Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-05-14
The Sage Of Chappaqua.

There must be some extraordinary
commotion among the planets, some
freak in the laws of nature, some
inversion Of the currents of electrici,
ty that conspired to mock the expcc.
tations Of mankind and the predict
ions Of the wise and prudent, when
political whirlwind could toss togeth-
or six or seven hundred men from
everywhere and nowhere, who for
the purpose Of "beating Grant" and
capturing the Democratic party
should nominate for Presidential
honors the versatile genius of the
New York TriJune-he who advoca-
ted peaceable secession of the s ates,
who constituted himself Envoy Plen
ipotentiary to travel into Canada TO
settle our late unpleasantness, who
bailed jeff Davis-he whose whole
political life has been comedy of
contradictions and Inconsistencies
There is nothing incredible hereafter
possibilities have no limits.
The primary object Of the Cincin-
natl Convention was to nominate
some Republican that the demVvra,y
would embrace with open arms
We wait with emotion to hear the
grand anthem of praise yelling up
from democratic hearts, rolling from
democratic tongues, from Maine to
California, from Alaska TO Florida
Has Greeley virtue, goodness, aud
patriotism and loyalty enough to
Tegenerate, renovate and convert the
whole democratic body-all of them
into earnest devoted progressive Re.
publicans? Jadge Chase advised the
Convention to propitiate the demo-
cratic party. The programme was
that the soreheaded Republicans
were to furnish the can didates and
the democratic party do the voting.
Principles were to be thrown over
board, and the one idea of cheating
Grant" was too exacting and all en-
crossing to admit Of any distraction.
The free trade men tore their motto
into shrcds, and threw up their hats
in hearty cheers for the whitecoated
philosopher whose brain for the last
40 years has been added by protect
ion, whose blood has been mingled
with it and whose bones have been
formed from it.
No man has done more than Hor-
acc Greeley to shape the sentim ents
OF the age against southern Slavery,
The armies hurled upon the South
under the leadership of Grant, Sher-
man and Thomas were but the
physical expression of those ideas,
and will the pirate Semmes, Gen.
Breckenridge, Wade Hampton, Wise
and Stephens read file of the New
York Tribune from 1910 down to the
present time, and then take the
stump for tina "liberal candidate?"-
Can Carl Schurz who has himself de-
nounced the temperance laws per-
suade his countrvmen to vote for the
life long advocate of the Maine law,
for the man who regards the CONVEX
sion OF barley into malt as a crime
against God and humanity? Pero
haps these men regard II. G's prnci-
Piles as composed of dough to which
they can give any shape that they
think proper to impress.
In fine if IL. G. can at once by
some moral oontagion innoculate and
indoctrinate the entire Democratic |
party into the ideas, religious, politi-
cal and social, that he has been incul- |
eating ever since va heard his name, |
he will accomplish neral transfer
nation as grand and glorious as ever
apostles or prophets or philanthro-
psts dreamed of.
But we anticipate far different
action from the Democratic party
Seeing the Republican party divided
they will nominate ticket of their
own In such an event the firm Of
ureeley q Brown will be deserted
by ooth parties, and all true Repub-
lIcans VIII iook,to the Philadelphia
convention to prevent recurrence
of the re-actionary ideas of the mast