The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-07-10
The TWO Great Parties.

There are but two parties in the
United States, and there never can
be but two, really founded on prin-
ciple-the one the Federal party
the other the Democratic party.
The Federal party has never
ceased to exist, and will never
cease to exist, though it often
takes new names. 1t is q party,
here, as in France, and as all over
Europe and Asia, that believes in
consolidation and Capitalization,
with all their attendant conse-
quences. The Constitution Of the
United States it deems to be as
supreme and absolute as Caesar
ianism or Despotism is, over Eu-
rope, Asia, and Africa. The rights
of individuals are nothing in its
estimation, (witness its suspen-
sion of the habeas corpus in times
Of peace,) and towns, counties,
States have not any rights that
the Federal Govern ment is bound
to respect. The real, live, mod
ern, Grant Federalist believes that
Uncle Sam can lay sewers, if he
please, in Duluth, or run street cars
in our Hub of the Universe, if he
chooses
The Democratic party, also, al
ways exists and always will ex-
list, indestructible, i'm m ort al
1t may be crushed out; it
often is-but it is indestructible
as life, or as nature for it exists
in the very soul Of nature and
man. 1t is q party not without
errors of course at times, but IN
the main it struggles for the good
Of the people, the whole people,
and is ever in opposition to all
hereditary and special privileges.
Monopoly and Democracy are ever
in antagonism. Monarchy and
aristocracy are hereditary enemies
of Democracy. It ever has been
SO, from the very birth Of man,
and ever will be.
Now, we have before US two re-
preventative men of these antag-
onist principles, one Of whom is to
be President of the United States.
Grant, as a soldier, fond OF fight,
fonder Of fun and frolic, trained
by his very West Point education
to be the instrument of centraliza-
tion, aud consolidation, and mon
opoly, and monarchism-that !s,
the government Of one man. And
Greeley, whose errors, if any, have
been too much Democracy, and
whose great faults in life, have
been hurring the world on too
fast to Democracy, before that
world was really prepared for it.
Hence his anti-slavery propagan-
dism, before it was time, when the
world was abolishing slavery, as
fast as it could be, without civil
war. Hence his other aspirations
for liberty and equality, q little
faster than the world is ready for
them. But hence, too, his sound
notions of mans rights, and gene
raj rights of man, and Of the insti.
tutions created by men to co-ope.
rate with, as we'll as to counter.
poise the dangerous Federal pro,
clivities of the Federal Govern
ment. Hence, all along, his natu'
raj opposition TO Grants mon
archism, his military rights, and
all the corruptions flowing there.
from, and his prayers for peace
and amnesty to the South, in lier
of punishment, which monarchisn
demanded. Hence his natura
quarrel with, aad separation IRON
the Monarch, whose government
has degraded and corrupted thF
while South, and converted whole
States into bankrupt corporation
of the Federal Washington Gov
ernment, and has overrun then
by miserable carpet-baggers, usins
ignorant negroes: as horses, o
asses, only to boot and spur an
to ride themselves into wealth an
Office on their backs.
[Nsao York Erpress.