Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-03
Speech Of Attorney General Will
liams, at Philadelphia.
The Chasm Between Democrats and the
PostOflices and Custom Houses,
Groeley's Statesmanship Analysed
His Financial Vagaries-An Able
Review of the Issues of the
Campaign.


tons, but great p )htical organizations, like
the Republican and Democratic parties, do not
for light and transient causes change their
principles, policies and tendencies.
THE CHANGED DEMOCRACY.
What are we to understand by the nomina-
ton of Horace Greeley at Baltimore? Are we
to suppose that the Democratic party has
abandoned those principles, theories and
opinions for which It has so long contended,
or are we to believe that Horace Greeley, by
accepting that nomination, has given the lie
to all the professions of long political life ?
Political organizations Rave sprung up from
time to time during our history, but they have
all had, or professed to have some new and
distinct ground upon which to stand. Such
were the Anti-Masonic. Anti-Slayerv and
know-Nothing parties. But this new-fangled
combination, with Greeley at its head, does
not pretend to anything not common to other
parties, but is formed, as it is said, to correct
some evil practices in the administration of
the Government. Take from the Cincinnati
and Baltimore platforms what has been adopt
ed and advocated by the Republican party,
and nothing remains but some implied cen
sures upon the Administration of President
Grant and commonplace claims to superior
virtue, with an expression in favor of one
term for the Presidency. Stripped Of all its
high-sounding pretensiops, this coalition is
made by faction Of sore-headed Republicans
with the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." Democrats
and the spoils of office.
TIE SENATORIAL cABAL
Look at the Senatorial leaders in this bolt.
Charles Sumner has made a great speech
against Grant Does he accuse the President
of any inidehty to the Republican party /?
Does he claim that any new departure is neces-
sary for the sake Of principle? Nothing of
the kind. He gathers up, with groveling care,
the filth that venal newspapers and pot-house
politicians of the Democratic party have void
ed upon the President, aud decking it with the
flowers of his rhetoric, pours it from his place
In the Senate into the ears of surprised and
sorrowful people. Personal malice prompts
and pervades it all
Senator Trumbull frets and scolds about
civil service reform, Capitalization, and the
way IN which secretary Boutwell, manages the
affairs of the Treasury
Carl Schurz wraps himself in the mantle of
self-nghteousness, and loftiv disdains tn as
sociate with the vile and ignoble creatures who
support the regular nominations of the Re-
publican party. / have been wondering for q
year or two how the people of the United
States managed to get on as we II as thew did
before Providence raised up this immaculate
parsonage to govern and direct our affairs.
Upton is preacher turned into a politician.
and seems to fight Grant, to use Western
expression, from pure cussedness."
THEIR FOLLOWING.
Who are the followers of these men? Fx
cepuons there may be, but they are generally
those who have some personal grievance.
Some of them have wanted nominations or
elections by the Republican party which thew
have not obtained. Some have been turned
out of Office by the President. or have asked
him for appointments which they did not get
and others have had their claims for one thing
OF another rejected; but to this sore-headed
crowd is to be added the WORKOUT, plaved-
out, spewed-out politicians that Greeiey,s
nomination has al i.
cal graves.
HOW GREELEY WAS NOMINATED.
Considerable effort is made to make If an
pear that the coalition, with Greeley at it's
head, has been produced by some sudden out
break of popular feeling in defiance of party
lines and party considerations, when the fact
Is tnerc never was nomination for the
fresoency IN the United States about which
there was SO much wire-pulling and TRADING as
about the nomination of Horace Greelev
When the Cincinnati Convention assembled.
the thoughts of the people were turned to
Adams, Davis and TrumbulI, one of whom il
was generally believed would be the candidate.
But the friends of Greeley and Brown traded
the supporters Of Adams and Davis ont of
their boots, and Horace Greeley appeared.
Like Observation-Disclosures, to the dissppoiptment
modification and disgust Of the chief pro-
Jectors of the Cinci natl movement. and it
was said that Carl Schurz, the President of
NAiO SOhfOdllOu, Hds So DlItorlV ClSaDDOlptod
that the lachrymal fluid from his eyer-watch-
Jul eyes flowed down his cheeks, furrowed with
the great care of saving the Republic from
the clutches Of Ulysses S. Grant.
THE SALE AT BALTIMORE.
Go, then, to Baltimore. When that conven-
ton assembled the question was whether
Greeley should be Endorsed, or regularly NOM
mated Some argued that if he wss indorsed
mere of the silly and weak flies of the Rennb,
Lean party could be drawn into the Democrat
lc spldsr-web. But q majority were of the
opinion that II he was regularly nominated,
the DeAocratic masses were SO held by the
shsckles of party that they would be bound
10 give to him their support. Ground, l saw.
was taken there that the rank and file of the
Democratic party were so enelaved that.
though they might loaths and hate the nomi-
nee of the convention, they would be COM
PEELED to give to him their votes. Renubli-
cans, 1t was supposed, might bolt the nominee
OF the regular convention of the party thoupb
tined and true man who represented their
principles was taken; but the Democrats. it
was claimed, would not bolt the nomination.
at Baltimore, though the candidate taken was
an lnyeterate enemy to their party and
principles.
THE TRICK AND DICKER BUSINESS
All this trick and decker business shows
shameless abandonment of principle, brazen
disregard of consistency, and a false-hearted
and hypocritical alliance, without parallel in
our history; and say, if Horace Greeley is
elected under such circumstances. it will do
more than anything that has hxpI ened to de-
1noralize and debsuch the public conscience
and the country. and make people think that
trickery and chicanery and trade are all there
Is of politics, and that inc talk about political
principles IS deception and fraud.
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BUGBEAR.
One of the numerous accusations brought
against the Republican party at this time is
that 1t favors the Capitalization of power in
the General Government. Let us, for one
moment. anslyze this clsmor about centraliz2-
ton, and see what ideas it involves. Do the
enemies of the Republican party mean to say
tnat the constitutional amendments extend
the jurisdiction of thesGeneral Government,
ana correspondlngly reduce the jurisdiction of
Inc states! This is undoubtedly so. That
was the object for which the constitutional
amendments were passed. TO establish the
supremacy of the Union, and to provide lib
erty spd suffrage and other rights, and to pro
tect citizens everywhere in their endowment
was tae end to be accomplished by these
amendments. Can the supporters of Horace
greeley now object to the centralizino tenden
cles OF these new constitutional n1ovis,ors
when both of the platforms upon Which +l,a1,
stand commit them fully to their advocacy and
support. Do the enemies of the RenIb,; ~
party mean to say that they will. if tbev have