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disatfected minority. If his claims are
wholly ignored, and Grant is renominat,
ed, the running of two such Republi-
can candidates would almost certainly
bring the Democrats once more into
power. If this nomination is heartily
accepted by all who were represented at
Cincinnati, twill prove to be the hard
est problem the party has been called
to solve since it first came into power.
IFrom the New York Sum- s..
Horace Greeley was yesterday nomi-
mated for President by the convention
at Cincinnati.
He is the grandson of an Irishman,
and will be likely to carry the Irish
vote.
BY birth, by education, and by senti-
ment. he is all out-and-out American.
The Germans seem to be for him en-
Enthusiastically.
The South is for him, both colored
and white.
The North is for him. The Liberal
Republicans are for him, heart and soul,
and the Democrats appear to be tor INN
also.
The East is for him.
The West is for him.
We have done our duty in bringing
him forward and making him candi-
date. ..s.
1t only remains for the people to do
theirs and elect him.
from the New York Times.]
Nobody in his senses believes that so
eminently shrewd and practical people
as this would ever place such man as
Horace Greeley at the head OF their gov
ernment. III ANY one man could send a
great nation to the dogs, that man is Mr..
| Greeley. There is no department. of
business which he wonld not disorganize
and unsettle; there is no wild ism"
which he would not endeavor to lncor-
porate into the framework Of our gov
ernment; there is no foreign country
with which he would not embroil us;
there is no crude illusion which lie would
not eagerly pursue. -.-
From the Baltimore Gazette.]
IF. through patriotic and prudential
motives, there has been in the past any
disposition shown by portion of the
| Democracy Of the Union to yield to the
pressure of events anu accept the action
of the Liberal Republicans, the course
of the Cincinnati Convention has put
that question beyond all discussion.
| 1t is now, we rejoice to say, among the
things that were. 1t was anu Still Is
our earnest desire to have Democratic
candidate, an honored and we'll tried
statesman, from our ranks, ana not be
compelled, by the force of circumstances
or unwise Democratic intermeddllng,
TO fiuht under any other banner. From
l,n NlnonRrltIr
column will move on unbroken. Its
organization, once threatened with dis
memberment, will now be stronger than
ever. There will be no taltcring-nO
backward steps. In the wild chaos that
exists in the Radical ranks, the election
of the Democratic candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President is as certain as
the coming of election day, If the DEM
ocratic National Convention only eXer-
cises in its deliberations an ordinary
degree of wisdom and. discretion. The
day for entangling alliances has past,
and happily for the party ana the
country. there is but one path left for
the Democracy TO tread, and that is,
adhesion to it's own principles, and the
selection of wise, pure and honest states
men as its candidates.
IFrom the Spring gfield Republican,
What can we say of Horace Greeley
that will not be twice-tQld tale to eve
ry reader? He is probably the best
known man in the country. For the
better part of two generations he has
been one of the most prominent figures
in the pubic eye, until both his features
and his fol 'es have become public prop
erty. And lis hardly too much to say
that he is a. widely liked as known.
Those who laugh at him oftenest and
loudest generally have warm spot for
him in their hearts. He has peculiar
weaknesses as a candidate, but he has
also peculiar strength. He has been in
his time thorough partisan, a good
hater, and a fierce fighter. Politics
have often given him strange bed
fellows. He has not been so choice US
lie should have been in his company.
His charitable and unsuspicious nature
has sometimes betrayed him into the
hands of bad men, who have abused
his confidence and used him for their
own selfish purposes. Then his ultra
high tariff notions are undoubtedly an
element of weakness in his candidacy.
But of late Mr.. Greeley has been grow
ing and broadening and ripeniIg. Years
have brought to him something OF the
philosophic mind. He has got out OF
the narrow rut of partisanship. And
all the while that he has been growing
away from his old enmities and preju-
/ dices and "crotchets" he has been grow
ing into the respect and affection of his
countrymen. Few men can be found
now-outside the Grant newspaper
ot1ices-who will question the honesty
and nobility of his character. The ad-
iministration party should not deceive
! itself oil this point. Mr., Greeley's
popularity is no myth. He is as strong
with the eX-slaveholders as with the
I ex-slavcs with the Irish laborers as
with the native born farmers who have
never voted Uemocratic ticket in their
lives. He may be beaten, but those VINO
fancy the job all easy one, Will one OF
4 these days see cause to alter their oPln'
ion. IF the Philadelphia people conclude
to undertake this job, it behooves them
to build a stouter platform than they
are now thinking of, and to ma q
stronger man than Grant to put on II
when built.
[From the Nashville, Tenn, Union ano
American.J
, The nomination of Horace Greeley
for the Presidency and Governor B
Gratz Brown for the Vice Presidency
makes, in our opinion, the; stronSes
ticket which the Liberal Republlcan
! at Cincinnati could have nominated eN
cept one-the exception is Brown an'
) Greeley-not that we, would intimate
: that the present is q Kangaroo ticket
, But there are points in Mr.. Greeley
record which will be attacked while b.
I occupies the first position that woul'
not have been subject to criticism if h'
had been q candidate for the Vice Presi
!. dency. X 4 Its election depends sole
! ly upon the action Of the Democracy
: Whatever they shall conclude is best t
r be done for the highest. interests OF tn