The Republican journal., 1872-08-15
JUDGE BLACKS REASONS FOR SUP
PORTING GREELEY,
Grants Administration Unconstitutional
and Corrupt--Reforms which GreeIeys
Election will lnsure.-Reasons for Demo-
cratic Support.

| pteu uSti 10 promote lHe interests OF the
Grant faction, and suggested an EXPIRES
! sion of his own views and opinions on the
| Presidential contest To this letter Judge
Black replies at length. He says that aS
! the contest tor the Presidency is narrowed
| down to a choice between Grant or Gree
! ley, we m st weigh them against one
/ another, and like practical men decide the
/ case in tavor of the best Even it we
| find no good in either of them we must
take that one who shall appear to be the
least bad The Judge then proceeds "a
! follows
| GRANTS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ADMISISTRA-
| rION AND RING CORRUPTION
! 1t is undeniablt that the leading meas
ures of this Administration are not only
/ unconstitutional bnt anti-conStitutinntl.
showing not merely contemptuous indit-
! terence 10 constitutional obligations, hut
| 4 settled hostility To those rights of the
States and those liberties OF the people
| which the organic law was made to secure
| The Presidents appointment ot officers
| and his general exercise of public author
| lly unier the influence OF men who paid
| hlm 'arge sums of money. are Scandalou-
onlrages, and the effort to defend them
| has combined with other like causes to
! N\tiHSNi@ll tlllpu8 MS >ubbItlUilP~ I'll re
! Spect tor those rules IT morality which
used to be held sacred. When we con
| slider what these men have done in the
| North, and add to it The large handed
robheries perprtrnted in the South hv the
rrtainers OF the President. with his direct
aid and assistance, we are compelled To
acknowledge that no other government
now in the world is administered 50 en-
| tirelY for personal and partisan purposes,
or in such complete disregard for the
rights and interests ct the general public
This demor4lization is not confined to the
! Executive branch. The tide roll. in upon
tn Legislature, and in some places it has
risen high enough to touch the feet ot
the Judiciary. Even the rank and lille ot
the Presidents party have become de
bauched. Let Us hope not alto9ethrr hut
certainly in fearful degree Acts which
in tomer times Il hardened criminal would
hesitate to whisper in the ear uf his lr-
compIjce, can now be openly advocated
by political leader, not only with safety
bat with Il tolernble chance ot being ~u--
tanned by sort of public opinion. That
| love of liberty and Justice which used Ia
pervade the whole community now Yields
without resistance To the unpriucipalrd
demagogurS who would rnthronp fraud
After showing what Gen. Grant might
have done to have made himself a great
public henettctor it he had been equal in
mind and heart to the eXigences Of the
| times. the writer SAYS Unfortunately,
the interests oi certain rings were in con
ilct with the interests of the country and
;hoy, by large presents. reduced him into
their service The public contracted to
Give him the salary which his prcdrcr--
sOrS had been content with. The rings
offered him more. lie accepted their
bounty fell over To them. and took the
Government into his hands As a BLACK
Republican Job"
MIR. GREELEI'S POLITICAL RECORD.
OF MIR. Greeley Judge Black remarks
He was in the ranks of the radical Aboli-
ZIONIST for good many Years That Is
bad, for such associations would have a
natural tendency to debasr him But we
must not forget that though he wAs not
always OF them. He refused to be Il par
| taktr III their worst inlquitieS. He had
none of their diaholcal hatred for the
Constitution. He did not lend his lips to
their ribald blasphemies, and his feet were
never swift in running to shed innocent
blood. Before the great conflict began.
his opposition to the designs Of the Abuli-
tonists against the Federal and State
Governments impellrd him to the opposite
here>Y of the SrccS>ioniStS. Like the RD-
man father who killed his daughter to
save her from n worse fate he chose tu
destroy the Government rather than See IL
aiShunored and violated toy Iawlr~S force
When the var was tagrant, he provokrd
the EXTREMIST rage of his associates hy
eNrrting himself for a peace which wnulI
haYc left all the people in possession ut
tner constitutional liberties. After the
close ot the contest he WAS the advocate
ot regular and legal ~ we'll as honest GOV
ornment tor all parts ot the country.
have good authority for saving that he
never gave his approval to any form
of kidnapping OF murder hy military
commission In short, although hr did
join the AboltionSls in their devil,
dance, y ne never learned to keep step with
his partners, and we aIi know that, when
he could not stop it, he lett and denounced
it with becoming Indignation.
Judge Black declares that the friends of
religious freedom owe MIR. Greeley an old
debt of gratitude fr the zeal ana ability
with which he resisted the church burners
when banded together in the secret lodges
ol the Know Nothing Order He lluirs
to the accusations OF Grecley's completely
in cheats ct one kind or another AMI their
triumphant retutaton, eNprrSsr, belief in
his stainless integrity. and regards the
harsh and abusive manner iu which he
has often spoken ni the Democratic party
As faults ot manner and temper which
should not now hr permitted to warp nu1
Judgment concerning him.
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