The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-19

theory endorsed ana particularly be-
cause it expected to see accomplish
ed, through its means, the defeat of
Gen. Grant. But when the course
of the Cincinnati Convention made
patents the fact that more glaring-
ly corrupt and scheeming set of
wireworking politicians never got
together for the purpose of control
ing the operations of convention,
and foisted upon that Convention
the strange compound of a ticket,
with tariff head and free-t trade tail,
and especially such a head as the
man Greeley, 1t refused to give in
its adhesion to the ticket, regard
ing it as the most evil thing which |
has ever been attempted to play off |
upon the American people. Itlooked
at the fact that the greatest scoun-
drels the country ever Produced
Tweed and Sweeney and Hall and
their coadjutors-readily accepted
the ticket, and prepared to force it
upon the Democracy; that the most
corrupt political organization in the
country-Tammany, accepted it as a
matter of course; that the rebels of
the South were earnest in its sup
port; as evidences of its hydra-head-
ed character, and proofs of its utter
shamelessness. No wonder then
that it holds such language as it does
in the extract we give below, and ex-
presses its views with q positiveness
and force that only come of absolute
conviction Of the truth ofwhat it as
serts. Bear in mind, while you read
the extract, that the utterances are
not those of a Grant paper, and
therefore cannot be said to be parti-
zans, but on the contrary are the ex-
pressions of calm and considerate
judgment, urging citizens to reflect
upon the danger which impends over
the country, in the contingency OF
the election of Greeley:
From the Evening Post, July 10Y
If Mr.. Greeley ever made, or no.
body ever made for him, a corrupt
bargain with Tammany Democrats,
he is nevertheless the candidate fol-
that party. If his nomination al
Cincinnati was not q preconcerted
thing, it nevertheless was hailed with
delight by the worst rebel element
that had gathered there from the
South, and which will accept any
thing than promises disorder and
disorganization; it was accepted with
loathing and disgust by the very few
mistaken Reformers who could bring
themselves to tolerate it; and it wa:
rejected with scorn by nearly all
those who meant what they sale
when they asked for reform. If Mr.
Greeley's unftness for the position
he covets cannot be proved by show
ing what he promised to pay for it
his unftness is nevertheless mani
fest and is not denied, that we know
of, by single respectable journal
and hardly by a single sensible mar
in the country. After all that car
be said, or cannot be said, this fact
remains-this damning, unmistak
able, and, so for as there is any dan
ger of Greeley's election, this alarm
ing fact, that he is the candidate O.
that party which in the administra
ton of Federal Government, and the
administration of the general govern
ment, has reached, within the las
quarter of a century, to an assump
tion Of despotic power, and to it;
corrupt. use, which has cost us al
ready one war of four years; which
is constant menace Of civil anarchy
is a constant threat of financial ruin
is q constant reproach to the cause
Of popular government, and is a uni
form, if not an unanswerable, argu.
ment all over the world against re
publics and In favor Of monarchy
Those who are willing to risk the
return of such party to power may
vote for Greeley, because of some
personal and selfish end they are tc
gain by his election; but, any man o.
common sense and common honesty
who has nothing to gain by it, but
yet advocates his election, seems tc
US to be under delusion the mos
lamentable, or an infatuation little
short of insanity.
Now what will it profit man i
he be honest, yetso weak as to place
himself at the disposal of a merci
lessly corrupt organization? Oh
where will the people derive any ben
eft from an individual so situated
who, in the event of an election
would become the dispenser of pat
ronage as the power in whose hands
he a mere puppet, demandedi
1t is claimed that Greeley is honest
and in a certain way no man may be
prepared to doubt. He probably
pays his personal debts as Other
"honest" men do, but he is not hon.
est as between himself and the peo.
pie to whom he appeals for suffrage,
No "honest'' man with the evidence
of Tammany fraud so palpably set
before him as had Greeley, would
have hesitated to expose its corrup-
tions. But it was not until the ell
eventh hour that he found voice to
condemn It's corruptions and dishon-
esty, while he attempted to shield
its chief robbers and corruptionists
he is now reaping the reward ofhis so
doing by the ardent support he re-
ceives from that organization.
He is not honest, when he sacri-
fees the cherished ideas of life
time to become the candidate of
those who have been ever opposed
to his favorite idea. He is not hon