The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-29
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.


THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
With fearful misgivings Of the final
result, we state our conclusion that, us
matters stand, Horace Greeley will re-
ceive the recommendation of the Balti-
more Convention. In such a course
we cannot yet see any harbinger of sue
cess. AS we pray for Grants defeat
and the utter and everlasting overthrow
of Radicalism throughout the Union,
even 50 we earnestly pray that the Bal
timore Convention will not accept Gree
ley and Brown, but give the country
good Liberal Democrat to head the
Presidential ticket. The trades made
in the Northern States-the growing
Democratic opposition to Greeley-his
waning Republican influence and sup
port-the increasing doubts Of his abil-
ity to steer a nations hopes and inter-
ests; all in the face of Il general feeling
of distrust in Grant among members of
his own party;-such strange coincidcn-
Cos as these, in view of Greeley's pro-
bable acceptance at Baltimore, painful
~ remind us of the Charleston folly of
1860 and the resultant disastrous fate of
the South in the five long, bloody,
bitter years that followed!
We are not ftint-heal ted-ncver in
our life avoided political responsibility;
we have never been 4 croalcr, but usu-
ally, perhaps, too sanguine and enthu-
siastic we have never Ealtered in the
final hour of trial, however sore and
perilous it may have been; but we do,
in this emergency, as we did in the
memorable epoch dating from the
Charleston emeute, feel our strength
failing, our hopes fading, our energies
relaxing, our heart responding and
every instinct Of our political being ris-
ing in solemn protcstation against the
endorsement Of Greeley at Baltimore.
We have patiently, sincerely and patri-
otically sought to convince oursc1f of
having been in error in opposing such
action, but we have invariably been
confronted by the dccimatcd ranks of
Grecley's Republican followers and the
hostile Democratic Veterans who will
not have him-by GrceIey's blurred
and painful rccord--by the harmonizcd
hosts that have gathered to defeat him
by our own want of enthusiasm and
that of the ,rhofe Democratic party I'M
der such 4 leader, and we have been
driven step by step, ut every cxpcri-
To
ton hetd by some Others of our faith,
that Greeley is the man TO win! We
could forcgo Our revered principles auld
lang syne; we could clasp hands with
the man who has abused, denounced
insultcd and outraged us; who has
heaped ca umny upon our head and
sought to make beggars of our wife and
chi1dren-all Of which we would do in
order to support Grcclcy:-if we could
only see that, having repeated, he was
the man to lead our country back to
the elevated plain of constitutional lib
ertyl But we cannot see il, oven though
we dip never 80 deep into oil the able
organs and leaders prcclaining that
Horace Greeley is that man.
And. now, as once before, when hot
headed politicians threatened wide
spread ruin to the country, little dream
ing the fate they dehcd, we desire to
say, i'll view of Grcclcy's endorsement
at Baltimore and his almost certain
defeat by Grant; in view Of the trying
scenes through which the taccratcd
South may again pass under the rule of !
Radicalism rrn-nad i'll view of the |
of principles and the re-
sultant loss of everything even to ;,n |
Organised party, in Wow of four pro-
cious years worse than lost to rcpubli- !
can institutions, and no stay of hope I
left but the magnimity, such ms it may
be, of U. s. Grant in view of all this. !
firmly believing that all will come if |
we take up Greeley, we say,
Never shake thy CORY locks 1T inc:
Thou caast not say did it,