The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-10

refuse to sanction the reelection of
President Grant, and put your trust i'll
Mr.. Greeley. ought to add that with
him will be associated as Vice President
B. Gratz Brown, whom | have known
for years us most determined AbOli-
ZIONIST. The two together will carry in
to the National Governmentan unswerv-
ing devotion to your rights not to be
disturbed by partisan dictation OF sec
tional prejudice. Besides all this, which
may guide you in determining between
the two candidates, it is my duty to re-
mind you that as citizens of the United
States, and a part of the country, your
welfare is indissOlubly associated with
that of the whole country, where all are
prosperous and free, will be gamers.
Therefore, while justly careful of your
own rights, you cannot be Indifferent to
the blessing of
GOOD GOVERNMENT.
1t is for you to consider whether the
time has not come for something better
than the sword, and whether characters
like Horace Greeley do not give strong
er assurance of good government than
can be found in the insulter of the col
Ored race, already famous from the
rings about him, and his plain inapti-
tude for civil life.
The supporters Of President Grant
compel lis to observe his Offenses and
shortcomings. Their challenge to COM
palisOn cannot be declined. 1t will be
for others in the present canvass to hold
it before the American people. Speak
ing now for myself, have to say that
my vote will be given for Horace Gree
ley, but in giving it do not go to the
Democratic party, nor am / any less d
Republican. On the contrary, [ am so
much a Republican that | cannot sup
port Il candidate whose conduct in civil
life has shown incapacity to appreciate
Republican principles, and whose ad-
ministratiOn has been marked by acts of
delinquency, especially toward the col
Ored race, by the side of which the allie
cations on the impeachment of Andrew
johnson were technical and trivial.
Unquesti0nably, gentlemen, President
Grant
DESERVES IMPEACHMENT
for high crimes and misdemeanors,
rather than a denomination; and on
trial it would have been enough to ex-
hibit his seizure of the war power and
his indignity to a black republic, with
its population Of eight hundred thou
sand, in violation of the. National Con-
stitutiOn and of international law. And
Abraham Lincoln. The latter, in his
first annual message, recommended a
recognition Of what he called the inde-
pendence and sovereignty of Hayti
but it is at these that President Grant
has struck. One of Abraham LincOln's
first acts was to put the black republic
on an equality with other powers; one
of President Grants acts.
TO DEGRADE IT.
I am such a Republican that I wish to
see in the Presidential chair a lifetime
AbOlitionist. wish the President sim
cerely devoted to civil service reform,
beginning with the one-term principle,
Which General Grant once accepted but
now disoWns. | also wish a President
, who sets an example of industry and un-
selfish dedication to the public good
and wish to see a President through
! whom We may expect peace and har-
, mOny, instead of discOrd. President
Grant seems to --..s
DELIGHT IN STRIFE.
IF he finds no enemy he falls upon his
friends, as when he struck at the Black
Republic, insulted Russia in his annual
message, offended both France and Ger
many, and then in personal relations
Quarreled generally, Ny own personal
experience teaches how futile Is the
charge that when Horace Greeley re-
ceiyes Democratic votes therefore he
becomes a Democrat or lapses into Demo.
cratic control. | was the first choice to
the Senate by the coalition of
FREE-sOILERs AND DEMOCRATS.
Democratic votes helped make me a
Senator from Massachusetts, as they
. also helped make my excellent friend
| NJ. FtITa,s,N .0T1o
help make Horace Greeley President
But neither Mr.. Chase or. myself were
on this account less faithful as Free
Sellers; and, answering for myself,
know that / never became a Democrat
, or lapsed under Democratic control.
do not doubt that Horace Greeley will
be equally consistent. The charge te
the contrary, so yehemently repeated
seems to reflect the character of those
E who make it, except that many repeat il
by rOte. There is a common saying,
PRINCIPLES NOT MEN,
. and on this ground an appeal is made
for President Grant, feeling that in any
personal comparison with Horace Gree
ley he must fail. But the better saying
is principles, not men. am in favor O1
the principles of the Republican party IL
contradiction to Gpantisn, and am
for the man who truly represents them
E By these principles / shall stand, fol
: them / shall labor, and in their triumph
| shall always rejoice. If any valued
friend separates from me now, twill be
because he places
) MEN ABOVE PRINCIPLES.
) Early in public life I declared my
little heed for party and my indifference
to the name by which am called; and
now I confess my want of sympathy
: with those who would cling to the form
, after its spirit has fled. ....,
Allow me to call your attention tC
, another and controlling consideration
, which can not beneglected by good citi-
zens watching the remarkable move
) ment which has ended in the double
nomination OF Horace Greeley, 1t il
easy to see it
> DID N0T PROCEED FROM POLITICIANS
!, whether at Cincinnati or Baltimore
Evidently it was the heart of the people
sOrely Wrung by the war and the contro.
versies it engendered, which found ex.
t preston, Sir Philip Sidney said of the
: uprising i'll the Netherlands, " it is the
spirit of the Lord, and it is irresistible,
; and such q spirit is manifest now, not
: Withstanding the cOIlntefa citing influence
! of politicians. The Republicans and
| Democrats, in the face of persistent III
dicule, and against the extravagaut and
unserupulOus opposition to the nomiaa-
7 ton at Cincinnati, Hiumphantly adopted
, it at Baltimore. Such an unprece cedented
! victory, without concert or propulsion Oi
any kind, can be explained only by sup.
posing it is in harmony with "
THE POPULAR LONGING
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