Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-25
LET Us REASON TOGETHER.


= We have no quarrel with any man, who
mas honest scruples and prejudices which
render him unwilling to vote for Greeley
and Brown. We can sympathise with the
feelings of such man; but we would like
to appeal to his reason and Judgment
Why is any one a party mana Is it for
mere political excitement9 Or is it be-
cause his party organization is the repre-
sentative of certain political principles
and policy in administering the Govern
ment? If the latter, as every reasonable
man would claim, which should we most
regard-the men, who for the time being
comprise the organization; or the princi-
pies and policy, which the men represent
and advocate? What if Grant was a Dem
ocrat- before the war? Can any Democrat
now vote for him, representing, as he does,
the party of Capitalization, as against local
self-government; of military supremacy,
over the civil power; of the oppression
and Acknowledgement of the whites of the
South, for and by corrupt Northern adven-
turers, base Scalawags, and the very worst
and most ignorant of their late African
slaves; and of corrupt "rings," and over
grown capitalists, as against the masses
who comprise the laborers, the mechanics,
the business men and the honest woman
81 of the country. What if Horace Greeley
was an Emancipationist during the war
He was an honest Wing as long as that
party lasted, and never member of the
Abolition party proper, and now repre-
sents the political organization which is
for "peace" and amnesty, for the restora-
tion of the Union as it was, and for the
protection and preservation of the indus
trial classes and interests of the country.
IF there are any of our friends in this
county who still hesitate and foster their
prejudices, we urge them by every consid-
Grafton that can be addressed to them as
reasoning men, as patriots, as good citi-
zens of this county, and as friends of the
South, to hesitate no longer; but to give
all the moral and political influence they
can to our cause, by openly proclaiming
their determination to act with those who
advocate the same principles they profess.
We say, as reasoning men, for any other
course will be irrational and inconsistent.
We repeat, as patriots, because we believe
our country will be endangered by Grants
reelection, and her institutions subverted
in spirit, if not in name. We appeal to
them as good citizens of this county, be-
cause, if they are true sons of Charles, they
will help to retain its custody in the hands
of its own people; and not assist in hand
ing it over to few INSCRIPTIONS office
seekers, and, it may be, carpet-bag adven-
turers, who seek to use the deluded blacks
as their stepping stones and cats-paws.-
And we urge them as friends of the unhap-
Ply South-as men opposed to the late un-
holy war, when to be opposed to it was
deemed treason, and was source of per-
sonal danger-not now, in the hour of
their hope, when deliverance from their
oppressors only needs the united action of
friends North and West, to turn upon
the ticket which they nominated, from
mere personal scruples and prejudices, or
mistaken party consistency.