Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-07-04

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Our neighbor of the Wing be,tow :
column and Il quarter of argument q
postulation reproof aud correction. up
the american on Monday. Consideri
that Sunday wa. an excessive hot di
such leader must have been hea
draft cn the energies Of It's editor.
We do not purpose ut this time. nor dr
in= the hot weather of Dog-days. to /.
into sharp contest with any party or nj
man. nor with any newspaper. if we q
well avoid il. We are not in 4 "fiyhtin
mood. and all we meant To convey Ia
week. la using the language. fighting
oui on the Grant and Wilson line" vi
that however disappointed and chaerim,
at the want OF success Of the prese
administration ia many particulars, Al
III" anomalous position Of the party. III
OF having il weakest aud most corfu
men assume IL leadership IN Congress.
spite of all this. We. n heretofore. :
stick I" the party. and {" its nomins
when those ARE fairly made. Grant 4
Wilson were fairly nominated aud We +
bound IN honor Ia support them. We l.
the men. but not their -urroundin.
President Grant has made mistakes eno,s
and We believe through bad advisero
sink triumphant party INTO "A hopel.
minority. Ills first start out was an emf
blundcr. aud somebody has continued ;
hlunderiugs down to the present tin
Oar foreign policy has been characteriz
by weakness ia action and wickcdnc,.
purpose. or else We mi>iudge il. rs
elimination of the last scheme of Siluri
Fish and pct'ifoggins Davis has just tala
place al Geneva: aud it was Charles Fra
ci- Adams. in the language of the Innh
I'ai,s that rescued the American cove,
meut from IL hlunders. Il would NOT
4" discuss the recall Of Motley. the II
placement OF Sumner and the instaIl,uel
Of Cameron in his place. the as-,,mpti,
IF Morton, 'onklin. Nyc. n Co. in II
senate. aud the reading ouf of the rarty
the be-, men in IT, hy the class OF m,
named, Neither the Wig or the .ha.yi-,
can Justify or applaud these thing. The,
Z, u laid upon a. as a dirty to ego II blind
Tor the men who have lead Us into lin
Guilty Il j. some consolation. when The,
go" no vital principles al stake to bra, i
Your leaders. but tbs poor consolation
taken nom u. Then what Unr,c
Gtrrler lid not ut up the Cincinnati 90,
N"nii"n: Carl Nchurz lid not nonIl.a,
Greeley, bat III" hundcrS of Reruhlira
administration caused the gatherln.
Cincinnati. ana made Schnrz. and RI
elias Of men iiS antagonists. we arr w
disposed, aud Il j. not a part OF our ,luty
20 call the hlund"r> Of the party leader
wl>lpm-it j. enough that We support IN
party in -pitc ii it. blunder>.
Neither can We go mad over ia
Thought that the Democrats that ~, ha,-
h~en opniending with since lisa. ar. /
abandon their organization. and thei
obsolete platform aud 20 for Horac
Greeley aud the Cincinnati platform. Il.
pubican> should not find fault with TIL
change "f base, for they have been "a
d"aN"iing for The last ten year, 10 J.
them 10 change about. aud 70 with a,
lhrn what: II We believe our leader,
ihr ni"n Is restored: every State j. nuv
bAc. iu it, Old place; the public deb, /
"rt.s paid oh rapidly; everybody r,tudi
"'"> reputation. and acquiesce- In Tia
amended constitution. aud what neat
Where j. The grcA; peril now inpcudln.
"fcr ~" country: /. not the distribution
~ ihv oficcs about all there i i'm I,
fight over. Why even now the little utic
wni'h We hold. has plenty OF a,pjrant,
o. speech rules Us out and them in
While We think such plainness. ii initiate
by all our party newspapers, would con
tribute TO it, salvation and IT, pcrmanen
success.
We have not made the attempt 10 an>we
the Whfg In full we are only giving som
facts aud reasons why we prefer to b
aud consistent. rather than
blind follower Of party and inconsistent.