Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
How the South Understands
IT

INK aS You please ABOUT There Delng .
no understanding between the late reb-
els and the Democratic party, as to the
demands of the former and accession of
the latter, at Baltimore, in the event of
Horace Greeley's election. Facts every
day go to show, at least, that the South
understands it so, at any-rate. The
Norfolk VirginidR, a paper which car
ries the Greeley ticket at the head of its
columns, not long ago declared that the
South would never be pacified until
the nation fully indemnified her for all
she had suffered and lost. 1t demand
ed
" Ample compensation to the sldre 0,cHer
for the loss of his property by the act
of the emancipation of his negroes, or
its repeal at the option of the master,
and the restoration of the slave to his
former state of bondage, slavery, servi
tude and dependence from which he
was liberated. The Southern States
should also be fully compensated for
the expense they incurred in defending
themselves in an aggressive war of in
vasion on the part of the Free States.
That is to say, the debts of the Confed-
Grafton should be assumed and paid by
the general government by tax levied,
not on consumers by a tariff, but by an
assessment on all the real and personal
property in the United States. This
would be compromise and concession
on the part of the South, and the pres
ent national debt (about two thousand
millions of dOllars) being wiped ont or
repudiated, or put exclusively on the
shoulders of the North, where it should
and will ultimately be made to rest the
new assumed debt of the General Gov
ernment would be less than the war
debt now is,and the tax laid for its pay
ment entirely uniform and just. "Dis-
grlise it rs you will, to this form things
will come out at last"
Is it any wonder Southern rebels
should be so furiously enthusiastic in
their candidates support, or that
thoughtful and sober-minded men ev-
erywhere, without distinction of party,
should instinctively shrink from having
anything to do with a movement which
threatens to bring such unnumbered
misfortunes upon the country?
The Louisville Ledger says: "We can
not defend Mr.. Greeley's past record );
nor can We endorse the platform ON
which he stands-toe spit upon the plat
form. But we shall rOte for Greeley and
Bro,cn. Having accepted the nominal
ton, Mr.. Greeley, though not hitherto
a Democrat, has become the candi-
date of the Democratic party, and il
elected, cannot with0at DOWNRIGHT
TREACHERY fail to conform has ddminis-
tration TO the Democratic party. Mr..
Greeley is the candidate Of the South.
If any one objects to Greeley's abolition
record, point to the Democratic hook in
his nose, and charge upon the enemy"
The Memphis ArdlaRehe continues
thus:
The Democratic party is still in the
field. 1t has seized the banners and
captured the leaders of the Liberal Re
publicans, and putting these in the van
of its army, are preparing for desper-
ate battle. The Actual Issues are those
Of the past ttcelre years, The .fag dis
played and the man az the head are the
only features of the fight that are
changed.
The New York World, which opposed
Greeley's nomination now saws: "The
contest is between Greeley with Dem
ocratic Cabinet, Congress and State
Governments, and Grant with Repub-
lican Cabinet, Congress and State Gov
ernments."
Says Greeley in his letter of accept
ance: "The Democratic party is just
as much Democcdtic as erer, even after
nominating me-" Certainly 1t Is, as
the above selected extracts will show.
Truly Greeley Is honest,