The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-10-15
THE GREELEY DRY ROT.

my: but, after living such life, to die
death of shameful unm inliness, is to SYM
bolize the Confederacy and its fugitive.
captured and petticoated President. The
true record of the Democratic party is the
history of all that long disgrace which kept
honest true hearted Americans apologies
ing for q government that pretended to
champion Liberty and the Rights of Man,
while it held down, with one hand, the
rising spirit of the aboHtionists and with
the other put new rivets in the shackles
which bound the slave to life of unpaid
and unthanked toll, and made his igno-
rance and his absolute deprivation of
rights. conditions of law and the premises
of legal decisions from the high est Bench
in the Republic. Yet there be those,
even amongst invariable Republicans,
who are weak enough to admit, as a mat
ter of course, and without any critical
investigation, the truthfullness of the I'M
piled falsehood THE glorious record of
the Democratic party" In actual truth
no such record has ever been made.
Poets cannot sing of the heart-stirring
beauties of slavery; and the glorious IN
act and achievement cannot be part of
that which is grovelling. narrow and I'M
truthful. The historian whose largeness
of combined integrity and analytical ca
pacity are enough to enable him to grasp
the real truth regarding the so-called
Democratic party will consiSn it to the
unenviable category of Organized De
pravities; and vet there might have been
some room for the kindly glamour of old
| traditions to fall Upon it and give it char
| table meeting and mention had it not
been for the willful depravities and
shameless self assessments which hastened
the dissolution of that palsy stricken,
delirious and dyingpolitical organization.
The history and pathology of its diseases
and decline have become an old familiar
story to all who know what brought on
the rebellion; who apologised for it; who
S;ilu tLat cOcfclou WAS uiiconsiitutAoA~AI'
who bit the backs of our Union soldiers;
who called the war failure; who pecked
at Lincoln and reconstruction; and who,
finally have associated themselves with
the soured and Tilted wall flowers of the
Republican party in order that their own
disgraeeful by cones may be by cones
81, nf a1J1x-io,, no 4 ho-
tween the eyes of the living present and
the part they have played in making the
history of political progression in the
United States. AL know this and it need
not be repeated; but now that this old,
Industrious, insidiOus, cowardly foe of
Liberty; this disguised turnkey and pam
dering valet of Wrong ard Oppression
comes to die, it is mean enough and
graceless enough and enough lacking in
manly self-respect to sell its last moments
to faithless Republicanism in the voca-
tive case and breathe its last breath in
the senile and nerveless arms of Horace
Greeley!
Is there none of the true, genuine es-
sence of virility left amongst the rem
nants of the Democracy Not enough
of honest spirit remaining to break the
bonds of this most preposterous and
shameful alliance? Are there not some
better men amongst the Possummated
Democracy-some who can and will illus
trate that there has been a little leaven
of virtue in this monstrous mass of in
sincerity and pretence? Are they all
mean and groveliing aike-au equally
lost TO a sense of self-respect? Greeley
will drag all who cling to him down into |
the very bottom of political perdition. |
There will be SO slow and tarly a resur-
rection for the youngest and most inno-
cent of those who are doomed to be swa1- |
lowed up with the catastrophe which |
awaits the monster humbug of Greeley |
ism that none may count upon any bat |
far remote relation to living politics. |
The dead past is about to bury its dead;
but there is yet a chance for those |
who would that their last moments may |
merit them something of the respect of
tie charitable. These will come out