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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOB THE WEEK ENDING JULY 10, 1872.
THE ATLANTA SUN
The Uuori’ia Dclt'gntc* to the ftaltimore
Convention.
We give considerable space to-day to
the communication . of Dougherty, ad
dressed to the Georgia Delegates to the
IBaltimore Convention. The article is
'written by one of the first men of the
State, and his suggestions deserve mature
consideration.
To us it seems clear that the nomina
tion of Mr. Greeley at Baltimore may
cow be considered as almost certain. It
seems to ns to be almost quite as certain
that his platform of principles will also
be indorsed. The attempt in this way
will be made to commit the Democratic
“Party of the United States to a sanction
of-all the usurpations which have marked
the course of the Radical Party for
the last six years, in their grossest out
rages upon the rights of the States and
•of the people.
This, we think, our delegates will soon
find to be the settled purpose of the
“wire-pullers'’ when they reach the field
of operations—they will find it all “cut
and dried.”
In this view of the subject our judg
ment is clear and decided that they
should take no part or lot in
4he proceedings except to enter
their protest against this unauthorized
action, both as to candidates and Plat
form.
In our Convention, hereafter to be
assembled, the Party, as a unit, should
stand upon their own platform, hereto
fore announced, and put forth candidates
for the office of electors without any ref
erence to what may be done in Baltimore.
“To electors so chosen should be confided
the rights and principles, honor and dig
nity of the State oi Georgia.
In this way the Democracy of our
State, at least, may be saved from all
•contamination with either wing of
the Radical Party; and they can
go on with the work, so well begun,
of ridding our limits of the whole usurp
ing crew, who, until recently, have been
devouring our substance. The object of
the “ wire-pullers” at Baltimore will not
"be to elect a Democrat. Their object will
1 be, as it ha? been for three years past, to
defeat that result Hence, under their
-deceitful and most guileful cry of “any
body to beat Grant,” they have com
bined with Mr. Greeley, whose avowed
object is “anybody to defeat the De
mocracy, even if that man is Grant him-
.self.”
Our earnest appeal, therefore, to the
-nnterrified masses of the Georgia De
mocracy, in case the result shall turn out
at Baltimore as present signs indicate, is
stand as brethren together ; save the
rights, interests and honor of your own
State; keep her destinies in your own
hands, and have nothing to do with this
most extraordinary coalition which seeks
-the abandonment and death of those
principles upon which rest all that is
great, noble and grand in our past histo
ry, and all that is hopeful in the future.
A. H. S.
* *A IVord Fitly Spoken is Like Apples of
Gold In Pictures of Silver.”
The McDvffic Journal of this week has
unable article upon the present situa
tion of public affairs.
After speaking of the undisguised ten
dency in certain quarters, to desert the
old principles of the Democratic Party,
it concludes in these words, most “fitly
spoken:”
There is, however, a cheering thought. There yet
remains a gallant remnant of the party, who have
nobly fought, and still stubbornly continues to bat
tle for the Constitution of our fathers; who opposes
any coalition with the enemies of the same, and who
will neteh, no never, lend their support to any
platform or party that seeks the overthrow of the
grand old principles of our Government.
We believe that it is conceded, that to elect Greeley
it will require the united strength of the Liberals
and Democrats. That ho cannot control; and should
the Bal imore Convention Indorse his platform, the
largo per centago of the two parties that have de
clared against him, would certainly insure his de-
We therefore urge, that if the Democrats cannot
gain anything by such a disgraceful alliance, it is
aar better for the party to remain intact, and to
make the best possible fight on our own platform
and under our old colors.
These words we commend to the special
^consideration of every Georgia Democrat
who feels a just pride in the present po
sition of his State, and who, with equal
pride, would maiutuiu it in the future.
What good can they accomplish by cast
ing their destiny, with Mr. Greeley ? or
furling their flag now floating in triumph
on the ramparts of the Constitution, that
it may be trailed as a trophy in the dust
of his Radical train ?
If he is going to sweep the country, as
bis advocates so vauntingly affirm, why
-should Georgians feel themselves to be
under any necessity whatever to make a
•choice between evils ? We have not yet
seen or heard of a man in this State, who
professes to be a Democrat, that is in
favor of Mr. Greeley for President, as a
matter of his own voluntary will. All
who espouse liis cause do so, as a choice
of ills. It is, they say, a “bitter pill.”
