The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21
To C,orrespondents
The Danger of Endorsing Greeley.

All eyes are anxiously turned toward
the meeting of the Baltimore Convention
on the 9th of July, in the expectation off &C
ton having guiding influence upon the flu
ture of the country. 1t seems to be taken
for granted, in view ofthe complexion off ma
jority of tue delegates who have already been
selected by the different States to represcn,
them in that convention, that nomination
of a Democratic candidate will not be made
Let u.s. for the sake of the argument, grant
that this will be so, what is the next best
course to be pursued? So far as we have
been able to gather the sentiments of many
enlightened and intelligent gentlemen in this
community, there seems to be disposition
to adhere to our own Democratic organza-
ton, even though the spokesman and leaders
of our party in the country at large should
deem it inadvisabie to nominate candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency at
this time. In other words that there should
be no abandonment OF principle on the part
Republican candidates Nay, further than
this, that the very crisis of affairs demands,
more than ever before, a re -aifirmance of the
principles held by that party, which are the
true landmarks of political freedom in these
United States. That it should be the care
of this National Convention to make that re-
affirmation in a platform of no doubtful
meaning and if inexpedient to nominate
candidates, not to destroy the party by the
endorsement or nomination of q Republican
candidate, and the acceptance of a Republi.
can platform, construed by the letter of &C.
ceptance of Horace Greeley. If il is the pur-
pose of our people to aid in the election OF
Greeley, in Difference to the wishes of the
down-trodden Southern States, who desire q
change, which is one great argument used in
opposition to the nomination of Democrat
ic candidate at this time, it can be better done
by not endorsing the platform and candidates
of the Cincinnati Convention, than by for
saking principles and going over to the Lib
cral Republicans as q party. The endorse
ment of Greeley and Brown as Democratic
candidates will drive away from their sup
port many Republicans it will not secure
them an additional Democratic vote If the
South wish to vote for Greeley, in the hope
of an alienation from misgovernment and
despotism, they will vote for him upon other
grounds than party dictation. Many DEM
ocrat in the border and Northern States, who
would otherwise render him their support
upon similar grounds, will refuse to be driven
TO it by party endorsement, when they con-
slider such action an abandonment of princi-
pie, and consequently death blow to the
best and only organization that remains for
the preservation of our liberties.
BY the refusal of the Convention to en-.
dorse, or in other words to nominate Greeley
and Brown, there would be less danger of u
disruption in the Democratic ranks and by
preserving intact our local party organza-
TONS the day may not be very far distant
when the Democratic party could present a
candidate of its own, with every assurance
of success
While we hold that love of country
should be superior to love of party, at the
same time We firmly believe that the perpe-
tuity of free institutions rests alone on the
carrying out of Democratic principles. Some
other course may promise the same result,
but it will eventually sap the foundations of
the republic, and no less surely, though more
slowly than the centralizing tendencies of
the Radical party be the death knell of lib.