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The Issue. The Field*
Prior to the Philadelphia Conven
tion, we were in anxious doubt,
whether that body would adopt a
course conciliatory to the South and
tending to divide or weaken, by mis
leading our forces; or whether, by
turning their backs finally on the
South and justifying their disregard
for the authority of the Constitution
they would seek to revive the old
uWfar P«rtiz.” »b*» smqulder-
ing hate of the majority seclion, to
secure a victory, whose fruits must
be an lucrease of Federal power and
an intensification both of Central
oppression and Southern wretched
ness. The action of that Conven
tion has been taken and leaves no
vestige of uncertainty. The line of
the Grant Party is clear and pro
nounced. It means “no terms with
Rebels.” Hatred for the South is
the vital bond of its union. Per
secution of the South is the motto of
its banner. W ith fiendish malice,
strongly flanked by avarice and fa
naticism, they have discarded all
desire for reconciliation. Despising
the restraints of the organic law and
dead to human sympathy, they aim
to convert our past sorrows into ag
onizing tortures, though this fair land
become a wilderness, howling with
barbarism and idolatry. For the
first time in the history of the Gov
ernment, the President and Cabinet
proceeded, in solemn t form, to the
Capitol, to invoke special legisla
tion. That legislation was none oth
er than the re-enactment of the “sus
pension of the habeas corpus," which
himself had originated—a palpable
infraction of the Constitution, arm
ing his hands with the power of a
Military Despot. A few days later
that Party, the die is cast, for victo
ry or defeat. Our doom hangs trem
bling in the balance. Between the
candidate and the policy, there is
harmony at least. Grant is military
or nothing. A hard-headed, un
scrupulous sensualist, bis circum
stances are insatiate parasites, with
whom office is but a personal per
quisite. The success of this faction
portends ruin to the South, sure, ab
solute, unmitigated. The issue may
well evolve desperation, but not
despair.
“Rise, fellow-men, our country
yet remains.”
. Undoubtedly there are elements
of weakness, too, developed in the
Radical tactics, which awaken our
reasonable hopes. That the excess
es of the administration have re
pelled many of its earlier support
ers, is apparent. That the Vice
Presidential candidate is wholly
without strength and even obnoxious
except in New England, where Grant
needed no strengthening, is admil-
• ted. That Grant himself has more
enemies in his own party than any
other man in it, we confidently be
lieve. That the adopted policy of
the Party, for the campaign, though
powerfully tending to arouse the
prejudices, is yet ill adapted to en-
dnr« r J !•'.
the unaspiring privates of the Party,
we think experience will show.
These things show the alternative
field of battle. Calm reason, in
spired by a devout patriotism; or
wild prejudice, fired by the demon
of partyism. Between them it is, irf
great measure, our privilege to elect.
The mas3 of Northern voters are
as far from consenting that the Re
publican institutions of our fathers
shall be overthrown and substituted
by military despotism, as we are.
Let ,the mists of passion so clear
away that they can see that such is
the inevitable tendency of Grantism
and they will rise up against it with
terrible energy.
Again, the majority of Northern
voters are as firmly persuaded, that
the Democratic Party, as now or*
ganized and named, is responsible
for disunion and all its attendant
evils, as of their own existence.
Taking these two facts, as facts,
does it not lollow that a strict Party
race between Republicans and Dem
ocrats would resolve itself into a sec-
lional contest, the “one thing need
ful, the very sine qua non, to Grant’s
success ? Whocan suppose, for a mo
ment, that a high degree of party spir
it, involving party prejudice, and sec
tional furor could be stirred up, in a
contest between Greeley and Giant?
Prejudice, at the North, must be near*
ly neutral between them. Old antago
nisms and the memories thereof,
would not blind the minds of men to
the impending revolution in our form
of Government. Truth would mani
fest herself, as through a cloudless
medium, and patriotism prompt the
nation to the rescue.
