The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-26

their behalf Returning home, inflated
with reception which was anything bu
creditable to him, he began to be more
frequent and more violent in his attacks
upon the President and his Administra
ton, until his nomination by an irrespon
sible conclave at Cincinnati, and his sub
sequent Endorsement by the Baltimore
Convention, representing whatever was
factious in spirit at the North and dis
loyal in condnct at the South during the
conspiracy for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
the Republic since which time, having
ostensibly withdrawn from the manage
ment of his paper, the Tribune has made
itself infamous by it's surprising audac-
ity, its despicabe method Of warfare
upon the man ''better fitted to occupy the
White House in 1872 than in 1861 its
base Grimm alton of the Republican party
as hating and expressing the whites OF
the South (meaning the whites that rose
in rebellion), and its disgusting adulatlon
of ''the Sage of Chappaqua" as the COM
ing deliverer.
" Presidency on the brain" is the
secret of Mr.. Greeley's hostility to Grant.
No other solution of his extraordinary
conduct is even plausible. Remember
that he has upheld the Administration
and all its leading measures, especially
Congressional action for the suppression
! of Ku-KluXism, now SO fercely denounc-
| ed until within comparatively short time.
| Since then the President has done moth
ing to indicate that he is an altered man,
or to evoke Mr.. Greeleys censure. If he
is as corrupt and despotic as the latter
now represents hin, to be, he was not less
so when Mr.. Greeley extolled him for his
integrity, and defended him against his
Democratic and Rebel accusers. 1t is
most unfair for this Liberal rival to go
back upon his own record, and ring the
LII Ao11s -
| corruption, " Email administratio etc.
etc. He must be held to his own declara-
tions. He is fairly precluded from max
ing any filings or registering any grave
charges against the President for what
| transpired under his Administration up
to the hour of his public Endorsement of
him. If he can show that he erred
through ignorance, or that the President
has since that time been guilty of any acts
that call for his rejection by the people,
| he will be entitled to forgiveness, on the
one hand, for his former partisanship,
and to general commentator, on the
other, for his courage and fidelity to prin-
ciple. But he can do no such thing; and,
hence, it is not for him to bring any rail
ing accusations.
Another remarkable somersault is
seen in the sudden secession of General
Banks, of Massachusetts,, from the Re-
publican ranks, and active alliance with
the Greeley movement. True, 1t is not
an event of general, hardly of any local
| Importance yet it affords another strik-
ing illustration of the utterly indefensible
conduct of the Republican seceders gen.
orally, and it is easy to condemn them out
of their own mouths OF course, some
reasons must be given for such a transit
ton. Let US, therefore, listen to those
| offered by General Banks
eff you come down to the very marrow of it,
the sole distinguishing difference between the Ad
ministration party and the party in opposition is
that the Administration contends for the perpetual
ton of power in this country in tie hands Of fac
| ti0n who or less for their personal bene-
fit, and the opposition for the preservation of that
power in the hands Of the people A large and
powerful party have possession and desire to con-
tlnue in it for their own benefit The reason
do this is, that l know perfectly well that these
principles-the equality ct ell men. the enfran-
chisement of all men, the reconciliation of all men
can never be attained by the success of any one
party
1t is because of the venal character and
false position of the Administration party,
therefore, that General Banks withdraws
| from it. Yet he has been conspicuous
member of that party, and an able repre-
sentative of it in Congress-; has helped to
shape and enforce its policy; has sustain
ed all those measures which are so dis
tasteful to the opposition; has seen no
| good reason why President Grant should
|
for errors of judgment and mistakes in the
| appointment of subordinates. Three
months ago, at the Philadelphia Conven-
ton, he assented to the claim that ''during
eleven years Of its supremacy the Re-
| publican party has accepted with grand
| courage the solemn duties Of the times,
suppressed gigantic rebellion, emanci-
pated four millions of slaves, declared the
equal citizenship of all, established uni
! uprca1 ayhihitoH oil I LODI
magnanimity, criminally punished no
man for political offenses, and warmly
welcomes all who prove their loyalty by
obeying the laws and dealing justly with
their neighbors." Moreover, 1--WE believe
that the modest patriotism, the earnest
purpose, the sound judgment, the practi-
cal wisdom, the incorruptible integrity,
and the illustrious services of Ulysses s.
| Grant have commended him to the hearts
of the American people; and with him at
our head we start to-day upon a new
march to victory
Still further, a month ago, General
Banks put his signature to a circular to
the soldiers, containing the following pan
egyric:
| I'VE congratulate ourselves upon the fact that
the Government, during the past three and hall
years. has been administered by one of our com
rades, who has shown wonderful civil capacity il
Quoting foreign affairs with great skill that
we now stand at peaceWith the whole world: ir
preserving peace in sections of our country where
sentiments were entertained calculated to disturb
the reorganization of the States lately in rebel
ion.
Here is tribute to the President OF
which any man might be proud, even
George Washington, were he now living
and what was claimed for the Republican
party at Philadelphia was equally merited.
But General Banks is now electioneering
for the defeat of that party, and the rejec
ton of Ulysses S. Grant, as unworthy to
sit in the Presidential chair! The peril
nent inquiry, therefore, is: What has
the President or the Republican party
done, or proposed to do, within the past
month, or the last three months, in con-
travention of grand record; thereby
calling for the indignant tablespoonful of the
American people, and iustfying the with
drawal of their confidence and support:
Nothing-absolutely nothing, in word OF
deed! The dereliction is exclusively on
the part of General Banks; the disin.
terested patriot is lost in the calculating
politician. He has made and can make
no satisfactory or even plausible defense
of his tortuous course; for nothing has
transpired since he was the eulogist and
defender of the Administration to war.
rant his present hostile attitude. When
he says of the hybrid party which he has
Joined, forgetting the bitterness of the
past, we stand in the support of equal
rights for all, and in the interest of all