Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-10

candidacy of Mr. Greeley, as we
should have felt in 1860 had the ''un
terrified" assumed control of the
Chicago convention, referred the ques-
ton of slavery to the several coDgres
sional districts, nominated for US Mr.
Jefferson Davis, and then rolled up
their eva in spirit of sanctity and
assured us that some garment of our
candidate covered physical contorma
ton of surprising beauty and excel
lence.
There is but one thing we cannot
suffer and live under; that is dishonor,
made more uncomfortable because rdicu
lous With what hope or even face
could we, during the rest of our lives,
go reforming" again, when once we
had allowed ourselves to be made such
very stool pigeons of with impunity,
cozened us in the successful prosecu-
ton of their game. We may not he sue
cessfui politicians, but we can at least
try to be honest men.
Meanwhile, for a long time past,
and especially during the present cam
paign, have acted in close sympathy
with the class whose feelings now find
vigorous expressions through the col
umns 0 the New York Evening Post
and the Nation-a class insignificant
in numbers only, and one not safely to
be disregarded. We and our princi
pies have in this matter been brutaliy
and grievously insulted, and we pro
pose to show that we are not disposed
i
We at least never invited Mr.. Greeley
and his singular following into any
party affiliations-we always protested
against it; and, from their first intro
ductiOn, looked upon our uninviting
associates with undisguised appreEien
sion. Those who brought about the
alliance are, perhaps, bound by the
principles of what is called political
honor not to repudiate the conse
qucnce Of their own act; they made
the game, and they lost the stakes
we. however, are not disposed to al
, low ourselves to be transferred as s
portion of the contents of tina
pool
The defeat of Mr.. Greeley has
the lefore, become, from our point o
} view, the one good thing which cal
, result from this campaign. His sue
; cess would be our complete discomfit
ure. 1t would go far to demonstrate
/ what we have most perslstently de
MED, and the denial Of which was a
, the basis of the original Cincinnati
t movement. We then insisted, as W
f still dotinsist, that the people of thi
country were body Of which we our
! selves were part; that the mass of ou
j fellow citizens disliked to be humbug
Y ged, and liked TO be treated as rationa
5 beings, Just as we did ourselves-n,
4 more and no less.
e The thing seems altogether too ri
y diculous to be gravely stated, and ye
: it is absolutely true. Mr.. Greeley
!, nomination was wholly and avowedl
Y urged and justified on the ''white hat,
: tidal wave. and prairie fire. hypothe
J, sis; the bloody chasm melodrama wa
S a somewhat f1imsy after piece, introduC
0 ed to cover up the awful failure of tn
It great original wood chopper" farce
:. The defeat OF Mr.. Greeley will go f.
to convince the "men inside politics
e that things utterly incongruous ca
not as yet be successfully Jumped to
y gether, that the rise of "tidal waves
?. and So rairie fires" has some come,
ii ton with real underlying cause, tbs
h the people of whom they prate S
e much and think so little, are not mer
e children to be pleased with ratt
l. and tickled with straw, and, finally
y that the cast off garments of an en-
7. inent editor, are, after all, but poe
n substitute for cardinal principles.
d At one time I freeiey confess ! hope
o for more than this-far more-as tt
Y result of tue present canvass. L d
n hope that great principles might
: gravely discussed, and that much pr
gress might be made, no matter VIII
r. party achieved success in the graz
lg work of educating a nation. In cor
a mon with many others, l was disa
sd pointed; out, if / can not have the
al sue wanted, l must needs acce
y. that which is forced upon US. 1t
e' for this canvass simply to show tn
e. we are neither children nor fools. F
eel one, l shall again this year cast Il
Sc vote for President Grant. not, ala
IS this time with the glad conf len
IL ~ which. four years ago, l cast it
g Gen Grant; but as the most dire
a and, only way left open of rebuki
It that species of political cant and cl
IL canery of which the history of t
II, Cincinnati movement was. in its Ii
"a stage, an unequaled example.