Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-08-10

DEMOCRACY. The opening of the cam
paign of tie Grcely or wooly.hend Demo
cracy, took place at meeting in the Court
House in this place, on Monday evening
last. The speakers were Hon. Charles r.
Buckalew, candidate for Governor, Hon.
1Iendrick b. Wright, candidate at large,
for Congress, and John Campbell, of Phila-
delphia, candidate for--the Lunatic Asy-
lum, If he makes many more such mental
efforts which characterised what, no doubt,
he intended as a speech.
The house was we'll filed, though not
crowded, perhaps, two-thirds being Rcpub-
licans not one of whom will vote the mon
grel ticket. When we say that the efforts
of the speakers fell far short of the eypec-
taiions of the hearers, we assert a simple
truth that no candid person present can
deny. Mr.. Buckalew's speech was very
ears of his hearers. His theme was mere
recital of what he did rs State Senator in
passing three or four proposed amendments
to the Constitution, TO be voted on this fall
public debt. He referred also to General
Hartranft, and attempted TO connect him
with the Evans fraud and Ring, but ad-
duced no proof whatever. He neglected,
however, to mention that while Gen. IIar-
tranft was CALAMITY fighting the rebels, he
himself was at the Clifton House in Cana
da, closeted with Thompson, Clay and
Holcombe, giving those rebel incepdiaries
advise and consolation.
Mr.. Wright's effort was 4 labored one
in attempting to excuse, if not justify, the
Democracy in selling out their seven prin-
ciples to the soreheads of the Republican
party. He took especial pains to impress
upon the meeting the fact that he had
never sympathised with the rebels in their
efforts to destroy the Union, whatever his
party might have done. lie confessed that
swallowing Greeley whom he had dcspised
for thirty years, was an awful effort,
but consoled himself that after all he only
swallowed the Greeley platform of princi-
pies. Now when we take into considera-
ton the fact, that Mr.. Sumner himself de-
clarcs that the Grant and Greeley platform
are substantially the same, the confession
must be rather humiliating. What the
object was in introducing John Campbell
from Philadelphia, is mystery we cannot
fathom. John, who is n raw and an un-
educated Irishman, though he deals in
second hand law books, has not even the
mother wit common TO his race, to COM
pensate for the barrenness of his ideas, and
his incohcrent utterances, accompanied by
grimaces and gestures that would have
been ludicrous had they been less ridicu-
lous. 1t was Johns misfortune that he
had not the capacity to comprehend the
Grant platform, which was metaphysical
and incomprehensible, while the Greeley
platform was perfectly plain. Yet Mr..
Sumner and the authors of the Greeley
platform contend that both platforms are
Republican, and emitting the one term
principle, in all respects alike. Such are
the incougruities and the Inconsistencies of
men who become reckless and abandon all
principle, and whose only guiding star is
that Of sef.interest. 1t IS only few days
since that he swallowed Greeley, not his
principles, in order to beat Grant, while Mr.
Wright and others, assert they have swal-
lowed, not Greeley, but his platform of
principles. Alas has the once powerful
Democratic party come to this ? With no
platform, no fixed principles in name or
substance, floating in the open sea without
sail or rudder, and without pilot to save
them from being shipwrecked and engulph-
ed to rise no more, except an old abolition
ist whom they have hated and denounced
for The last thirty years, to whom they now
cry to save them lest they sink forever.