New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-23
What CRAMPS Election deans.

| From the Westiche Post, Senator Sehurz's News
paper.l
A few of our Liberal friends are not sat
isfied with Greeley's nomination. We sus-
| peet their reasons and motives of their dis
content are based on the opinion that the
Cincinnati convention did not do the very
best it could. Granted, that 1t could have
made nomination more consistent with
the spirit of the movement, and could have
given the reform measures satisfactory
guarantees. Granted, that many objections
NAV be urged against the Cincinnati nOmi-
nees which shakes the faith of the conscien-
tiOus RefOrmer. But we now ask the hon
est, conscientious Reformer to glance at the
other side of the picture. There is Grant in
and behind him stand the bread-and-butter
brigade in full force, with sanity sub
missiveness and Unsuitable appetite. Grant
has promised us, in his letter of acceptance,
TO continue the business of the government
with the same zeal and in the same manner
as formerly, and the bread-and- brig
ade responded with enthusiastic applause.
We now beg the conscientious refOrmer to
consider what the reelection of Grant and
the continuance of the present policy mean.
They mean the application OF more Op-
pressive military rule for the South, and
not the policy of reconciliation. They
mean the continued support of the shame
less carpet-bag government in the formerly
rebeliOus States. They mean a continued
cherishing of hatred and luminosity between
the North and South. They mean acts of
nepOtism and favoritism which will operate
with a still more immoral influence upon
the public service, if the people, by the re-
election of Grant, show that these are mat
tiers Of no concern to them. They mean a
new bloom and crop of corruption, not
alone in the CustOmhouses of New York
and New Orleans, but in the whole country.
They mean the resumption and then the
carrying through of the SantO Domingo
speculation, which Grant relinquished be-
cause he feared that it would damage his
chances for reelection. They mean a con-
tinuance of the Outlandish foreign policy
which has almost succeeded in making the
name of the American Republic by-WOrd
and reprOach abroad, and has brought the
danger of trouble with foreign powers
They mean further despotic interference of
the President in the political affairs of the
States, packing party conventions, and the
bribing of the delegates with government
patronage.
They mean greater audacity than ever of
military 'rings which have surrounded
the President, and have enabled him to use
the substance for his own benefit. They
mean that the peoples voice shall sanction
and whitewash the Presidents assumption
age of the government Offiee-hOlders, who
even now do not dare to speak for fear of
losing their bread and butter. They mean
the complete seryility of Congress to the
President, the approval Of all unlawful
acts, the withdrawing of all corruption,
and an inscriptions and demOralizing
party despOtism, such as we have never yet
seen, and we have already seen much more
than we are able to bear.
The reelection of Grant means all this,
and, indeed, in increased measure; for
through the bare fact of this reelection the
fear Of displeasing the people will prevail,
and loose rein viii be given to the arbi-
trary rule of the White House. All these
things will as certainly follow the reelection
of Grant as thunder follows lightning
These are things which the true reformer
should not lose sight of for a moment.
While we sympathize with his dissatisfac-
ton with the Cincinnati nominations, and
his desire to correct the error in the best
possible manner, yet this dissatisfaction
and this wish should be kept within due
bounds, and we find these limits to be any
thing but the re-electi ton of Grant. In the
name of the common welfare, the honor and
the freedom of the American people, any
body before Grant.