Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-09-13

Our AIIies-Xfae Liberal Republicans.
We are not of that class of men who
think that the action of the Cincinnati and
Baltimore onventions, in uniting upon
Mr.. Greeley as a candidate for the Presi-
dency brought about such fusion of Lib
erals and Democrats as to destroy their
identity and individuality as members of
separate and distinct organiZatiO
According to our understanding of the
matter, the theory upon which the Liberal
Republicans and the Democrats are now
acting together, is a very different one, and
a brief reference to the. facts will, we think,
prove the correctness of our view.
Democrats took no part in the Cincin-
natl Convention. Liberal Republicans
took no part in the Baltimore Convention.
Each party continues to operate through
it's own organizations and its own officers.
We have both State and National Execu
! tive Committees, representing, on the one
! hand, the Democratic and on the other the
! Liberal Republican party. In North
! Carolina, Hon. d. NJ. Barringer is the
! Chairman of the one, while w. $. Mason
! is at the head OF the other. 1t is true that
! these committees are working together in
| the most harmonious manner, but this is
! the result of an alliance and not of fusion.
! General Barringer is still Democrat, aud
Mr.. Mason is still a Republican.
! This is Il matter Of far more Importance,
in some respects, at the North than it is at
| the South, for the reason that the number
| Of Liberal Republicans, properly sO-called,
! is quite small in the South. In fact, it may
| be safely said that many, if not all the
prominent members of the Liberal Repub-
| lican organizations in North Carolina have
! for several years, voted with the Demo-
cratic Party. Indeed, we consider the
! action of the Democratic Party in thus
formally recognizing the existence of the
! Liberal Republican organization in North
! Carolina as the result of magnanimous
and generous determination on the part Of
| Democrats to carry out, i'll both letter and
| spirit, the alliance entered into with the
people 1t the North. Had it been other
wise, or had there been a fusion instead Of
an alliance, Messrs. Mason and GOodloe,
and the half dozen other gentlemen who
| inaugurated the Liberal movement in
| North Carolina, would have been swal-
| lowed up and lost sight OF with their few
| humid followers in the ninety odd
thousands of Democrats in the State.
But it is a habit of Southern men, not
only to do gracious things, but to do them
! graciously.
The Southern people, therefore, would
not dim the splendor of the offering they
| had made when, with one consent, laying:
as a propitiatory sacrifice upon the altar Of
a erief-stricken country, the lives, the
hopes and the sorrows, as we'll as the hates,
the bitter preiudices and the baser pas
| sions of their heart Of hearts, they pro-
posed to unite in bonds Of friendship
with men whom they had learned to look
upon as the deadliest enemies OF them
selves and of their country Southern men
were not little enough to mar the magnifi-
cence Of a spectacle such as the world had
never before witnessed, by higglinG about
the details of its exhibition.
And we are free to confess that we have
| lost nothing Ul our ulttS hdiIlihlIJ AOA Ill
less the signs of the times deceive us, we
| shall receive for our candidate the votes OF
a sufficient number of men who would not
have voted for man supported by Demo
Gratis alone, to turn the scale il North
Carolina in November, even surprising the
nominal majority of Caldwell to be real
one.
But the question that troubles many
good men at the South is, will the election
of Mr.. Greeley be blessing to the South
at all commensurate with the sacrifice we
made i'll his nomination
Upon this point we entertain not par
ticle of doubt.
The Baltimore Convention nominated
Mr.. Greeley because the Cincinnati Con
vention had nominated him. The Clncln
natl Convention nominated him because
he was the strongest representative man
the necessities that had given birth TO TIT
Party it represented.
, What, then, were these necessities OF tn