New Orleans Republican., 1872-06-02

ease that has been generally supposed to
be confined to dogs) to oppose the chief
embodiment Of the principles of the new
party. What good can come of Mr.. Fer
rvs opposition to ''the continuance Of po-
litical disabilities after they have become
a needless and mischievous irritation,
without a single good result, if he op-
poses the party that honestly proposes to
remedy the wrong when it is clothed by
the people with the power to do it? What
difference does it make whether he believes
or not in the miscalled civil rights bills,
subversive of local self-government, and
destructive Of the school systems
Of whole groups of States, if
he opposes the party that pro-
poses to reform this condition of things?
And furthermore, there is little use in Mr..
Ferry's announcement that he does mot
believe in the re-enactment of the Ku-
Klux law after it has expired by it own
limitation and has accomplished all that
was originally alleged to be its purpose"
if he continues to act in the interest of an
administration that has inflicted this great
wrong upon the country. His announced
opposition to these measures is not the
prominent cause of the Worlds admira-
ton of Mr.. Ferry at this time. His chief
claim to the appreciation Of this sham
Democratic organ of defunct party is
based upon his opposition to the chosen
standard bearers of the Liberal Repub-
ican Reform party. This is made doubly
apparent by the insidious manner in
which the World follows up Mr.. Ferrys
attack on Mr.. Greeley. 1t says it is not
difficult to state the reasons which have
brought Mr.. Ferry to his conclusion in re-
gard to the fitness Of Mr.. Greeley for the
Presidency, and falsely asserts that they
are the same which prevented the Repub-
lican party from electing, or any Repub-
lican administration from appointing Mr.
Greeley, in the past, to any important
office.
Mr.. Greeley, like Mr.. Clay, has never
been temporizer or time-server in poll
tics. He has always been bold and
earnest advocate Of all measures he
thought conducive to the interest of the
people, and he is more apt to take the
lead than otherwise in the discussion of
public measures. These are the real rea-
sons why Mr.. Greeley in the past has been
deemed by the more unscrupulous poll
ticians, who generally manage to control
nominations, to not possess the ingredi- |
ents of an available candidate Mr..
Greeley, like Mr. Clay, would rather be
right than President. Therefore it is not
astonishing that he has no! obtained pub
lie Office He is of the belief that Office
should seek the man, and therefore has
never in any manner attempted to
foist himself upon the people through
political trickery. On the other hand,
Mr.. Greeley holds that the citizen is not
at liberty to decline serving his country
when he is called upon to doso. His own
will has not made him a candidate for
the Presidency of this great nation That
result was brought about by the people;
and although Mr.. Ferry by questioning
his fitness for the place at this late day,
has raised the spirits of the World, and
caused an exultant shout of JOY to leap
vigorously forth from its newly-infated
lungs at the faint prospect thus presented
Of resurrecting the Democratic party, yet
we are convinced the World is laboring
under a cruel delusion, created and en-
couraged by Mr.. Ferry for the purpose Of
securing his election to the United States
Senate. If the Tribune has been deceived !
in regarding Mr.. Ferrys election as a
Greeley triumph, the World is also cheated |
in being encouraged to view it as favorable |
to the resurrection Of the Democratic party |
and its promotion to power.
Mr.. Greeley's friends never designed |
him to be the representative Of the Dem
ocratic party, nor Of Liberal Republican
party with but one idea, and that free |
trade. They have made him the peoples
candidate-the representative and en-
bodiment of all that is set forth in the
platform Of the Cincinnati convention
And if the people elect him-as they
surely wiIl-he will be the President of
the people-not of faction-and will
administer the government in a spirit that
will fairly reflect the principles and pur-
poses Of the Liberal Republican party-in
! spirit that will restore peace and pros
oerity to the whole country.