The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


The Nation thinks that 'the Cincin-
natl Convention must, as far as the general
aims and objects of those who called it are
concerned, be pronounced failure.
= If there was anything
the Liberal Republicans promised more
solemnly than another, it was the selec-
ton of candidate who should be free
from entangling alliances with politicians,
and who should enter the White House
free from all pledges, traditions. or asso-
Citations likely to make hm an instrument in
the hands Of the class which has brought
the government to its present low estate.
We were to have had man offered to us OF
whom, whatever else was said, we should
not hear the well worn and dismal tale
that, though personally honest, he was
surrounded by bad men who imposed on
him. Nevertheless, the convention has
offered us candidate of undoubted personal
honesty, who is, and has long been, asso-
GATED intimately with the worse set of poll
tieians the State contains-excepting the
,Tammany Ring-whose supporters at the
Convention included some of the worst
political trash to be found anywhere, who
would in all probability be followed by
them to Washington, and who, if left in
their hands there, would set up the most
corrupt administration ever seen, and that
from which least might be expected in the
vsy of administrative reform |; who is not
more remarkable for his generosity and
kind-hcartedness than for the facility with
which he is duped, and not more remark
able for his hatred of knayery than for the
difficulty he has in telling whether man is
knave or not"
WAITING Certain slow coach politi-
clans, of the Bourbon stamp, are appealing
10 all good Conservative and Democratic
people 10 wait until they see what strength
Greeley has before committing themselves
to his support. The Liberal Republicans
on the other hand are naturally holding
back to learn the determination of these
same conservative and Democratic peo-
pie" before beginning the canvass in car
nest. The situation calls to mind the famous
seige of Antwerp by the English, where
the respective commanders of the land and
naval forces stood dilly-dallying, each watt
ing for the other to begin the attack, until
ths French came to the relief of the garri
son and compelled the English to raise the
seige. The heroes of that mortifying exhi-
bition were iLnmortalized in the following
epigram:
The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn
Was waiting tor Sir Richard Straughan
Sir Richard eager to be at 'em
Was waiting for the EaSl OF Chatham
--Whtg.
GREELEY's PRoSPECTs.--NIr. Horace
Greeley has seen fit to issue his mandate
to Democratic voters, commanding their
adherence to his party, and has threatened,
in the event of their disobedience, to aban-
don the principles he now processes, for
sake the friends whose confidence he has
sought, and cast his lot with the radical
faction which he has denounced and re-
pudiated. The demand made by Mr..
Greeley is so strange in its character that
we are led to look closely into the grounds
upon wich it is based, as well as the
chances of it being complied with. That
Mr.. Greeley can expect no Democratic sup
port from the North is indicated by the
temper of the entire press of that section,
too plainly to admit of discussion. The
sentiment urging the rejection of his claims
is decided and unanimous. In the West,
with but one or two exceptions, the same
spirit prevails. His main strength must
then be found in the South.--Bahimore
Gazette.
1t is very evident that Fred Horn, one
of the National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, is treading the perilous edgetof par
ty treason, when he hints that the rank
and file have become so demorallzed as pos
sibly, even probably, to refuse obedience
to leaders. He says:
people are not so coniding as former
ly; the public mind has, during and since
the late war, become corrupted, it no
longer looks up with awe to their great
men, because so many of the supposed best
have been tempted and found wanting so
that if such and such prominent men in
Ohio and Indiana or Wisconsin declare in
advance for Greeley, people are apt to do
them injustice and will believe that they
have bargained with him in advance for
places in the cabinet, or for foreign mis-
sions, etc., etc., in order to lead over their
Democratic adherents! People will no
longer follow blind. am sorry to say,
their leaders !'--Mi,caukee Sentinel.
AS we are to be represented in tn
Baltimore Convention, and as our course
in that body is pretty well settled already,
We deprecate any very serious discussion
an the matter, as calculated to impair our
influence in advance. We must not GO
there already discounted, but prepared and
ready to do our full share in the great work
that is to be accomplished. We may effect
much in a spirit of compromise, while we
shall -. .t y