Year: 1872

WndI tne Soutn requires
The Southern States, since the war,
have beer the prey of beggarly aiven.
turers, who have done their best to bring
the whites and blacks into active hostil-
ity, and under whose influence the pub.
lie debt and taxation have been enor.
mously increased, and the trade and
commerce of the South have sickencd
and lost their natural growth. These ad-
venturers in every Southern State have
been propped up and sustained by the
National Government; which policy has
had the effect of aggrayating sectional
disli e. by persuading the impoverished
Southerners that the Executive il in
sympathy with thieves and vagabonds.
whose only claim upon his sympathy is
that they call themselves Republicans.
The southern people, white Ms well as
black. want fair play. They know that
their natural vigor and fertile soil will
enable them to repair the ravages Of
war. and reorganize their social and in
dustrial system, to their own profit and
that of the whole Union. if the National
Government will hold its hands and re-
cognize, as theirs, the rights and immu-
mites which are freely accorded to the
demagogues who consume our substance
and make true reunion impossible. 1t
is the supreme necessity of the South
that man be elected President of the
United States who will whip the rogue
wherever he may find him, and will
as jealously guard the liberties of the
white race as of their colored fellow
citizens. Such a man Horace Greeley
is known to be. All have confidence
in his uprightness and his unequiyocal
honesty, and from Virginia to the Gulf
the conservative people of the South
have shouted their approval of his nom
ination. 1t is evident to them that Mr..
Greeley can be elected if the Democrat
ic party throw no obstacle in the way.
The nomination Of Democratic candi-
date against Horace Greeley would make
the reelection of Grant a certainty :
which reelection would ruin the South
by continuing in force, for a period of
four years longer, the vindictive and
tyrannical practices which have been
the one insuperable barrier in the way
of southern improvement, and which
threatens to permanently ALLEVIATE the
South from the North.


This is, in brief, the position of the
Southern people. MS we understand their
feelings and desires. They accept the
Constitution as tits. They demand uni
versal amnesty, as the complement of
universal suffrage. They require that
the National Executive appoint only
capable and honest men to Office, and
that there be no interference with the
right of self-government, except in such
emergencies as are contemplated and
provided for in the Federal Constitu-
ton. They look upon Horace Greeley
as the one man, capable of election,
who will give them security and peace,
and make this, in truth, a united peo-
pie. And they require that the Democ-
racy of the North shall not throw Hor-
ace Greeley overheard. and insure his
defeat, for the sake of personal interests
or because of the wrong-headedness OF
tie Bourbons who have largely helped
to make us what We are.


These are the views which We desire
to impress upon the National Democra-
cy. We know them to be the opinions
of all but the Radical ofice-holders in
South Carolina. and We believe them to
be the opinions of the large majority OF
The people of tho Gou.L.-onu'srss<,
Ne,rs, Nays.