Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04

at fault, will see the overthrow of Grant
and his Military Government. There is to
be change Of policy-a change of admin
istration--a change of Congress. A Dem
ocratic Congress is coming next. We are
to have restoration of Cons itutional Gov
eminent. Is it worth while to stand any
longer lamenting and complaining about
the means and the instruments which are
used to accomplish this great result? 1t is
evidently to be Greeley or Grant. OF the
two, we much prefer Greeley. And SO do
the conventions that meet to oppose him;
they find their action inevit&bl- shaning it.
self in favor, not against the EInclnEati
ticket, if they would overthrow Grant and
his party" So with such reluctant journals
as the Baltimore Gazette and the
Pittsburgh Post, which express their
purpose, now that the tide has
set so strongly and Enthusiastically in one
direction, and that toward Greeley and
Brown, to give the Cincinnati ticket a
hearty support, if, as they expect, that
ticket shall be taken up and endorsed by
the Baltimore Convention. The Washing
ton Patriot, an able exponent and defender
of Democratic principles at the seat Of gov
eminent, gives in its adhesion, after long
hostility, to the Cincinnati ticket. The
National Convention, it says, will no doubt
accept Greeley and Brown; and it adds that
the Democracy should, and viii, accept the
action of their National Convention. cit
would be worse than folly" says the
Patriot ''to disguise the fact that
the nomination of Mr.. Greeley at
Baltimore is not only possible, but even a
probable event. Nothing but wilful blind
ness can refuse to recognize signs which are
too manifest to be mistaken" But the
most noted convert to the "inexorable logic
of events" which it found itself utterly
powerless to control or even to shape, is the
New York World, journal that has been
more bitter, not to say vindictiVe, in its OPP
position to Mr.. Greeley than any other in
the country. In its issue of the 1st inst.
that paper gives in its experience" as fol-
lows:
"The National Democratic Convention
will assemble at Baltimore week from to-
morrow; and we are reluctantly constrained
to believe that it will nominate Horace
Greeley as the Democratic candidate for
President. Most of the State Conventions
for appointing delegates to Baltimore have
been held, and it seems tolerably clear that
Mr.. Greeley will have a two-thirds major
ity on the first ballot. Our readers know
how earnestly we have deprecated such a
result; but as this preposterous nomination
| seems fixed we suppose we must make
the best of it.
SIN the strenuous opposition we have
| thought it our duty to make, we have mere
ly exercised the right which belongs to ev-
cry Democratic journal, and every Demo
cratic citizen, to freely canvass the merits of
| proposed candidates, and to oppose improp-
er nominations up to the time when the
authoritative action of the National Con-
vention binds the whole party. We have
been as free to protest against the nomina-
| ton of Mr.. Greeley as we were in 1868 to
! protest against the nomination of Mr.. Pen
| dletoD, gentleman whom we personally
esteemed, but whose greenback heresy
foredoomed the party to defeat if it had
! been so unwise as to select him for its
standard-bearer. And yet, if Mr.. Pendle-
ton had been nominated, four years ago, we
should have felt bound by our loyalty to
! the party 10 forbear our remonstrances
| when the final decision had been made.
| 1--WE were more successful then than we
can except to be now. Mr.. Greeley is 60
ing to Baltimore without any competitors.
Mr.. Hendricks has virtually committed him
self to Greeley by consenting to run as the
! Democratic candidate for Governor of In
| diana in close conjunction with the Greeley
movement; Gov. Seymour has publicly and
Chief Justice Church privately, Endorsed
this strange proposal; Gov. Randolph,
who, so long as there were any hope, was
| its most active and Jealous opponent, has
| given in; Mr.. Thurman's friends and Mr..
| Pendleton's friends make no sign; Mr.. Kerr,
who was perhaps the most thoroughly dis
gusted of our able Democratic statesmen,
| has accepted the situation; and even Mr..
voorhees, has withdrawn his opposition.
''The retreat of the Democratic press has
not been quite so complete. The Boston
| Post, the Hartford Times, the Philadelphia
Age, the Washington Patriot, and several
| leading Southern papers, which secuted the
Cincinnati nomination at first, have, one
by one succumbed tG the inevitable; the
Chicago Times, Detroit Free Press, and our
able German contemporary the Stats lei
ting alone remaining of the prominent
Democratic allies of The World in opposing
| Mr.. Greeley.
"Of the disguised Liberal Republicans,
whose Disappointment and chagrin knew 10
bounds, the most Influential part have con-
Guided that further opposition would be
| fruitless. Mr.. Schurz, the ablest and most
eminent of them, has signifed his intention
to give qualified support to Mr.. Greeley,
| though still holding fast to his opinion that
it was nomination not fit to be made.
"Moreover, we cannot discover in any
| quarter, signs of formidable, or even
respectable bolt against this strange nomi-
nation. A Liberal Republicao bolt against
it was attempted in calling the Fifth Ave-
! nue. Hotel conference; but that gathering
resulted in an Endorsement. We have no
reason to believe that Democratic bolt
against what may now be regarded
as the certain action of the Baltimore
Convention, would be more successful.
1t is therefore a pretty we'll settled
fact that there will be but two can
didates in the field in the Presidential
election, and that citizens must choose
between voting for Grant, voting for
Greeley, and staying away from the polls.
For our part, we shall advise nobody to vote
for Grant; and as between the remaining
alternative of voting for Greeley or staying
at home, we have no counsel to offer. Our
| own duty and that of Democratic citizens
may perhaps more clearly appear after the
canvass has made some progress. When
Mr.. Schurz, who has signiied his intention
to support Mr.. Greeley with reservations,
has made bis first speech, citizens will be
better able to perceive on what grounds an
honest man can vote for this confesse1ly
improper candidate"
Revolutions never go backwards" and
those who attempt to stem so powerful a
current as that set in motion at Cincinnati,
and IN which tho y,aopla fha y,oai Prosidapt-