The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-07-21

Che nsnhSod O TIE nsjosity III .oT
Party!sn y Alaysrys. = s...,..9 ass s,I ssna,
f. Bat thisis not . party affair, -itis saids
II 10 adsasnuprising, Of the People. .rhSt
d mere fhet0fio. Ills pretty name, TO-
coyeFsAR, anonaaly..lI 1t a. q paffy-a9ais ~
4primarily sniaffsir o. che libefalssepublican
party, which = sn,ssl Regiment Of thssj
great Republican party, ApdWho are. thu
!" uprisins peoplen1 Rspubiicanssf-yery
few Of them, in proportion to the iuuu,berts
Of this great party, have. so far, uprisea..
Who, then are the uprising. PsopleieThe
Democrats land who are they faaThe'
minority. II the Minority the Peoples I.
Al If Grant he elected,-whicA fate forbid |!
will not tho uprising Of the. people be on
the other sidef And what will they say,
then, who, now talk A. loudly Of the, pprr
rising Peoples, % iasn 30 .,T..a ~
Az for ourselves We do not believe in the
infallibiiity Of People or party And a.
for the decisions of majorities We do mot
acknowledge their nnfailing correctness,
Given one Thousand men,-it may easily
occur that q single; one Of them is right
and nine hundred and ninety nine wrong.
In mon 80 in matter quality is better than
quantity L .ai Pr S'f = 81 /!
Therefore, we repeat, in the present
strange contrsdietoriness Of politics it is;
extremely hard to decide the duty Of each
one, and it is the veriest presumption to
dictate the course of all.
A man may be considered bound to ac-
cept the decisions of q Convention of his
party when that convention acts within its
laws and constitution. When it goes be-
yond them, obligation to its decisions be-
comes optional. This much we say in
defence Of these democrats who still oppose
the action of the Baltimore Convention.
As to the wisdom or unwisdom Of their op-
position we have nothing to say. But a.
to their right as men aud az democrats to
oppose Horace Greeley if they 30 elect,
there can be no question about it. To
argue with them is manly. To abase them
is mean. rs. ha,s e~..,... -sT 2,:
Alexander Stephens, - Henry Wise,-
George Lyons and others whom we might
name, are men among men. They prefer
their personal Integrity to the integrity of
any, party. Not selfish scheming - but
mad.y honor prompts their opposition. /
Il, may be nnwiss-7or rather it may be
impolitic and ine1pedient ;--but 1t GER
tainly 10 not wrong Id principle ~. . 20
Those Democra tic jou-nah, too, which will
not say Amen, sud shout Allelnia for Gree
ley are, at least, as right in principle and
as logical in opposing him al tbe, Baltimore
Convention was In nominating him. We do
not believe chat faere party interest shoaiil
monopolise the ensire ,press ;-nor do we
believe thst vuiesr success, for its own
sakes shopld sysy the indepsndant eonvic-
tions of any many d,paTsiculariy OF any
one who writes for the people. There are
enough and more than enough party -pens
scribhiing for paRsy-iaterests.7 Lot d No
have moro pens conseerated to that which
is above the party and the e uprising peo-
le;"-Principles, Il g. ~; ~ .:sits-. 8
= The Presidential campaign has already
opened. The first question OF man to
man is Are you for Greeley or Grant I" Z
You must, it seems, bsforon or the other.
Public opinion leaves you no other alter
native. Philadelphia says to the Radicals:
You must vote for Grant" Cincinnati
says. to the Liberal Republicans "a And
you-yon must vote for Greeley. And
Baltimore says to all the Democrats,-war
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dem.
oerats And you,-you must vote for
Greeley i. These three cities are the cities
OF political oracles. And the people must
bow down to theft utterahces. They have
bowed dowD;-aud, now, they are rising up;
-millions for Grant; millions for Greeley;
IA few whose namber is not WORTH count
ing, but whose worth is certain1y above
calumniatiug,--for neither the one nor the
other: This is the present state OF things.
For which Of the two distinguished candi-
dates there will be the largest number of
pieces of paper in the ballot boxes, the
Ides OF November will tell.
To re-elect Grant, at all costs, is tie aim
Of the Radicals. To defeat Grant, at all
costs, is the aim of the Democrats.