Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-12
DEMOCRATS AGAINST GREELEI.

| The wide disaiIection in the democratic par
ty at the nomination of Horace Greeley ~
| the democratic candidate il expressed in the
following copy Of = circular which was dis.
| tributed in the Baltimore Convention:
To the true Democrats Of the Baltimore
Conv ention:
GENTIEMrN--the efforts OF the disatiecie ed
and disappointed elements of the republican
party to force upon US the Cincinnati canJi-
dates and platform should not meet our APP
proval without careful scrutiny Of the past
and look at the future.
For thirty-five years Mr.. Greeley has been
the bitterest and most unco mpromising enemy
and opponent of the democratic party, and
through the power of the Tribune, which has
struck blow after blow against our principles
and every cherished institution of the South,
has assisted more than any other sgen-
cy to bring about the defeats of our party for
the last twelve years. The English language
possesses no vile epithet, no scurrilous name,
that Mr.. Greeley has not applied to us and
our former leaders; nor has common decency
controlled his pen when writing of the high
born and yirtuous women of the South, our
own mothers, daughters, sisters and wives.
The face of any Southern delegate who could
honor Mr.. Greeley with his vote should tin
gle with shame when he returns to his family
and informs them that he has nominated their
traducer and villiier for tho highest office
within the gift Of the people W ith mpunity
has he assailed us in our most vulnerable
parts, has perverted our best motives and in
tentions, has paraded them before the public,
attributing dishonorable intentions to the
purest motives of our wisest and most patri-
otto leaders.
Five years ago he commenced his shrewd,
foxy and crafty candidacy by species of un-
mitigated demagoguery in journeying to Rich
mohd and offering himself on the bail bond
Of Jefferson Davis. This act is in lively con-
trast with the expression of his own pen, as
appeared in the Tribune on the 26th of No
vember, 1860, which read as follows, viz:
''When the rebellious traitors are over
whelmed in the field and scattered like leaves
before an angry wind it must not be to return
to peaceful and contented homes. They must
find poverty at their tiresides and see priva-
ton in the anxious eyes of mcthers and the
rags of children"
He might have added that all the MAIN
ed heroes, though conquered, must look
from their remaining leg or arm upon the sad
picture of their family firesides made desolate
more by Horace Greeley than any other one
man in the whole country; and now he comes
among US, who has spent all the energies Of
his whole life against US, in the language of
the New York World of the 9Th Of last month.
''and asks that we adopt him as COR party
chief His nomination would be complete
Abandonment of principle, surrender of par
ty organization which could never be resusci-
tated.' What have the democratic party TO
hope for in the event of Greeley's nomina-
ton and election? If il is thought by any that
the patronage of such an administration
would be divided with the democratic party
let them be undeceived. His first duty would
be to call around him in a Cabinet those who
first gave him prominence at Cincinnati and
none would be appointed to office who had
not in past years been in sympathy with the
tones and sentiments of the Tribune. More.
over the great Tribune has existed, has -four
ished in the North and West by the influence
of the republican party. Is it natural TO sun
| pose that an establishment in which there is
half million invested, whose owner has had
a life long pride in its very life, existence and
I prosperity would forsake the creed of so lonr
time and be permitted to die for want Of
patronage. which it would lose, if Greeley
should select office holders from the demo-
cratic party? What John Tyler was to the
whie party, so would Greeley be to the dem
ocratic party. As Andrew Johnson served
the republican party, so would Greeley serve
the democratic party, should he be elected
II IL claimed that Greeley can carry New