The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-09
ATTITUDE OF THE PRESS.

ATTITUDE OF THE PRESS.
WELCOME TO HONEST HORACE
FROM TIE FOURTH ESTATE.
The Sentiment or the Country over
wheImtngly In Favor OF the Liberai
Nominees.
We continue our extracts from leaaing jour
nails in various sections of the country, show
Ing the drift of popular sentiment in regard to
the nomination Of Greeley and Brown =
The Herald Deserts Grant and FloPs
Over TO Greeley.
from the New York Herald.l
Can General Grant see the Importance OF
the Cincinnati movement? He ought TO learn
from that how much his popularity has been
and is waning. H., undoubtedly, is honest,
and means to do the best for the country; put
he has trusted to others who have mlsled MIN
and brought bis administration into public
disfavor. The people are weary aud dlsgusted
with the Washington Treaty muddle. the
disgraceful and painful condition OF affairs IN
the Southern States, the tendency OF the gov.
to o.
bly exposed at Clncfnnat, have made the
administration unpopular. Outside OF the
ofice-holders, there Is no enthusiasm or
affection for it. For General Grant, per-
sonally. the people still have mucn
respect, but little or none ior MS
administration. Unless he changes mis- course
and the cabinet he will run great risk OF
being defeated next November. Finding his
popularity declining, the Philadelphia Con-
yention even might consider the pr0prety OF
setting him asi re, aud either accept, the Gin
cinnali nominees or enter into an agreement
with sSem to taxe up new men acceptable to
all Republicans. Politicians do not sllck long
to sinking cause.
Tho Man to Wan.
from the New York Su: day News.]
We do not endorse the Cincinnati platform.
We do not ask nor do We desire that the
Democratic Convention shall endorse II. We
even hope that Mr.. Greeley will be slow to
commit himself to some of Its declarations,
which we believe to have been hastily and IN
auvertently made; but we do endorse MS nom
inatiou, and shall urge the Democratic Cou'
veution to DO so-not that ne is exactly the
candidate that we would prefer, but because
we believe that we can elect him.
Avoice from a Western Organ.
From the Sc. Louis Republican,
Democrats are American citizens and Amer
icaa patriots, and because they are such 1t Is
botn their right and their duty TO lake part Ia
the struggle now beginning. What WILL that
part be ! They will not hail the division IN
the Republican party as mere party oppor-
tunily and obtrude new ticket OF their own
between The contending factions. That would
forfeit the popular good will and moral power
which their patriotic selfdenial OF the last
three months has given them. 1t would be-
numb the country with chill of cruel dis
appointment, revive at the North all the
former war bitterness against Democracy
l. a. a., mi
Republican schism; nay, 1t would do more,'t
would destroy the very opportunity that they
seek to advantage; 1t would crush the Liberal
vote, break its line of battle, dtsperse us ad-
herents and insure the re-eectlon OF Cram.
The Democratic party cannot commit this
enormous folly. II has made many mistakes
and b!unders, but 1t cannot, with its eyes wide
open, forfeit it's magnificent future by making
so moment.tus bluuder as this.
Plain Talk from the Old Dominion.
~ From The Richmond Dispatch.1
Let itbe understood that the South Is tired
of fighting hopeless battles, and will in no
case 20 with the Democrats should they be 80
wayward and impracticable as to nominate
presidential ticket.
That ticket 80 nominated, with the cer-
tainty that 1t would secure the triumph of the
dominant party, would be regarded as antag-
onistlc to the South aud against the peace OF
the Union, and therefore o'be treated as IL
1t had been gotten up 10 the Interest OF
Grant.
That the country demands peace, which
can be assured In no earthly way save by the
breaking ar ot the war party and the form
Ing of an entirely new party, freed from the
hates and ahSausted crotchets OF old parties
that would only veX and complicate pubic
affairs, aud continue Irritation and restless
ness in the public mind.
That If 1t were possible 10 elect Demo-
10 hQ aitn0fPd
much like President Johnson, having the
name of President, but being SO tied and
manacled as to be able to do nothing. He
would be mere fly In the spiders nest, en-
veloped In web and not even able to lit q
wing or move leg. :,
) TSat if Horace Greeley is elected he will,
more than, probably. be able to combine
majority Of Congress to support his measures;
and thus we shall have an efficient and har-
monious government 5onc laooring to NAM
tain the power and glory Of The nation and
the harmony and contentmrnt OF the people.
That with these convictions which are en-
tertained, we believe. By the whole South,
no third Presidential ticket will meet with
favor here. Any movement to form such
ticket will be looked upon as hostile 10 our
best interests.
Aud, finally, the two hobbies Of Mr.. Greeley
deiug disposed Of: abolition by expiration,
and protection by making it optional with the
congressional distrlcts-and he being liberal
and fair towards the South, and ardently de-
string The peace Of the Union, the South will
support him. The race Is considered to be
made up, the horses saddled, the riders are In
their seats, and no new entry Is to be thought
Of TIE South cannot, with justice to Itself or
to the Onion, think OF another.
These are things that should be well under
stood.
Horace Greeley's Strength Among the
People.
from the Cincinnati Commerciall
Among the things that are likely to be OBJ
jeclionabe in the candidacy of Mr. Greeley,
awaut OF popular strength will not, In our
opirIon, be numbered. We have no doubt Of
the immediate and thorough cooperation OF
the Democratic party In the Greeley move
ment.> Under these conditions the strength
of Mr.. Greeley in the Sonth will be over
whelming. The colored people have much
confidence In him, aud the old Confederales
will remember his magnanimity In ball
ing their chief, and the generous measure
of amnesty with which 1t has beeen his
wish to soften the rudeness Of their calamity.
The general result is that Mr.. Greeley Is go
popular In the South, aud the conditions OF
the canvass are likely to be such, that he Will
carry every State south of the Potomac. the
Ohio and the Missouri Rivers. There will be
a flood In that land that will not leave dry
snot sticking out from the Chesapeake to The