The Placer herald., 1872-08-17
GREELEY AND TIE DEMOCRATS.

every section Of the Union, convention of
our ablest and truest statesmen met in Bal
timore in July last, and after full and can
did survey of the political field, interchange
of sentiments and discussion of the dangers
that threatened both the loss of property and
liberty to the American people by another
four years of theft, tyranny, usurpation aud
Capitalization of Grant and the corrupt band
that surrounds and rules him, they accepted
and indorsed the action of the Liberal Repub-
lican Convention previously held at Cincin-
natl. The party that these, our delegates at
Baltimore, represented had given the Liberal
Republicans to understand that if they would
at Cincinnati lay down a plain, terse and
patriotic platform, suited to the living issues
and ignoring the past, that all honest, lib
erty-loving men could indorse, and nominate
able statesmen and honest men to carry II
out, that they would indorse it., and aid in
the election of the candidates The Cincn-
natl platform and nominees proved the good
faith of the Liberals ,and our convention rat-
fled the former and nominated the latter
All over the Union the action of the Balti-
more Democratic Convention has been rati-
fled in the hearts and by the voices Of ninety
nine out of every hundred Democrats In a
case of this kind the majority must rule, Or
all party ties and organizations cease at once
to exist. All Democrats are agreed that TO
save our country, remove existing abuses and
once more have an honest administration,
Grant must be beaten. 1t would have suited
US better to have beaten him with pendleton,
Groesbeck, Hendricks, or some other of our
great Democratic statesmen, but as we have
not that privilege, we shall glory in beating
him with honest old Horace Greeley. We,
as party, sacrifice nothing as Democrats
or Individuals in the support Of Greeley and
Brown and the Cincinnati platform. We
defy any Democrat to name single Hrtng
issue before the American people that he
and Horace Greeley are not agreed upon
Horace Greeley aud the Democratic party
quarreled over the high tariff and slavery
questions. The tariff question is expressly
RENTED to the voters Of the Congressional
districts by the Cincinnati platform and thus
taken entirely out of the Presidential contest
This removes forever one of the old differences
between Greeley and the Democracy.
Slavery is abolished, and the negro is now
free citizen and voter, and no Democrat in
America wishes him denied this right, or
would disturb his full and free enjoyment of
them in all the future, and in this Greeley !
and the Democracy fully agree. These were
the only two issues that divided Greeley and
the Democracy in yoafs gone by, and now
they are both dead and buried with the past. |
When the old Wing party died its ablest men |
came to the Democracy. 1t would have
been Just as sensible for them to have refused
to vote the Democratic ticket because we
had been opposed to, and had destroyed the
old United States Bank, or for us to have
refused to have received them because they
had been for the bank, as for Democrats now
to refuse to support Greeley because we once
disagreed on the slavery question Good
sense and patriotism teaches us that we must
fraternise, poll ;cal,y, with all who agree with
us on the living issues of the day if we would
do our duty to our country, the people, and
! those who may come after us; and this must
oe the view that every sensible Democrat,
who can dvest himself of past preiudces
will take of the present Presidential cortee.;
We have not gone to the Liberal Perablicans
nor have they come to us, bat we have met
on common platform; .,uilt ON the liberal,
living issues of tl'o day, and shaken hands
IN eternal ir". ".ndship, and joined forces to drive
Grant Fad his thieving, monarchial minions
I'm place and power forever in America.
Where is the honest Democrat that will not
, join his old comrades in such a cause Echo
answers, where?
The Grant Republican Central Committee
of Illinois notified Gen. John F. Farnsworth
now Congressman from that State, that
they had made many appointments for him
to fill as Grant speaker, during the cam
paign. What must have been their chagrn
and modification to receive as his answer
letter filling a long solid column in the Chi
cago Tribune, giving hundred unanswer
able reasons why be would oppose Grant and
support Greeley. Thus the great leaders of
the old Repr blican party, one by one, are
leaving the rotten corruption crew of Grant
and proclaiming for Greeley, until all sensible
men can see that no earthly power can pre-
vent Greeley's and Browns election.