Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-06
WORCEs
MONDAY, MAY g, 1879.

.since the 'sHberals" began the ''sinful game"
which has ended in the nomination OF Horace
Greeley for the presidency, they have had
preat deal more TO say ab0ut men than ABOUT
nrinciples They have talked of reform; but
their activity has been chiefly engaged in the
s,rncgle about candidates; and they have
seemed 10 forget everything hut their game of
nominating a candidate TO be elected by the
democrats. The history of the country shows
that il is far more important to decide what par
ty shall be in power at Washington than to de
eide which of half dozen men named
shall be elected president. 1t is certainly
desirable to have the best man; but,
during the long struggle with the
slave power, the malignant forces which
fought so desperately against freedom and jus
tice, lived in the party it had organized; and it
ruled at Washington through the influence of
that party. And, when Andrew johnson formed
a conspiracy to betray the country and give the
''lost cause" triumph, it was the republican
party, through its control of congress, which
bafled him, defeated his Vaccinations, paral
wed his villainous vetoes, and finally sent him
home to Tennessee, impotent and dshonored.
IL - hoA OluiNNAA " uuuCiSlailu WHAT hisaSlCIs
would have befallen the country, if the republi.
can party had not been in power at that time.
The one thing now important to the country,
is the triumph of the republican party, in the
coming presidential election. We shall have TO
elect, not merely a president but congress,
also; that election will determine whether the
democratic party animated by all the sympa-
thies, prejudices, and aims, which make it what
tits aso-caled national party, shall be restored
to power. Not many republicans, anywhere,
will vote for the Cincinnati nominees, and most
of their republican supporters will be confined TO
a few states. Without the aid of the democratic
party, those nominees cannot carry single
state. Greeley and Brown seek, expect, and de-
pend upon the cordial support of the democratic
party. Mr.. Greeley and his "liberals"
seek and expect bargain with that
party, by virtue of which they will do all they
can to restore it to power, provided it will
make him its candidate for the presidency. MFR.
Bowles talks of Frank Blair's "siuful little
game;" but what is Blair's game 10 this IN
speakably, more monstrous and villainouS
game by which Mr.. Greeley hopes to secure
democratic support? This whole "liberal "
movement is regulated by political trickery and
gaming. 1t is movement in which such men
as Fenton and Mr.. Greeleys special followers
are at home and what Mr.. Greeley himself is
can be seen in the intrigue which gave him the
nomination, and in the unprincipled bargain by
which he seeks democratic support.
We seek and desire to have the republican
party in power at Washington; aud, to secure
clio
idency whether he be or be not our first choice.
The republican party is far more important to
the country than the success or failure of any
man who may be proposed for that Office The
time has not come when il will be safe to give
control of the government to the ex-rebels and
their northern sympathizers; and, if Mr.. Gree
ley really were such man as many people have
supposed him to be, if his conduct as a repub-
lcan had been controlled by live earnest, and
conscientious convictions, in word, if he were
really in condition to feel and cherish
such convictions, he could not allow
himself to disregard the condition of the coun-
try, and pursue his unprincipled ambition, by
means of a bargain with the democrats If he
were fit for the presidency, he should not be al
lowed to get the Office in this way, for no man
who seeks it by such means, and with such
scandalous disregard of what the welfare of the
country requires, could fail to dshonor it. If
his morbid and amazing egohsm had not made
him blind, he would see the folly of his ambi-
ton, and, perhaps, do something to preserve
that reputation for political honesty, which he
has secured without deserving 1t.
We see it stated in behalf of Gratz Brown,
that che was an original abolitionist" This is
not true. He was democrat, some of tho time
Benton democrat" up TO the time of the
nomination of Mr.. Buchanan for the presidency.
He went 10 the convention which nominated
Mr.. Buchanan, at the head of contesting dele
cation, and forced his way into it by violence.
His claim to a seat was decided against him;
and, the next year, he began TO act with the re-
publicans and seek such desirable positions as
they were able to give him. He was made
United States senator; but went out of poll
tics" when the close Of his term took him out
OF the senate. Two years ago, he formally de-
serted the republican party, and the democrats
made him governor of Missouri. He has since
been as much democrat as his cousin, Frank
p. Blair, Jr., who arranged the bargain at Gin
clnnau, by which the nomination of Greeley and
Brown was secured. There is not in the coun-
try more selfish, inscriptions, or unprinci-
pied politician than Gratz. In political value,
as well as in acknowledgement habits, he is
very much like Frank P Blair, Jr. IL he had a
little more ability and considerably less eduea-
tiOn, he might ftly be recognized as second
Andrew johnson.
1t is a curious fact that, while murder by
woman is treated with somewhat alarming
leniency by the average American jury, English
juries and magistrates are at least as
lenient in dealing with the murderer of a
woman, if he happens 10 be her husband. The
Rev Mr.. Watson, who beat out his wife's brains
in his own study, for no reason, except that she
annoyed him by her fretlulness and III temper.
got off very lightly, and there was the case the
other day Of London savage, who, having
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