Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-07-11

DC the Dog OF War YOU may perhaps do
best by throwing him piece Of meat or
breat. instead Of trying to win the Master
Black Republican who set him on. Ii
the Conservatives may say they vote for
Greeley to beat Grant, you may as we'll
say you vote for Grant to beat Greeley.
say that both Of you beat yourselves, for
to make Grant beat Greeley Or Greeley
Grant is to endorse the worst that has.
been done BY either or both. and to con
sent to yotr own dshonor ahd to give
your saaction to ahe wrongs done by both.
These Lesser Evil. partisans are not
only clamorous for their candidate, tbss
recommended as only lesser Evil IN
are lessly bullying in their tones.
If. sir. you are not for Greeley then
you are for Grant, or if not for Grant
you are for Greeley They don't pray
for any liberation for themselves, but dare
to do all untruthfulncss and unchari.
tableness towards such as L am, against
both, by trying forcibly to put me in their
own category of going for one or the
other: My reply is that l prefer that
either shall be elected. without my vote
rather than that the other shall BIZ elected
by; my vote. 1t is utterly hypocritical to
pretend that any one is obliged or com,
PEELED to vote for either and it is equally
false that he who does not vote for the
one, thereby votes for the other. He
votes for neither and condemns both.
They also urge that their object is to
divide and conquer the Black Republicans
By first endorsing al. their doctrines and
then by exal.ing one or the other of their
worst representa- tives to the Presidency.
Each partisan will praise his preference
until he at last brings himself to believe
that Lesser Evip is Chief Good!
Already we sec the !" wonder grow
that it was never found out how good OF
how great Greeley or a Graut was be-
fore. It is with the G's what it would
in like manner be with the S.SiS s 3
if two of them wero the nominaacd' com
petitors for the sweet voices of partisans'
Aye, it is even so now with ono Of the
most intolerable of the four S. S. s. SIS.
Mr.. Sumner. 1t would have been the
same with the S. as with the G. if he had
been nominated.
He and Mr. G. are cooperating at the
same Social Rights Bill now before
Congress. Mr.. Greeley expressly informs
US that all acquired rights must be re-
cognizeds Political equality is not
enough, social as we'll as political alone
will appease the cor,norant appetite Of
fanaticism for equality of all sorts. If
Sumner goes for Greeley, no wonder that
some Confederates will 60 for Grant -
But in grabbing at the shadow they are
losing the substance in thus acting to
divide the Republican party. tbey are
first dividing the Democratic and Con-
sentative parties; aud by going SO intemp-
erately strong for the South to unite on
Greeley, they are just concentrating the
North upon Grant. STOPPING yery how,
they are, but not to conquer.
At all events, if the convention at
Baltimore nominates Greeley, it will be
the knellof the Democratic party's doom.
1t may not kill, bus witty the party u
so-called' Conservatives, formed and
controlled especially by Old Federalists.
and Old Line Wings, land Know Nothings
who hate Democracy worse than they do
Black Republicanism, and who were,
from the first, as foIesaw and foretold,
leading in Virginia, to the end of unit
iGG slgs 9Th ol Rf6E g RRssPpbhcaus or hesser
Democracy. They have a purpose and a
policy in greeting Greeley: to crush
Democracy forever, utterly reckless of the
hsuor and name Confcderates. We have
$500 a divided conference at New
YofU Protection and Free Trade came
into conflict, but Democracy was thrown
out entirely The editor Of tie Louis
vile Courier-J Journal, Mr.. Wattcrson,
was asked by somebody what be proposed
to do with the Democratic party F? And
he answered :; Why, sir. the Democratic
party in the South has been disorganized
ever since 1860. 1t gave up politics
altogether then, and went into war Yes,
Democracy. faith, creed. truth, principle,
honor, self-respect, pride. patriotism
Constitution, Con fedcracy, the war and
its men. are to be politically ignored for
|. Conseryatism-the Mulatto Republican
party Did not see one of Che Com
m ittee of Nine and Confederate General
thero2
These pure and pious partizans,
though. turn up their eyes to Heaven
and put up their hands exclaiming, "Ab
but Grant is so corrupt and his myrmi-
dons SO foul, we can't be worstcdr' I
answer, I don't believe half what Sum
ner says Of Grant or his Personal
Government. l would trust Gen. Grant
before would the witness who, if he
tells the truth. betrays The dying conf
dence of his dead Cabinet minister.
But. admitting Grant to be what Sum
uer says Stan ton said of him, is Greeley
any filter to govern this nation? He
would, if elected, be the Mask of Menus
on the corpse of the constitution And
as to the Myrmidons, Grants swarm is
full, and Greeley's is hungry very hun
cry, and it may take al. the blood left in
oar veins to satiato them!- I know the
worst of Grant. Greeley is untried, and
I choose to bear She ills I suffer rather
thap fly to those know not Of. And
if Grant be elected by our absence from
the polls, he may be- Modified BY our
forbearance, now that he is clear of the
s. S. S. SIS, and Greeley will be mainly
guided by ono of the worst Of them.
But what if Greeley be elected? and
what If be is not?
II he be elected, every Confederate.
who goes for him will. like Falstaf,
know the Prince by "iustict," and what
scene of hum iliation will we Southern