The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-14
SHr. Greeley and Ile Tribune
What Hey hare TO say.

The morning after the election, the n.
Y. Tribune commented as follows on the
result:
There is no parallel 10 the completeness
| of the rout aud triumph. Democrats have
| We'd with Liberal Republicans In cuntrbut-
! ing 10 ir. some of them by voting FOR Grant
| Electors. many more by negiecting to vote
at all. For the present the Liberal move
| ment is crushed. Let no man accuse the
/ able and snTeWd politiiians, who as the lie
publican National Committee, directed the
| canvass for General Grants reelection, OF
! squandering Unprecedented sums raised and
| dIsburstd 10y them in .hls contest, with
/ having ever PLAYED n whole park Of artillC-
| nv to Kill a fly. The Liberal movement was
at one time formidable, and had prospect
| of success.
Had not millions been expended to ar
rest its progress in the State elections of the
last three months. it might have swept the
country. though all the money raised in ITS
behalf would at best been pence 90 balance
pounds. Bat a peril anticipated Is often
peril aVerted
Thousands Of the voters of North Carroll
ma, Vermont ana Maine were convinced 10y
money that they might better vote the Ad-
ministration than the Liberal ticket and
that il they could not so vote it was their
interest to stay at home on election day and
not vote at all.
Thus the Liberal Republican strength in
ocrats who ''wouldn'C cat crow" when they
could get from five dollars to twenty dol
lars each for not eating it. Thus was Sc
cured to the Grant Stare tickets q small ma
jorty in North Carolina, ana nearly the
Republican, maiOritieS of lS6S in Vermont
and Maine, aud thus was encouragement
given to the enormous outlay by which
Pennsylvania Wa made % roll up Tor Hart
rant at least treble her Republican major
titles.
There was nothing purchasablc in the
Ket stone State tiIa5 was not bought, wheth-
er of voters. cicctiuuecrcr~ or inspectors
aud canvassers, and but one party had the
wherewithal Ia buy Tie small yet ample
majOriUes In ONO and Nebraska, which
with the balanced result IN Indiana assured
All who stood alo0t watching he struggle
as Good spectators that General Grants re-
election was j. Ghly probable, uud "a. once
stampede to tI. IS inning SHE began. which
grew day by day more Formidable. Thous-
andS Who had been spring ith zeal tor
the Liberal cause silently stepped into the
swelling torrent. The gallant few who
stood out might rs well have tried TO stem
the current of Niagara.
We did our best to stem it, believing
firmly.
First-no President should be re-ele : r.
wihIe welding the enormous patronage OF
our highest station, holding that each
should he shielded from all mptations 10
use these powers for personal ends.
Second, That this country was in great
need Of genuine civil service reform, which
shall restore To her oilicehOlders that free
dom to think, decide and act on political
Issues which l. their birthright, but which /
they cannot enjoy in their present system, /
and which shall enable them to give their /
days to public duties for which they are /
paid. rather than be patroling and election /
eering in partisan interest of their pa,Ton /
and chief.
Third, That the war-wasted, taX-plun- I
dered, debt-covered, half bankrupt South /
should be cheered with well grounded hope I
of honester rule ana brighter days. 1t did +
seem to US that the time had come for /
National reconci 'iatiOn, whereby the des- +
TIMES OF the South should be confined TO the /
better portion OF her people OF both races, (
and the master-spirit of such trayesties Of 4
Republican rule us South Carolina aud Ar
kansas be made to f-own at Federal author
ity, and either reform their ways or reiin-
quish their abused power; ana 1t seemed TO
Us that such enormous defalcations as Pay
master Hodges $474O00 ought at least To be
explained before power is returned to the
hands which welded it when that great
fraud was confessed and the mon detected.
But the people have decided otherwise;
and we bow to their decision. The wealth
of the country, and especially the incOrpO-
rated wealth, rallied to the support of Gen.
Grant, and poured out its millions in his
behalf. 1t did not generally deny that his
civil career had been faulty; it merely in
sisted that his competitors has been and
would be more so.
General Grant has a new four years lea e
of power, with a Congress of which two
thirds to three-fOurths of either House will
support him zeAlously. He has every facil-
ity Tor effecCing the reforms he is said 10
MED p. ., especially that ofthe civil service
while the adoption of the much abused
privilege is so squarely promised
that success would seem to be assured.
And while there are dangerous tendencies
developed by this canvass which foTeshadow
the government by the rich and able few
substituting and controlling such portions as
they may require OF the ignorant, penniless
venal many. let us never despair Of the
American Republic.
And on the 9TH, Mr.. Greeley returned
to his Iabors on the Tribune, with this
a CARD-The undersigned resumes the
of the Tribune, which he rclin-
Juished OH embarking in another line OF
business six msnths ago. Henceforth IL
shall be his endeavor to make this a tho
roughly Independent journal, treating all
parties and political movements with
judicial fairness aud candOr. but counting
he faver and deprecatiug the wrath of no
Dne. If he can hereafter say anything that
will tend to heartily unite the whole Ameri-
IAN people on the broad platform Of univer-
al amnesty and impartial suffrage, he will
gladly do 81.
For the present. however. he can best ,
commend that contamination by silence (
md forbearance. The victors i'm our late |
truggle can hardly fail to take the whole
uhject OF Southern rights and wrongs into |
,arly and earnest consideration and to them {
or the present be RENTS il. Since he will (
lever again be a candidate tor any Office {
Lnd Is not in full accord with either Of the z
,reat parties which have hitherto divided I
he country, he VIII be able and will endea- I
= r To give wider and steadier regard to
he progress of science, industry and the
lseful arts than partisan journal can do. a
nd he viii not be provoked To indulgence Z
Il those bitter personalities which are the 1
ecognized bane Of journalism. Sustained r
y generous public he will do his best to :
lake the Tribune power on the broader !.
eld IL now conteDp plates, when human
reedonl was in peril it was in the arena of
olitical partisanship. a
LSlgnedl HORACE GREELEY q
NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 1872. !:
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