The crimes of the enemy have
put him at our mercy. Let not our
own folly cheat us of the victory, so
essential to our liberties. Let a broad,
generous Patriotism, forgetting the
dead iss.ues of the past, and striking
hands with all, who honestly strive
for Constitutional liberty, sway all
our counsels. Let the petty, nar
row, crabbed, self-seeking, lust for
office, and idolatry of Party, be bu-
norI nut of nnr siaht on/t tvo mar
appeal, with high hopes, to the Cod
of Nations, for deliverance.
The Baltimore Gazette,, urgent
for a straight-out Democratic nom
ination, thus speaks:
“Mr. Trumbull is himself a Re
publican.—Af a Senator, he ranks
i Very Slroig
One of lb
Unity at Home.
It is reported that the Grant Cen
tral Executive Committee, recently
convoked at Washington City, de
termined, that it would be worse
than useless, to waste money or la*
bor, in the effort to aflect the elec-
tios in Georgia. They will invest
only where lliere is hope of securing
the electoral votes. If that resolve
shall be adhered to, we will be hap
pily rid of Radical trouble in this
State. This is a consummation most
devoutly to be wished. Where they
disburse money in elections, they
will assuredly invest bayonets too.^
The recently passed Enforcement
Act opens the door for Federal in
terposition, and nothing but assur
ance of their failure in Georgia will
exempt us from outrage. How can
we supply that assurance r Simply
by presenting a united front. Let
bickerings cease. These produce
heartburnings and schism. Schism
divides our forces, admits Radical
interference and threatens the resto
ration of Radical supremacy in coun
ty and State. Every impulse of
patriotism therefore demands mutu
al forbearance in diversity ot opin
ion. Let us preserve the true snifil
proaching, freely gxvingouropinions
in kindness now, and subordinating
all selfish and personal- preferences
to a common zeal, in working out
common destiny, on a common line,
as indicated by our common repre
sentatives in the Baltimore and Slate
Conventions.
among the foremost of bis party, and
a3 a jurist, he stands so high in the
estimation of his Senatorial associ
ates that he-has long been conceded,
as of right, the Chairmanship of the.
Judiciary Committee. When such
a man denounces the Supplementa
ry Enforcement bill as a bill of
abominations—as be had previously
denounced the suspension of the ha
beas corpus—those who deem the
Liberal Republicans with whom Mr
Trumbull is affiliated, and whom Mr.
Greeley represents, as no belter than
Grant Radicals, must either be in
love with despotism, or must have
sunk so low as to be ready for the
manacles that Morton and others are
forging to bind them hand and foot.”
How the States Move.—Each State
is entitled to twice the number of
delegates to the Baltimore Demo
cratic Convention that it has repre;
sentatives and Senators in the Fed
eral Congress.
The Convention will, therefore
consist of 734 delegates.
Thirteen States have held their
Dcuiuviaiic Own rcutiuno, anj ap-
pointed delegates to Baltimore, num
bering 308. These States are:
Kansas—For Greeley 10
Iowa—For Greeley 22
Indiana—For Greeley 30
Florida—For Greeley ,.... 8
South Carolina—For Greeley 14
Tennessee—For Greeley, 24
Vermont—For Greeley 10
Missouri—For Greeley........ 30
West Virginia—For Greeley 10
New York—For Greeley 70
Louisiana—For Greeley..-. 16
Pennsylvania—For Greeley 58
Wisconsin—For Greeley 10
t for Greeley Tleke1,
staunchest and most
prominent Radicals in the country is
Ex-Gov. D?ra9on of Ohio. He has
been interviewed, and gives his rea-
why desires the defeat ot j
hew ADVERTISEmehts
son
Greeley,
ence
302
For a straight ticket:
Delaware .....6
308
Of the Pennsylvania delegation
two are reported for a straight out’
nomination. Pennsylvania says noth
ing in her platform, but it is state‘d,
•and undenied, that her, delegation
was to go for Greeley.
