The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-26

was the first Democrat in
Congress to endorse Greeley
OLD PLANS UNDER NEW PHASES.
1t is an old saying that history repeats
itself continually. And. it is very COM
mon saying at the present time, that the
Presidential campaign of 1872 is the most
novel, and altogether different from all of
its predecessors. What for thirty years or
more has, been known as the Democratic
party, and distinguished by its theories of
Free Trade and tcnacity to State Sove-
reignity, or States Rights, is now found
supporting a lifelong protectionist, and
the most strenuous and able advocate of
theory of government, which the Democ-
racy always denounced as Capitalization;
and supporting him too on a platform which
utterly repudiates the most cherished theo-
ries of that party. These seeming anoma-
lies at first sight are apt to strike the stu
dent of American politics with some aston
ishment. But on close examination it will
be found no great departure from old
custom by that party whose special lust
has even been for power regardless of con-
sequences, cost or means. The principles
of the Northern Democratic wing was al
ways held subordinate to its greed of Office,
and subservient to the Southern party of
the same name which composed an oligar-
chy of Shareholders. When the war broke
up slavery, this political machine was brok-
en- into fragments. To unite those frag-
ments in order to form similar political
machine, that will work like the old one in
field somewhat changed, has been the
aim of the leaders of that broken party
since the war ended.
To accomplish this object the identical
means are employed that proved so success
full under the old regimen. In those pros
porous days of Democracy, northern dough-
faces were selected to carry out the pro-
gramme of placing Southern politicians in
control of the Government. They always
selected northern man when they desired
a tool for this purpose, who was willing
to yield everything of substance to the
southern leaders for the shadow of power
which they left him. Clay and Webster fell
through this fatal temptation. Pierce and
Buchanan grasped the glittering bauble to
leave it with the contempt of the nation
following them to retirement. Now the
men whom the North rose to put down and
rescue the Government out of their hands,
have refused all basis of reconciliation and
reconstruction which does not place the
entire control of the country again in the
hands of the leaders who conspired to dis
solve the Union and sacrifice freedom to
the Moloch. of Slavery. The Presidency
was the bait held out by the South to tempt
Northern dough-faces, and in the past
plenty of ambitious aspirants were ready
to jump at the gilded fly and yield all
these Southern aristocrats demanded
This bait has tempted Horace Greeley to
his ruin and everlasting shame, aud he
swings round the country preaching recon-
Citation, and shaking hands over bloody
chasm. A contemporary truly remarks,
what the Republican party has most of all to
fear is not its own corruption" But it is
the treachery of its own men who are prl-
rent for office, and having labored for some
years in its ranks now subordinate the
public good to individual advantage, and
look for executive favor or popular prefer
ment as their reward. The South knew
this we'll. If there is one lesson more than
another to be learned from this campaign
it is this. The double dealing and shuf-
fling, the compromising and concessions
of the past to Southern petulance and AFRO
gance, the presentations and lodgings and
treacheries and apostasies, and Gatherings to
Democracy, by public men for the sake of
power. the men of artificial political sanct-
ity, who under virtuous visor hide deep
vices, the honest honest Iago,' who, with
holy meekness, have such slippery elm and
gum-elastic convictions, expansive to every
suggestion of their own selfshness, these
arc the characters the Republican party
has to fear wherever found and who de-
serve to be reprobated as false to their
country by all true and faithful men,
Horace Greeley is now the subservient
tool of the South of the men who are an
swerable for all the woes the nation has
suffered, as Pierce, Buchanan and Fillmore
were the pliable tools of those men when
they held the destinies of this nation IN
their hands. They moved behind those
Presidents i'll the work CT consolidating
control of this nation in their own hands,
and forever debating the policy of the gov
eminent. They now move behind Horace
Greeley to regain the power which was
torn from them by a frightful civil war;
But this plot will fail-has failed most dis
mally. The people have not forgotten so
soon the bitter lessons taught by the war,
that they can be easily caioled to perpe-
trate the egregious folly of driving from
power the party and the heroes who saved
the country from ruin by the men who
have sought out Horace Greeley whom
they found shutting dough face, to lead
them to power, which they so abused when
trusted with control.
It was this same policy which lost this
State and county to the Republican party.
Treacherous men in the Union party were
tempted by the Democrats by the bride of
office; and that betrayal has cost the ooun.
ty and State millions in the shape of taxes,
while it has been turned back in the march
Of prosperity to suffer an era of stagnation
which every farmer and mechanic who
reads this article will acknowledge is the
most bitter he ever experienced. Such is "a
miniature Of what the national despond-
ency would be had the people of this coun-
try been weak and foolish enough to have
been deceived by the coalition of Cincin-
natl and Baltimore.