The Placer herald., 1872-07-13
TIE ISSUE JOINED.

ne PRESIDENTIAL contest mas settled down
as we desired i, should, between Greeley
and Grant. We believe the HERALD was
The first Democratic paper in California tc
advocate The Endorsement Of the Cincinnati
| platform and nominees We did this because
good faith, the good Of the country and the
salvation of our republican institutions al
combined TO exact it of us, and Of all Other
men who think and act from honest, unselish
patriotic motives. The entire Democratic
press Of every State in the Union aided
urged and encouraged the Republican dis
senters from Grants corrupt reign, TO cal
and hold the Cincinnati Convention; giving
them to understand that if their platform
denounced the thefts, usurpatons and iy-
rlnnies of Grants administration, and pro-
claimed Tor universal amnesty, State rights
local selt'- sovernmcnt, holasty in Office, reve-
nue. reform, the privilege of the writ Of
habsas corpus, the snpFe nacy OF the civil
code over the military power, and nominated
able and honest men, that we would indorse
their action, platform and nominees, sayin;
bygones shall be bysones, AMI we will join
you and all work as one man for the over
throw of Grant and his administration. The
Cincinnati Convention did all this, and we
good faith, do less than comply with our
implied contract, and indorse Greeley and
Brown and the Cincinnati platform This,
we are proud to say, an overwhelming ma
joriy Of the Democracy from every section
of the Union have now done through their
delegates at Baltimore. This proud act oi
three millions of organized Democratic voters
is above all praise, and finds no parallel in
American politics except in the acton of the
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, who burst
the bonds of political fellowship that had
bound them 10 the fallen and corrupt ad-
ministration of Grant, and with outstretched
arms asked us to shake hands across the
"bloody chasm" in the name of peace,
honesty, liberty, reform, craftsmanship and
fraternal fellowship all over the Union.
These were two acts of patriotism that chal
lenge the admiration of all good men, and
the people of the whole Union will reap their
fruits in the r,turn of our government to the
purer days of the Republic. The flower of
the old Republican party now belong to tn
new movement, and joined to the Democratic
party, who have been refined and purified in
the fires of adversely, it makes the grandes
md most promising party that ever sprang
upon political battlefield in America Bal
timorc adds its powerful voice to that OF
Cincinnati, and all good men say amen. The
destinies of the republic are at stake; 1t If
the people against their official oppressors, and
hey must strip themselves for the fight
rhe battle must now be fought between
Greeley and Grant; and between them the
voter must choose. 1t is not now who W,
would ike for President, but whether w,
will have Greeley, the peoples cnditatc, on
Grant, the tool Of II corrups conclave o.
greedy, tyrannical officials. We have nc
fears of the result; the people will win and
Greeley vii! be elected by an overwhelming
majority. AS n Democratic voter for oven
thirty years, who never wavcred or devlated
from its principles, who never violated lis
law or deficed its ticket, we cheeriully
heartily and enthusiastically indorse the
acton of the Cin,iunat and Baltimore Con-
ventions and hail the nominees, Greeley anG
Brown, as the only means now within reach
10y which this government can be saved.
hey fill the Jeifersoni,n test, they are
,ble, honest and competent. There shall tie
with us no talk of the past; our beloved
form OF government is in peril, it is in the
hands of weak, wicked, dishonest, rascallN
men, and until it is wrested from these
iyrant leeches we shall know all men as oui
political friends and brothers who labor with
us in this great cause Of the people.