American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-07-27

ration, the Ballot in place of the BayOnet
and Greeley in the place of Grant,
Leslie's Weekly.
The Coalition.
THE action of the Democratic party il
formally and deliberately renominatins
the nominee of the Liberal Republicar
convention, and reaffirming the unmodi
fled platform of the same Liberal Re
publican convention, is something so ex
traordinary as to justify the wonder i
provoked. Nothing like it was ever seer
before; nothing like it was ever dreamed
of before, as political possibility. The
meaning of it is something which many
| political experts have not yet succeeded
in comprehending. 1t violates all rules
| they are acquainted with; it staggers
their ideas of propriety; it is in conflict
with all the facts of their experience. II
opens a realm which they have never ex
| plored and whose existence even they
never suspected. They had imagined
they knew all about politics; but in the
presence of this astounding and mex
plicable phenomenon, they are half in
| clined to fear they never knew anything.
| They are stunned, and confused, by a
fact which they are forced to accept.
without understanding it.
| able folly, and esteemed by others, a
sublime wisdom. The organs of the
Administration party insist on viewing
it in the former light they declare it is
a piece of indefensible foolishness.
They are the very best judges of the
meaning of the act; they understand its
object and its value quite as well as we
do ourselves; indeed, they understand
it better, and their opinion is worth some
thing. But we must interpret
the advice of an enemy by the
know what the Administration party
really think about this extraordinary ac-
ton of the Baltimore Convention, we
must go beyond their words, and look at
its effect upon them. In doing this we
find that this indcfensible fOolishness has
thrown them into confusion and filled
them with dismay. They see in it such a
menace of defeat to themselves as they
never saw before. 1t threatens their
ascendancy. 1t loosens the allegiance of
their adherents it arrays against them
encounter before. and which they are at
loss how to deal with. When one of two
hostile armies commits an inexcusable
blunder, its watchful opponent is filled
with delight. But here is an inexcusable
blunder committed by one of two hostile
parties which, strangely enough, fills its
watchful opponent with unconcealed
alarm. Is not this tremor in the enemy's
camp a better Interpretation of the Dem
ocratic denomination than all the ener-
getic circumstances against it that we
hear from his organs? Does it not half
prove that while the enemy declares the
act to be supreme foolishness, he really
knows and feels that it is the highest wis
dom? Does it not at least suggest that
when he pleads that it is the ruin of the
Democratic party, he really fears it will
be the ruin of the Administration party
The coalition is really drama in two
parts, and the act at Baltimore must be
considered in connection with the act at
Cincinnati Each is at once the com
plement and the supplement of the
other; both together make up the whole.
1t was an extraordinary thing for a
Democratic Convention to officially re-
nominate the candidate and reaffirm the
platform of Liberal Republican Con
vention; but it was an equally extra
ordinary thing for the Liberal Republican
to make the platform that
Democrats could reaffirm, and to nomi-
nate a candidate whom Democrats could
The Liberals might have
presented a candidate whom Democrats
would not have accepted: and they might
have proclaimed a platform which Demo-
Gratis would not have indorsed; but they
did neither. They made platform that
is Democratic in its main parts, and not
in any of its parts; and, in
addition to this, they nominated that Re
publican, of all other Republicans
in the country, who is most acceptable
to the masses of the Demo
cratic party. This done the Democracy,
with that perfect good faith and can
dor which have marked the whole his
tory of the passive" policy, not only
and without discussion. accept |
ed the results of the revolt which they
had invited, but, as an additional proof
Of their good will, gave them the benefit |
Of their official and deliberate indorse-
nent
1t is said that in this act, the Demo-
cratic party has abandoned its principles;
out it is said, also, by the same persons,
hat the Liberals have made themselves |
raitors. Both cannot be true, for one |
IMPLIES the falsity of the other. If the |
Democrats have gone to the Liberal Re
,ublicans, the Liberal Republicans can
lot have gone over to the Democrats; and |
ice Uersa. The real truth is that the two
meet on common ground and unite their
rms for the patriotic purpose of over
an enemy to the country. If |
he Democracy have made the larger con-
essions. the fact will be remembered to
is credit. The sacrifice will constitute
N indisputable claim on the gratitude
nd future support of the people.-lMs-
Ouri Republicans.