The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-10-12

caution against riot will be the political managers who
are resolved TO carry the elections they have hereto
Iore, by fraud and force. = The force which s
coming here is designed to act police
and will be employed only when Tammany agents at
tempt. semPs oy violence to carry out Tammany threats
against United States Marshals, who are sworn to
enforce the laws against false voting and repeating
hese threats have been seriously and openly made
a .as me government cannot, in justice TO the citizens
ohom IS bound topT0tect disregard them The meas
nres it has adopted promise to insure honest people
tner rights and intimidate the Williams who designed
tihcaton."
Since his return from the South he paid the
following tribute to this same law:
| 1t is urged by the Democratic organs that the law
rs 10 DC enforced in State and municipal elections
% s IS uone 70 make 1t more obnoxious if that be pos
70 tneir party But fortunately this is an error
Ihe dp dPples only to Presidential and COngressio
| 10 etecaoHS, THOUGH WE HEARTILY WISH IT COULD BE
| MADE TO APPLY TO ALL OTHERS"
In the Tribune of Feb 22d, 1871, Mr.. Greeley
gave TINS law and its execution the following
emphatic defense:
The act Of last session has been denounced anatha
matlzed execrated, by the Democratic oraces in Con-
gress and the journals They naturally hate it for 1t
curtails their facilities for cheating They-the Demo
crats-can rail at the act usurpng and tyranncal
they can prae ofbayones controlling ballots but when
we say TO them PLEASE specify legal voter-barey
One-Who was prevented from voting or mpeed to vote
otherwise than as he wished do who voted in fear
fany bayonet or deputy marshal"-they confess the
laehoo9 ot their railing accusations by declining
Endorsement could not be stronger than this.
Language could not be more emp phatic or point
| ed upon the subject. We are told on all sides
| that Horace is honest. According to the Demo
| cratic version of him he has been violently in
favor of all these measures that have been so
obnoxious in Democratic eyes, else he was not
| honest Let them take which horn of the diIen
| m how laac fbatv fK,It a. IL.
ward attitude before the people of the nation
| Are they averse to any man that does or saws
| anything against the Democratic party or its
individual members? =? Let us see what this i'm
maculate candidate of theirs has been saving
about the man in whose behalf he has lately
been speaking such golden words inviting the
Republicans of the nation to shake hands with
them across "the bloody chasm" and be recon-
clled to allow them to control the affairs of the
government they confess themselves incompe-
tent to manage. The white hated candidate
| OF the Democratic party has sad
'If the Democratic party called upon to decide
between Grant and myself know that their regard for
OF them TO vote against me Why am decided en-
eny Of that party, eUeH in its most respectable aspects"
In 1867 he said:
IF there were not a newspaper nor a common school
in the country the Democratic party would be far strong
er than it is. Neither elementary instruction nor
knowledge of transprng is necessary to teach
the essential elements of the Democratic creed "Love
rum dndhate niggsrs" The less learns and knows
the more certain he is regular Democratic
ticket, from TO lizard"
He has adorned it with this enconium:
Point wherever you please to an election district
which you will pronounce morally rotten-gven up in
great part to debauchery and vice-and that district will
be found at nearly quite every election giving a
large majority for that which styles itself the demo-
cratic party.
Take all the haunts of debauchery in the land and
of
participants of that same Democracy.
May it be written my grave that never was
follower and lived and died, in nothing its debtor
'All Democrats are not horse thieves, but all horse
thieves are Democrats
And on February Sth, 1871, he paid it this |
tribute:
"A Democratic national triumph means a restoration
TO power OF those who deserted their in Congress
and their places under the last Democratic President TO
plunge the countryin the Read of secession and
oelllon Though you paint an inch thick this com
pexlo1 you must come at last The brain, the heart,
e So OF the present Democratic party is the rebel eL
ement Of the South with its Northern allies and sympa-
thizers II is rebel at the tOday-hardly able to re-
concile the defeats of Lee Johnson Hood Bragg and
Price, and the consequent downfall its beloved con-
tederacy, with its traditional faith in Divine Providence
1t would hail the election Of Democratic President in
1877 as virtual reversal of the Appomattox surrender
1t would come into power with the hate, the chagrin
the WRATH the modification of ten bitter years impe
and guide its steps, 1t would devote itselfo taking off
or reducing tax after until the Treasury depriy
ed OF the means paying the interest the national
debt and would hail the tdings of national bankruptcy
with unalloyed gladness and unconceaed exutaton-l
whatever chastsement may be deserved by our nation
al sins, we must hope that this dirgrace and humiliation
will be spared us"
If the Democrats claim that Horace is honest
they must admit that he advocated all the
measures of Congress and the policies of the ad-
mInIstratlon that have been so emphatically |
condemned by them, that he stands committed
to full, clear, unqualified endorsement of
President Grant and his official acts, that he
has been unsparing in his denunciations and
villifcations of the Democratic party-they
must admit that he is honestly committed to all
OF these or admit that he is dishonest. If they
admit that was "honest" in his unscrupulous
abuse OF the Democratic party, they must ad.
