The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-22

OF its fixed purpose. ,
The Democrats will now apply them.
selves arduously to the task made more
dl11cult than it need to have been
Ihey are to hold the advanced position
already gained, and push on in an ar.
gressiVe temper to the discontinue q,
The power that has converted the Gov.
eminent into entertainments The
orunt OF this fierce battle is to fall unon
'hem. They will assemble and consjd.
er the situation thoughtfully, take their
pos1tlon with Judgment, invite all libe-
RAJ citizens of whatever party to Join in
'he maj work Of rescue and restora.
tion' and if possible achieve victory for
ana with the people. The old baa,e,
must be held as high as ever, inscribed
all over with the notices of reform,
boston Post.
NE CAUSE OF REVENUE REFORMS BETRAY-
EoT-Mk. GREELEY CAN HAVE NO HOPE OF
- lion HOW THE DEMOCRATS MAY
SWEEP THE FIELD.
Inc convention, so big with promise.
and so auspiciously ushered in. has
gone the way of many a similar assem-
oiase; 1t has surrendered, stock and
nuke, to the wire-pullers, it has struck
the flag of its lofty principles, and it has
sunk into commonplace chicanerv, in
trigue, bargaining and compromises
The Tribune was pleas
eu TO observe the other day that the
Evening Post gave to the Reform Con-
veatIon "a great deal of advice and very
little sympathy But the event has
convinced us that we ought to have
given 1t great deal more advice and
not so much sympathy. If it had taken
the advice we did give it would have es-
capped the lamentable felo de Sc which if
has committed; and if it had obtained
any more OF our sympathy, we should
have been now where many of it's men,
pers are--either the dupes or the vic
TINS OF cunning political legerdemain,
and in position not at all fiatterine TO
our sagacity or our self-respect. AS soon
as we discovered that Mr.. Fenton, Mr..
Greeley, and the crowd with which thew
usually parade We're about to lump ON to
the train we blew the whistle of dancer
and warned our friends Of the very
great LIKELIHOOD of being run away with
or thrown off the track. Our fears were
not at all unfounded; the great cause of
reform was unbfushingly betrayed: the
grand doctrines of equal rights and in
dlVidual freedom in some of the resolu-
tons are shamefully abandoned in 9TH
ers; and man who for all his days has
stood up as the personification of COM
promise and expediency, and whose
Intellectual trait is a ready
adoption and a no less ready rejection of
every flying "ism' of the hour, the more
absurd the more congenial to him. is Sc
lected as the chief of a broad, honest.
determined return to better principles
and practices. The deplorable part of
this mischance is that it endangers the
party. If Mr.. Adams or Mr.,
Trumbull had been nominated thew
would have secured votes enough from
the thoughtful men of both parties to be
elected, and their election would have
won the acquiescence even of General
Grants adherents. Greeley can have
no hope of an election, and if he runs at
all will only divide the Republican vote,
leaving the field clear to the Democrats,
who, should they have sense enough, as
many of them already urge, to put up
such ticket as Adams and Groesbeck,
will bid fair to sweep the field.-[Eve-
ming Post.