The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-06-28
- From the n. Y. Evening Post.l
BARGAINS AND PLEDGES.

Q from the n. Y. Evening Post.l
a BARGAINS AND PLEDGES.
o TIE World, which has contested
o the fitness of Horace Greeley to re-
J. ceive nomination at the hands OF
o his iayeterate and life long antagon-
t lists, the democrats, with equal zeal
e and ability, has to certain extent
qualified its opposition. The selection
s OF the man at Cincinnati, it says, was
J, a stupendous blunder, in nearly
S every aspect in which the event can
Y be regarded. The convention came
E together at the instance OF the friends
G of revenue reform, and they set up
as their standard bearer the most
e notorious enemy of revenue reform
= that the age has produced. 1t was
Q intended to extend the olive branch
: of peace to the down. trodden South I;
r and its leading candidate was one
e who had distinguished himself as the
4 most ferocious advocate and abettor
1 of the most Objectionable features OF
: the Ku-Klux legislation 1t was
4 mean. to appeal to the German vote ;
and it not only disgusted our most
e Ieioquent ana popular statesman Of
German birth, but insulted our whole
!, German population by asking them
f to vote for a fanatical defender of the
sumptuary policy. 1t sought to de-
tach the negro vote from General
| Grant; and nominated the chief
, bondsman of Jefferson Davis, who is
well known TO the negroes as having
waged four-y, ars' war to hold them
in bondage.
"The Cincinnati movement" the
World continues, "aimed to draw of
'from Grant large body of dissatis-
''fied Republicans but blundered
"egregiously in nominating a man
"who long ego forfeited the confidence
''ot the Republican party. His will
"lingness to let the South go in 1861,
'his Niagara Falls mission, his advice
"to President Lincoln to pay $780,
''0OO,OOO as compensation to the
"South for the emancipation of slaves
sand his going TO Richmond to sign
"Mr. Davis's bail bond fan act for
''for which he was arraigned by the
"Union League Club and barely escap-
"ed expulsion), and this final accept
"ance OF . nomination which is an ap-
"peal for democratic votes-these
''severaly escapades have made Mr..
"Greeley the most unpopular MAJ in
''the Republican party, and the least
''likely to get Republican following
''when he goes out of it."
Ii, then, the democrats are to take
up candidate who brings no strength
to the party, and whose career has
been a systematic hostility and abuse
of its cherished principles, it is only
reasonable and just, as our authority
argues, to demand OF him some pledge
some guaranty, some eoVenant-or in
plain language-some bargain by
which his fidelity to the party shall
be secured. He has thus far, beyond
the simple act OF accepting democratic
congratulations, given no assurances
OF his having abandoned his anti
democratic sentiments, or of his hav-
ing been reconciled to the more prom.
inent democratic leaders, whom he
has so often and heartily denounced ,
as scoundrels or iguoramusses and :
unless he is bound beforehand to ,,
select his entire Cabinet from the !
democratic ranks, what reason is .
there to believe that he will not turn /,
the whole movement, should he be
successful, to the benefit of the few
moDgrel politicians by whom he is
now chiefly surrounded What Ger
tainty is there that the Cincinnati y
who made him, by their !.
adroit treacherous management, will y
not continue 10 hold their hook in his =
nose? II
The World feels, evidently, that its ?
party will be in position of the negro a
Of the well-knOwn story, whose en- y,
.husiastic admiration of what he sup q
posed to be the eloquence of White a.
ield caused him to roll through the h
ilth and dirt of the COW yard where VI
he preacher was standing, to the dam. "
Ige and infection of his best u
'lothes; but whose piety, as the story n.
uns, was not at all improved when u u
le learned that the preacher was not 4
Whitfield after all. 1t is not willing OF
hat its fellows should revel in the te
muck heaps until 1t knows that it is g
he true Whitfield on the stump. 1t ci
3 not willing to resort to the stultifi- u
alton and debasement of giving its pl
uffrages TO bitter enemy, until it ia ~
nows that enemy has been "seen,' u
s the phrase goes, and properly COM ne
litted. tn
This seems to US both logical and T.
rudent. II Mr.. Greeley is to be - -
ominated and elected by demo- W; ";
rats, he will be owned by the demo- W., W.
rats, and must in justice and honor 10
ay them for their support. His few 70
republican adherelts, who are actu- 10, il;
lily smaller in number than the once a.
smous omnibus load of Tylerites, y.
annot bring him an electoral vote nj
ley will not in fact, bring him as H,
lany popular votes IS he will repulse ho
emocratic votes and the Republi- a na
ans, therefore, Will have no right 10 Tu' TW
xpect share in the spoils. Mr., on
'enton, the Blairs, and-alas! that - -
70 should have to mention him in o. o.
MS connection-Mr. Trumbull, must ."
lppres5 their aspirations for Cabinet
laces the versatile Cochrane will
o more get the Custom House than
is original secession friends got the IN
N thousand men he promised them nj,
'om New York; even Tilton, of the
'Olden Age, will be continued in the to,
iitiorial chair which he fills so grace Le
lily; and the lions share, which is
], as is the lions right must go into lor
lie lions NAV. ~,
1t is q good old scripture rule that
ou. shall not muzzle the OK who in
eadeth cut the corn, but give him an
IS due part of the same. So you au
lall net deprive of his office the ry
by whom you are elected. II
, furnishes the main strength ofvotes, me
; is entitled to the main strength of an
ereward. He is not disposed nor csn arr
be asked of him to abandon both IS,
8 principles and his prejudices, dis
live his political organization, in the
ct, by merging it in another and G.,
lite incongruous organization, dirty 4.
his best clothes, in short, by a
.atuitous mud bath, without assur- III
ices that it will not all be in vain
hat is Fenton to him, or either of G
e Blairs, or exc the valiant Coch-
ne, that he should undergo SO much
Dor and disgrace, and all for their ito
Ikes alone No! as our strikers MO
e saying, "a fair days wages for a Pa'
ir DAVIS work. which will maan- ter