Year: 1872

The Md Bachelor, is an admirer
OF Horace iey and believes that his letter
of acceptance Of the Liberal Republican Nomi-
nation for President embodies " all the vital
principles and policy for which the Democratic
party, North and South, profess to contend for )"
The Bachelor is either wofully ignorant of the
past history of the Democratic party, or fails to
cemprehsnd the true intent Of Mr.. Greeley's
letter. Nine separate and distinct propositions
are laid down in this letter, which may be briefly
summarized thus


l. The snfranchisement of the colored man
shall be guaranteed maintained and enjoyed
ever more.


2. Amnesty for the participants in the rebel
lion.


8. The supremacy of the local State
Governments.


4. Civil Service reform.


8. The Revenue plank, which is so vague and
indistinct that it is impossible to understand
Just what il meant.


8. Refusal to extend subsidies to railroads.


7. The sinking of all party differences in the
one object to defeat Grant.


s. The maintenance of public faith and the
National credit.


9. The grateful remembrance and acknowledge
ment Of the service Of our soldiers and sailors
in the late war.


These are the " vital principles which the
Bachelor says the " Democratic party profess to
contend for" 1t is for the triumph OF these
that its past labors have been directed-that it's
past course Of action has been shaped.


Is this the fact Has the Democratic party,
at any time, done aught to secure the dissem-
ination Of these principles II 80, when and
what was it ? The very first principle laid down
in Mr.. Greeley letter is negatiyed by the course
of the Democratic party prior to and since the
rebellion. The emancipation and enfranchise-
ment Of the colored man awakened in the DEM
ocratic breast spirit Of rancorous prejudice
and unappeased enmity, and the lapse OF time
and the full knowledge Of the fast that his en-
franehisement is established beyond revocation
have but slightly modified this feeling of antipa-
thy. Rogreater calamity could befall the colored
race at this time than the induction to power of
the Democratic party, and the green wyths of the
Cincinnati platform would not suffice to bind in
subsection the enmity Of this party towards that
race. The Bachelor cannot be unmindful of the
fact that in its own State the Democratic party
is to this day organized in opposition to the col
ored man and his interests.


Again. what has the Democratic party ever
done towards the maintenance of the public
faith and the National credit Everybody is
familiar with its platform of 1S6S-how it then
proposed to disclaim our National obligation and
tarnish the National credit-a course Of proceed
ing tantamount to reputation. The public
faith aud the National credit were then only
preserved and maintained through. a. 4eqrl ever
been willing to acknowledge the services Of our
soldiers and sailors in the late war On the CON
trary, they have always denounced them az
hirelings" and mudsils, and any acknowl-
edgment of services of this character would be
grudgingly made We can readily understand
the ease with which it can endorse the other
principles" since they are either equivocal or
mere glittering generalities All that is vital is
contained in the three proposition 80 antagonis-
tic to the Democratic faith


Tho Bachelor is mistaken The Democratic
party has never 'professed to contend" for the
vital principles" in the Liberal platform.
These are Republican principles, adopted by
the Republican party years ago, and maintained
and enforced in spite of Democratic efforts to
defeat them. The clap-trap of theoretical civil
service reform, subsidies to railroads, the equiv
ocal Revenue plank and the other meaningless
principles" of the Liberal platform are only
gildsd bats to secure Democratic corporation
and the manner of the Democratic snappings at
them prove their efficiency.