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

see. t.Nyoa do aDt talsamey-I will With |
dfav,ssItcf 4etheI raaksf of my party q
private and elect Grant aver, any Candidate
yoa present. SO, I, Hsrace g reeley, an
alone master of the situation. can best
Grant By Democratic votes,- car elect
Grant oyer any Democrat in the conntsy.
In either case. it iss republican victory"
SO the democratic party ID in q dlenms
Shall It act as mere ally to elect one, Of ~
enemies over another I Or shalt 1t act for
itself, fully knowing that the one enemy,
it could elect over tho other, will be the
very means of the triumph Of that other
and the very cause Of its disastrous aefesti
II the democratic party indorse Horace
Greeley, 1t isobliged to make these conces'
First I'VE are, too weak, to cope with
the republicans rarity that j., we are ID
minority 81 that is, the political pEipaiplss
Of the majority of the American people are
opposed to ours.---- So .iit@ ,dsW ei'"
Secondly: Tie liberal republicans WIN
not come TO us.f They did not even invite
1s to their Cincinnati eonventions We
must GO to them and say Amen to their
platform and their standard beafers,s.
Thirdly; We must cease to be ~ indie
pendant army in order to become depend
ant allies.. @ p. F., od1 % stis aH.rls>5
Fourtbly We must support him, who
haa been our moot unrelenting enemy for
nigh two score years and who, Of ell other
men, has been the foremost in reducing US
from the FIRST and strongest party in the
land to our present weakness.
Fifthly I'VE must do this, for, if we act
otherwise, that very candidate, true to his
party, will support the very man whom he
wishes to defeat with our aid.
sixthly: we must, for this time, be in
consistent and separate our political con-
victions from our political candidate.
Seventhly: we cannot elect him on our
sential principles; 80 we must elect him
without regard to any principles.
These and other concessions must, logi
cally, be forced from the Democratic party,
the moment it indorses Greeley.
In conceding this much-or half this
much that party runs the risk of dissolu-
ton and death.
ion,-does not expressly indorse Gree
ley, and allows its followers to do as they
please, then it confesses that it does not
know what to do, under the circumstances,
and is no Ion ger fit to have follower. If
the Baltimore Convention dominates q
Democratic Candidate ON Democratic prin-
ciples, it seems, from present appearances,
hot no ho fo he Snfo tod
this congeries of difficulties must be the
subject-matter of delibeyation and for de-
cision in the Convention. We do not
think that there will be any deliberations in
the Convention. We think that its deci-
sion will be: "Hurrah for Horace Gree:
leyn!-,. g.. ... ..ri ~ l.1#
Whether it be wise or unwise time will
tell. -F", %
Meanwhile General Grants party steadi-
~ prepares for the campaign,-sureo of suc-,
cess if the Democrats put up candidate Of
their own, and possessed of hope even If
Horace Greeley be the only opponent. .
From now until November-lour long
months, the intelligent voters OF an parties
viii be strained, BY the party leaders, for
tAGoO
gatherings,-wavings Of aags,-soundings
of rmusic,-grandiloquen harangues, ire
mendous hurrahs, some drinking, more
cursing and swearing, great deai of bet
ting, examinations and recriminations, tor
rents Of abuse, storms of invective, awful
appeals to patriotism, stupendous bribery
and q Thousand other excitemeflts and
affair oil fhia Oenera1. riot of No eaton nvorv
one of the masculine sex, who has had the
happiness of having been born twenty -one
years ago, will take piece of paper, bear
ing Grants or Greeley's or some one else'a
name and put it in box-and we shall
have an old or a new Head-piece to this
corrupt Government for four years longer
But the end will come,-and the crash.
Decline of Principle.-Reform.
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