The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-25
ST. FRACISLLE LOUISIANA, Tuesday, june 2l 1872. NEWM

cate of the principles Of the Repub-
lican party and Of the present issues
Of the day, he is in every respect the
peer of his opponent"
The South Noracalk Sentinel does
not believe in the spontaneous en-
thusiasm" of Philadelphia, and thinks
the unamimity decidedly deldsion.
It doubts if there is entire peace in
the Republican party, when such
veterans as Sumner, Greeley, Schurz
and Trumbull are absent from its
counsels, and such men as Butler,
Conklins and Morton are the lead
ers. Such unanimity, it protests,
is not spontaneous but artificial
Was there any discussion as to the
wisdom or expediency Of this nomi-
nation ? Men dared not speak out
their minds. They smothered their
misgivings Everybody felt that the
denomination of Grant was a peril
GUS step for the party, but nobody
dared to say SO aloud. The less said
about such unanimity as that, the
better. When a party has reached
such a point of degradation that
honest men feel as if they had gag
in their mouths, the party has ceas-
ed to be their representative of the
people and has become the repre-
sentative Of O man !"
Declaring its independence in all
political questions, The Auento,vn
(Pa.) Neeus gives an extended and
dispassionate review of the respec-
tive merits of Greeley and Grant for
the Presidency, decidedly favorable
to Mr.. Greeley. 1t thinks the "ruth-
less determination and stubborn per-
sistency" which characterized Grants
military career would tend to make
his Presidency "partake of the ma
ture Of an absolute monarchy" 1t
finds the "qualities of the nominee
of the Philadelphia Convention so
directly opposed to the requirements
of the position that there is no con-
gruity between them. About Mr..
Greeley it has much better opin-
ion. After speaking Of his outspok-
en- honesty, his devotion to Republi-
can principles, his scorn Of corrup-
ton, and his wide political knowl-
edge, it says !: Such n man, it
seems to us who has no ak to grind,
no party to serve, no prejudices to
gratify-is qualified for the position
of President of the United States
If it is an honest, upright, capable
man that is wanted to fill the office,
why it take the man of Cincinnati.
, One by one the anti-Greeley Dem
ocratic journals are reading the signs
of the times, and falling in with the
r Liberal current before it overwhelms
, them, The Baltimore Gazette, one ol
the most Jealous advocates of a
, straight ticket, lamenting the folly o1
its headstrong brethren, thus comes
out of its delusion /: " But the past
is past. The vital question now is
how to pluck from the mettle dan
ger the flower safety ?" If this can
, be done only by a coalition with the
, Liberal Republicans-bitter as the
alternative will be to many-so be
, it. It must be acknowledged that the
drift of popular sentiment favors q
combination of all the elements oI
opposition to put down Grantism.-
We say, therefore, that if, by force
of circumstances, straight-ou'
Democratic nomination shall be held
by our National Convention to be
impracticable, and a coalition de-
clared to be the only means now lef|
to meet the impending peril to free
institutions, The Gazette will not only
bow to it's decision, but will frankly
and cordially support, with oil the
ability and all the power it can com.
mand, any combination of opposing
forces that will offer reasonable
!, prospect Of beating Grant"