The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-13
DIR. LIEBER ON THE PREsI.
DENCY.

DIR. LIEBER ON THE PREsI.
DENCY.
A Germans Opinion of Creole ism.
DR., Francis Liebet. the eminent German
leader and lschOlaS, wrote 10 b friend ia
Washington, a few days ago, his views or
the present national canvass. The letter
was SO complete an argument in short
space that the gentleman to whom 1t was
addressed obtained permission to print It,
DEAR sTR-I have always taught It as
a maxim Of fundamental importance that
he who has right to vote is In duty
bound TO vote. Stumbling the poll Is IN.
dutiipl. Voting for an impossible candl.
date Is equivalent TO not doing our duty,
especially in q country the policy OF
which is primarily founded upon general
suffrage. We come down them 10 this
we unjust vote, and can vote only either
for Grant or for Mr., Greeley. We cannot
vote for a man In the moon, nor ought
we abstain from the ballot box. 30.
lon made law that In civil commo.
tons every Athenian should take one side
or the other. Certain II Is that In peace.
full times, II mere absence of civil war be
called peaceful times, the principle Of
Solop's law btlght ito b9 universally &C.
cepted and acted upon. Even Tie DON'T
nation Of Mr.. Greeley, and especially the
peculiar method Of the nomination at
Cincinnati, seems to me q deplorGble fact
Ia the annals Of our country, and the Bal.
tlmOre ratification is like concubinage
between Republicanism and Democracy,
taking these words, of course, IN their
party meanings. Mark this: The De-
moctacy do not surTenderto the Republic
cans; on the contrary, Mr.. Greeley and
his followers surrender to the Democracy.
Elections, like battles, can rarely be
spoken Of with certainty before they are
fought. But this l know, should Mr..
Greeley be elected PresidentDfthe United
States, we,sHalI have ID mm 9
...- FAR WORSE PRESIDENT
than we had in Mr.. Buchanan. Is It not
openly ayowed by secessionists, who de.
clare themselves Greeley men, that the
"lost cause" will then stand once more q
fair chance? That pitifuI State rights
docuine-none can know It better to It's
inmOst fibre than myseli-will visit US
again. 1t destroyed the noble Common.
wealth of the Netherland; 1t brought our
Republic to the brink Of ruin, and 1t
would unavoidably bring upon hs under
that President, disloyal disorder and
probably sanguiuary confusion. AS to
financial ruin, that could not be avoided.
Nothing will be too extravagant TO ap.
prehend from a combination such as
must take place under 80 weak q IA yet
so reckless man. Reputation, pension.
ing the rebel soldiers, assuming the South.
ern debt. Why not? The Qualification
OF the Kentucky resolutions, though, if l
recollect right, Mr. Greeley calls them in
one OF his works ....aAs s.
oil A RANK TREASON, rs.3A o. r
and renewed civil bloodshed stare us in
the lace. Nowhere are amiable tictions
more out of place, than in craftsmanship,
and friend oil mine whose name Is
widely known in both hemispheres, would
be obliged, should this country really be
visited with that election, not indeed. 10
shake those hands which fOully brought
him to the verge Of death; lionathey are
bones in the grave, but to hands
withthose who warmly applaud, the cow
ardly and savage act They charge
Grant with centralism. DO they again
confound natlonalism with cenlralism?
Have they not yet learned from history
and our own times that the Democracy Is
clways inclined towards dissolution and
dcspotism? LAD. t,...
u ALL STATE RIGHTS MEH, H..
even MIR. Calhoun-he was personally my
iriend-were severe ! centrSlhls within
their States. Their ideS Of proper gov.
eminent in the United States WIS only.
the utmost possible Salel opposition to
the National Government, just as It had
occurred in the Netherlands. SIN you
may possibly object 70 this the question
whether the Democrats have NOT led this
country to n glorious development 3 I
totally deny 1t. The country has grown
great despite OF that which Is charRe tariAg
tically Democratic-electiVe judiciary, dis:
regarding the Supreme Court, distribution
Of national funds, reputation, State rights
doctrine, idolatry oil slavery, and "a civil
war, which fairly began to resemble the
German thirty yearsiyeF, With reference
to the DemocrtIts; and the success, of this
country, We have the same old and ever.
repeated error in logic-because things
exist together, therefore they stand as
cause and effect to each other. Storks
love the frogs Of the Netherlands, and on
every farmers house Is stork's nest.
The. Netherlands was a republic; there
fore it used to be said, "Storks likes re;
pu6llcs.n q! sfgs 81
Weare told things ought to be forgot
ten. What have the Republicans doneP
Has one traitor been tried? Has ever q
people shown such absence Of vengeance
as the Union people OF the United States
have done? If, US pray God 10 avert,
the Democrats come in again under
Greeley, it requires no prophet to foretell
that we shall see a very different spirit on
the part OF the victorious Democrats. l
shall vote for Grant.
Your obedient servant,