Then why take it ? Why not save
your wry faces? Why make any choice
of ills in the case, either of which will be
death to your principles — especially
when you are told that the easy death of
tlio Greeley pill will come anyhow ?
hy be a pariiceps criminis” in your
own destruction in making any choice in
the matter, under the circumstances ?
To us, it seems clear, that under every
consideration, in view of the past, the
present, and the future, the Georgia
Democracy should stand with unswerving
steadfastness to the principles they have
announced—the principles of Washing
ton, Jefferson and Jackson—and remain
uncontaminated with this Greeley coali-
prove to them, if they join it, as
the Party everywhere; more
than tiie Moabitish alliance
ons of Israel. A. H. S. i
Communicated.
Succeations «o the Georgia Delegates to
the Eultlmore Convention.
Gentlemen:—As you go untrammeled
and free to act for the good of the
whole country, allow one of your consti
tuents to present, for your consideration,
the following thoughts:
As you will represent the Democratic
party of Georgia in the National Demo
cratic Convention, I, of course, have the
right to presume that each of you is a
true Democrat. Taking this to be true,
I assume that the controlling motive that
will actuate your conduct will be tbe suc
cess of Democratic principles and the'
good of the country.
Will it be possible for Mr. Greeley to
be elected by a less number of votes than
will secure the election of a Democrat ?
Certainly not. To secure his success he
must have the entire Democratic vote,
North and,South, with a large additional
vote from the Republican party. If the
Democratic vote will elect him why will
it not elect a Democrat ? Is it fair to as
sume that the father of the Free Soil
party, in this country can get a larger
Democratic vote than the favorite leader
of tbe Democrats ? If so, why ? Is it
impossible for a true and tried Democrat,
duly nominated, to get no Republican
votes ? If so, why ? Is it that these lib
eral Republicans are so deeply wedded
to republicanism, so inveterate in their
hostility to Democratic principles, that
they are willing to receive aid from Dem
ocrats, but conscienciously opposed to
giving aid or comfort to Democratic men
or Democratic principles ?
If this is true, is it safe to consort with
such men ? Can you afford to trust our
rights in affiliation with men thus selfish,
thus unpatriotic ? Let mo urge yon to
be careful Low you trust the sacred rights
of our oppressed people to the keeping
of unredeemed and impenittnl Republi
cans. Do these people of the Cincinnati
Convention propose to save the country
or merely to whip Grant ? If the former,
and they are sincere in their purpose, if
they desire our affiliation it onght to be
on terms of becoming equality. If they
are anxious to restore constitutional
rigtits to the people, defeat centralism,
restore the rights of State Government,
then why not get upon that line and invite
all true friends of those sacred truths into
council with them. I fear that it is a
contest over spoils and not a strike for
the rights of the people. _ They speak as
if the leading idea and object with reform
is to purify and save the great Repub
lican party. This they propose to accom
plish by the defeat of General Grant, and
in the election of Mr. Greeley.
Let us not forget that General Grant
has proven to be a successful competitor.
He is hard to whip as we very well know.
Onr people are uot much concerned
in the preservation of the Republican
party. We know that it is corrupt,
it is merciless, it is unfeeling, it is cruel,
it i3 unrelenting, and it is, indeed, a
hated monster of the times. It ought to
die, and die it will, if not nursed and
too kindly treated by Dr. Greeley and
his adherents. A thousand bleeding
wounds and anxious hearts are now
ready for the interment of this dreaded
monster. I submit whether you are
under any obligation to act the part of
a good Samaritan towards this party. It
is true that “it fell among thieves,” and
is laboring under sad and dreadful
wounds, putrid corruption pours
forth from every pore; but its wounds
were received in the “house of its
friends.”. In its madness and rage
against Southern rebels, “it bit itself,
let it die.” Suicide is not a crime, and
sometimes proves a great blessing to tbe
world. Let them bind ud their own
wounds, do their own nursing, put on
their own plasters, do their own de
pletion. If it will get well, let it be. If
it dies, let the dead bury the dead.
If we are honest in our opposition to
this party, it is because of its obnoxious
principles and practices. It ought not
to be a personal hatred on our part for
General Graqt. He does his party’s
biddings. Congress put the power in
his hands, and bid him do it. Mr. Gree
ley urged that Congress should thus
clothe him with unlimited power; but
Grant is only responsible, like Mr. Gree
ley, for the advocacy of these measures.
