The Placer herald., 1872-10-12
IT Is GRANT OR GREELEY.

! pi"'h 'iohi 'pO tiC NOil' ttltioi
closed its labors that the contest must sim
mer down to this, and it was our desire it
should. True, there has been other candi-
dates nominated, but they are all still-born,
and have proved abortions. Judge Davis
was nominated by the Labor Convention,
but he has Withdrawn and now supports
Greeley; Black, of Pennsylvania, was nomi-
mated by Temperance Convention, but he
is now practically out of the field; so also
was Mrs. Woodruff and Fred Douglass
(colored) placed in the field by their peculiar
and eccentric admirers, but no man of sense
thinks of them longer as candidates. and
lastly comes Blanket Duncan, Brick Pome-
roy and Grants pimps' side-show at Louis
vile, which has proved to sensible men the
biggest blk of all, because it has cost money
and can find no decent supporter in any party.
1t nominated O'Connor, who, before, at the
time, and since positively and peremptorily
forbade the use of his name, and continues
to do SO. This party being backed by
Grants thieves, and furnished with plenty of
stolen money, attempted State organizations,
but they were all dead beats. In Ohio they
could get but twenty-five men in convention,
and through mere shame they went
home, feeling meaner than sheep-killing
dogs. In Indiana they nominated Edgerton
for Governor and he declined, telling them
that he was for Greeley and would take the
stump for him. In Illinois they nominated
Judge Sidney Breeze and he peremporily
declines, and tells them that he is for Gree
ley and Brown, first and last. And thus
Grants thieves and their few purchased
Pomeroys and Duncans, after spending mil
lions Of dollars, which Grants thieves have
stolen from the people, in trying to divide
the Democratic party, are repudiatcd, spat
upon and despsed by every decent Demo
crat in America. Then the fight is between
Greeley and Grant; between the people and
the thieves and punderers, and no man who
loves his country, its honor at home and
abroad, decency, honesty and economy in
public offices should hesitate a moment as to
his choice, but decide at once to support the
statesman, philosopher and honest man,
Horace Greeley. But, says an old line
Democrat, Greeley fought us and abused ,us
for thirty yeurs, and how can | vote for him
Remember that patriotic Democratic senti-
ment, "Enemies in war, in peace friends, ]"
and now that no principle divides us and
him longer, practice it in this dire emergency
of your country by both voting and working
for Greeley. Yes, the Democracy and
Greeley, who furnished the brains Of the
anti-slavery party, did fight for thirty years,
and we gave him as good as he sent; but
now that the questions over which we dis
agreed are all dead and buried and new and
momentuous, living and vital issues are be-
fore the country, on which Greeley and us
do agree, who, that respects and claims the
name of Democrat, can or will be childish
enough to 90 prowng around the Old polit-
ical graveyards digging up the dead bones of
slavery and shaking them in the faces of
men who are fighting for the very existence
of liberty, law and republican institutions in
America. We have voted and fought for
the Democracy of the straighest and srictest
kind, without scratching or marring its
tickets for thirty-two years, and we now
declare to our Democratic brethren of Placer
county that under the circumstances that sur
round the party and threaten the country, we
shall more eagerly gladly and cheerfully vote
for Horace Greeley on next election day than
we have ever cast a vote before in our life.
Show us the Democrat in this county that
he's loved more deeply and lastngly the
principles Of his party, or that has worked
and principles than we have, and we will
yield to him the right to violate and disre-
gard all our counseng and pleading. The
Democracy and Liberal Republicans to-day
stand on the same platform, and here is tho
proof that Greeley is with us in principle. Ii
answer to his nomination he says:
That, subject to our solemn Constitutions
obligation to maintain the equal rights of al
citizens, our policy should aim at local self-gov
ernment, and not at central zaton that the civi
authority should be supreme over the military
that the writ of habeas corpus should be ieaousl.
upheld as the safeguard of personal freedom
that the individual citizen should enjoy th
largest liberty consistent with public order; ant
that there should be no Federal supervision o
the internal pollty of the several States an(
municipalities but that each shall be left free t,
enforce the rights and promote the well-being o
its inhabitants by such means as the judgmen
of its own people shall prescribe.
What Democrat is there who will not say
amen 10 this declaration of principles? Wha
Democrat is there who does not contend fo
this very doctrine? And what man of an,