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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XLiiJ.j MILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, A U G U S T 21, 1872. NUMBER 4. THE Jll n i o it ft il t c o r to t x, 13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IX MIL LEDGE VILLE, GA., BT BOUGH TON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGIITGN. Editor. THE “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTH ERN RECORDER ” were consolidated August l«t. 1872 the Union being in i!s Forty-Third Volume and the Recorder iu it e Fifty Third Volume. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first insertion, and seventy-five cents Or each subse quent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office. Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as trsusieut advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff V* Sales, per levy of teu lines, or less,. — $2 50 “ Mortgage li fa sales, pei**%quare, 5 UU Citations tor Letteis of Adunnistiaiion, 3 UU “ “ Guardianship, d 00 Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00 *• “ “ " Guardianship, 3 00 “ 44 leave to sell Land...... 5 00 44 for Homesteads, 175 Notice to Debtors ami Creditors, d 00 bales ot Laud, dec., per square 5 00 4 ‘ perishable property, 10 days, per square,-. 150 Estray Notices,do days,. d 00 Jh oc« Closure oi Moi tgage, per sq., eaeu time,.... 100 Applications tor Homesteads, (two weeks,).... 1 75 JLOGIU: LEl'TLB, THE POLITICAL SITUATION. An Able and Comprehensive Review— Grant and Greeley Contrasted—What we winy Expect from Mr. Greeley—Re construction Arts—Radical Rapacity at the South—The Negroes Corraled and Driven to the Rolls—The Duty ot the Democracy. Office “Baltimore Gazette,” ) Baltimore, July 20, 1S72. j My Dear Sir : Ever since the ad journment of the Baltimore Conven tion certain Radical journals have per sistently misrepresented the course of prominent Democrats, and have sought, in every way, to place them in a false position before the country. Among the number you have been frequently mentioned as being hostile to the action of that body, and in this way your name has been used by po litical tricksters to promote the success of the Radical cause. Without wait ing for consultation with you, but simply relying on my faith in your ex- ialted patriotism arid unflinching De mocracy, I have unbestatiugly 7 , con tra- Idieted all such rumors. In times past you “have done the State some service, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Laud, &.C., by Adimuistraiors, Executors ( _ or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the and they khOW i t,” Ulld Oil the Strength first Tuesday in the mouth, between the hours of lfi / _ i i t j an the forenoon and d in the afternoon, at the Court t)f VOUT p<JSl TOCOrd X 11 <i\ 0 UoSUIlied It.in the County in which the property is situated, j (Uat ill the present political Crisis \'OU Nuliceoi these .-alee must be toveti in a public e« I .,, , 1 , Eette 40 days previous to the day oi sale. j will be quite as zealous as you ever .Notices tor the sale ot personal property must be ; were before it) defense ofcOUStitutiOII- givea in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. .... Notices to the debtois and creditors of an estate i ill fieedotll atld civil reform, must alno be published 40 days. Notice that application will l made to the Court ot 2II Land, &.c.,wust be publish- Ordinary for ed i«>r two months Citations for letters of Administration, G uardioasbip, &<•., must be published dll days—for dismission from Administration monthly three months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 ds^s. Rules for foreclosure«.f Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four iiiontha—for establishing lost pa- . pers lor tiie lull space of three mouths—for compell- gratification to the Democratic and ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where I need i not ask you if I am right in this as sumption, because of that I feel assur ed ; but I take the liberty of sugges ting that at this time your views and opinions upon the impending Presi dential contest would afford much Executors or bond has been given by the deceased, the full spaceol three months. Fu hi rations will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT Till* OFFICE. Agents for Federal Union in New York City GEO. P. ROWELL & CO.. No. 40 Park Row. S. M. PETTING ILL A CO., 37 Park Row. V&* Messrs. Griffis Ho ffmas. New spa per Advertising Agents. No. 4 South St , Baltimore, Md. are duly authorized to contract for advertisements at our luurU rates. Advertisers iu that City are request ed to leave their favors with this house.’ 7 £ifit Jlircc for Church Directory. BAIlTlsT CHURCH. Services 1st ami J.l Sunday* in each month, nt II o'clock a in and 7 p in. Sabbalb School at 9 I -2 o’clock, am- S X I}<mghtoo Supt. Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor. clock, a m Fiankland METHODIST CHURCH. Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o’ ami 7 pm. Sunday School 3 o’clock p in.—W E Superintendent. Friends of the Snbbntb School are invited to visit it S S Missionaty Suei» ty, ■ » ••u:iily, 4th Sunday at 2p n Prayer luteliug eve y Wednesday 7 o'clock pm- ltev A J JARRELL, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services eveiy Sabbath (except tlie 2d iu each uio) at * l o'clock a in. ami 7 p in- Sabbath School a! !♦ I 2 a m. TT Windsor, Supt. Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p in. Rev C W LANE, Pastor. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Without a Pastor at present. Sunday School at !* o’clock, a m. Images. i. n. n t. ?l i t led sc v i I lc i.yilar Xo 11- Chamber nt llic State Hout-e on ini: lit 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W C T. E P La.ne, Sec’y. Cold Water Templars meet at tlie State House eve y Saturday alternoun at it o'clock. inlets in the Senate every Friday even- MASONIC. i: rnfvoh nt I.od^c No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d Sai in day nighta of each month at Masonic Hall. G 1) Case, Secy. I. 11-HOWARD, W. M. Trinplr rtinpu-r meets the second and fourth Sat urday ijighta in each month. ; G £> Case, Sec’y. S G WTflTE, H V. iTI illt'dgrville !.odv<‘ of Perfection A.'.fc A.'. S. R.\ meets every Monday night. SAM’L G WHITE, IV. P.. G.\M.\ Geo. 1). Case, Exc Grand Sec’y. CITY GOVERN M ENT. Mayor—Samuel Walker. B.»ard of Aldermen.—1. F II !\Iapp; 2 E Trice; 3 T A Caraktr; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J II McComb; 6 Henry Temples. Clerk and 1 reasurer—Peter Fair. Mar.-shal— J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle. Deputy Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell. Sexton— F Be^land City surveyor—C T Bayne. COUNTY OFFICERS. Judge M. R. Bell, Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall. 1* L Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, 44 “ Obadiah Arnold. Sheriff, 44 44 OP Bonner. Dep'ty Shetiff, lives iu the country. Josius Marshall Ree’r Tax Returns—nt Post Office. L N Callaway, Tax Collector, office at his store. II Temples. County Tieasurer, office at his store. Isaac Cushing, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st. John Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne st, near the Factory. MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA. Dr. G. 1> Cask. Dean. Dr. S. G. WHITE, Pres'dt Regular meeting first M< nday in December- STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM. * V Dr THUS F GREEN, Superintendent. M R Bell, Tr. A Stewai d. FIRE D E P A R T M EN T. D B Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief. The A1 A: M Fire Co. meets at the Court Room on the first and third Tuesday nights in each mouth. SELIjING OFF AY COST. PEPARATORY TO A CHANGE OF SCIIED- ined tu close out my e Par f’ L LE I have determined to close out my entire Stock ot SHELF GOODS at Cost for Cash, ties wishing bargains must call soon. July in. 1872 C. B. MUNDAY. 5d tf Conservative masses of the country. Believe me to be, with gieat res pect, ever your friend, VVm. II. Welsh. lion J. S. Black. To Win. 11. Welsh, Es<j., Editor of the Baltimore Gazette : My Dear Sir : I promised the gen tleman who delivered your letter that I would answer it fully and as soon as I could consistently with other en gagements. I am fulfilling that promise. If I take more time and space than might be expected, you will please to remember that I and a great many other Democrats are in a position winch requires something more than a mere definition. We can not avoid misconstruction without furnishing a rather full explanation. 1 admit that the next President must oe Grant or Greeley. The circum stances of the political situation limit our choice to these two men, as strict ly as as if nobody else were lega ly eli gible. We must weigh them against me another, and, like practical men, decide the case before us in favor ot the best. Even if we find no good in either of them, we must take that one who shall appear to be least bad. It is undeniable that the leading measures of this Administration are not only unconstitutional, but anti- constitutional, showing not merely a contemptuous indifference to constitu tional obiigations, but a settled hostil ity to those rights of the State, and those liberties of the people which the organic law was made to secure. The President's appointment of officers and his general exercise of public au thority, under the influence of men who paid him large sums of money, are scandalous outrages, and the eliort to defend them has combined with other like causes to extinguish among his subordinates