Harper's Weekly

“ Without the sage, destruction is sure. With him is the sole chance. The Democratic conviction is that if the chance should win, the Democratic organization would be saved; the Republican organization would be destroyed; and as the great mass of voters and the machinery which accomplished the result would be Democratic, and as Mr. Greeley represents nothing in the canvass but the Democratic purpose of any-thing-to-beat-Grant, the result must necessarily be a Democratic triumph, which would enable the party to intrench itself impregnably for the election of '76. ”

“ Now the Democratic leaders do not wish their party to be dissolved, for in new combinations what might become of them? To save the organization, therefore, at all hazards, is at present their sole care. ”

“ Greeley has been always a Republican, yet if he is willing to run against the Republican party, with the support of the most conspicuous and unreconstructed of the late rebels, why should Northern Democrats plead a queasy stomach? ”