He would be a good President if he had
a good party, with correct prihciples, to
direct him. * The trouble is, the party is
corrupt because its principles are wrong.
The motto of our fathers was, “prin
ciples not men.” The only change that
should be made to this time-honored
sentiment should be “good principles
with good men.” This is ‘ the only
chance to save the country. The great
trouble is, Republicanism has changed
the government. It formerly was a gov
ernment of the people. Its powers were
all delegated from the people. The
people ttien were the source of all power.
Now the fountains and source of all
power are in the hands of the govern
ment.
Power unrestrained is a tyrant. It is
an unfeeling despotism, an enemy to
liberty, a foe to the rights of the people.
Republicanism has done the work. It
has buried the rights of the States, and
if it is to rale, what concern is it to us
who shall be the tyrant? If we are
against tyranny and oppression we
should be against all tyrants and every
oppressor. Does Mr. Greeley or his
friends propose any modification of the
pretensions of Republicanism ? Does
he repent of his advocacy of those wild
measures passed by Congress called ap
propriate legislation under which the
country suffers and moans ? Does he call
for a re-erecting of the ancient land-marks
of liberty ? . It is true he does speak of
the subordination of the military to the
civil powers. He suggests the policy of
local legislation as a remedy for local
evils,__ but he claims distincly, in his letter,
the rights and superintending power of
Congress over the whole matter. Where
did such power come from! Under what
pretence can it be maintained ? Modern
Republicanism alone can answer. The
only difference between General Grant
and Mr. Greeley, is that the former has
grown corrupt in the use of unlimited
power, the latter stands ready to be cor
rupted. in the same way. And we are
called upon to aid in making Hiis change.
For one, I say we should have no share
or lot in the matter.
But, it is said for Mr. Greeley, that
“overwhelming waves of opinion are ris
ing in his favor, and it would be idle to
attempt to stay their progress.” This
msxy be so, but has not yet been seen. The
gentle waves sleep quietly on the great
ocean’s bosom. There is no storm yet,
the people are not moved. No popular
outburst call upon Greeley as their deliv
erer; the only feeling manifested in any
part of the whole country, North,South,
East or West, visible to the naked eye,
or audible to the human ear, is with the
Democrats.
There has been and will be some feel
ing with tbe Democrats against being
sold like “sheep in the shambles,” in a
mere contest for spoils. They have re
fused to be led away wildly at the bid
ding of would be leaders in such an un
holy mission. You represent Georgia.
There is not a trusty Georgian that can
tell you honestly where we are to be ben
efited by the election of Greeley as ho
now. stands. If he wants onr vote let
him join our party, recant his errors,
abandon his political sins, renounce his
Republicanism in every form and shape,
proclaim himself a friend -to the people,
a champion of constitutional rights, and
then we can consistently sustain him.
He now stands as a heretic, refuses to
join onr church. We are called upon to
abandon our faith and join his. This
may look right to a man hungry for
spoils, but it is a disgraceful programme
to set for an honest people.
But Mr. Hill says in his Atlanta speech
that affiliation with Greeley may secure
us a majority in the next Congress, and
this is said to be a strong point. In my
opinion it is a simple delusion. Plu
rality, not majority, elects members to
Congress. How would we be benefitted
as a party by the Liberal Republicans
running no candidate for Congress? I
cannot conceive, if they voted for the
Democrat, it would count as so many
votes; if they voted for.the Greeley can
didate for Congress, in either event the
Grant candidate would be weakened to
that extent. The effect would be the
same in the general result. Unless the
Greeley men could get more voters from
the Republican party to vote for a Demo
crat than they could for a Liberal Re
publican for that office, it would not be
so. If they thus could control Repub
licans <or a Democrat, let me suggest
that it would be a wise policy to trust
them to vote for a Democratic President.
Bat this is all idle; let the Grant men
run their candidates for Congress, let the
Greeley and Democratic party do the
same. The one getting the larger num
ber of votes will be elected. It is palpa
ble that the Greeley ticket would weaken
the Republican party in such a race much
more than a direct contest, between a
Democrat and Grant Republican. Again,
Mr. Hill calls upon us to be patient and
prudent; that we have to pass through
the Red Sea and the Wilderness before
*ve can reach the Promised Land; “that
t -isconnot be performed atone bound.”
