The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-06-08
2ulitital Sttairs.
From he LOui'eiae, Ky. Ledger.
After the Endorsement of Greeley at
Baltimore Then WHAT

oaltlm0re-Ihen what
A very good friend, whose good opin.
lou We prize highly, but who, we regret
to say, though "lifo long Democrat !"
has left the camp-asked us yesterday
what we should do alter the Baltimore
Convention shall have iudorsed the
nomination Of Greeley; aud how We can
explain away the force of our present
arraignmeut Of that "great and good"
man aud his record.
The first proposition we have respond.
ed to in almost every issue of the Led
ger since the adjournment of the Gin.
cinnati Convention. We have, day
after day, announced that If forced TO
the dire extremity of supporting Gree.
ley or Grant--we should take the for.
mer-not for any good to be found in
hiu'-but upon the idea that no change
can make matters worse.
As for modifying or retracing, or ex.
plaining away any Of the facts which we
have from time to time stated concern.
ing him and his record, and the deduc-
tions drawn from those facts-we shall
simply not pretend to do so. We can.
not from our standpoint defend the
record of HoraDce Greeley, and we
shall not undertake the impossible task.
If we are forced to support him, it will
be in spite Of his record, aud because
nothing better is presented.
II there be no other candidate oppos.
ing Graut, then the mouths of tho De.
moeracy will be closed, SO far as partici.
pating actively in the campaign is con.
esrDed. No Democrat can defend
Greeley without utter qualification; and
our honest conviction is that there are
a million Of Democrats in the United
States who cannot be brought in any
state Of the case, to vote for him.
II is because Of this that we chose TO
discuss him and his record candidly
before it is too late. We do not think
the Democracy ought to touch him.
and we prefer to say il 10 time, and 10
give the reasons There is no use Of
attempting to cover up the life of Gree
ley. It cannot be done. His record
is too well known by every man in the
land
1t is fact thoroughly understood By
the mercst schoolboy, that he is the
incarnation Of Radicalism-the father
founder, and ablest defender of all that
Radicalism is in its most offensive sense:
that he originated the "cloud not big
ger than a mans hand" aud never
ceased TO agitate" till it spread and
settled like funeral pail over the
whole country-smothering aud strang.
ling the liberties Of a whole action that
he was the friend aud defender and insti.
gator Of old John Brown, aud his first
act in the bloody drama which has
crushed the south aud made il a mere
satrapy; that having egged that peo.
pie on, and induced them to believe
that they would be, and ought to be,
permitted to Withdraw from the Union,
he became the most savage and devil.
ish Of all those who clamored for their
blood, SO soon as his advice was acted
upon by them that he was one of the
very Few men laying claim to decency.
who applauded beast Buffers HELM.
spired order at New Orleans, ineitina
his soldiery to treat the ladies of that
city as "women upon the town plying
their vocation" that after the war was over
aud the gallant Southrons--who had
made fight against odds Of which his.
tory presents no parallel-grounded
their arms and lay PROSTATE and power.
less at the feet Of Federal power, Weld.
ing in good faith all the issues upoo
which the fight was made, he, with
mock magnanimity begging that they
be spared the gibbet, and ut the same
time urged the enactment by Congress
and the execution by the President, Of
every Infamous measure proposed for
their oppression and humiliation spar.
ing their lives that he might torture them
refusing TO hang that he might stilp
further degrade them; letting them
live that he might, little by little, crush
out their manhood that up to this
very moment no measure of oppression
upon the people at the South has been
proposed by Butler, Morton, Sumner
Conkliug, Chandler, Pomeroy, or any.
body else which has not met his hearty
advocacy; that he fell out with Grant
not because of any disagreement on
principles or policy, but only because
the latter placed the official slate of
New York in the hands of Coukling;
that he has not now, aud never had, a
sentiment but of hostility Of Democrats
aud the Democratic theory of the Gov.
ernment, and savagely as he denounces
him for weakness, vanityEnnd corruption,
prefers him to the purest Democrat in
the land.
We say all these facts arc known.
and cannot be smothered out or covered
up, aud they render it simply impossi,
Bile for any Democrat to defend Greeley
Therefore we think his Endorsement at
Baltimore would be fatal, aud we want
to prevent it. To this end we proposo
to raise our voice in warning before il
is too late
Pomeroy's Democrat advisas Dame.