The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-07-19
The Plain Fact.
From Harper,s Weekly.

tain disseminated Republicans, the
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
e the history of the party. They do
not willingly mean TO imperil single
result that il 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
Tor the Presidency. But. on the other
hanG, they think that Gen. Grant is
badly advised that the Democrats have
assented to the settlement of the war !;
that Mr.. Greeley means well that the
South" will be sullen until it has taken
"A successful part in a Presidential cleo
ton and that the only way To dissolve
both parties and form new is to defeat
the Republican. Therefore, not with
out 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 flatterers and sycophants.
Would he be less so &c 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 Republic
cans think that the Democrats have &C.
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
at the South Because the colored citi
zens know that the KuKluX and the
entire negro hating spirit in the country
desires the election of MI. 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.
quiesced in the great results Of the war,
the Republicans believe in them. With
which should they be trusted
Our friends think also that Mr.. Gree
ley means well. Perhaps he meant
we'll when he encouraged and justified
secession-when he nagged' President
Lincoln to buy peace-when he pro-
NOTED foreign Decentralization 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 il tho
Republican policy had been vindictive
or harsh, we would condemn it with our
friends. But it has not been so. 1t
gave equal suffrage because it was
proved TO be necessary for the protection
of equal rights. The Southern friends
of Mr.. Greeley made black codes in
lS65-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 5
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 ill-feeling that still exists the
remedy is not in the success Of those
who denounce the Republican rule as
infamous-a success which would re.
vive every spark OF old hostility with an
exultlng 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 oisafiection in the southern
part of the country, and the consequent
consc BUSINESS 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.. Douglss-and were de.
feated. In GA they nominated Gen.
Mcclellan, and in '6S Mr.. Seymour, and
were defeated. In 10 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 he tho oa,,o