The New York delegation is lo use
itsjudgment in going for Greeley, if
it is the hest that can be done.
Two of the Louisiana delegation
are reported fora straight tickets
The remaining States express
preference for the Greeley ticket.
STILL CRUSHING THE REBELLION,
On the day of .the nomination at
Philadelphia, Mrs. Grant received
the following dispatch :
Mrs. President Grant: My warm
est congratulations on the General’s
enthusiastic nomination for a second
term. May God bless him, and
preserve his valuable life till every
vestige of rebellion is crushed out.
Geo. H. Stewart.
Gen. Toombs, speaking- at the
Atlanta Opera House, on the 14th
inst., said:
“ So far as the Government of the
United States is concerned, I am its
enemy. 1 have Itod under foot the
flaunting lie a hundred times, and I
trust to doit again.”
How many Northern voles can a
Democratic candidate get on this
Toombs platform ? With what rel
ish the Grantites will roll this dic
tum under their longues as a sweet
morsel! How many hundreds, thou
sands of voles will be secured to
Grant by such madness! Will the
law-abidinir. liheEiv-W^-at r“ 1,011
ot iheNortliern people rise up against
despotism, if they believe the other
alternative to be disunion ? In a
sectional controversy, will not the
233 electoral votes of the Noiih pre
vail against the 134 of the South ? Is
it not supreme folly to make the con
test sectional—for or against the
Duion—when we are able to fnake
it national—for or against the Cousti-
lution ? It is true that the South and
the Democracy are not for disunion.
Still the controlling majority of North
ern voters can easily be persuaded,
by the massive Grant party, that such
is the issue, and the're stilt will be the
same to us, as if it were true. Is it
not wise to take that argument (and
its consequent success) out of their
mouth, by taking an undeniably na
tional position, with a candidate,
who is safe, but certainly not South
ern, and whose alliance will secure
Democratic majorities in Congress
and the Slate Governments ? Are
not reason and safely better than
prejudice and passion and defeat and
enmity and oppression and monar
chy ?
Gen. A. C. Dodge, the leading
Democrat of Iowa, in a letter to the
Burlington Gazette, reviews the po
litical situation at length, anil
m i.hiiv.£vy ,r 'ly e viv?w certain, if the
friends of peace and good govern
ment shall present a united, unbrok*
en front to the enemy ; and, aroused
by the great object of a nation’s de
liverance from spoliation and mis
rule, shall we not conquer mere per
sonal and parly prejudice and unite
with the Liberal Republicans; 1
think we ought to; and to this end I
hope that the Baltimore Convention,
to be held on the 9th of July, will
approve and adopt the platform and
candidates of the Cincinnaii Con
vention.
Grant’s Letter of Acceptance.
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, D. C. June 10, ’72 )
Hon. Thomas Settle, President Nation-
al Republican Convention, Paid
Slroback, Elisha •Baxter, C. A.
Sargent, and others, Vice Presidents:
Gentlemen : Your letter of this
date advising me of the action of the
Convention held in Philadelphia,
Pa., on the 5th and 6th of this
mbulh, and of my unanimous nomi
nation for the Presidency by it, is
received. I accept the nomination,
and through you return the heartfelt
thanks to your constituents for this
markofiheir confidence and sup
port.
If elected in November, and pro
tected by a kind Providence in
healtli and strength to perform the
duties of the high trust conferred, I
promise the same zeal and devotion
to the good of the whole people for
future of my «4fioial *»* »hown-fn
ine past. Past experience may guide
me in avoiding mistake^ inevitable
with novices in all professions, and
all occupations. When relieved
from the responsibility ol my pres
ent trust by the election of a succes
sor, whether it be at the end of ibis
term or the next, I hope to leave to
lym as Executive, a country at peace
with outside nations, with a credit
at home and abroad, and without
embarrassing questions to threaten
its future prosperity. With the ex
pression of a desire to see a speedy
healing of all bitterness of feeling
between sections, parties or races of
citizens, and the time when the title
of citizen carries with it all the pro
tection and privileges to the hum
blest that it docs to the most exalK
ed.
