Year: 1872

Hewas never beat on that line. I'D
When treason was threatenin' TO swamp us,
| Twas he gave the thing its death blow;
| And as he brought us through the danger,
| amt going back on him now.


| / do not pretend to know much


About Tariffs - and "balance Of trade"
But business is generly lively,


| And pretty fair profits is made;


| 'sCivil Service Reform and sich rant,
1. I'm well satisfied with the country, -i''' 2
| And, by thunder Pm going for Grant.


Greeley Repudiated-The De-


troit Free Press Declares


War to the Knife.


| The Detroit Free Press, the leading
Democratic paper of Michigan, in its
issue of July II has the following bitter
article ON ''The Greeley Convention at
Baltimore"


The convention at Baltimore has con-
eluded its work exactly as it had en-
gineered itself into position to do. 1t
has, through false practices, false state
ments, and false promises attempted to
sell, and hopes to deliver, to one branch
of the Republican party, the entire vO-
ting masses and the organs of the DEM
ocratic party under the pretext of"re-
form.' 1t has chiefly found fault with
General Grant because he has filled the
pockets of his relations and friends;
| nd yat n pou ,,ronncac m taEa anothar
Radical who has until the third of May
indorsed him and urged him on in
wiekedness, and through the aid of the
honest Democracy put him in the posi-
ton to fill the pockets of another set of
relations, friends and Adventures. 1t
has stated that it does this in the inter-
est of the Democratic party, when its
members well know that it is intended
if successful, to be the death-knell OF
the Democratic party, and the cOnstruc-
ton of an hermaphrodite organization,
held together without any principles,
save those of keeping the administra-
ton of the financial affairs of the eoun-
try in their own hands. The nearer it
gets to success the worse off will be
every financial and commercial interest
in the country. The unsettlement of
everything that conduces to enterprise
and investment will follow. What the
country may, under these circumstances
be coming to, will be the question Of
the day, but none can answer, because
the course of the man nominated, in
the sham he is going on with, stigma
tizes him as an unprincipled office-seek-
er. The only hope We have for the fu-
ture of the country lies in his defeat,
and to that end we shall, in the true in
terests of the country and of the DEM
ocracy, labor. We repudiate such utter
want of principle and honesty. We
urge upon every honest Democrat in
the country to do the same. Be they
few or many in each locality they will,
when this crazy movement is defeated
in November, form the nucleus to which
everything pretending to be Democrat
ic must gravitate; and it will be their
and our proud satisfaction to know that
what is saved of Democracy, and of a
government by the people instead of by
adventurers, will be saved through our
efforts. ...4 ..........


We do not propose to discuss or ar
que at any length the Independent
course the Free Press will take in this
campaign. 1t is sufficient for our own
guidance to know that it will be truly
Democratic; that unprincipled men,
individually or collectively, calling
themselves a National Convention or
anything else, cannot sell or give the
Democratic party over to Republican
ism or to the advocacy of q radical and
lifelong enemy, however politically OBJ
Iliquitous in other matters may have
been his actions. If the proposition
was made that the so-called Democratic
National Convention deemed Grant the
best man for the next four years ad-
ministration, and that it commanded
the support of the Democratic party in
that action, shout of treason and in
dignant reputation would go up out OF
every throat in the party. The change
of the name of the individual does not
modify this newly claimed right OF
convention. 1t is true and safe prin-
ciple that no convention can change its
party with success; that its powers OF
choice for candidates are restricted to
the party that it represents, or that the
very extreme of its powers could only
permit it to take the responsibility of
nominating a concert to our party If he
had but been an opponent. But in this
case not only is the attempt made to de-
liver the Democratic party over to an
enemy, but to the most conspicuous
enemy during an entire lifetime, and
one who has never retraeted or modi-
fled single expression of hate and de-
testation of our principles. The man
himself is the nominee of a self-consti-
Etuted Republican Convention of sore
heads, to which no Democrat was ad-
mitted; and parcel of Democratic
soreheads have, in their individual des-
paration, tax EN- him up in most un-
principled manner. This cannot be
covered up by declaring themselves
Democrats. They have either sold them
selves to Radicalism and Horace Gree
ley, or they are in dishonest manner
seeking through victimizing him to re-
gain this prominence and the officers
they have held when the Democratic
party was in power. There is hardly a
man among them that does not talk of
Greeley as "bitter pill" as an lawful
Dose" US the last man they would
choose II they could individually have
a choice; and yet with this almost uni
versal distaste for the man on account
of his principles so honestly proclaimed
for thirty years, and which are not even
pretended to be changed, these men at
tempt, in their insane desire for promi-
nence and plunder, to impose him up
on the Democratic party. Ii will fail,
and will bring into deserved contempt
those leading men who have deluded
and will continue to try to delude
others.