Let me tel! the gentleman that we feel
our suffering. We have felt the woe of
Pharaoh, and desire and deeply wish for
a deliverance from this worse than Egypt
ian bondage. Bat do give ns a Moses for
onr deliverer.
This man Greeley is a Prince of the
House of Pharaoh. It is not Egypt that
we fear; it is Pharaoh that has scourged
us. He it is that is onr cruel taskmaster.
Under his bidding we have j“made the
brick without the straw.” We pray for
deliverance, but let onr leader be a true
and tried man, wise in counsel, strong in
faith, and stern in purpose. Let him
have the Shibboleth of our party upon
his lips, the true marks of a friend to
truth evinced in an honest life. Thus or
ganized, with the “ark of truth” on tab
lets of stone, borne proudly in our col
umn, we would march on with an un
daunted faith and bright hopes of a glo
rious victory.
If we are to have Pharaoh for our
king, we might as well take Egypt for
our home.
Let me assure you that it is anything
but certain that Hr. Greeley can get the
united Democratic vote of the South. If
you present for our people only a Greeley
and Grant ticket, what is an honest
Democrat to do ? To vote for either is
to join the Radicals. Shall it be said
that itis safe to join the robbers to keep
from .being robbed? It may be that
there is “honor among thieves,” but an
honest man cannbt afford to risk valua
ble rights upon such a degrading basis.—
The great strength of the South has
been the unity of the white people. Thus
far we have stood firm because popular
odium done its righteous work. To join
the Radicals, was justly esteemed treason
to truth and an abandonment of race and
color. But few were found willing to
stand the burning of popular odium. This
virtuous sentiment was a great protection
against desertion from onr ranks, and
well for us that it was so. It was a power
in the land. To join Grant’s party will
no longer be called joining tbe negroes,
for alas ! it is too true that Mr. Greeley
is justly claimed the father of the Radical
negro-loving, rebel-hating party.
In such a contest the public sentiment
of the South would be paralized; our
people will be divided. Democratic
principles would be lost sight of. The
honest masses, by the thousands, for the
preservation of their self-respect, would
stay away from the polls. Defection and
desertion would do its dirty work for
the success of Grant, allured by the hope
of spoils and greed for office, and thus it
would be. Greeley would be defeated,
the country corrupted and thoroughly
radicalized. Our people are poor. Thus
far they have resisted temptation, but
can they withstand it forever ? If we
lose sight of the principles of our party,
can we expect the people blindly to fol
low us ? You disband our organization,
turn the masses loose and free. In such
a contest for spoils, where would they
go ? The stronger influence will get the
greater number. Do you see the dan
ger? Beware lest you take a fatal step
in taking a viper to your bosoms.
. But you are told that there is no chance
to elect a Democrat. How do they know?
If so, how can Greeley be elected ? Is
it not as easy a matter for a Liberal Re
publican, if he is honest, and loves the
country, and can be trusted as a friend
and brother, to vote for a Democratic
nominee, as it is for the three millions of
Democrats to vote for the father of the
Republican party, who stands impeni
tent, unwashed and uuregenerated before
the masses of the people claiming their
suffrage. Let me ask you if this project
is not an admission on our part that onr
people will do, with a sacrifice of self-
respect, that which we regard as degrad
ing in others to do ? No; away with this
idea that we have got the power in the
land.
A majority of the white people in the
last presidential election voted for Sey
mour. In that contest we were defeated
by only a Itttle over three hundred thou
sand votes, when more than that number
of the South were not allowed to partici
pate in the election. There is a hope,
there is a chance. Give ns a true and
tried man. Say General Hancock or
Governor Hoffman with Gratz Brown,
if you please, for Vice President. With
such a ticket we could present a solid
vote in the Jwhole South, wnich .with
New York, Pennsylvania, and the vote
that we would certainly get in the North
west States would elect the ticket by
a handsome majority. Let me assure
you that Mr, Greeley will lose more
Democratic votes in the Southern States
than he will be able to control from the
Republican party in all the Northern
States. He is therefore a weaker man
for the fight than any Democrat that
might be nominated. Dougherty. „
A VOICE FROM MISSSSIPPX.
