Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-08-09
GENERAL.
A Bnglo Blast from BIauion Duncnr
MS APPEAL TO CONSISTENT DEMOCRATS poRTRAI-
TUNES OF SOME OF aREEIEY'n ERIENns.

MS APPEAL TO CONSISTENT DEMOCRATS poRTBAI-
TUREs or SOME OF GREELEYs FRIESDs.
Banton Duncan chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee, has issued an address,
from which we make the following extracts;
Can Democrats who have boasted that they
| support principles not men, agree 10 fal-ify
their past life by casping hands with the worst
men of the Radical party - Sumner, Schuiz
| Irumbull, FentOn, and the thousand other lead
| ers who rally around Greeley. aud would control
his administration il his election can be secured
| Who are the men that thus seek for the highest
| honors and emoluments of this country. and who
have obtained tho support of the trading politi-
| clans OF the Tammauy school by promise Of
| dividing the spolls Without exception they
are the bigOts whose bitternesshas been evinced
for the past twenty years in defamation of their
| opponents. They are the men who have uttered
| the most unchrlstian. the most ferocous, the
most YilainOus sentiments about and against the
| Southern people (wOmen aud children an well as
| mem during the war, and who have done most
| to develop and pass that Legislation since the
| war which true Democrats deuounce a. subver-
ave OF liberty and against the spirit of our insti
| tutions.
They are the men who have rveted the South
| IN ltH chains. and burdened il with it's increased
| debts, the proceeds Of which have gone into the
| pockets OF the select few who have fatteDed
upon the misfortunes of the people, and who
| turn to the new ring ana the Tammany alliance
| in order still further to enrich and ennobe
| themselves.
Yarmouth. who has increased the debt of
| Louisiana 9l5,OU0,00 900 in three years, whose
| fraudulent acts and villainous State legislation
| have been denounced in the Democratic papers
from Maine to Texas, IL leader mar erceiif1tce of
| the chyalry of the South His influence at
| Cincinnati and the sixteen votes of his delega-
tlon insured the nomination of Greeley, and yet
| we are coolly informed that the people have
| done II with enthulAsm
Can the people Of the South clasp hands with
those men who have wronged them from the
termination of the war: Can Northern men
| condone such offences by placing them in pow
er! In Texas, to reinstate Governor Pease,
whose arbitrary course was so nobly rebuked
and thwarted by the generous and statesmanlike
acts OF Hancock i'll Arkansas, to endorse SEN
ator ltice, who was the first to coucoct and carry
ont those frauds by which Radical Legislature
was installed IN power and tho Infamous despo-
tism which disgraces that State was brought
into being; in Missouri, to load with honurs
Brown, who in August, 1863, ut-lIeroded Herod
for dlsffanchisement and persecution, and re
canted only when office was to be obtained and
future plunder was IN view Blair. who came
into the party TO destroy it and noJlY has ful.
filled his mirsion Schufz, who loudost of
all, would sweep the South with the besom
of destruction" and viewed the election OF
Democrat an the worst calamity to beiall
the country only siN months ago? Mcneil,
the butcher of unarmed prisoners In
Kentucky, to honor Burbridge, the most detest-
ed Of all its citizens Z In Georgia, Brown, who
Gas an official during the war, and since, under
the corrupt administration Of Bullock which
plundered the State of many mOns) has been
and is accused Of using his oflical station for
private gainS In Alabama, Warner, who never
neglected to carry out the most unrelenting
cruHades while the pay of his office rewarded
his efforts! These and such men. whose an
tecodents arc too well and too disgracefuliy
known, are to he the Southern leaders in con-
junction with those selected politicians who a
year ago denounced them the most unscru-
pulous scOundrels! Ii the fraudu ent bargains
are faithfully executed by the selected chuftan
of the clan cannot the people truthiully say,
par Mobile tydlunt ldlIOnts dHibO2" And vet
they dare 10 sail under nag upon which they
emblazon Honesty -
In the North the leaders Of this movement
are known to be melted by jealousy rage, and
revenge because Of their failure to receive the
| dApensing Of patronage from the Government.
| The entire coalition is a rope of sand, with no
| cohesive power but that of plunder in perspec-
| tive. The people have always, and in all
| countries. placed the stamp of their cOndemna-
| tion upon similar bargains. The only precedent
| in history for the immediate selection of de-
| serter as a commander-in- chief il that of Corr
| olanus, and for the Democrats the comparison
is unfortunate. COrioanus betrayed his army
| and spared Rome when she was PROSTATE at his
| feet. So Mr.. Greeley, with Sumner and other
| champions OF negrn social equality (Te-indorsed
| with emphasis since lis nomination. truculent
| advisers of Capitalization and tyrannical oppres-
sion of their adversaries uncompromising enc
mics Of that constitution which to them is IA
| league with hell and a covenant with death !"
ready to do anything for power and place, will
| unscrupuluusly betiay their own followers II
| necessary for their own advancement, even in
the hour Of victory.