NIT that all that he has said of them is true or
that he Is controlled by perverted judgment,
unbrldled passions and an utter disregard for
the reputation of his fellow citizens and prop-
er respect for the high duties lie owes society
II they admit that what he has said of them is
true, then they confess themselves entirely un
fit to be elevated to the control of our national
affairs even with Horace Greeley for their Pres
ident. If they claim that he did not tell the
truth about them, then he is unftto be pLacedin
the Presidential chair Of the Republic. If they q
admit that he aoaS honest in his endorsement of
the Ku Klux and election enforcement laws,
and that he honest in his glowing tribute to
the excellency of President Grants administra-
ton, even including the San Domingo scheme,
we ask them to tell US what vision has come
over the spirit of his political dreams since
those endorsements were made that has wrought
a change in his mind concerning them? We
fail to find any new facts, any other circum-
stances, any brighter light to illuminate these
subjects now then there were when he express
ed his opinions upon them. Then if Mr.. Gree 7
ley has changed his mind upon these all i'm
portant topics without having any new light to 8
guide his judgment, we must arrive at the con- O.
elusion that he has done so from impure mo- !;
tives. If this be the case, he is unworthy of the
confidence of the people. If he has not been
moved to this change by impure motives, then
render him incompetent to discharge the duties =
Of President of the United States. il
MR.. GREELEY's ACCEPTANCE. -
By nominating Horace Greeley the Demo-
cratic party endorse him as he is and ask the
people to elect him to the Presidency upon all
his past inconsistencies and his present prom
ses. His record up to his nomination is before
you. Since then he has exhibited wonderful
disposition to letter writing. The platform on
which the Cincinnati convention placed him, S
contains these words on free trade and protec-
5ion ave remit the discussion of the subject
to the people in their congressional districts,
and to the decision of Congress thereon, wholly
free of executive interference or dictation." u
After seventeen days deliberation Mr. Gree
ey wrote letter OF acceptance as long as the Z
,arif schedule in which, in referring to this
plank of the platform he said: "The raising
If revenue, whether by tariff or otherwise shall
De recognized and treated as the peoples inn
mediate business, to be shaped and directed by
hem through their representatives in Con
yress, whose action thereon the President must
neither overrule by his veto attempt to dictate
nor presume to punish" By this Mr.. Greeley
ellis us that he will not veto any law Congress
may choose to pass concerning the revenue and
,he tariff. Before taking his seat, if elected,
Mr.. Greeley is obliged to take the following
bath Of office:
81 do solemnly swear that will faithfully
execute the Office of President of the United
States, and WILL to the best of my ability, pre-
serve, protect and defend the constitution of
The United States"
The 7th section of the first article of the con-
;titution says; every bill which shall have
passed the House of Representatives and Sen
ate, shall, before it becomes law, be presented
10 the President of the United States if he ap-
prove he shall sign it, but If not he shall return
Il, with his objection to that House in which it
shall have originated"
If he does not approve bill the constitution
makes it his Stoorn, Imperative duty to veto tt
Yet Mr.. Greeley promises in his letter of ae-
,eptance that he won't veto any bill passed by
Congress concerning the revenue even should
It repeal the tariff laws, abolish the revenue '
and bankrupt the nation. And he said little y
more than a year ago that if this same party,
whose willing instrument he has consented to
became shOuld he elevatad tn nowar Gsit rpouId