Letter from Mr. Jvls. S. Johnston.
Church Hill, Miss., June 24, 1872.
Editors of the Atlanta Sun :
Gentlemen—The enclosed letter from
a life-long Democrat has the true ring,
Please publish in yor.r valuable paper,
carefully correcting proof and oblige
Yours respectfully,
T. F. Baker.
Church Hill, Miss., June 24, 1872.
Dear Sir: You ask me what I think of
the proposed policy of forming a coali
tion with the so-called Liberal faction of
the Radical party, and transferring the
support of the Democracy to the Cincin
nati nominees. My opinions are entitled
to but little weight, and have the smallest
possible interest for any person besides
myself. As they are asked, however,
they shall be frankly given.
The word policy, in party tactics, is
but another name for stratagem, which,
in military operations, means a subtle
and crafty method of circumventing and
defeating an adversary by the practice of
artifice and deception, or what the
French call ruse.
Among politicians, proverbially an un
scrupulous and venal set, the adoption
of a course dictated by policy, simply sig
nifies subordinating principle to expedi
ency, and endeavoring to overcome polit
ical antagonists by finesse and cunning
device, rather than by a fair contest in
an open field. In such a sense, I am not,
and can not be, an advocate of policy.
It is contrary to my moral sentiments,
and revolting to my natural instincts.
In politics, my motto through life has
been “principles, not men.” It has been
the governing maxim of the party whose
cardinal tenets I embraced when young,
and to which in prosperity and adversi
ty, in victory and defeat, I have clung
for more than half a century. WneneT-
er that maxim comes to be discarded by
the Democratic party, I shall leave it and
leave it forever. Sentiments like these
will, of course, in these progressive days,
brand the individual who holds them as
a “Bourbon.” Be it so. I would rath
er, a thousand times, be an honest and
consistent “Bourbon” than a time-serv
ing and unprincipled apostate.
The man who deliberately, , upon due
reflection, espouses a creed of any kind,
I care not what it may be, and adheres to
it tenaciously, through the greater por
tion of a long life, never wavering or
faltering in his devotion, but like the
magnet pointing to the pole, remains
even true to his conscientious convic
tions, must command respect for the
sincerity of his belief. But if after long
years of devout and dutiful service at the
altars of the old faith, as it were sud
denly, and without any genuine conver
sion of the head or of the heart, but
only from motives of time-serving pol : cy,
he forsakes those altars—abandons his
convictions—abjures his principles—and
embraces, with fervid zeal, principles
and a party he had grown grey in oppos
ing and denouncing, that man, call him
what you may, i3 something a good deal
worse than a “Bourbon.” He is a turn
coat—an apostate—a traitor to his creed.
At the present juncture, were] I dis
posed to cast off principle and embrace
policy (which I am not); were I inclined
to give up the safe and steady guiding
star of principle, and trust to the treach
erous shore-lights of expediency, I should
gravely question the policy of forming a
coalition with one hated and despised
enemy, in order to take the doubtful
chances of defeating another enemy only
a little more hated and despised, and,
perhaps a trifle more to be dreaded.—
Coalitions are dangerous things. Be
tween allies, avowedly unfriendly and
therefore distrustful and suspicious of
each other’s motives and designs, a coa
lition can be seldom satisfactory—never
completely successful.
History records but few instances when
such combinations of hostile elements
have resulted in anything but disadvan
tage, and, most commonly disadvantage
to one or both of the contending par
ties. _ My vision, I must acknowledge, is
too dim—too much impaired by age to
be fascinated, as many seem to be, with
the prismatic prospects presented by
party managers on both sides, to allure
us into the persuasion that a political
millennium is close at hand. They tell
us, if we desire to flee from Radical
wr&tb, and escape the tortures of the
damned—if at least, we would wish to be
translated, as it were, almost miracu
lously, from purgatorial horrors to an
elysium of beatitude and bliss, all we
have to do to gratify ourselves for the
joys of the promised Paradise, is to ac
cept cordially the Cincinnati platform
and cast our suffrages for Greeley and
Brown. We must haul down the old
Democratic colors—spike and silence
the' old Democratic guns—disband the
old Democratic party—enlist in the Rad
ical ranks, and march forward under
Radical officers, and with Radical music
—[“John Brown's soul is marching on”)—
to co-operate in lifting to places of au
thority and power, men who, until re
cently, hare shown themselves our dead
liest enemies—the architects and arch
fiends of Southern ruin and oppression.
