The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-09-27


give some extracts which are 10 the
point. Those GreeleYites who are
claiming to be tias good Republicans
as ever" will please read them.
The first extract is from the Ric
mond Enquirer, leading Greeley ;
organ:
1T is too late now, however, to
recede. The issue is made and it is
Greeley or nothing We must con-
centrate the entire Democratic vote
upon him, and elect him. We can
do it, and achieve a Democratic fic-
tory. 1t is useless to count upon
any help from the Republicans. All
that we can get from that party will |
not count as drop in the great sea.
Our only hope is in a united Dem
ocracy, aud we must unite that great
party. Their three millions of votes,
properly distributed, will elect the
next President, and elected by their
votes, Greeley will be a Democratic
President, bound in honor and by
gratitude TO carry out the policy of
the Democratic party. We have |
also a Congress to secure, and this |
we can secure. The entire delega- |
ton from the South can be Demo
cratic and Conservative, and thr6 |
that branch of the Government we !
must look TO the restoration of the |
South to all her rights in the Union. |
The revolution we begin now car |
not be accomplished without time.
We have a Senate to change as well
a. Congress aud President, and a
IN nnrffu Ill nf
which will require time and patient
| toll. Ii we gain twenty Congress
men this fall to add to the devoted
Democrats now in the House it will
be a grander victory than the cleo
ton of Mr. Greeley as President"
1t will be seen very clearly by the
above what the intentions of the
Southern portion of the "hand-
shakers" are. Here is another ac-
ceptance of the situation from the
Mobile Register:
''The Register does not accept the
endorsement of the Cincinnati plat
form, for the reason that, while 1t is
full of sound political doctrines, all
of them taken from the lifelong
and traditional creed of the Dem
ocracy, there are other principles
enunciated which we cannot con-
scientiousIy subscribe to, even at
the bidding of a Democratic con-
vention. We hope, ii the Democ-
racy has surrendered to Greeley and
Brown at Baltimore, that 1T has
done so upon terms distinctive OF
the true causes and features of the
surrender-that in the meanwhile
the Democracy will not accept with
the candidates of Cincinnati the
platform of Cincinnati, but will
make one of their own, out of their
timber, and will publish to the
world that, while they will join the
Liberal Republicans to beat a COM
mon enemy, they abate not one of
their traditional doctrines, and mean
not one thought of disbanding their
forces or abandoning their organic
alton"
In commenting upon the views
of the Register, the Chronicle and
Sentinel of Augusta, Georgia, says !:
awe trust that our anti-Greeley
friends will read carefully the arti-
Gle Just published in another col
umn, from the pen of John Forsyth,
of the Mobile Register. Mr.. For
syth, like Mr.. Thurman, Mr.. Bay
ard, Mi. Stockton and other leading
Democrats, opposed the nomina-
ton of Greeley, and lent their
whole energies to prevent it; but
now the party have acted, they have
determined to abide that action.
Like Mr.. Forsyth, we do not accept
the whole of the Cincinnati plat
form, and more especially we do not
subscribe to the declaration made in
the second resolution (relating to
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments) of that platform vet we
shall. as the nominee of the party,
give Mr.. Greeley our earnest sup
!, port"
From the same paper DULY 2ls)
we have a speech delivered in Au-
gusta, by General A. r. Wright,
one of the delegates to the Balti-
moro convention. How truly he
has accepted the situation and buri-
ed the past may be CLEANED from
the following extract from his
speech, which the Sentinel tells US
was received with "wild applause -
''As to the platform, the Georgia
delegation tried hard, through their
representative on the committee, TO
. get less Objectionable one, partic-
uIarly as to the second resolution,
relative to the amendments. On
that committee, however, only six
out of thirty EIGHT members were
found opposed to the platform.
The sentiment in its favor was over
whelming. There was an unbroken
South against US, and Senator
Stockton declared q great truth q
few days ago, in North Carolina,
when he said the South nominated
Greeley. The Georgia delegation
had been willing to say nothing
, concerning the fourteenth and fif-
teenJh amendments, but desired, If
, anything was said to declare the
truth. This plank in the platform
involved principle which did not
favor, was not bound by, and would
not be bound by. Another objec-
tionable resolution with a few was
that declaring a grateful remem-
brance of the herOi-m and sacrifices
of the soldiers and sailors of the
United States. That is all in my
: eye. 1t involved a mere sentiment
| If the Northern Democracy desired
. to use it they might do SO and
shall say nothing. Beside, it was
, identical with resolution in the
Democratic platform of 1868. A
: few say they can't stand that. / can
: stand it, and am going to stand it
: As to the fourteenth and fifteenth
r amendments, they are not in the
issue of the present campaign
When they come up as an issue
will be ready to take my position
on them"
From these extracts it will be
plainly seen that the Democracy OF
the South has not accepted the meas
ures of the Republican party, and
!, that it regards the election of Mr.
Greeley as the best possible means
Of securing what it has lost-the
control of the Government. Who
will be cheated, the ones who be-
lieve Mr.. Greeley an honest Repub-
lican, or the ones who claim him as
a Democrat, "bound in honor and
gratitude to carry out the policy OF
: the Democratic party?"
Let US hope that neither his south
: ern friends or his Northern admir-
ers will ever know who were most
likely to be cheated. There are no
doubts about the position of Cen
eral Grant; there are grave doubts
about the position of Mr.. Greeley.
The friends of the former cannot be
cheated, for they know their candi-