Delaware straight-out truth teller. ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1872-18??, 1872-10-01


But while he tells us Democrats that
he does not feel himself in the least in
debted to us for his nomination, he
rejoioes that we have given up Demo
cracy as dead and gone. Henceforth,
he says, the Democratic party must
stand even with the doctrines he has
always maintained. His language is
Gentlemen, your platform, which is
0lscmine, assures me that Democracy
5fnot henceforth to stand for one thing
IN dRepublicanism for another"
That is MIR. Greeley's understanding
1.-THE present situation, iz:-that heis
mo less thoroughly and earnestly a
Republican than he ever was, 2 and that
the Democratic party has come to him,
and so thoroughly embraced his princi-
pies that henceforth there can be no diff.
ference between the fiery Radicalism of
Horace Greeley and the Democratic
party. And If the Baltimore Conven-
ton were the Democratic party, he is
clearly right in such a startling conclu-
sion.s That Convention unconditional
ly renounced Democracy, and without
an expressed or implied reservation EN-.
braced Greeleyism. Every Democratic
vote for Greeley Is, therefore, a vote to
surrender Democracy, and TO affirm the
justice OF the Enforcement Act, the Ku-
klux bill, the Bayonet Election Law,
and all the rest of those horrid measures
which are largely the work of Greeley,
and from which he does not reoede one
step. But for Greeley, Sumner, Trnm.
bull, and the other leaders Of the sore
head :" Liberal Republican -" faction,
which the Baltimore Convention Joined
such acts would never have been pass
ed. a decree OF heaven banishing
Greeley, Sumner, and the whole sore
head faction from the earth, would give
almost Instant peace and rest to our
country. But instead of praying for
Such merciful measure of relief, there
are some deluded Democrats who pro-
pose to put these old disturbers of the
public peace into all the chief seats of
power: The proposition Is monstrous,
and all who vote for II may expect to
use the residue of their life as a space
fbr repentance.
~ ANYTHING TO BEAT GREELEY.
The cry of tanythipg to beat Grant,
Is not, therefore, based in intelligence,
from any Democratic standpoint; but
that other demand of ANYTHING 10
PREVENT GREELEY FROM BEATING
AND DESTROYING THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY, is now the watchword OF every
Democrat. With all that Grant has the
disposition or the power TO do, his cleo
ton would be less calamity to the
Democratic party and to the whole
country than the election of Greeley,
for that would go a great ways towards
the confirmation of the base surrender
of Democratic principles, and would
seem TO leave no party In this country
devoted TO the Jeffersonian doctrine of
free government. The, Baltimore Con
vention, in nominating Greeley and ac
cepting his platform, has Endorsed the
enforcement Act, the Ku-Klux Law,
the Bayonet Election Law ana all the
rest Of those terrible measures which no
Democrat believes in, and which no
democrat can accept without dishonor,
or without voting for the absolute de-
structicn of the Democratic party by
merging IL in the very worst slough Of
Radicalism, One or the most distin-
guished and honored Democrats in the
United States has said that the ''duty to
oppose Mr.. Greeley actively is neverthe-
less imperative, for without such oppa-
sition, 1t will seem to an observant
world that political principles, left des-
titute of either champions or followers,
have persisted from the land"'
EVERY DEMOCRATIC VOTE
CAST FOR GREELEY is A VOTE
TO WIPE OUT THE IMPRESS OF
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES FROM
AMERICAN POLITICS, AND TO
CONFIRM EVERY ONE OF, THOSE
DANGEROUS AND FATAL DOC
TRINES WHICH fHE DEMOCRAT
IC PARTY HAS STEADILY OP
POSED FOR MORE THAN TWO.
THIRDS OF A CENTURY.
To say that the Baltimore Conven-
ton committed this act of .fel0-de SO, AS
q juggling trick, meant only to cheat
the public, and to commit fraud upon
those whose principles they protested
to adopt, is too monstrous proposition
to be approved by anybody but scoun-
drel. II the Baltimore Convention was
not honest in taking Greeley and his
platform, 1t deserves the execration of
every honorable man, and if it was
honest, 1t deserves the hatred and the
opposition of every true Democrat.
A DEMOCRATIC VOTE FOR GREELEY is
VOTE FOR GRANT.
But it is said that, by opposing Gree
leg, we shall elect Grant. Well, suf-
ficient answer 10 this would be that, by
opposing Grant they elect Greeley, for
every Democrat has right 10 choose