These men have heretofore always
officiated as high priests at the bloody
altars of sectional hate, whenever the
South was to be offered up as a sacrifice,
to the diabolism of Radical fiends. For
years they have held high carnival over
our humiliation, and have loved to pour
into the seething caldron of persecution
every bitter ingredient of atrocity and
wrong. Looking back upon these things,
I confess myself unable to perceive the
nice distinction others affect to discern,
between Horace. Greeley, the malignant
concoctor and adviser, and Hiram Grant,
the vindictive executor of barbarous and
brutal laws. It is very true, the would-
be-President makes any number of fair
promises, and fine professions of future
affection and love. All aspirants are
profuse of promises. It costs them no th
ing to make them. General Grant prom
ised ns peace. “He makes a solitude
and calls it peace.” Hi3 name will de
scend to after times, coupled with the
name of the “Infamous Godoy”—“the
Prince of Peace.”
He advocated, and still advocates, (as at Secretary of the Interior, Cowan, Gover-
Poughkeepsie), civil rights and social nor woo< *» General Morrow, Indian Agent
equality. (The infamous climax of ne- Dodge an d several other officers. It was
gro freedom and negro franchise.) He reso ^ ve d that Dodge should immediately
plead lustily for Enforcement Acts and P rocee d to the southern part of the ter-
suspension of the Habeas Corpus, thereby ritoi 7 ancl cal1 a council of Indian chiefs,
arming the President with n power that instruct them to return to their reser-
annuls the Constitution and annihilates 7 atioQS * In case they decline, he will
the only protective right left to the white in ^ orm .them that the Govem-
man in the South. He does all this, and ment . w hl take prompt measures
infinitely more, which cannot here be to vigorously move against them,
elaborated, dr even condensed, and still Stron S detatchments of cavalry will be
he smiles—Iago-like, he smiles. ent soutb at once.
Before the God that made me, I declare ' T , 0 *- r r - _—. ,
I cannot return those smiles; and until Boston, July 3.—Horace Greeley, who
my heart is changed, I will not. I prefer arnved , tln3 clt Y tbls morning, has
an honest, heartfelt scowl to a hypocriti- to * d £ y by namerous
cal grin. We hear much flash eloquence, tb , ll I J evere wbere
which means nothing more t.hn.u frothy baS r °“ s °* fcl \e guest of the city. He
talk, about the duty qt burying decently attends yubllee tbls afternoon.
For one, I can say sincerely, I have no
faith in the professions of candidate
Greeley,
“ TimeoDanaos et donaferer.ies.”
I can say more than this, and with
equal sincerity. I am not yet ready to
“clasp hands across the bloody chasm.”
Be it unchristian, uncharitable, or what
you will, it is true. My heart is not pre
pared, at this time, if it will ever be, to
shake hands with the demons that de
stroyed us. Even now, with loving ex
pressions on their lips, in their hearts
they hate us as wicked rebels and death-
deserving traitors. Those who do not
actually despise, at least, denounce us.
They do it to hide and call attention
from their own stupendous crime of ag
gression and war, which they falsely
charge upon.us.
It is an old trick of the criminal to cry
“stop thief!” The guilty assailant never
fails to throw the responsibility of the
attack on the party he first assaulted.
How were we aggressors? Why, pre
cisely as the bees in the fable were, when
the rapacious and thieving bears under
took to rob and plunder their hives, to
steal and destroy their honey, to take
away their property, their living, to de
prive them of their all. The bees, small
and unequal as they were m strength to
the invading foe, swarmed out to repel
the plunderer and drive the robber from
their premises. With all the vigor of a
brave community enraged by wrong,
they drove their stings into the intru
der’s eyes, and in every way tried to pun
ish the. wanton invasion of thpir homes
and the confiscation of their property.
Thus only were we Southern people ag
gressors; and for this we have been pun
ished and persecuted by Greeley & Co.,
as if we had been the invading bears
and they the innocent and suffering
bees.
Yet Greeley represents, or rather per
sonates, “God and Humanity.” Outon
such humanity as this! Votes are now
wanting, however, to invest this apostle
of humanity with the robes of power—
it may be the pnrple robes of imperial
power—and he woos us with gentle
blandishments and smiles. He urged on
Congress to make us the slaves of slaves.
