New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-02
TAKTNa sTooK oP ouR sTRENaTH.

President after the fourth day Of March
next The candidate Of the Labor Re
formers has withdrawn in favor Of Mr.
Greeley The candidate Of the Free Trade
League has signifed his intention to dc
the same thing. The Democrats will
nominate Mr.. Greeley on the first ballot
at Baltimore by two-thirds vote. This
clears the field Of all the nominees but
Greeley and Grant, and between these
two men the struggle viii have to be
made.
Let us take an account Of stock. Mr..
Greeley viii be supported by large body
Of Independent voters who prefer civilian
to a soldier at the head Of the nation. He
will be supported by an influential body
| Of Republicans, for he obtained his nomi-
nation at their hands. He will poll a
strong vote among the laboring and me-
chanical classes, irrespective Of politics,
forh he is a laborer and mechanic himself
and has always been the trusted friend of
those classes. He will be supported by
the Democrats in body. We may safely
calculate that thousands Of Republicans in
the North, who have followed his advice
for years, viii now follow his standard as
candidate, satisfied that the man who
has instructed them 50 faithfully in their
duties will faithfully discharge his own in
any position to which he may be called,
The moneyed men can not doubt his will
ingness to be just to their interests, since
he has never advocated or countenanced
an act that was not strictly honorable
The tariff men can trust him for he has
never disavowed that he was in favor Of
tariff. The free traders have already ac-
cepted of him because he has assured
them that he would respect the will of the
majority. The colored people can vote
for him because he was their friend long
ago as he is to-day. The patriots of the
land can sustain him for he has always
been patriot. The old can vote for him
because he is one Of their number. The
young can rally to his standard because
his example is a shining light to their feet,
and his counsel to them has been full Of
tenderness and sympathy. This about
takes in all the American people, we be-
heve, except
Grants followers abound in federal
Offices. From Maine to Texas, from
Florida to Alaska, wherever the flag
covers an employee Of the general govern
ment, there the supporter of the Phila-
delphia nominee has a partisan. He has
supervised this matter himself, and can
count upon the payrolls Of the Treasury
at Washington the names, ages, color and
salaries of his friends. Besides these,
there is a large number Of party men who
call themselves Republicans, and who
follow after conventions, that viii sup
port the nominee Of the Philadelphia
convention, without regard to fitness, or
a prospect of success. Most Of the ne
groes of the South viii vote for Grant,
because they learned his name in connec-
ton with the great war Of the rebellion.
This is all his strength. It is not for
To one oHce-holder in his
favor, there are ten who want to be
against him. Even in
his own party this is matter
of weakness, for since all his posi-
tions are already filled, the great army
cf expectants can have nothing to look
for. The Republicans who rally under
his banner are discouraged because they |
have seen things done under his govern
ment that Jared against all their repub-
ican notions. They have seen the old |
leaders Of the party drop away and de-
lounce him as unfaithful and unworthy. |
This has shaken Grant in the home of /
lis friends. And as the canvass grows up |
IN the people, and Sumner, and Schurz,
md Trumbull and Palmer, and Defrees
AXE broader ground in favor Of Greeley,
he Republican, against Grant, the nepot
nd military chieftain, there viii be
reater breaking up Of the foundations
han has ever occurred before in our his
DRY. The opposition to Greeley is
tronger to-day than it will ever be again
p,he importance of the election, and the
eyidbat all reasonable men confess, are
other Cd by the withdrawal of all the
If there w1ates in favor Of Mr.. Greeley.
routine Of alone other than the usual
ton to be decid5inary Presidential cleo
see two or three inNovember, we should
in the field, as there 9pdent candidates
general election for yea5een at every
like Judge Davis and Mr.. Gro Gentlemen
submit to go through the canGak mlght
the purpose Of deciding upon a meP Ior
Of labor or free trade, without endangge
ing the general outline of American pohl
tics, Such things have occurred in ordi-
nary times, and will occur again when
there is no great peril menacing the State;
but they can not consent at this time to
play with votes when votes are precious to
the salvation of the nation. Messrs.
Davis and Groesbeck, Messrs Hendricks
| ID Pendleton, all subside as candidates
y yesence Of the necessity for union
stot personal government. The United
ca1s eds all her friends to-day She
= sna wits every man to take direct is
80; It. And the Providence that
t. h. inol;nsg rs so long and so signally
e to 4 reconc;ss .eople and their leaders