Year: 1872

ernmental intermeddling with those
concerns of society which, under judi
feious laws, might be generally left to
Individual action, is the only real evil
aetually developed in our system. This
leminenee is assigned to il because it is
the fruitful parent of all others, and be-
cause the measures required to correct 1t


are precisely those which would extir-
I pate the understandable powers now SO


mischievously exercised by our officials.
/ If, instead of prohibiting or diminishing


this vicious practice, our people should
/ impart to it new sanctions and greater


vitality and form, it must become i'm
possible of this practice. Above all


other living Americans,


MR.. GREELEY


I is the recognized champion. and no


body of organized opponents to it has


ever existed in the country, except the


Democratic party. Yet by the decree Of


a convention assuming to represent that
party, Mr.. Greeley has been gazetted as


its standard-bearer. Opposition to that
proceeding has, in my mind, far deep
er source than mere attachment to party
| That I, at least, am unduly influenced
by that sentiment may appear by the
measures adopted against the recently
detected municipal malfeasance in or
gauiziHg the forces employed. Equal


opportunities for purging itself from
lcOmplicity we conceded to each


of the great political parties andto every
class thus in no sense has been shielded
from the discredit of evil associations
inadvertently formed of official villainy,
stands literally defenseless under actual
or impending judgment, and all honest
men in this great city and State are
united as a brotherhood in common de-
tense. As do, then, from party senti-
ment, my views of the public interest
and of existing public necessities, COM
pei me to repudiate


THE BALTIMORE NOMINATION


of Mr.. Greeley. Whenever speaking
or writing on the subject, have uni
formly condemned, and declared my
readiness to support a Democratic candi-
date. This circumstance has led TO q
suppOsitiOn in some quarters that had
aspirations to Office, and it has been sug-
gested that my name be offered 10 your
acceptance as candidate. The object
of this letter Is to avoid misrepresentation
on that point. If compelled to decide
between General Grant and Mr.. Gree
ley, as candidates for the Presidency,





much upon the mere conjecture of those
inclining to the latter as choice of evils
suggest that a mitigation of expressions
at the South would result from his sue
cess. There may, however, be equal
ground to hope for that good result in
either of this rivalry. Once his second |
term shall have been secured,
80 GEN. GRANTS
only motive for inhicting misery upon |
that portion of his countrymen viii /
cease. An effort to secure third term
or to establish a Dictatorship cannot be |
reasonably apprehended, and, conse-
quently, comparison of probabilities |
offers US merely a blank Olympiad on
the one hand, or four years Of indie |
Unable activity on the other. Wise ma
tons have had occasion to pass through /
a transitional period somewhat similar /
to that now affectiBg Southern inter- |
ests in their action. At that time we
could find safe precedents for a course of |
policy which would promptly reinstate |
Southern prosperity, but if there be one |
among the master spirits of the age,
who, even if inclined, could not adopt 1
that polecyrts, Mr.. Greeley, as
the successor of General Grant, |
might involve no important cOnse-
quence, but that if Mr. Greeley
would cOnsecrate the practices re-
ferred to, which, in my opin-
ion, are absolutely incompatible
with the permanency Of Republican in
stitutions. In saying this it is not in
tended simply to pronounce for anti
proteetiORist ideas. That question is
left untouched. If the support of our


A HOME MANUFACTURES


against foreign competition is to be re-
garded as sound policy, it can be afford
ed as needfui by a much simpler, less
expensive and a far less demoralizing
process than our Oveagrown customs
The true policy is
national regeneration. 1t is far more
comprehensive than mere free trade.
Its aim is to break the sceptre and
crush the power Of the trading politician.
and emancipate the masses four-fifths
Of the government Intervention now
practiced in carrying on the affairs Of
society should be dispensed with. Ex-
isting Indebtedness should indeed be
held scared, and to the last cent faith
fully redeemed, but the power of bor-
rowing money on the public credit eth
er by paper issues or otherwise is not in
vested in, though perhaps of interest to
them. 1t is compelled to furnish all the
labor connected with his n aintenancel
and bis belligerent operations. Posterity
cannot fight our battles, nor is there any
necessity that pOsterity should pay the
cost of them. Our own young men must
do the fighting. 1t is equally within the
power OF our old men to do the paying.


'PAY AS YOU COZ
it is the very hfe-blood of aristocracy
rule, for it fetters labor as the bond slave
Of capital. In modern times it furnishes
the ailment indispensable to war With
out that most shocking of all national
crimes and calamities it would be i'm
possible, for such comprehensive ad-
vances in civilization as are here sug-
gested may be as yet impracticable in
the Old World. If so, the fact only
proves that ours is the high and
holy mission of first making
them. Separated by wide ocean from
any powerful nation, mighty in the
and intelligence Of our people
through their deep and abiding
in their eountry's welfare no
external enemy dare assault US. Indeed
It is manifest TO unperverted reason that !
the adoption of efficient curbs upon Of i
fetal power Is alone needed to render
this great continent the abode of =


PEACE ANDsHUMAN HAPPINESS
)n 8 scale of surprising magnitude.
Even if defensive war be necessary, evil
S the power Of borrowing money, and
should not be conceded ON that account.
It must be admitted that war cannot be 4
carried on without vast outlays, but
money is not more necessary than men,
aud the generation which wages the
war must furnish the warrior. Can it not
llso furnish the money to


FEED, CLoTHE AND ARM


S a maxim not less sound in political
than in private affairs, and If
adapted to peeulatiOn must cease to per-
vert the government, and war could no d
onger lend legal sanction TO cruelty L
md oppression, and as if the same
'Ontend that is the normal condition
i mankind positively wiz have its own =
var TO sustain, and it is therefore
to burthen posterity with
! debt for the cost of our civil war.