollars profered us by those who have
honestly earned them, and we must make
Herewith the fight We can. While the
venal, the sordid, the rapacious lsyishly
supply their tens of thousands, confident
ly expecting their return with large usury,
all through the legislative jobbery whereby
the few are enriched at the cost OF the
many. OF course these are all shouting
in chorus that we are already beaten But
we are not beaten, there are twenty
States, casting nearly two hundred electly
raj votes, that we can still carry, if we only
will. We are in danger of defeat mereo-
because some faint hearts are discouraged.
A larger majority of the American people
realize that we stand on the right platform
and they, at least, desire our success:
They desire, as we do, perfect national
reconciliation on the basis of universal
amnesty and impartial liberty; they de-
sire, also, national publication and
general civil service reform,
whereby the freedom of election shall
be protected and shielded from the
enormous corrupting patronage OF the
Federal Executive. II We shall be
overborne in this election, it viii be
generally conceded within year that
the reforms for which we struggled
were genuine and necessary. Iu every
contest between money and manhood,
the latter is certain of ultimate, if not
immediate success.
Brethren, we must not be beaten.
Our country has too much at stake on
the issue of this contest. Resolve with
us this day, that, by your stout hearts
J and strong arms, the Liberal cause and
candidates shall be resistlessly borne