New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
GREELEY Or GRANT,

GREELEY OR GRANT,
The Picayune of this morning says
''The political situation daily becomes
more interesting. The nomination of
Greeley and Brown settled nothing" We
desire to ask why is it, that it settles
nothing? Does not the platform comprise
everything the country needs What is
it that Democrats have been clamoring for
ever since the war? Has it not been the
re-establishment of the constitutional
powers Of the State governments-the
supremacy of the civil over the military
authority-the restoration Of the govern
ment into the hands of civilians and
statesmen and general amnesty? Was
the Cincinnati convention non-commital
with reference to these sacramental mat
ters? Has it not spoken out on these
! questions and left nothing to doubt? Yet
we find the Picdyllne and a few other
journals daily finding fault with the result
of the deliberations of that convention.
What is it such journals want? Certainly
nothing more as to a declaration of polit-
ical faith. Then it must be as to the can
didates. The PicalRtne does not question the
political virtue of the candidates, but
nearly every issue groans with all the
agonies of a rheumatic subject, and a
general snarl upon its countenance seems
to have supplanted that agreeable COM
placency which for many years won the
admiration Of its readers, and made it
standard Of impartial opinions. If its
present tone is to be regarded as the echo of
the sentiment Of the ''aristocratic" Demo-
cratic leaders in the United States, it is
plain that one thing at least has been settled
by the Cincinnati convention, which is, that
such journals as the Picqyltne are not to
be satisfied with anything but their own
dictation No one ever supposed that the
convention was called to nominate the
Picdyunes candidates. 1t was the general
impression that patriots were called to-
gether to adopt conciliatory measures that
would lead to the immediate establish |
ment of fraternal relations between all |
sections of the country, and simultaneous
refrigeration of the well-established /
principles Of the constitution.
1t IS settled that the convention endeav-
ored to accomplish these things, and it is
also settled that if its efforts are to be
finally defeated the calamity will, to a
very great extent, be chargeable to the
PicaylHe and its persistent co-laborers in
the congenial work of FINDING or forging
a fault. Mr.. Greeley was, perhaps, not
the choice of the people of Louisiana; but
our delegates went to Cincinnati in no
spirit of dictation, but, on the contrary. to
meet with the enlightened and patriotic
of the other States, there
to compare the merits of the different
worthless whose names were before them;
TO survey the whole Campus Martius, and
to adopt such platform Of principles; to
put forth such candidates as, in its aggre-
gated wisdom, were best calculated to re-
store the prosperity of the whole country.
Their labors have been satisfactory to
he masses, and the result will show the
act At all events, if Greeley and Brown !
re doomed to withdrawal or defeat, the
merits Of such a result will be due to such
as the Picayaale. 1t may
afely be said that if ''the political situa-
ion daily becomes more interesting, - it is
.ecause Of the fact, every day made more
alpable, that we are doomed to have
1reeley or Grant at the head of affairs for
be next four years. Let the Picayfne
nd its cOadjutoTs succeed in its policy of
aVing a Democratic nomination, and
General Grant need give himself no IN
asiness about his reelection. This fact |
settled in the minds of all who sympa- =
lize with the Cincinnati convention. 1t f
settled that the Picaya1ae must choose be- a
veen Grant and Greeley, and let it be 4
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