The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-13
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The following circular address has been
issued by the Democratic Executive Com
mittee: ~
LOUISVILLE, August @, 1872. d
DEAR SIR-Will you be kind enough to
place this circular in the hands of active
Democrats in your county, who will at
once commence an organization for the pur-
pose of supporting the principles of our
party as they will be proclaimed by the
convention at Louisville, September 3?
The utter abandonment Of principles as
evinced by the coalition between the spoils-
men and place-hunters in their attempt to
elevate Horace Greeley to the Presidency
is sad evidence of the decentralization and
corruption now existing in our midst; and
based. as that bargain is, upon fraud and
hypocrisy, the utterance of one set of sem
timents in the North, and another in the
South, it must be repudiated and spurned
by every man who has a spark of honesty
in his heart. .ai' z'eA
There are hundreds of thousands who
already proclaim their purpose of main
tanning the Democratic organization at all
hazards. The disintegration of the Radical
party into two factions renders it self-evi-
dent that the Democratic masses can elect
one of their own faith, instead of lifelong
enemy like Greeley, who still loudly as
serts that he has never abandoned his prin-
ciples, and points proudly yet to his re-
cord. ll. -,a1 . s-. ID.
And such record
Can Democrats who have boosted that
they support "principles. not men" agree
to falsify their past life by clasping hands
with the worst men of the Radical party
Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Fenton, and
the thousand other leaders who rally
around Greeley, and would control his adj
ministratlon if his election can be secured?
Who are the men that thus seek for the
highest honors and elnoluments of this
country, and who have obtained the sup
port of the trading politicians of the Tam
many school by promise of dividing the
sp0ils !? Without exception they are the
bgots whose bitterness has been evinced
for the past twenty years in defamation Of
their opponents. They are the men who
have uttered the most unchlistian, the most
ferociors, the most villainous sentiments
about and against the Southern people Two
men and children as well as mem during the
war, and who have done most to develop
and pass that legislation since the war
which true Democrats denounce as SUBJ
versiye of liberty and against the spirit of
our institutions. s
They are the men who have riveted the
South in its chains, and burdened it with
increased debts, the proceeds of which have
gone into the pockets of the select few who
have lattened upon the mislortunes of the
people, and who turn to the new ring and
the Tanlmany alliance in order still further
to enrich and ennoble themselves. IS.
Warmoth, who has increased the debt of
Louisiana $45, 100000 in three years !;
whose fraudulent acts and villainous State
legislation have been denounced in the
Democratic papers from Maine to Texas, is
the leader per ercellence of the chivalry of
the South. His influence at Cincinnati and
the sixteen votes of his delegation insured
the nomination of Greeley, and vet we are
coolly informed that the people have done
it with enthusiasm. 4,
Warmoth can control the registry of
Louisiana, and can elect by fraud such cam
didates as he pleaSes, just as the Mayor of
New York has the deciding vote in appoint
ing all the return officers for Mr.. Greeley,
who can, if not checked, carry out the
open assertion of $4,000 majority in No
vember.
And Augustus Schell and others have
written urgent letters for the ''good of the
cause" that the Louisiana Democrats
should work in harmony with Warmoth.
And it is boldly proposed to place him
in the United States Senate as a reward for
his infamy.
Can it be that the people are so degraded
as thus to sanction premium for their
own dishonor ?
Is our body polite to be inoculated with
the base poison of fraud ?
Is this better method of securing our
liberties than the partisan use of those
laws which were originated by the promi-
nent leaders of Mr.. Greeley's party, and
placed among our statutes to be enforced
by the bayonets of the present Administra-
tionY
shall we suffer our liberties to perish
either by slow poison or by the sword; or,
preferring rather to maintain them and to
insure free expression of the popular will,
shall we not make war against all parties
who attempt to pervert the Constitution ?
Can the people of the South clasp hands
with those men who have wronged them
from the termination of the war? Can
Northern men condone such offences by
placing them in power? in Texas, to re-
instate, Governor Pease, whose arbitrary
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