American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-28
ELECTORAL TICKET.

~The Danton- Bluncanites, alias
BOurbons, whose narrOw-siglIted
folly, if not fOOl-hardiness, culmi-
mated in the nomination, at Louis
Vile, of Chales O'COnor and John
Quincy Adams, for President and
Observation-Disclosures the repeat
ed protestations of the former,
whose good sense admOnislled him
that there was not the ghost of a
chance for a third ticket-these i'm
practicable and stubborn politicians
justify their indirect support of
Grant upon the pretext that they
can see no principle involved as
between the Galena Tanner and the
architect of the Tribune. A North
ern Democrat feeling no special in
terest in the liberation of the South
ern people from the rule of African
and carpet-bag coalition, might per-
haps support the nominees of the
Louisville {. side-show without sub
jecting himself to the charge of a
want of patriotism or lack Of sense.
" What do l care" he might argue,
" about the obnoxious and Cypress
i've legislation of the last Congress 2
1t does not reach me; it is not in
New York or Pennsylvania that in
n0cent men are torn from their fam
lilies and consigned to living tombs
at Albany, Sing Sing, or other
northern penitentiaries. We have
no negro or alien governors, or
judges, or legislators, or even mag
istrates. Our people differ about
politics, but they have no occasion
to quarrel upon questions of race
and color, and both parties are
equally interested in the prosperity
Of the country. There is no contest
here between barbarism and civil
ization. Why, then, should 1 be
called upon to ignore those great
principles which have always found
place in Democratic platforms, to
do violence to my pride of consisten-
cy and personal feeling, and give
my support, as Democrat, to the
life long enemy of Democracy, and
the author, in a great measure of
the very ills which he is now seek
ing to remedyf No, 1 put free
trade, revenue reform, and similar
questions, above everything else,
and shall support the nominee of
the Louisville convention as the only
Democratic candidate before the
country" But the Southern Demo
who would take the same position
would not escape SO easily. We are
not cOntending for the luxuries of
lfe-we are cOntending for life it.
self. We care but little, compare
lively, for the tariff or revenue re-
form. These are not questions that
materially concern the Southern
people just now. They want honest,
legitimate civil government. They
want the privilege of choosing their
own public officers, and managing
their own domestic affairs. They
want relief from the exorbitant tax
alton which is eating up their sub
stance, and which threatens, finally,
to drive them from their homes.
This much Mr.. Greeley promises
them. This much the Liberal Re
publlcans-the party that first nom
mated him-is pledged to see that
the South shall have. 1t is nothing
to the purpose that Mr.. Greeley was
once an AbOlitiOnist, OF that he is
now a PrOtectiOnist. General Grant
was a Democrat of the straightest
sect, and never gave to the Repub-
licans who nominated him in 1865,
any pledges whatever. They took
him, and had to take him, just as he
was, and with his Democracy, and
his prO-slavery proclivities, well
known and never apologized for or
recanted. 1t is still less to the pur-
pose that Mr.. Greeley has been
lifelong and bitter opponent of De
The questions of admin
istrative policy, upon which the
great political parties were wont to
divide, have ceased for the present
to excite any interest in the South.
But Mr.. Greeley, it is said, was
the earnest advocate, if not the au-
thor, of the very legislation which
has reduced the Southern people to
their present deplorable condition.
We admit this to be true, and it is
the strongest card in the hands of
the straight-Outers. But Mr.. Gree
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