New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-26

condition of servitude.-A Plank in the Plat
form Of the Philadelphia Contention.
Swinging ROund the Circle.
We are heartily glad to see Mr.. Greeley on
the stump, bent, as it were, on giving the
final blow to his rapidly waning chances. In
swinging round the circle ON his western
trip, he is outtloiRg Andrew Johnson IS
greatest achievements, for not even that
individual showed himself as regardless OF
all the considerations which dignity, judS-
ment, tact, and good taste would suggest, rs
Mr.. Greeley did, for instance, when he
scolded at our brave veterans, tho soldiers
and sailors, who assembled in Pittsburg, on
account Of their devotion to the Republican
cause and the man who has again been
chosen for its standard-bearer. By this
time the whole country knows which party,
or rather which faction Of a party it is for
whose favor Mr.. Greeley is fishing, yet it
would seem almost incomprehensible how
he should be so entirely destitute of all sense
of propriety not to see that the task Of de-
nouncing the opposing party, in short, the
whole aggressive and active warfare in a
Presidential campaign is not fit work for the
hands of candidate, and the very last
through which popularity is achieved.
Mr.. Greeley's speeches while on the
stump, may be characterized as medley of
all the tunes on which his private organ and
his friends have been harping Cor several
months. One day he tells his audience
what an abused, ill-trcated man he is how
in turn he has been accused of being seces-
sionist, Known Nothing, and a negro trader,
though the latter charge has never yet been
made, and has evidently been fabricated just
for the occasion as a sample of Republican
malice. But we have become accustomed to
such nice little oratorical feats ; they are per-
fectly harmless, and We shall not object at
all If Mr.. Greeley by tomorrow will have
discovered that the Republicans accuse him
Of shoplifiing or picking pockets. The chief
topic, however, as a matter Of course, is the
clasping of hands across the bloody chasm,
the great love-feast Of reconciliation cooked
by Mr.. Greeley, on which occasion our South
sm brethren are indirectly promised the FIRST
seats at the common table" and their truly
angelic disposition toward US, whose latest
manifestations however, as for instance, the
political murders In Arkansas, the assault
made in Baltimore OH the veteran soldiers on
their way to Pittsburg, or the interruption of
Grant and Wilson meeting and the destruc-
ton of the Republican Tag in Brooklyn by a
Democratic mob, are passed over in silence.
The Republicans further receive sound
thrashing for their unforgiving, revengeful
spirit, and the supposed ignorance Of the au-
dience is taken advantage of to dish up the
stale fabrication about the wrongs inflicted On
the thousands Of DISTINGUISHED whites in
the South, rather bold falsifcation, in true
Democratic style, since Mr.. Greeley kRows
IS well as any man In the country that not
one rebel is any longer DISTINGUISHED, and
that only some three hundred men are dis
qualified for federal Offices. This mess of
fabricatiOns, perversious, Inconsistencies, ard
sentimentalities is sometimes diversified by
variations on the tune Of "What / know
about farlning;'' or, "what know about
industry, trade, and that sort of thing"
which, though the os.ensibie object, are in
fact but the excuse for Mr. Greeley's tour,
that we sincerely horc and wish, will bo
preserved for the edifcation Of coming gem
erations by the pen Of Petroleum Nasty and
the pencil of tn. Mast.
Justice to Mr. Greedy, however, comrels
us to admit that lie has uttered one great
truth in declaring thai he has partod com
pany with the Republican party 10 Join The
Democracy. To be sire, truth cauno: grow
stale, yet it is to be regretted that this par-
ticular one. aside from being exposed at
rather a late hour, has the serious drawback
attached to it that when it was asserted by
the Republican press several months ago,
It was strenuously and Indignantly denied by
Mr.. Greeley and his private speaking truni-
pet, who insisted On his own and his sup
porters' staunch adherence to Republican
principles. This change Of front, of course,
10 but concession made to the force Of cir
cunstances. In the earlier days Of Demo-
cratic Liberalism it was thought expcdient to
keep up the mask Of Republicanism for the
object OF enticing weak and credulous Repub-
licans but since the large majority of them
have since returned to their old associations.
and Mr.. Greeley can no longer help realizing
that his only strength and hope lies in the
support Of the Democratic party, expcdiency
urges the admission of the truth quite as Inn
periously as 1t formerly urged its denial.
The case Is perfectly clear, yet any other
hmm but Mr.. Greeley would necessarily feel
rather awkward If he could not state his true
position without contradicting his solemn as
surances of two months ago.
D0Kesnan, the Liberal Democratic rebel
sympataixing candidate for Governor Of the