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lows.Li March,lS66,he informed th&lfa'
aid explorer that he started with twdve
Sepoys, nine Johanna men, and seven lib
erated slaves, and traveled up the Rovn'
ma nver - Before they had been
gone very long, the men became frE
ened at the nature of the journey and
the reports of hostile tribes, upthe conn-
tiy they were to pass through. At
length they deserted him and, as a cover
to their cowardice in doing so, circulated
the report of his death.
Livingstone proceeded on bis journey
8° th ®. isolation, and, after some
difficult marching, reached the Chambezi
river, winch he crossed. He found
that this was not the PortugheeseScram-
bezi river, as has been conjectured; but
on the contrary, wholly separate. He
traced its course, and found it called
further on the Lualaba.
He continued his explorations alone
its banks for 700 miles and is convinced
in consequence, that the Chambezi is
doubtless the source of the Nile, and
that this will make a total length for the
“mvstio river” of Africa, of 2,COO miles.
His explorations also establish the fact
New York, July 2*—The police have
reported 37 sun strokes, several of which
were fatal. The thermometer, at 8 this
morniifg, stood at 90.
The wheat harvest is already fairly un
der way throughout Ohio. Although
the crop is thinner on the ground than
usual, the heads are unusually heavy and
well filled.
the dead past. That is a funeral our
Northern enemies would be. glad to at
tend. I trust they will never have an
opportunity to attend it.
Whatever scheming aqd scurvy politi
cians may assert to the contrary, the past
is not dead and cannot die. Onr past is
not going to die soon. Sectional animos
ities never die. Generations may perish,
but national antipathies will be certain to
survive. Saving the Constitution and
perpetuating the Union are beautiful
themes and stereotyped phrases with
which the artful demagogue can. amuse,
and gull, and cheat ; the people, but com
ing down to sober reality, what is the
Constitution ? It would be a ludicrous,
were it not a loathsome, caricature of a
once proud and grand original that came
from the hand of Washington and his
compeers—and such compeers ! It is a
miserable effigy of the Washington model,
with maudlin and bloated features, dis
gusting to behold, and covered all over
with ugly gashes and disfiguring wounds.
The Union—what is that ? A hideous
corpse—galvanized, and seemingly vital
—but still a corpse—a mockery—a fraud.
Ic is not the bond of friendship and fra
ternity fashioned by the conscript fath
ers of the Republic, but a galling yoke—a
cruel coupling-chain by which the weak
are, for the time, fastened to the strong
—to be dragged along at the heels of
hectoring bullies, and heartless tyrants.
What sort of Union is that for the South?
Wben will she ever enjoy equal rights in
such Union ? All she ever fought for
was equality of political rights. Her
slogan, from the beginning to the end of
the. weary • struggle, was “equal in the
Union, or independence out of it.’’ To
one section, Union signifies consolidated
strength—central supremacy—imp erial
domination. To the other it symbolizes
subjugation— humiliation—spoliation. —
Such a Union must be tolerated and en
dured. It can never be loved or cher
ished. The breach cannot- be healed.
Like Coleridge’s separated pair, we
“Stand like cliffs that have been rent asunder,
A dreary sea now Rows between;
But neither tempest—lightning—thunder,
ShaU ever do away, I ween,
The thoughts of that which once hath been.”
To me, Horace Greely typifies all the
crimes begotten and spawned of the un
holy .abolition crusade which primarily
provoked the war and rendered it inevit
able. He laid the first egg, incubated
and hatched out the first hissing serpent
of sectional discord. In the name of a
false, sentimental and spurious philan-
throphy, he was chiefly instrumental in
inaugurating a ferocious war against a
covenanted institution—an oath-guarded
right, entrenched within, and behind all
the solemnities of a sacred and inviola
ble compact. From Washington, the
Father of his conntry, and Jackson, its
savior at New Orleans, down to the
humblest citizen in whose veins flow
ed a drop of patriotic Southern blood,
there has been no man who would not
have wished dying on the scaffold, as
Lee and Davis and their chivalrous com
patriots did, to defend the inheritance
which Horace Greeley sought to destroy.
