Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-08-17

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and we are informed vulgarly profane.
Both may be conceded to be honest, sub.
ject to the attachments common to human
weakness. Greeley surpasses Grant III
political knowledge. just as much,
Grant surpasses Greeley in selfpoise and
superior executive ability. Grants ad-
ministration has not been free from faults ;
yet candor must admit that in the ng.
gregate, and under all the circumstances
il is illustrious. lie received the nation
at the hands of Andrew johnson in per-
turbation aud chaos. Out of tlis, rs il
by magic, and unobtrusively, have come
prevalent peace and comparative order.
Ills policy toward the indians has been
humane. The Freedmen have been Sc
cured, by constitutional guarantee, all
the rights common TO American citizen
ship. Taxes have been materially re-
duced the Goverumet economically adj
ministered and hundreds OF millions of
the national debt li9uidated. The Ku-
klnx have been suppressed; peace and
amity preserved with all nations aud if
possible, rising in moral grandeur and
substantial glory above all else, the in
anguralion OF an era OF Peace, in the
adjustment of national wrong by peace
able appeal TO umpire, and not the bloody
arbtranent Of the sword. This in a
military chieitain, is honor with an en-
phasis and having secured so much of
abiding good to Christian civilization
and the race, much might well be tor
given.
On the other hand, Mr.. Greeley's his
tory proves two things IL. That as a
political journalist, he is eminently "A
success. And, 2. as a legislator he is
preeminently "a failure. In some regards,
an appetency 10 the erratic seems to be
bis idiosyncracy, or distinguished char
acteristics. Ia early lite be espoused
Fourlerism or community OF goods.
Prior TO, and in the early part OF the war,
he defended the right of secession as
fully rs did Jefferson Davis. During
the progrss of the war, he sought 10 ne
gotiate terms of peace which President
Lincoln and the loyal North were i'm.
PEELED to repudidate. With all the force
OF his extended influence he sought TO
prevent the denomination of President
Lincoln !; al the time, scheme of reck-
less madness. And now, under no high
er pretext than y war upon President
Grant, he is chief actuary in conspiracy
against the party which, under God,
saved the nation, and III favor of the
supremacy Of that party in which
the entire rebel element found sanctuary.
These facts sufficiently demonstrate the
unwisdum of intrusting to him the re-
Ia, - In -
this great nation.
THE PLATFORMS
To the uDpracticed eye, the two plat
forms seem " be identical: but in their
practical Interpretation, the difference
would be world wide. In the first place :
Everything good in the Liberal Republi-
cali platform, and much more, is moor
porated into the Republican platform
proper. But the fourth plank in the
Liberal Republican platform, on local
and State selt-governnent, ultra Demo
cratically interpreted, contains all the
political heresy of State rights III the
Southern sense, and is blow aimed di-
rectly at those necessary laws of Con-
gress against the lawless and bloody out
RACES Of the Ku-Klux- -Klans upon the
lives and rights Of loyal and law abiding
citizens. 1t is the glory Of u government
that it faithfully protects its humblcsl
citizen in person and rights, both at
home and abroad. The government
which fails to do this, is to that same ex-
tent, shan and cheat. Yet this
power, essential to perfect govern
men,, the Liberal Republican platform
denouccs as scentralzation." BE not
deceived by plausible professions that
never admitted this. These old issues
are as dear to it as ever This move
ment is but their resurrection. The ei,-
dorsenent of this platform, in the Cal
hoon Democratic sense, will be the en-
dorsement OF the right OF secession
will be to say that Jefferson Davis and
the South were right, and that Abraham
Lincoln and the North were wrong.
Aud practically, this is the one living,
vital issue to be fought over again.
THE PARTIES.
OF tho personnel of the Democratic
party, MIR. Greeley said -
"Point whenever you please to an cleo
tion district which you will pronounce
Hipia 'otbSh--E iNch up III SitdI puIt
TO debauchery and vice--and that dis
trict will be found at nearly or every
election to give large majority for that
which stiles itself the Democratic party"
"Take all the haunts OF
debauchery in the land, and you will find
nine-tenths of their master spirits active
participants of that same Democracy"
"May il be written
on my grave that never was its follower,
aud lived and died in nothing its debtor"
ut the correctness Of this characterize.
ton, we leave the reader to Judge. Bu,
one thing Is certain, beyond the posi-
hility of an intelligent doubt, viz:-The
ooaleseing oi the Democracy with the
Liberal Republicans, is an expedient by
which the party containing tho aggregate
rebel element of the country seeks 10
displace from control of tho Government
tho party which, humaply speaking
mainly saved the Republic, and still COW
tains its aggregate loyal element. In
the light of this single fact, if our read
ers would not use their franchise IN
bringing disloyalty 10 the front and
positioning loyalty on the back seats
they will not cast their ballots for thu
Cincinnati-Baltimore nominees.
In duty to our readers aud the country
we eoald not say less than as above