The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-15


the administration party had better under.
stand that choice between evils is not the
choice they ought to present to the country.
We have dozens of able and patriotic men all
over the country assuring the people that In
their judgment Greeley ls worse than
Grant. while dozens of other able and
patriotic men are engaged In assuring
ley. There Is no real principle involved IN
the canvass, for both parties VOW and protest
that they are In favor of civil service reform,
of amnesty, OF revenue reform and Of decen-
rralization The only matter about which
there is any real dispute is: Which candidate
can you trust to carry out these reforms And
80 we get back to the relative merits OF the
characters of the two men. 1t was clearly the
policy of the administration, Immediately on
the nomination at Cincinnati; to take meas
ures looking to genuine adoption of the re-
forms indicated in the platform adopted there.
The passage of the amnesty bill was q measure
of this kind, and so far as 1t went was very
good. But what has been done since Not q
ching. Now we assure the administration
that this is not the way to stimulate enthusl-
asm for General Grant. On the contrary, 1t Is
the way to elect Mr.. Greeley. I.,'i. ~.
From the New York Times.l .:5r
No one can now vote for Greeley under the
delusion that In this way Republican princi-
pies are to be advanced. He cannot expect
the support of any considerable number Of bis
fellow-citizens who do not approve the pur-
poses and sympathlze with the spirit OF the
Democratic party. There Is not single DEM
ocratic tendency to which Greeley, In his
present attitude, opposes the slightest resis-
lance. There Is not single element Of DEM
ocracy against which Greeley, In his present
position, dares offer the falntest objection.
He stands before the country with his lips
sealed to any utterance OF warning concerns
ing the grave ard numerous evils he has just
" taught the country for years past to expect
from the supremacy OF the Democratic party.
From the Phladelpbis Inquirerl
Mr.. Greeley's nomination was originally
made in consequence of the South having de-
manded lt. The people Of that section be-
lieved In him as II no other Northern man,
and they gave him from the frat their unwav-
erIng support. During the rebellion they had
no more inveterale enemy than Horace Gree
lev; but when peace had Deen conquered and
its rewards realized, Mr. Greeley was foremost
among the men OF the North to demand that
the government should put into execution a
policy OF coDciliation and goodwill toward the
enemy 1t had subdued. They recognized the
service he had done them, and in the only way
known TO them they sought to express their
shouted Itself hoarse and threw up Its hat for
Mr. Greeley at CINCINNATI. The West, where
the Tribunes editor has an Unreasonable
popularity, was also heartily In favor If his
nomination, and, as result of this combina.
ton between the South and West, Charles
Francis Adams, who was the choice Of the
Liberal Republicans OF the North and East,
was defeated.
From the st. Louis Republican
The Baltimore Convention, 10 formally re-
nominating Greeley and Brown, and readopt-
,1ofT olfuh In
from the strict Missouri policy, but the policy
which has received 80 many endorsements OF
its substantial points. and achieved SO many
successes, can well afford to acqulesce In this
trlfllng departure from It's strict letter. The
Democracy will give the ticket the full benefit
OF three million of undivided popular votes.
and the electoral vote Of the fourteen admit
tedly Democratic States, and Ii the Liberals
shall, with the aid of the Democracy, do more
than effect change Of five per cent In the
popular vote Of few other States, already
halt estrangpd from the administration, the
campaign will end In triumph.
From the Boston Herald.l
The political revolution Is complete. The
Democrats have recognized the fact that old
Issues are settled, and that the party organl-
zalion, 80 long adhered 10, and about whIoh
cluster 80 many associations, Is an empty form
when the questions upon which 1t was formed
are 6eCCieQ. Tne LiOeTal hepuollcauS nave
recognized the same fact, and gladly join
hands with those they formerly opposed to
carry out ideas OF political reform which They
hold in communion. Every party must have
some good and vital principles, or II can never
getinto power. The Democratic party was start
ed as the party Of equal rghts-a protest
against arIstocracy and monopoly. 1t was late
In Its career that 1t became the advocate or the
constitutional apologist Of slavery. That was
the only Issue ever made between iI and the
Republican party, and that is settled. The
Republican party was started as the party OF
freedom, as protest against slavery. That
Issue has been settled, and the party only
lives to-day supporter Of monopolies and
divlder of plumber. The nomination of Horace
Greeley, Tile lifelong apostle Of freedom and
equal rights, by the Democratic party Is the
acceptance by that party, North and South, OF
all the results of the war. 1t ls revolution,
but It Is peaceful aud benefcent one. II Is
one OF those movements by which the people
ofa Republican country preserve the equlli-
brlum of their government and their own
liberties. We welcome the promised change,
and no man is better fitted to be the represen-
taLive of such movement than he who has
all his life been the advocate OF freedom, equal
rights and government of laws. Hurrah for
uorooa HrooIop