Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-08

faltering in his devotion. He was one of the
founders OF the republican party and has done
as much TO settle its policy, to make converts to
its standard, aud TO promote its success, as any
man living. 10 take ground that such man
is not to he trusted, and that another, who was
Buchanan democrat before the war and who
never gave symptom of interest in the success
of republicanism, till he was offered its support
for Office, is now reliable, is to adopt position
which no unpreiudiced man will for a moment
assent to. Mr.. Greeleys life is the assurance of
his republicanism. He has proclaimed his fealty
to the principles of the party oftcner than any
one of his contemporaries, has never made
word OF recantatlOn, and has done no act in
contradiction to his professions. No one would
think for a moment of doubling him were ii not
for the fact that he is a candidate against
Grant for the presidency. 1t is charged that
his nomination at Baltimore will send
him over to the democratic party. There
Is not particle of proof that il is to havekthls
effect. On the contrary, the proof is all against
1t. 1t is said that one or other OF the parties
must change. If so, the question as 10 which
is to change is not an open question. 1t is set
tied already The democratic party has
changed. 1t has taken new departure. Not
grudgingly or formally, merely-to gaia tenn
pOrary end, with the Interior design of failing
to keep faith with the people. 1t has put itself
on record in way which leaves no doubt on
this point. Nothing could be franker, clearer,
more explicit, than is its platform. 10 deny
that it means to adhere to what 1t says is TO
suppose il to be guilty of public fraud, such
as was never perpetrated by any party in the
country, and is never likely to be. The men
who composed the democratic convention were
honorable men. They will compare favorably
with the republicans, or with any class of citi-
zens. They publicly gave their word and
pledged Their honor TO the people; and to as
sumo that they did this for deceptive purposes,
and that it was all lie and sham, is to make
an astounding charge against body that rep
resentS nearly half the American people, and
to confess that honesty has so far gone out of
the nation that we are no longer fit for self
government. But it is only heated partisan
ship, or unreaSoning prejudice, or unreheeting
fear, that urges this. The change in the demo-
cratic party is a genuine one. 1t is n change
that is entirely honorable as we'll 1t is palpa-
bly, induced by the progress of events. "Slavery
having ended, why keep up strifeS," democrats
urge, "that were only appropriate to the time
of its eXistencep Let not men who agree on
other points, and who have common purpose
to rescue this government from unworthy
hands, divide on dead issue"
The action on the part OF the democrats in not
only accepting a platform that recognized the
abolition of slavery, the enfranchiSement of
slaves and the equality of all men before the
law, but comedies, besides, everything essential
for which the republican party has commended,
is as suspicious for the country as it is honora-
BILE to the men who were concerned in il. II
inaugurates a new era in our politics, and rem
ders it impossible that the old strites that have
divided men shall be perpetuated. Especially is
it to be welcomed in its effect upon the southern
people. significant symptom is the earnest
ness with which men from this section of the
country have come forward to assent to this
declaration of faith. The prospect is, therefore,
not only of a union among the democrats and
those republicans who are more attached 10 the
principles than they are to the organization of
the party, but also of the return to harmony of
the two sections of the country.
If this be really brought about, it will prove a
conSummation glorious beyond what the most
Sanguine republicans have dared to hope for. 1t
will bring with it a burial of the striles, the
hates, the bitternesSes, which have divided
brethren, and have done more to impair the
prosperity of the nation in the past, and TO
threaten it for the future, than all other causes
combined. The American who with such Il
prospect before him. allows his doubts or his
Jealouses to overcome his magnanimous in
stincts, commits sin the magnitude of which
it were difficult to overestimate. Let him hest
tate long before he yields TO cold diStrust of his
brethren, and rudely repulses their overtures
toward reconciliation In place OF such feeling,
rather may he, with cordially that bears evil
dence of the depth and sincerity of feeling from
which it springs "clasp hands across the bloody
chaSm" the war has created, and vow with his
brethren that it shall be closed as q diVider of
our people. Then shall we become again as SUI
preme an example before the nations of the
earth of union, as we have been of Intelligence