Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-18

nee for President. In this action we
can say with truth what We can say
of few conventions, that it did not
make,sa mistake. 1t nominated the
strongest man--0ne identified with the
movement from its earliest inception,
and one who was richly entitled to-
such recognition at its hands. The
name of Mr.. Greeley carries with all
the essential elements that are at the
basis Of this reform movement.
A purer man, in private or public
life, and one who possesses more ca
pacity to carry out the wishes Of the
people in that particular, cOuld not
have been chosen. By happy and
felicitons expression, he has been well
STYLED Sour later Franklin" There.
is certainly great resemblance be-
tween his character anu public ser
vices and those OF the illustriOns MAN
with whom the comparison Is made.
If there ever was one connected IN
feeling, thought and aspiration with
the masses, it is Mr.. Greeley. He has
known privatlon and suffering, and
from the humblest beginning has work
ed himself up to his present proud
position. A more generous, warm
hearted pan--0ne whose ears is ever
open to suffering, and who is proud
% alleviate it does not exist. He
possesses an Independence that is most
peculiar, and which rendered him q
| fit and appropriate representative OF
those who have had the manliness to
strike out boldly against the tyrany
and usnrpations of the present admin
istratiOn. Like Franklin, the basis of
his character is common sense. He
has an unusually sound mental con-
stitutiOn, and no one possesses to a
greater degree all the indu strial aud
economical virtues. This is 4 great
quality in the conduct of public affairs.
There are none who are better ac-
quainted with the country its resources
and its leading men than he is, and
none who, in his selection for Offices,
would be governed with a more mas
culine Judgment and integrity.-Er.
From the Chicago Tribune.l
Horace Greeley is known to all the
land. His personal integrity is un-
questionable. He has won his distinc
ton before the people by a life of in
dustry, toll, and ability. The Presi
dency can hardly add anything to his
fame. But in a movement by the PEG
pie for reform, there is no person to
whom the task can be more fittingly
or confidently committed than to him
That he will root out corruption in ey
cry branch of the government, no one
doubts fraud will not approach him
. nor will he tolerate incompetency o.
dishonesty for the sake Of friends o.
party.
He has been from the cIosa of tn,
war the unfiltering advocate OF am
! nesty and impartial suffrage. He ha
been the friend OF the colored race
: rendering them more aid perhaps thai
any other man in obtaining Il cir pc
litical freedom. He has been in lik
manner and on all occasions the frien'
of the suffering and the oppressed @
: whatever race, and the millions Of fol
> eign born citizens in the Union vii
! attest the many years he has dcy0te'
" tuCif WCit0i . 0Au YiOttCttOus
4 In the matter Of protection, Horac
Greeley has been among the foremos
9 champions Of that system Of taA:
ton. We differ from him wholly o
y that subject. He has been nominate
e on platform substantially suggeste
e by himself, which declares that th
. matter of revenue is purely Congre
d sional question, to be decided by tn
people through their representative
free of executive interference. and thu
70 the decision of the majority of the Pc
pie shall be the law of the land. II
foremost leaders of revenue reform
the country ask no more than thi
and they E7ill accept the popular deci
lr ion AS the only binding one that can |
d made.
IS Horace Greeley is presented to Il
= American people as a candidate f
~ Presidency, who, if elected, will ex
III cute needed reforms, and put all ei
Or to existing abuses He enters Il
d field not as a candidate of politician
- but as their persistent foe. His ele
= ton will be new era in national p,
ar itics. To his support will rally eve
IS, man of whatever party, who real
in wants reform. He will carry, wi
70 one or two exceptions, all the Sou;
ern and Southwestern States. He W
fe carry Pennsylvania and New YoI
re and three at least of the New Englal
er States. In Ohio, Indiana and Illino
40 his nomination will te accepted al
sign of deliverance, and around b
y will gather host that will unite tn
efforts with those of their c0untrym
i, in other States to restore the g0yel
meDt to its wOnted constitutional pc
ers aud duties.
MARX OF A GENTLEMAN.-No m
zee is a gentleman who, without provo
ton, would treat with incivility
humblest of his species. II is yulg