Now, for Southern men and Democrats,
Memphis, Tenn., July 2.—In a quar
rel over a two year old horse trade, Ben
jamin H. Wray killed his brother-in-law,
and then himself. The affray occurred
near Brownsville, Tenn. The parties are
respectabl e.
New York, July 3.—A Salt Lake dis
patch, of last night, states that the re
ports of recent murders by Indians have
been confirmed, and a council was held
there yesterday consisting of Assistant
New York, July 3.—Between one and
two o’clock this morning, a fire, at the
corner of Elm and Reade streets, de
stroyed Taylor & Darrel’s Paper Ware
house, and damaged the buildings and
business material of the Complete Gas
Works, paper-box factory of Selchoh
Hitch, book binder, and Jones & Rut
land's fancy iron works. Loss §200,000.
The number of sun-stroke3 yesterday,
Was nearly 200. The deaths reported
were about sixty in this city, although
there were numerous cases not known to
the police. The neat continues to-day.
San Francisco, Cal., July 3.-Thirty-
nine Bare-FootedFriars and sevenDomin-
can Friars,jbanishedjfrom Guatemala, for
conspiracy against the government, ar
rived here yesterday by ste imer, and are
receiving assistance freely from their
co-religionists.
Philadelphia, *July 3. — Contracts
have been given out for a new air-line
road hence to New York, through Bucks
county, to cost §6,000,000.
1 New York, June 5.—A Niagara Falls
dispatch says that on the evening of the
third, three United States officers visited
Thorald’s a small place about nine miles
fromflie Falls, on the Welland canal, and
forcibly took with them a young man
named ft illiam White, a ship carpenter
of Chicago. White was pinioned and
blindfolded. After going four miles
into the country it was discovered that
he was the wrong 'man.
White states that the officers were after
someKu-Klux who were connected with
the Greensboro, N. C., outrages; but
says ho did not pursue his would-be
takers.
Murphy, a student of Eastman College,
at Poughkeepsie, belonging to Georgia,
accidentally shot himself to-day. His
wound< are fatal.
At : ie Tammany celebration, Hons.
J;is. H ooks, S. S. Cox, W. R. Roberts
and hi ors made speeches. A banquet
teriuitcitvd the exercises of tile evening.
An ii.ei leatal mention of Horace Gree-
hn’- :.ie was received with immense
entAn.sia.-M.
( Yes r-i .: -y evening two trains on South
Sidi- it : i ad, Long Island, collided be- ■
twee:. Ffishpond and Bushwick sta
tions. Ona train had stopped to avoid
running mto the other, and a telescoping
of the engines took place. Three per
sons were killed and many injured. At
the time of the collision the passengers
were jumping from the cars amid scenes
of excitement. The sufferers were for a
long time without water or physicians.
About thirty-five fires occurred during
yesterday, none of which was very seri
ous.
Twenty-four persons died from the
effects of heat, and ninety-seven cases of
sun-strokes were reported yesterday.
Knoxville, Tennessee, July 4.—The
Eastern bound passenger train, • due at
Knoxville at noon to-day, met with an
accident, seventeen miles west of this
city. The engine ran over a cow throw
ing it from the track and wrecking two
., — xicuiuumio, baggage cars and the mail car. The
to deify Greeley, to choose him for their passenger cars remained on the track,
standard-bearer, shout for his success None of the passengers were injured,
and sing paeans to his name, does seem except one negro, standing on the plat-
to me unparalleled tergiversation, and if form of the forward car who had both
I may so express myself, a species of feet crushed. Charles Harvey the engin-
political blasphemy unequaled in any eer had a leg and shoulder broken and
example of the past. was otherwise dangerously injured. The
It is as if the Christian host should Western bound train was detained near
abjure the banner of the cross—apotheo- the scene of the wreck until eight o’clock,
size the great adversary of the human p. m., when the wreck was cleared and
race, and call on him to lead them, as the the trains proceeded.
captain of their salvation—their king —
and chief. In such unprincipled war- St. Louis is not much on base-
fare, confusion, say I, to the leaders and ball. The popular balls there are those
the led. My principles must undergo a -
complete revolution, before I will be 0i 1111116 unc ^®*
“ tbeuOTl r- ereolea m- The Londoner /o«W saj*
Yours very truly, Schenck “is not exactly a Talleyrand.’
Jas. S. Johnston. Precisely so! , j