all respect for those rules of morality which used to be held sacred. When we consider what these men have done in the North, and add to it the large handed robberies perpetrated in the South by the re tainers of the President, with his direct aid and assistance, we are compelled to acknowledge that no other govern ment now in the world is administer ed so entirely for personal and partisan purposes, or in such complete disre gard for the rights and interests of the general public. This demoralization is not confined to the Executive branch, the tide of corruption rolls in upon the Legislature, and in some places it has risen Ijigh enough to touch the feet of the judiciary. Even the rank and tile oi the President’s party have become debauched, let us hope not altogether, but certainly in a fearful degree. Acts which in former times a hardened criminal would hesi tate to whisper in the ear ot his ac complice can now be openly advoca ted by M a political leader, not only with safety, but with a tolerable chance ot being sustained by a sort of public opinion. That love of liberty and jus tice which used to pervade the whole community now “reneges all teui| er,” and yields without resistance to the unprincipled demagogues who would enthrone fraud. “Make the hoar lpprosy adored ; place ttieves, And give them title, knee and approbation, With Senators on the bench.” their bounty, ,fe!l over to them, and took the Government into his hands as “a Black Republican job.” Now, as to Greeley. It cannot be pretended that bis political life is very symmetrical. He was in the ranks of the Radical Abolitionists for a good many years. That is bad ; for such associations would have a natural ten dency to debase him. But we must not forget that, though he was with them he was not always of them. H refused to be a partaker in their worst iniquities ; he had none of their dia bolical hatred for the Constitution ;— be did not lend bis lips to their rabid blasphemies, and bis feet were never swif t in running to sited innocent blood. Before the great conflict began, bis opposition to the designs of the Abo litionists against the Federal and State governments, impelled him to the op posite heresy of the secessionists.— Like the Roman father, who killed his daughter to save her from a worse fate, he chose to destroy the Govern ment rather than see it dishonored and violated by lawless force. When the war was flagrant, he provoked the extremest rage of bis associates by ex erting himself for a peace which would have left all the people in pos session of their constitutional liber ties. After the close of the contest he was the advocate of regular and le gal, as well as honest government for all parts of the country. I have good authority for saying that he never I gave his approval to any form of kid-j napping, or murder, by military com mission. In short, although fie did join the Abolitionists in their “devil’s dance,” lie never learned to keep step with his partners, and we all know tliat when he could not stop it, he left it. and denounced it with becom ing indignation. On another point he ought to have credit. The friends of religious free dom owe him an old debt ot graitude for the zeal and ability with which he resisted the church-burners when ban ded together in the secret lodges of the Know-Nothing order. It is but rea sonable to believe that his position saved the country from the great danger it was once in of being subju gated by that infamous organization. He has often been accused of corn- plicity in cheats of one kind or anoth er, but in every case he has trium phantly refuted the charges. For ibis, a d for other reasons, I conclude that his personal integrity is without a stain. He has many times spoken of the Democratic party and its most honor- immediate atonement, and only a par-1 Andrew Johnson on the stump again ed members in harsh and abusive terms. These are faults of manner, and of temper, which, when mended, are always pardoned. We will not permit ourjudgment to be disturbed by considerations so trifling as this. I have lookpd into his past history on ly to ascertain what he is now and what he is likely to be in the future. I am bound to care nothing fur bis “an tecedents,” except as they furnish the means of estimating fiis character. I tial remedy. In England, after every civil com motion. the victorious party vented its rageand gratified its rapacity bv pass ing bills of attainder and bills of pains and penalties against their fallen and helpless opponents. The best and greatest men of their respective ages were the victims of these legislative decrees. In all the most notable cases subsequent Parliaments acknowledged ihe wrongs, reversed the attainders, and made what reparation they could. Our fathers determined that no such thing should ever be done here, and so they put their solemn interdict into plain words, and made it a patt of the fundamental law that neither Congress nor any State Legislature should ever pass a bill of attainder. The reconstruction act of 1SG7 was a bill of attainder more deliberately cruel, and with pains and penalties more compenduously unjust than any British bill that ever was passed.