I subscribe myself very respect-
fullv,
Your obedient servant,
U. S. Grant.
Honry Wilson, the Grant candi
date for Vice President, was once a
! cobbler, and his name was Jeremi
ah Colbath. He changed his name,
entered politics, and lived to be in
at the final retirement of the lament
ed Schuyler Colfax.—Courier-Jour,
uy . V will be seen by refer
to hk statements on this point
which wegive below, that Governor
Denison lelieves if the Democratic
party tjniies on Greeley, such action
will lead to the overthrow of the
Radical party. The arguments pre
sented «o forcibly by Gov. Denison
why the Radicals should not sup
port Greeley, will strike Southern
men as strong reasons why the Gree
dy ticket should receive the united
vote of all the true men of the South.
On this point his utterances are a*
follows:
My judgment is that the election
ofMr.,Greeley as the joint candidate
of the-Liberal Republicans and Dem
ocrats, will be a virtual restoration
of the'Democratic party to the con
trol of ther Government. For the
purposes of the present canvass I
regard it as immaterial whether the
Baltimore convention accepts or re
jects Mr. Greeley, because, in my
opinion, the Republican party has a
well defined majority in enough of
the States tp ensnre the election of
the ^nominees of the Philadelphia
Convention; but looking to the(fu
ture, I should regard a union of Lib
eral Republicans and the Democrat
ic party as pregnant with mischief
to the country, as such a union
might constitute the basis of a new
party organization, in which the
Democratic party, from its superior
numbers, would have and exercise
absolute control. Wnile this larger
elemenMfugbl, consent to 8 ,ve P 1 " 0 ? 1 *
inefit positions to the more especial
representatives oi the Liberal ele
ment, the power to control these
functionaries would necessarily be
in the largei section of the new par
ty, namely, the Democratic, and
they would therefore be compelled
to obey the demands and the policies
of the Democratic portion, just as
the Northern representatives of the
old Democratic party were com
pelled to obey the demands of the
slave power——the controlling element
of the party. Thus would be wit
nessed the practical restoration of
the Democratic party to power in
the Government, and in my judg
ment, «u eh a restoration would be
more mischievous to the country
than worfld be the restoration of the
Democratic party, pure and simple,
as in the latter case the people would
be mor6 vigilant to detect its wrong
designs than if the nominal headot
the party were one who had enjoyed
the confidence of the loyal people of
the country. So that, if this view is
correct, and Mr. Greeley should be
forest city
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tives or purposes might he, his acts,
being controlled by the Democratic
or disloyal element, would accord
with its demands, and the country,
while quietly reposing on its confi
dence in Mr. Greeley, would find
itself betrayed by the power that
controlled him. I do not believe
there is any perfect safety to the Re
public without the total demolition
of the Democratic party as a party
organization ; and I cannot regard,
him as a friend to the country, how
ever pure and patiiotic he may be
lieve bis motives to be, who will aid
to restore the Democratic party to
power, whether in its independent
organization or as a controlling part
of a new party.
The following letter to a gentle
man in Macon county, Ala., we find
in the Montgomery Advertiser: ,
Washington, May 30, ’72. }
My Dear Sir—In reply to your)
letter, [ am confident that the gen-'
eral acquiescence in the nomination
of Mr. Greeley. by the Democratic
party will secure his election, and
that sud{ a rfesuli will remove all the
difficulties which the South now
rerts under. I hope the delegation
from Alalama to the Baltimore Con
vention will he this way of thinking.
It is the only means of removing
from power the odiou9 party now
afflicting the whole country.
Very truly,
■ FERNANDO WOOD.
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