New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-15
Their Spirit Contracted.

| The Syracuse Standard complains th.t We
| do not consider the tendencies and spirit
| OF the Grant and Greeley parties, respe tive
ly. 1t shall complain no longer. The AMI
mating purpose Of an organization IL true
test of its sincerity; it's real desires, the sure
estimate Of its promises its Interior tendsn-
eies, the absolute criterion of its course.
The Greeley party is almost entirely made
up of those who have trampled upon indi-
vidual liberty; who convulsed the country
with civil strife because of slavery; who
scorned equal rights and denounced the war
for the Union; who submitted abiectly to
England and trampled upon the rights of
Mexico in the interests of slavery aggran-
dizement; who opposed every exercise of
Federal power in the direction of liberty and
used it ferociously in the Interests of oppres-
sion, and who have trampled remOrselossly
upon humanity, honor, and honesty.
We call the Standard itself to witness the
truth Of this summary of the history and do
inSs of the Democratic party; and what has
the Standard to offset to this? Why, that
the Democracy have repented, and promised
to do so no more. Well, suppose they have ?
Why enter into fellowship with and cortide
in party whose whole record is one con-
tinued series Of promises made to obtain
power, and then broken to obtain spOils i?
power to them, simply because they confess
their wrong? 1t is the first time that we
have known confession of incapacity to rule,
to be used as an argument for clothing with
power.
Two things the Standard must do before it
can break the force of our position: 1t must
show that in representing the spirit of De-
mocracy from the day of Polk until the present
to have been uniformly hostile to liberty, we
have done it injustice or it must show that
it has advanced so rapidly in its newborn
zeal for liberty and equal rights, as to sur
pass in devotion the party which has never
faltered, though the storm-clouds lowered
never SO thrsateninglyi That it cannot do
this we prove by showing that Democracy
enters into this canvass, with the same spirit
unaltered, declaring that there shall be no
Federal interference with the manner in
which it sees fit to protect the liberties of
citizens, not even from the judiciary of the
United State; and that if the "niggers" do
not vote as they wish, they shall not have
the protection which is their duel We claim
that Democracy will control Congress and
the Government if Greeley is elected. and
that the Democratic administration will be
the same in spirit, tendency and purpose as
that which made Polk hagrantly outrage
Mexico while basely submitting to Great
Britain. as that which made Fillmore give
Federal sanction to hunting the slaves who
claimed the right to be free, as that which
made Pierce give to slavery ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
the whole power of the Federal army and
palsied Buchanan when slavery consumma-
ted the crimes by striking at the nations
life; the same as that which under McClella
declared the war failure, under johnson
sought to crush the blacks and rule the ma
ton it had but recently conspired to ruin,
and under Seymour endeavored by terrorism
and intimidation to subvert the declared will
of the people with regard to liberty and equal
rights. The purpose Of this party is I'M
changed and Interchangeable; it is to concede
nothing, except that which il is compelled to
yield, and persistently to seek old paths as
speedily as possible.
The spirit Of Grantism" is the reverse of
thiS.--RocbeSter Democrat.