— But its authors were conscious that it could not stand, and they must replace it with something else, for sooner or ater the courts would be sure to pro nounce it void. Besides, the object being to put the Southern people un- ler the dominition of greedy adventu rers from the North with unlimited li cense to oppress and plunder them, the officers of the army were not very good agents in such a nefarious busi ness. The negroes would be instru ments of tyranny much more easily managed. But an act of Congress disfranchising the white people for offences real or imputed, and hand ing over their State Government to negroes to be run by them in the in terest of carpet-baggers, would be merely another bill of attainder, or rather a modification of the first one, making it much worse, but equally within the reach of judicial correction In this strait they resorted to the ex pedient of converting the Constitution itself into a Bill of Attainder. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth A mendments were frauds upon the spir it and letter of the instrumei t, inas much as they effected the worst out rage which it was made to prevent. They were carried against the known will of nearly every State intheUnion by shameless deception in the North, and by brutal violence in the South. “May this he washed in Lethe and forgotten?” Certainly not, as long as any portion of our people are compell ed to bear the intolerable burden of the yoke thus fastened upon them. I need not say how much they have suffered already, nor tiy to conjecture how much they will be called to en dure hereafter; but it is certain that any ordinary despotism would have been a visitation of mercy in compari son. When we reflect upon the num ber and rapacity of the thieves that have been upheld in their pillage by means of the negro governments, we cannot help but regret the non-adop tion of Mr. Stevens’ proposition, atro cious as it was, for universal confisca tion. The pernicious consequences of think I have found out with reasona- j this rule are felt iu the general as well hie certainty how far we may confide as t) 1e local governments. The legis- in him. I devoutly believe that, if lation of Congress is largely controlled T S; WA NT E D eVeRWcm* SNAVAHT'S IT* I At .viv OIMIP'I KLD S EJMBJIlE VUBLISHING HOUSE, t mciuuati, *St Luuis, NewOrJeau*, or New Y«»rk. July 24, llw2 52 3m If General Grant had been equal in mind and heart to the exigencies of the times, he could easily have made him self a great public benefactor. He might have purified official and politi cal morals by simply setting the ex ample in his own person of a clean handed devotion to duty. His own obedience to the laws would have restored them to universal supremacy. AUlhe objects of the Constitution as rplIE unilersiimpil Inks* pleasure in infonrinfj the recited in the preailliibie Would haVC tWyalrpTipared ' 1 si"'lUMBEK atZVr M?M j been accomplished but for the obsttUC- at Scjiteboro ut the follow inf; rates, until further . tioilS With which be billlSelf impeded „„ them. Unfortunately the interests of First Class. S10 50, Seeond Class, $8 00 I . • - . J a . . . Rough Edge, 5 50 strips, - horse load, i 25 j ceitain rings wete in conflict with the Strips, 4 horse load, 2 27 S.nbs,5 horse load, 25c. Pine We will deliver any of the above Lumber nt any Lumber! Lumber! Lumber *TP>oit»t within tii<» incorporate limits of Milledgeville for four dollars per tliou.-'Jind, additional to above prices. Ail orders lett with our A tie nt, Mr. C. B. MUNDAY, frill secure prompt atteutian. N. 6l A. CARMANNY. ) \x\y 3 ; 1872, 49 4t Stubs,2 horse toad, 15c. | interests of the country, and thev, by /me wood per cord, 75c. . , J \ J J large presents, seduced him into their service. The public contracted to give him the salary which his prede cessors had been content with ; the more ; he accepted .rings offered him chosen President, he will keep his oath, preserve the Constitution invio late, execute the laws faithfully, re store the Estates to their rightful au tonomy, protect individual liberty by 'jury trial and habeas corpus, but the military iu proper subordination to the civil authority, use neither force nor fraud to carry elections, keep bis hands clean from corrupting gifts, set bis face like a flint against all manner of financial dishonesty, purify the Ad ministration of justice as much as in him lies, maintain the public credit by a prompt discharge of all just obliga