The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-22


turning their backs on the past of their
history, and yet before taking single
step they about face to utter still anoth-
er wall over the blasted hope of ever re-
turning again to their old haunts Of
stealing, the national Treasury, from frorn
which they Lave been, it is to be hoped
forever driven by the honest pure, and
clean handed Republican party. Yes
neighbor Democrat you have we'll said,
and truthfully too, (for once) "the fact
is this coalition is merely tempory al
lance" to be broken up forevermore on
the 4th of November next.
Republicans and Democrats mix as
easily as oil and water, while the SO call
ed Liberal Republicans and Democrats
easily mix upon the principle "that birds
of feather flock together"
GEN DIx.-It is perhaps we'll known
to at least every Democratic of reason
able intelligence that Maj ..Gen. John
A. Dix has been an active Democrat
through all the years of his life, but be-
cause from personal knowledge Of the
men he did not support McClellen in
1864, or Seymore in 1868, nor Greeley
in 1872. The democrat" is a little
hystericy over his Democracy and says
he belongs to "the Washington Ring"
A very good Ring. How will it com
pare with Tamrnany, We give it at
length, kowing that honest Democrats
like to hear from their old time leaders.
WEsTHAMpToN, July 81, 1872.
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 18th inst.
asking my aid to procure speaker for a
Greeley meeting at Hancock, was sent to me
while was in New England, and L have
been unable until now to acknowledge its
reception.
l do not understand on what ground you
considered your self authorized to address
such a request to me. If you had been
familiar with the course of my public life,
and equally so with Mr. Greeley's, you
could not have supposed me capable of adj
yocating his election to the Office of Presi-
dent of the United States without imputing
to me an utter abandonment of all political
principle.
am opposed to Mr.. Greeley:
l. Because believe him to be as 'unsta-
bic as water" perpctually fioundering Ito
carry out the Scriptural figure) amid the
surges Of opinion. ard deficient in all the
requisites essential to firm, steady, and
consistent administration of the Govern
ment.
=. Because he has usually been found
among the most exreme ultraists on the
great question of political and social duty,
which have been brought. under public dis
cussion during the last quarter of cent
ury.
! 8. Because he has been the advocate land
in this instance persistently,) of the most
unjust and Unequal commercial system,
which is destroying our mercantile and ship
! ping interest and heaping up enormous ac'
cumulations of wealth in the hands of the
protected classes to the oppression and i'm
| poverishment of all others.
4, Because he is associated in relations
more or less intimate, with some of the
|
justly warranting the apprehension that
through his completely or his facie disposi
ton, the same system of fraud and corrup-
ton which has disgraced the Municipal
Government of this City may be carried tc
more infamous extremes in the administra'
ton of the Federal Government; and,
> Because in the darkest hour of the
country's peril, when traitorous combina-
tiOn had been formed to overthrow the Gov
ernment he openly cOunseled the cowardly
! policy of nOn-resistance, and an aCquies
cence in the dissolution Of the Union, when.
ever the cotton States should make up THEN
minds to go.
The coalition, which has been formed tC
promote his election, is one Of the most ex'
raordinary in the history of parties, in re-
spect both to the discOrdant elements il
embraces, and the surrender of principles il
| involves.
The Cincinnati Convention, called to bring
before the people important measures ofre
form, nominated him, greatly to the sur.
prise of the whole country, knowing him
in regard to one of those measures, to b,
an implacable pponent--uominated too
against the wishes and Judgment of tht
chief pro moters of the movement who ac
cepted him, either with an avowod or al
ill-concealed disgust, which would be fa
more creditable to their feelings if the ac
of acceptance were not utterly irreconciia
bic with their principles.
The Democratic Convention at Baltimore
endorsed and commended him to the sup
port of their party-not as the exponent o
any principles they have pl ofessed or an.
measures they have advocated, bnt as
known and bitter opp Onent of boh-th
man who perhaps, of all Others has beel
the most malignant assailant Of the Demo
cracy, impeaching its interrity, traducin
its motives, and vilifying its character
The adoption of such man as their can
didate for the Chief Magistracy o: tn
Union is the most conspicuous abandonment
of political principles known to party con
tests.
1t remains to be seen whether the grea
body of the Democratic voters, and the tru
J friends of Reform, can be made parties I
this unscrupulous coalition between polit
: cal leaders.
) That Gen. Grant has committed mistake
his most sincere friends admit. But if hi
errors had been four-fold more numerous
he would, in my opinion, be a much safe
, Chief Magistrate than Mr.. Greeley. He has
in that capacity, done much for which L
5 deserves the thanks of the country. Aboy
all, he has kept it at peace, notwithstandin
the efforts Of sensation journals and popu
! larity- seeking politicians to provoke hOstil
, ties with Spain on the question of Cub
and with Great Britain on the Alabam
claims and the fisheries
fl If, regardless of these titles to the appro'