Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
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We col the following excellent article
from the Baltimore Gazette and commend
it to the ttentive.perusal of our readers:
When We Democracy entered upon the
Presidential contest, and accepted the
leadership of Mr.. Greeley and an alliance
with the Liberal Republicans, they had,
above al. other things, two purposes in,
view. TIE first was to vindicate the right
of local &lfgovernment; the second, to
relieve tie South from military DONNA
ton and Northern thieves. 1t was the
unanimity of the Southern cry for relief,
and the eagerness with which the people
of that section chung to Mr.. Greeley, as
their possible deliverer from military dom
ination and Northern thieves, that led to
his adoption by the National Democratic
Convention. The sympathy then felt for
the forlorn condition of our Southern bre-
thren was a just recognition of the wrongs
under which they suffered, whilst the &C
ceptance of the Cincinnati nominees, and
of the platform of principles on which
they stood, was the best evidence that the
Democracy could give of their earnest de-
sire to have those wrongs redressed. The
motive was as honorable as the selfabne-
Vass may terminate, it will have the effect
to bind the Democracy of the South to the
Democracy of the North by ties stronger
than ever united them before. It will do
more than this-it will win for the Liber-
al Republicans an equal place with their
Democratic associates in the esteem of the
Southern people, and so help to bring a.
bout that better era of fraternal feeling
which, even if it be checked for a season,
cannot long be delayed.
If, therefore, the Democracy and Liberal
Republicans gained nothing more in this
contest than the warm hearts and willing
hands of the white citizens of the South,
it will be a gain that cannot be affected
by any present defeat, and that may be OF
signal service in the future.
Even now we may count with reasona-
BILE certainty; that all the Southern States
but two will cast their vote, through Dem
ocratic electors, for Mr.. Greeley, and if the
people of the North and West, who sim
cerely desire change of government, and
the restoration of the South to equal mem
bership in the Union, will but act upon
their honest convictions, the cause that
Mr.. Greeley represents may yet pass thro'
the ordeal of the November election tri-
umphantly.
Apart, too, from all this; fighting, as
we conscientiously believe we are, for JUS
tice and the right, no possibility of defeat
ought to turn us from our purpose. The
accusations brought against Grant and his
Administration have lost none of their
force because Pennsylvania and Ohio pre-
fer corrupt men to honest ones. The prin-
ciples for which we are contending are as
true to-day as they we're month ago.
Grant has changed in nothing from what
he was. His instincts are the same, his
associates the same, his advisers the same
corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS set. Casey still
sits at the Receipt of Custom; Murphy is
still Grants bosom friend; Morton and
Chandler-the Danton and Marat of our
day and generation-are his chosen coun-
sellers, and near them sits Butler, squat,
like toad y ----.--------,--..-.-----.-
all liberty but their own; to purify the
civil service; to restore the right of local
self government; to put check upon Con-
gressional usurpations of authority, and to
bring back the Administration within the
strict limits of its functions are all
things worth fighting for, and no partial
check, no serious reverse, even, ought to
prevent the contest from going on until
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