Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — Feers, Not Vassals. [ARTICLE]

Feers, Not Vassals.

It is not at all certain that the Republicans can elect anybody to the Presidency this year. It is mathematically certain that they cannot elect Grant. The Republicans, therefore, have their choice between a chance of success and the certainty of defeat. In the old feudal days it was thought a tine and praiseworthy thing for the vassal to throw away his life in his lord’s quarrel. But our Republican readers are not vassals. They are peers ; the peers of Grant, the peers of Conkling, the peer.; of Cameron, the peers of John Logan. If they throw away their votes upon an impossible candidate, they will do it of their own free choice and with their open eyes.— New York Situ.