Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-21
FOR GOVERNOR,
SIDNEY PERHAM.
GREELEYS OPINIONS OF DEMO
GRATIS

opinions of Mr.. Greeley concerning the |
democracy, and presenting them to its
party for examination. The following
are few of the complimentary remarks
of the Tribune about Mr.. Greeley's new
found friends. The World is not in favor
of supporting for President the man who
has uttered such things about democrats,
how many democrats can decently do so
The first extract is this:
"Point wherever you please to an election
district which you will pronounce morally rot
ten-given up in great part to debauchery and
vice--whose voters subsst mainly by keeping
policy offices, gambling houses, grog shops
and darker dens of ;lfaa.yv,and that district
will be found giving large majority for that
which styles itself the democratic party.
What is the instinct. the sympathetic chord
which attaches them so uniformly to that par
ty?"
1t might now be asked what is the "sym-
pathetic" chord which attaches the character
thus described to the Cincinnati candidate.
From the Tribune, October II, 1867.
If there were not a newspaper nor COM
mon school in the country, the democratic
purity would be far stronger than it is. Neither
elementary instruction nor knowledge of tran
spring events is necessary to teach the essen
tial articles of the democratic creed: Glove
rum and hate niggcrs.' The less one learns
and knows, the more certain he is to ''vote
the regular ticket from A to lizard"
But Republicsnsm rests on radically diff
ferent basis, and is sustained by wholly diverse
considerations 1t lives by intelligence it
dies in the murky, sitting atmosphere of ig-
norance. Canvass almost any township in the
81 81 -hl fat-
those who fail to take newspaper. and you
will find that two-thirds of those who take
vote Republican, while three-fourths of those
who read nothing but chance newspaper
picked up for few moments in bar-room
vote the democratic ticket, and will not he
persuaded to touch any other.
From the Tribune, October %, 1867.
To smoke il democratic virtue; to chew
is that virtue intensified; to drink rum is that
virtue in the superlatye.
From the Tribune, October 80, 1861
This would amount to six in a bed, exclu
sive of any other vermin. for every democrat
ic couch in the State of New York, including
those of Sing Sing and Auburn.
From the Tribune, December 10, 1-"-
1c or borrow ed
If democracy hasofyy" which iustifies such
An -ahAAfheg, 1t is worse theory than even we
had supposed. All do know that there are
several hundred thousand mulattoes in this
country, and we presume no one has any
serious doubt that the fathers of at least nine
tenths of them are white democrats. Ard
we hold that those democrats, if they will
have yellow children, might better than other
wise treat the mothers respectively as wives,
after the laudable pattern of that eminent
democrat Vice.President Richard M. John
son. f,rg7 a.
From the Tribune, December u, 1867
1. What proportion of the voters at the
Five Points and kindred districts of our city
have usually spmpathized and voted with the
Republican and with the democratic parties
respectively?
2. What proportion of those votes is likely
70 vote for Black enfranchisement, North or
South?
8. How will 1t compare with the vote of the
intelligent, moral, industrious farmers of this
State, or If New England, on the same aues-
ton?
4. How do the blacklegs, pugilists, keepers
Of dens of il-fame, criminals, and those who
are popularity designated ''roughs, stand on
this issue? How would the World like to
have the question Of Impartial Suffrage de-
eided by the votes OF the members in good
standing of all the churches and synagogues
in the country Would it not feel more con.
were not to vote at all, while the dog ia ciers
cock-fghters, shoulder hitters, gamblers and
rowdies were pollei to decide the great issue?
We shall see whether the World dares give
candid responses 10 our inquiries. 1t often
talks sneeringly of Republican morality,
sobriety, decency, &C., &C., as though they
were preposterous. Pharisaic assumptions
Now let US see what is its own estimate of
the relative moral worth OF the two great
parties.
From the Tribune, January 4, 1868.
The World recently gavea graphic account
of the dens and denizens which gave charac-
ter 10 the Five Points and other ''slums" of
our eity-a class perhaps lower in the scale
Of being than can be found in any heather city
on earth. We thereupon asked our contem-
porary to state frankly whether the pugillists,
piaekiegs, thieves, burglars keepers of dens
Of prostitution, &C., &C., who make up so
large share OF our city's inhabitants were
not almost unanimously democrats?
From the Tribune, January :. 1864
For the last thirty years every American
Shareholder on the African coast has account.
ed himself 10 politics democrat So every
one who chooses 10 live by pugilsm. or yam. !
Dung, or hariotry, with nearly every keener
OF hppiing-house, is politically democrat.
lie believes in "iaisSe- fatre'-,hat s.the
worlu 10 governed too much that ssthe he n
government is that which govsns least" lie
wants ''his trade 10 move without restriction"
lie joyfully snbscrbes TO the World. and
echoes Its cry, LET the people eat drink and
amuse themselves as they see fit, SO long as
they do not infringe on the same liberty in
others.' A purely selfish interest attaches
the lewd, rufiiinly, criminal and dangerous
classes 10 the democratic party by the instinct
oflself p reservation, the preservation of their
right 10 make gain of others degradation.
As Greeley has given no signs of amend
ment or repentance since these words
were uttered, 1t i, to be inferred that he
still regards his old enemies in the same
light. 1t will be seen that he was not sat
isfied with opposing their principles and
measures. which is all that an honorable |
and fair minded controvertalist cares TO
10. but he must needs disseet their personal