Delaware straight-out truth teller. ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1872-18??, 1872-10-01
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boLTIh8 uhM0CHATIC PRINCTPLEs.
II was the Baltimore Convention
which ''bolted." Il bolted away from
every principle Of Democracy, and
bolied down headlong into the very
cess pool of Radicalism We, who re-
fuse 70 follow il, do not BOLT. We
stand firm where our father stood
pc have always stood, and where we
mean 70 stand as long as life
lasts. Democracy is not shuttle e-cock,
lying backwards and forwards as the
hand of caprice or passion may throw
it. But 1t Is "a fixed and immutable
principle of free government, which
never progresses and never retrogades,
any more than absolute truth and JUS
tice progress or retrogade. Those who
talk about progressive Democracy
have their own ignorance to thank for
the stupidity of their utterance. All
the change is not in Democracy, but in
themselves. The principles of free
government are as fixed as the nature
of man. They are not one thing TO-
day. and something else to morrow
But, like tho attributes of heaven. thew
are without variableness or shadow
OF turning" Progress does not apply
TO absolute truth, any more in the polit-
ical than in the moral world. But, in.
the name of progress, the govern
ment our fathers framed has been over
thrown and destroyed, and the Balti-
more Convention has sought 70 make
the Democmcy accessory after the fact,
10 this stupeRdoug crime. n inh6se not
oVer-scrupulous politicians, who have
been for the last twelve years diifting
about In the log regions between De
mocracy and Radioaiism. hayel finally
cas- 's-r-sr s,lJhor Ia 9hs Silli-nlkeEn uf
the latter, and with loud, imperious,
not to say inapudent demand, call upon
all those men who have never left the
highlands Of Democracy, TO get on
board their hermaphrodite craft. and
set sail through the fog TO the Rsdical
landing they have made ON the other
side, and all the honest men who re-
fused to quit the mountain of Demoe
racy, are denounced as ''b0lters," by
the whole venal and ignorant crew of
politicians who,swarm like flies wherl
ever their imagination snufis the sweets
of plunder. SIS.
THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT DEMANDED
THE NOMINATION OF GREELEY.
The plea which some distinguished
Democrats have made, that the people
have demanded the nomination of Mr..
Greeley and the adoption of his princi-
pies, is the saddest excuse that ever
marred the record of a statesman. If
tho people are so far beside themselves
as to demand that the Democratic party.
throwing aside its own proud record
and glorious principles, shall adopt the
principles and nominees of Radicalism,
IL is the business of the statesman not
TO yield to such an infamous PROPOSE
ton, but to combat and resist il with
all the determination and eloquence he
possesses 10 is q shame to any states
man to suffer his own Judgment to be
broken by popular craze and clamor.
But it is not true that the masses of
the Democratic party demanded tn G
nomination Of Mr.. Greeley and the
adoption of his platform. To more
than seven-tenths of the Democratic
masses it has been a t'bitter pill. -
That is just what they call it, They
take it as some nauseous medicine.
How then, can it be with truth said
that they demanded it? 1t was all the
work of the politicians, who have been
led into these fog regions by having
their eyes too intently fixed upon the
flesh-pOts of the political Egypt. 1t is,
therefore, an unjust scandal upon '.the
people" to say that they demanded this
abomination and seven-tenths of the
Democrats who vote for Mr.. Greeley
will go to the polls with their own
hearts shifting them in the face as they
commit the act of public shame. But,
it is furthermore said that the Southern
people demanded the nomination of
Mi. Greeley as the most sure way of
getting rid ofthe expressions of Grants
administration, Such a demand from
the Southern people was entitled TO no
other consideration than, q firm and
respectful refusal, because it was evi-
IDENTIFY based in despair, passion and
resentment, rather than III reason and
common sense. To seek to get rid of
oppression by placing in supreme pow
or the very author of those expressions,
is an evidence of delusion, if not Of in