Year: 1872

er the Democratic party will make up


his salary to 1000 we are not informed


Whether George II. House will accest


the nomination of Secretary of State,


he himself is as yet unprepared to de.


eide. These are two nominations that


the Democratic party, or at least por.


ton OF them, propose to make upon the


State ticket for the purpose of wheedling


Republicans into the support of the


Democratic party. 1t is hard fight we
have before us. but one we shall make
successful, and thrust our opponents
back to the wall as we did in 1862,
when Byron g. Stout headed the column
Of Republican deserters to the aUnion"
movement. That movement recoiled
upon the heads of those who had inaug
urated it. And when this battle shall
have been fought and the victory won
in November, the Democratic party
which has hyPocritically laid aside its
of Office and the promotion of men
whom we have formerly trusted, will
stink away to be heard Of no more.


This movement which Carl Cchurz, in
letter to the Illinois State Convention,
declared to promise little except to
place matters in a new position for
successful movement in 1876, will be
defeated. We have too much faith in
the Republican party, and especially in
those men who have fought the battle
for twelve years past, asking no pay in
the shape of political promotion or any
thing else except the approval of their
own consciences for having done good
work not only for themselves but also
for the American people. We believe
that they will not be seduced from their
fealty and allegiance, to the support OF
Horace Greeley and the success Of Tam.
many. And let every man remember
that this contest is not one of Grant or
Greeley, but involves great moral ques-
tions which were brought to the front
by the rebellion, but which will not be
completely carried out and fundament.
ally Incorporated as a part of our Re.
publican institutions until the newborn
freedmen of the South shall sit under
his own vine and fig tree without fear
or molestation of his former master, or
the men who still hate him 'because,"
to use their expression, she is
Niger"


Let these considerations not be lost
sight of. If the choice to-day is between
the party whose principles have been
lived up to and carried out for eighteen
years in the administration of the affairs
of this State and for twelve years in the
nation, and the party which for the
sake of power promises 10 abide by that
record to betrsy those who shall con-
fide in them, the result is not doubtful.
The record of the past on our part is
the guarantee of the future. On the
other side we have nothing but prom.
ises made at Cincinnati and Baltimore.
The character of the men who made
them inspires neither respect nor con-
fidence in the mind Of the impartial
observer. Not only the political but
the financial prosperity Of our nation
is in measure to be controlled by the
honest yeo nen of the country; and we
believe that their verdict will be in ia.
vor of those to whom they have given
their trust and have not been betrayed,
rather than with this new political coali.
ton, whose head and front is composed
OF the most corrupt demsgogues that
ever attempted TO attain power in this
Republic.