tions, economize the revenue and lighten taxation, give to capital the right which belongs to it, and at the same time see that labor is not robbed of its earnings. He will certainly hold his power of appointment as a public trust, and not as a part of his personal possession to be used for the support of bis family, or to encourage the pri vate liberality of his friends. He will, so far as he can without transgressing the limits of his legal authority, relieve the Southern States from the gangs that are now preying upon tiieir vi tals in open partnership with the present Administration. I think he will do all this ; and my faith is founded on the testimony ot his friends and enemies, on the known facts of his history, and on the moral influence which the Democracy will necessarily exert upon his conduct.— The errors of his past life were caused by certain evil communications lrom which lie lias clean escaped. He heads a great revolt against wicked ness in high places, and I do not be lieve he will go back upon us and be guilty of the same wickedness him self. The contrast between the two can didates being so very strong, no fair- minded Democrat can doubt what he ought to do. Yet, the reluctance which many of us feel to vote for ei ther of them is haid to overcome* I did, and do, most heartily sympathize with that class which received Mr. Greeley’s nomination in much sorrow, lam suretiiis feeling proceeded from no unworthy passion or prejudice, but was the natural result of sober thought on the condition ot the country and the fitness of tilings pertaiuing there to. In our view the controversy be tween the parties was not all about men, and not wholly on questions ot mere administration. Trie Liberal Republicans and some Democrats think that we owe all our sufferings to the corruption or incapacity of General Grautand the rings, that sur round him. But the prime cause lies turther back and deeper down in wrongs for which the triumph of Mr. Greeley with all his reforms offers no by fit representatives of the carpet-bag intere>t, and the worst acts ot tire Ex ecutive administration are done to please the power which carrots the negroes at the meeting places of the leagues, and drives thence to the polls. Mr. Greeley’s election will not do all that we could wish to free us from these evils; it it will not even be a popular condemnation of the base means by which they were inflicted upon us; but it will begin the pro cess of their gradual extinction. It will give the white people a reasona ble hope that the heritable qualities of their father’s blood may some day be restored. In the meantime, if it does not reverse the attainder, it will at least insure a merciful execution of it. Democrats who disliked Mr. Greeley’s nomination have reflected well, and I think will support him with almost perfect unanimity. The thought that a victory will not give us everything at once may diminish in some degree “ the rapture of the strife,” but it will not impair the efficiency of their support, for they are impelled to their utmost exertions by a profound con viction that nothing but his election will save the country from a long pe riod of misgovernment and perhaps the total destruction of our free insti tutions. I am with great respect, yours, &c., J. S. Black. Yarl% Fa.., August R. 1S72. A startling exhibit has recently been made at Washington that is well cal culated to excite the surprise of the American people. It has been ascer tained from authentic documents, that Grant and the cabinet have been ab sent from the seat of government one third of the time since the former’s in auguration, on the 4th day of March L8(i9, during all of which period they regularly drew pay from the treasury of the United States, while frolicking, junketing and neglecting the public business. Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners. — Bishop Middleton. Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.— Shakespeare. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.—Swift. There is no ignominy like injustice, and the sharpest pang of punishment is the consciousness tnat it is deserved. — W. T. Clarke. Good nature is the very air of a good mind, the sign of a large aud gen erous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue prospers.