The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-09-20
GREELEY AND GRANT.

ZION. John orsytn, euitoT VI w
Mobile Register, distinguishes fair
IL, Justly and strongly, between I'll
opposing candidates for the Pre'i
dency. He says;
But the difference between Gree
lev and Grant as chiefs of contend
inc parties, is that between goot
and evil, political virtue and poli'
;coI crime--the one striving to save
the other TO destroy. No sign, OF
promise, or hope is held out OF re- re,
form if Grant is re elected. l"deed'
| hi. re- election would be claimed as
the popular endorsement Of the SUN
Of al fbis) iniquities, and il there
IS anv profounder depth Of false;
wicked government to be sounded
he would feel that he had the peo'
ple's license to fathom it. 1t the
rcople elect to keep Grants party in
IN mower. they viii have elected TO
part with free self-governmen', !
have said the question is not where
and what Horace Greeley was, but
where and what he is now. And let
me give you a test of whst he is now,
as It gushcd like a suddenly unim .
prisoned fountain from the hearts OF
the 5 ulhern people, for it was this
peopI who first took him upon their
shoulders and bore him to his Lres-
ent emincnce as leader and cham-
pion of the American Constitution
Why did the South rush to him as
their deliverer Because from the
dark cloud that oyerhung our hopes,
behind Cincinnati there leaped a
vivid fash of lightning that fore
Swallowed and pronounced its deliv~
erancc. Behold the new revelation
that broke from Republican Con
vention, in the following--fonrth
resolution Of its platform:
local self-goverlment, with i'm
partial suffrage, VIII guard the rights
Of all citizens more securely than
any centralized power. The public
welfare requires the supremacy of
the civil over military authority,
and freedom Of person under the
protection of habeas corpus. We
demand for the individual the largest
liberty consistent with public order {;
for the State, self,governmcnt; and
for the Nation, return to the methods
of peace and the constitutional limi
tations Of power"
What more than this, in the full
ness and emphasis of the enunciation
of the cardinal principles OF the
Southern Democ, attic faith, had we
ever asked for, or could Thomas
jefferson himself have formulated z
And then came Mr.. Grceley's letter
still further Illustrating and empha-
sizing these long condemned doe.
trines And what did all this teachE
This and this only, that the finest
intelects and the most upright men
Of the Republican party found them
selves drifting with the Grant party
over a precipice that would engu!f
the freedom Of the country. Start
ing back in alright, they sought for
some iron ring bolt in the granite of
enduring principles to which to moor
the drifting consultation and arrest
its progress to ruin. They found it
in the Democratic doctrines of a d.
vided Federal and local sovereignty,
in the "largest liberty for the peo-
pie" in "civil over military authori-
IT," in the sacred heritage of the
protecting egis of the "habeas cor
pus,' in the Estate, self-govern-
ment." in 1.-THE return to constltu-
tionsl limitations of power" Out
from that Convention, tor, along with
the glorious light from an unexpect
ed quarter, came Horace Greeley,
himself transformed. Once our Saul
Of Tarsus, he beamed forth from
that vast assemblage a Paul, the
apostle Of fresh inspiration of Lib
erty. Is it any wonder that the
South was aroused from her long
sleep of despair to hail the new de-
liverance from so unexpected a
quarter? And who shall say that
the Democratic party has abandoned
its principles when it takes to its
arms the allies who have paid it the
highest compliment and crowned it
with the most iIustrious victory of
its life-the peaceful victory of nom
age from its former antagonists to
the immortal truths and virtues of