Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-18
The Plain Fact.
From Harper's Weekly.

Greeley party includes a few thought
full men sincerely DESTROYS of reform,
and honestly persuaded that it can come
only by the defeat of Gen. Grant and
the Republican party. They are proud
Cf the history of the party. They do
not willingly mean to imperil a single
result that it has achieved. They ac-
knowledge the great services of Gen.
Grant in the war. They have no faith
in Democrats, and they see in many
ways the curious unfitness of Mr.. Greeley
for the Presidency. But, on the other
hano, they think that Gen. Grant is
badly advised that the Democrats have
assented to the settlement of the war
that Mr. Greeley means we'll that " the
q successful part in Presidential cleo
| ton; and that the only way to dissolve
both parties and form new is to defeat
the Republican. Therefore, not with
cut regred and disgust, they think that
| they must vote against their old friends
and the magnanimous chief of the
armies that crushed the rebellion, and
join hands with Beauregard and Fer
nando Wood to elect Mr.. Greeley.
The Republicans think, then, that
Gen. Grant is badly advised. Do they
think that Mr.. Greeley will surround
himself with wiser counselors? Mr..
Samuel Bowles says that Mr.. Greeley is
the prey of fatterers and sycophants.
| Would he be less so as President? These
Republicans have seen those who are
most conspicuous in Mr.. Greeley's sup
port do their regulations and careers
inspire the hope of higher tone in adj
ministration? These Republicans know
how reluctantly Senator Schurz came
to the support of Mr.. Greeley, and that,
almost without exception, the better
men of the Cincinnati movement de-
plore his nomination. Upon what
reasonable ground do they believe that
Mr.. Greeley will be better advised than
| Gen. Grant?
In the second place, these Republi-
cans think that the Democrats have ac-
| guessed in the result of the war. But
does it therefore follow that it is wise
that party chiefly composed of Demo
Gratis, including the mass of the late
rebels, should obtain possession of the
government? Why do the friends of
Mr.. Greeley claim the united white vote
with part' only of the colored vote
| db WIG SOuOA OCCdIcO IAO COlOICO Cltl-
zens know that the Ku-Klux and the
entire grohating spirit in the country
| desires the election of Mr.. Greeley
against Gen. Grant. Does the victory
of that spirit seem to our friends the
way of peace and justice and equal
rights? If the Democrats have &C
guessed in the great results of the war,
the Republicans believe in them. With
which should they be trusted2
Our friends think also that Mr.. Gree
ley means well. Perhaps he meant
well when he encouraged and justified
secession-when he "nagged' President
Lincoln to buy peace-when he pro-
NOTED foreign intervention-when he
gravely perplexed Mr.. Lincoln by his
Niagara performances-when he COM
planned to Mr. Seward long ago that he
had not been rewarded with an Office
when he half apologized for Sweeny and
Tweed-whenever he has done any
thing which showed his fatal want of
judgment. Had he been President in
stead of Lincoln, he might have meant
well in surrendering to the rebellion.
Do our friends think it enough to mean
well, if you have no judgment
Again, they say that the South will
be sullen until it has taken successful
part in an election: Why? Because it
broods over the old defeat Now if the
Republican policy had been vinaictive
or harsh, we would condemn it with our
friends. But it has not been SO. 1t
gave equal suffrage because it was
proved 10 be necessary for the protection
of equal rights. The Southern friends
of Mr.. Greeley made black codes in
1S65-they would make them now if
they dared. The Republicans gave
equal suffrage they have granted an
absolute amnesty, except in two or three
hundred instances; and they have pro-
tected at the polls, with Mr.. Greeley's
most hearty approval, the colored citi-
zens whom many of Mr.. Greeley's
| Southern supporters would have pre-
vented from voting. For the adventur-
ers who have gone into the Southern
States, and for the misgovernment
there, the Republican party can in no
just sense be held responsible. While
for the illfeeling that still exists the
remedy is not in the success of those
who denounce the Republican rule as
infamous success which would re-
vive every spark of old hostility with an
exulting expectation of revenge. The
logical solution of the Southern situation
is the dissolution of the Democratic
party, the party which is the perpetual
| hope of disatfection in the southern
part of the country, and the consequent
consciousness that the situation is to be
improved, but not radically changed.
And this Democratic dissolution our
friends anticipate from the election of
| Mr.. Greeley as the regularly nominated
Democratic candidate 1t is not by
success, however, that party is usually
dissolved. In 1860 the Democrats nom
mated two candidates-Mr. Breckin.
ridge and Mr.. Douglas-and were de-
feated. In '64 they nominated Gen.
Mcclellan, and in '68 Mr.. Seymour. and
were defeated. In IL they will probably
| nominate Mr.. Greeley. If they are de-
feated again, the party necessarily dis
bands, and new organizations become
possible. If they are successful with
Mr.. Greeley, they will be the same
| party, with the same general sympathies,
principles, and purposes. The fact that
Mr.. Greeley was Republican will no
more prevent the Administration being
Democratic than the fact that Gen.
Grant was not Republican before she
war has affected his Administration.
The mass of voters who elect the Presi.
dent determine the character of the
Administration. If our friends think
III c,,onoSc sc fIo d.