Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-03
GREELEY WORSE THAN SEYMOUR

GREELEY WORSE THAN SEYMOUR
The nomination of Mr.. Greeley is SC
clearly trick that it gains no confidence
with intelligent people and classes
This very fact would carry them against
it. They desire steady, well conducted
government, and this they have under the
administration of President Grant. They
have no interest in helping the political
gamesters into office who surround Mr..
Greeley, of which John Morrissey is the
fitting representative. The great business
and moneyed interests of the country are
opposed to such q change for such pur-
pose The religious and moral elements
are not in favor of risking change upon
the conditions that must attend it. With
Grant the forces that extiuguished slavery
and elevated the colored race will con-
tinue to prevail. With Greeley the forces
that opposed slavery, fought the govern
ment, and uphold Ku-Kluxism would con-
troll. Such change is not Agreeable to the
wishes of thinking men. Does any one
doubt that if Mr.. Greeley We're elected he
would be the tool of the democratic party
Or that the democratic party has changed
or will change essentially, in its convic-
tons upon matters of principle because il
may take Horace Greeley for candidate
Upon this point Senator Morton spoke
very clearly in his late speech at Indian
apolis. We commend his remarks to the
attention of our readers. He said:
If the democratic party shall come into
power, under whatever name or standard,
when once they have received the reins they
will carry out the old Democratic doctrines.
I'sThat's true!' Applause. Does any intel
ligent man doubt that tor one momentS mo
no"] Do we not know that this thing has
been done merely for the purpose of gaining
power-to secure secession from the republi-
can party, which, added to the democracy,
will give them the majority and enable them
to seize control OF this Government! Start
ing upon the hypothesis that this is their pur-
pose, consider for few moments what they
would do should they come into power. My
friends, would just as soon the democratic
party would elect Horatio Seymour or Frank
Blair President as to elect Horace. Greeley or
any man who has ever been a Republican,
but who will lend himself to them tor their
votes and for power. Applause. l can
give you an illustration. Before the war,
Yankees from New England, or even from
Indiana, would sometimes go down South and
purchase slaves and become part of the slave
holding aristocracy, and in nineteen cases
out of twenty they became the very worst
owners. Why? Because, in order to estab-
lish their newly-assumed character in the
South they had to become more cruel to the
slaves than those who had been brought up in
their midst; and so if the democracy elect a
renegade republican President, he will make
worse democrat when he is elected, than a
man who has always been democrat. APP
plause. "That's true" DO you suppose that
this small body who call themselves Liberal
Republicans mere handfull-can leaven
the whole democratic partyI Not bit of it.
They will be dissolved like flies in vinegar.
Instead of the democracy coming to them,
they will go to the democracy. A renegade
Republican elected by Democratic votes,
knowing that he owes his office to them, sur
rounded by democrats in his Cabinet, and
socially and politically in his daily goings in
and out care not what may have been his
original purpose-human nature is malleable,
and that man would inevitably come under
democratic influence and become one of them.
Therefore, as / before remarked, l would in
fact prefer that they should take man of
their own party, consistent democrat of
high character, rather than a renegade Re-
publican who is athirst for office, and who
will sell himself out for their votet