The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-07
s. G.
Tuesday Morning. May z, 1872.
The Situation.

cinnati Convention would be entirely
satisfactory to all the anti.Grant ele-
menta throughout the country. It has
not proved 80, but there seems to be o
much more unanimous acceptance Of the
platform and candidates than might
have been expected. There were in the
Convention, and doubtless equally inte-
rested and honest in the movement for
reform, strong advocates Of free trade,
on the one hand, and warm devotees Of a
protective tariff, on the other. It was
impossible that the extremists OF either
OF these opposing views of political
economy could be entirely satisfied.
Judges Hoadley. Btinkerhoff. Mot
thewa and other mira free traders, are
accordingly very bitter in their denun-
citation OF the nomination of Mr.. Gree
ley, life long proteotionist, and they
threaten, in the arst flush of their dis
appointments, to bolt the ticket, call an
other convention, or endeavor to carry
out their peculiar views at Philadelphia
or at st. Louis, where it is thought the
Democratic National Convention will
meet. If it meet at all.
While we have these slight signs of
disaffection among the liberal Republi-
cans themselves, there are also indioa-
tions that the nomination has not been
in all respects just what some OF the
Democrats desire. This is not in the
least surprising, for it mattered not
what candidates the liberal Republicans
had pnt forward, there wonld inevitably
be found some Democrats to whom they
would be Objectionable.
The New York World pressed strongly
the claims OF Charles Francis Adams, as
about the only Republican whom the
Democrats would cheerfully and unani-
Aaously support. and also opposed the
nomination OF Judge Davis. The Wash
ington Patriot favored Judge Davis.
The Atlanta Sun bitterly upbraided the
World for its advocacy of Mr.. Adams,
and other Democratic papers urged other
names, and 80 on. It was. therefore,
practical impossibility to have named
any set of candidates that would have
suited the peculiar views of oil. Ac-
cordingly We find The World, the Patriot
and the Baltimore Gazette disappearing
the nominations with more or less expli-
citness. How far the influence of these
journals may extend, and hawr far in
their opposition they express the senti-
ments of the Democracy around them,
it is impossible to judge correctly. This
We do know, however, that, 80 far as we
have had opportunity to see, every De-
mooratic paper South OF Maryland
favors the nomination, and advises, as we
have done. its earnest support by the
Democracy. The Southern Democrats.
il there be no regular Democratic candi-
dates in the field, will, we are firmly per-
suaded, vote en- n,dsse for Greeley and
Brown on the Cincinnati platform; and
even should the Democratic party be
rash enough to make separate nomina-
tion, heavy vote will be given the Gin
cinnati nominees any way.
It is true that, ten or twelve years ago,
there was no man more cordially and
generally hated at the South than Ho-
race Greeley, the abolitionist; but it is
equally true thet there is no Republican
at the North that has 81 commended him
self to our grateful regard within the
past few years. Horace Greeley has
shown that while he was friend to the
black he was no foe to the white man of
the South. He did not assume the garb
Of fanatic philanthopist to conceal SEQ
tional hate, like thousands Of other Re-
publicans. These latter we find, though
the Union, for which alone they pro-
fessed to be battling. has been restored;
though the slaves have been freed and
vested with the full rights of American
citizenship, are just 40 bitter. just as
vindictive. just as unrelenting in their
dia6oiiosi hatred of the South, as during
the fiercest:: days Of the war. They
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