Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-22
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 If Gen. Grant is beaten, this fall, it will not be from his personal demerits- because people believe him arbitrary. am- bilious. and corrupt but because the Re- publican party is weighed down by the corrupt record of such United States Sen- ators as Cameron of Pennsylvania, Cald- well of Kansas, and Clayton of Arkansas, by the selfishness ofsuch Senators as Conk- lin of New York and Morton of of Indi- ana, and above all by the atrocious ras- cality of the Southern Republican State administrations that followed Reconstruc- tion. With the shrewdness that has marked all of MT. Greeley's political ut- tsrances since his nomination, he girded sharply at our weak side in his Portland speech, closing as follows:
 The deposed and partially exiled Tam many Ring has stolen about S3O, 900, 900 from the City of New York. That was a most gigantic robbery, and hurled it's con- trivers and abettors from power and splen- dor to impotency and ,infamy; but the thieving carpet -baggers have stolen at least thrice this amount stolen it from the already impoverished and needy, and they still Haunt their prosperous villainy In the high places of the land, and are ad- dressed as Honorable and ExceIency. I think hear voice from the honest peo- pie of all the States declaring that this in- iquity shall be gainfu1 and insolent no longer, at farthest, than to the 4th of March next.
 Now, supposing Mir. Greeley elected, how is this wonderful purifcation of the South Carolina, Florida. Mississippi zzOuisiana and ArhHnsas State administra- lions to be effected ? MT. Blair had a plan in 1868, and that is the only one that seems open to MT. Greeley since he has become convert to the State Rights theory enunciated in one of the Cincin- nati resolutions. Republicans believe in a National authority sufficient to restore good government to a state that has lost it through fraud, terrorism, or rebellion. That authority we hope to see exercised in case the Carpet Baggers continue their abominable rascalities. MT. Gree ley has no such recourse; and how can a state in which the negro voters are in 8 majority be reached during his admins tration except by an armed rising of whites followed up by the severeat meas ures of repression and intimidation in other words, by following out the very plan proposed by MT. Blair and which made the North an unit against the De- mocracy four years ago?
 In Louisiana the case is more compli- cated still. There the wel-abused Casey earned his bad name by helping the Democracy against Carpet Bagger, now Liberal Republican, Yarmouth. The Car pet-Bagging State government rebels against the national Republican authority and if Grant loses the State in November it will be because these rascals divide the negro vote in favor of Greeley.
 The only thorough reformation of South ern State administrations will come through union of the honest men, of all colors and of all politics, against the knaves. This would be more readily effected under an honest Republican na- tional administration, supported by Re- publican Congress, than with the dead lock in national legislation and the reac- ton against impartial suffrage that must follow Greeley's election.