Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-31

exist, does now exist, or will hereafter exist,
unless we call secession Democratic princi-
pie. If the Democracy ever had any vital
idea, it was opposition to centralization.
The favorite motto of its members was that
the best government is that which governs
least; and on every practicable occasion they
manifested their undying opposition to cen
tralization. On this ground they opposed
national banks, protective tariffs, internal
improvements by the General or State Gov
ernment, legislation by Congress on slavery,
prohibitory liquor laws, Ku-klux enact
ments, and Congressional regulation of
elections. Horace Greeley has been in favor
of all these things, and of everything else of
centralizing tendency. True, he is willing
the Government should be destroyed when
ever any considerable section desire it; but
so long as it does exist it cannot be too
central to suit him. His theory seems to
be that the Government ought to govern
everybody in everything; but that anybody
may break up the Government at any time
for anything or for nothing. Other Repub-
licans supported some of the measures just
mentioned; a few supported all of them;
Horace Greeley was not only in favor of
every one of them, but was the most ex-
treme and intolerent advocate of them all
which the country could produce. The
chief objection of many Democrats to the
Republican party was the fact that Horace
Greeley was a member of it. There never
was another such centraliZer outside of
China; and, if his ideas could be carried to
their legitimate conclusion, the people
would all have to break their colts by mar
tial law, and spank their babies by act of
Congress.
GREELEY's ABUSE OF DEMOCRATS.
No Democrat ought to vote for Horace
Greeley, because he has persistently, sys-
tematically and furiously reviled and de-
famed them. The ordinary language of
political abuse, beside the epithets which
Horace Greeley has heaped on the Democ-
racy, is like altar of roses beside the altar
of demoralized eggs. He has branded the
rank and file as ruffians of the lowest grade,
and denounced nearly all of their leaders as
liars. Will it be said that this objection af
fects only the personal feelings of Demo
Gratis? 1t involves the question of self
respect or self-degradation. If they should
make Mr.. Greeley President. they would
thereby acknowledge, either that he was
man of truth and they were the polluted
wretches he has described them as being, or
else that they were willing to elevate a liar
and slanderer to the Presidential chair. The
Democrat who votes for Horace Greeley
buries his principles beyond the hope of
resurrection, and strews over their grave the
ashes of his self-respect.
GREELEY AS TOOL OF THE SOUTH.
No one else ought to vote for Horace
Greeley. There are many Americans, and
their number is increasing, who hardly con-
slider themselves as members of any politi-
cal organization, but claim to vote at each
election as the interests of the country shall
then demand. No independent citizen ought
to vote for Horace Greeley, because, as be-
fore mentioned, his election would let loose
the long pent up rage and bitter humiliation
of the rebels to roll over the South in GER
tain outrage and probable rebellion. It is
claimed that the ex-Confederates have sin
cerely renounced their heresies. and are
| anxious to maintain order and Justice. 1t
| is doubtful in the extreme whether they are
1 GIT1n nara'. hrt fhnyvo ic oil
| most certain that at the first opportunity
their peaceful robes would be cast aside (as
were those of Joan dare in PRISON. for their
| long-aecustomed armor. Man is uncertain
the Southern chevalier is the most i'm
pulsive of men. To-day he filings
his arms around your neck and weeps with
the excess of his emotion; tomorrow, should
| some trihing difficulty occur, he puts six
bullets through you and weeps because there
are no more barrels in his pistol. For many
years to come, the qualities. most necessary
to the President, who has to prevent out
break, will be tirmness, discretion and cour-
age. Unity and harmony are to be restored
to the nation, not by bursts of gushing SEN
tlment, but by obedience to the laws and re-
spect for the rights of all. The "bloody
| chasm" which yawns in our country cannot
be spanned by a Bridge of Signs.
GREELEY AND THE FINANCES.
No Independent citizen ought to vote fol
Horace Greeley, because his election would
probably a-alve great financial disaster
The rebellion, with its consequent debts an6
paper money, introduced the element of un
| certainty into our finances to an extent uR
known before. Though the calm, firm ad
ministration of Grant and Boutwell, has beer
bringing us steadily back to our ancient
stability, yet our finances are still liable tC
sudden and extreme fluctuations. The gam
| blers who SO nearly accomplished the fnan
cial ruin of the country, on the celebrated
Black Friday, are still lying in wait, ready tc
| turn everything into chaos, so that they may
plnnder the wrecks which shall be cast
| ashore. The mingled egotism, recklessness
| and timidity of Mr.. Greeley's character make
to direct the financial ship over the danger
| GUS waters on which it must ride. The mon
| strous proposition which he so long advoca
ted, to pay all the gold out of the Treasury
and leave the business of the country at the
absolute mercy of the bulls and bears, i.
alone sufficient to prove him totally unfit tc
preside over the national finances. The busi
ness of the nation rests on our seven hundred
million dollars of paper currency; that cur
rency rests on the one hundred million dol
lars of gold in the Treasury. Mr.. Greele,
proposes to sell that gold and add the pro
ceeds to our national resources. A merchan
might as well sell the cellar wall from unde
a crockery store in order to put in NOR
stock.
GREELEY'S FOREIGN POLICY.
|
Horace Greeley, because he would be almos
certain to involve US in needless foreign dii
: ficulties, resulting either in war or disgrace
| There are fifty or sixty nations in the world
Mr.. Greeley would probably quarrel wit
nearly all of them within year; and it
scarcely possible he would get through a
all these quarrels without endangering c
, dishonoring his country. He has precisel
the qualities most apt to turn casual di
) ficulty into desperate strife. Hell intoleraI
! of opposition; accustomed to think ever
man a scoundrel who does not yield to h
wishes; coarse, almost rufianly, in his mai
. ners; entirely destitute of tact, and pr,
foundly egotistical. He would shiver til
r traditions of diplomacy to atoms, and "
would turn pale with dismay at the crash
: had himself produced 80
v GREELEY's GENERAL UNFITNEss.
!. No citizen ought to vote for Horace Gre
t ley, because his election would make US tt
r laughing stock of the world. This is by I
e means trifiing consideration. Our cou
d try cannot retain its proud position anon
e the nations if it places at its head one WI
}; is an object of contempt to them all. Poop
: never laugh at the wit of what Mr.. Greel,
: says, but at the absurdity of what he doe
: Even our material interests would suffer, f
; the Governments which despised our Chi
r would hardly respect our rights as tn,
d would were those rights under the protectit
e of that strong but quiet man whom hatrt
8 make ridiculous.
J. The citizen who votes for Horace Greel
u votes to inflict on his country political d
(, order in the South, financial disorder in t
k North, danger of dozen wars, and the ce
n taiaty of universal contempt
\ GRANT.
l. GRANT's FIDELITY TO THE REPUBLICAN PART
q Every Republican ought to vote for Uly
Ie ses 8. Grant. Three times in seven years
has been the chief actor in preserving the e
,e istence and establishing the principles of t
= Republican party, besides the enormous s,
Is vices he rendered during the war, when Ii
a. coin and Grant were the great leaders in t
le work of saving the country. Had the Uni
g. been destroyed, new, slavery propagate
+ Republic would have been established, sls
cry would have been spread over MexiC
ce the Republican party, instead of curtailir
of would have increased the power of that di
id full Institution, and would have sunk und