-Goodman. Ex-President Johnson spoke, by in vitation at Knoxville, Tenn., on the Llth inst., to a good crowd, two hours and a quarter. He was intro duced by Judge T. A. R. Nelson who introduced him as the “People’s Man—plain Andy Johnson.” Mr. Johnson said he was no candi date for any office. He said it was well, in times of popular upheaval, to take our bearings and see whither we are drifting. In recurring to first prin ciples, he showed at length how the government has been drifting from Constitutional moorings, and itad be come the plaything ot an irresponsible Congress, at the dictation of a usurp ing Executive. He reviewed Grant’s administration with severity, but with moderation, and discussed official gift-taking and bribery, citing the case of tsir John Trevor, in England He favored one term and the elec tion of President by the direct vote of the people. The re-election of Grant, be said, would be a great national dis aster. He accepted Greeley on the principle of universal pressure. Cir cumstances beyond human control have limited the choice to two men. Patriots cannot hesitate to choose Greeley. It is no time to say this, or that, is or is not my party; but let us all unite in saying tins is my country. The country must have reconciliation, res toration of civil rights to all citizens, confidence between sections, and a re form in the civil service. He pleaded fora return of the ancient reverence for the Constitution and official obli gations. The speech was well received and generally applauded. The Campaign in Maine—Mbornl Republi can OeuiouMfrnliou in Gardiner—Speech •f Senator Doolittle. Gardiner, Me., August 7.—The citizens of this beautiful little city, Greeley Republicans and Democrats, are holding their first campaign me»t inghere to-night. The meeting was called to order by B. A. Neal, a life long Republican, of this city, and one of the recent accessions to the Liberal ranks, who presented the name of A C. Stilphen, of Farmingdale, a promi nent lawyer and active Liberal Repub lican of that town, and in connection a long list of Yice Presidents and Secre taries, about half of whom were Liber al Republicans. Mr. Stilphen, on ac cepting the position of presiding officer of the evening, very briefly, but com prehensively stated his reasons for join ing the cause of the Greeley and Liber al Republicanism. I have always been a Republican; my first vote was a Re publican vote. The only votes I have ever thrown have been Republican votes. I was one of Grant’s strongest adherents. He said he had no policy to force upon the country. I liked that. But, alas ! soon came Santo Do mingo; soon was seen his hand stretch ed out over the United States Senate trying to edntrol it, and soon Charles Sumner was deposed from his high po sition. He proved that he had a poli cy, aud not only that, but a will of bis own; a selfish, obstiuate will. I did not like to help undo all that the Re publican party had contended for, and I said 1 would take no part in the coni ng campaign. But when Horace Greeley was nominated at Cincinnati upon a platform whose every princi ple! could heartily indorse, I said I would vote for him “if not another man did”—(loud cheering)—and I now say God-speed and welcome to any man who will come and aid in this true and just cause. Thank God for Democratic help. (Cheers.) Thank God for peace; thank God for unity— for these we are willing to work. (Im mense applause.) Mr. Stilphen next paid a very happy tribute to ex-Sena tor Doolittle and introduced him as the speaker of the evening. A most generous and enthusiastic welcome, which demonstrated itself in loud and i continued applause, was accorded Mr. j Doolittle upon his appearance on the platform. He spoke for about two hours amidst the most earnest atten tion and frequent applause. Congressman Farnsworth’s tetter— Gen. Butler’s Great Rival and the Leading Republican Congressman from Illinois Declares for Greeley, St.*Charles, 111., Aug. 6, 1872. To the Secretary of the Illinois Re publican State Central Committee: In spite of my love for the Republi can party, which 1 helped to create, and for the many personal and politi cal friends who still cling to its organ ization and support its nominees, some of whom are upon your State ticket, I cannot persuade myself to accept the invitation of the committee and labor for the re-election of President Grant. It is a conviction of long standing in my mind, and which has constantly grown and strengthened until I can not divest myself of it, that his re- election, with a continuance of the present administration and its policy for another four years would not be for the highest good of the republic. Prior to the Philadelphia convention I did not hesitate to express the hope, whenever I conversed upon the sub ject, that some other Republican might rei eive the nomination for President. After that Convention was held, how ever, until the action of the Baltimore Convention made it certain that the support of another republican would not result in nor hazard the defeat of both, I did not feel justified in pro nouncing against the action of the former Convention ; but now the case different. It is simply a choice of Republicans. Greeley or Grant will be elected President of the United States. Under the circumstances, and with these alternatives, I cannot hesi tate, but must follow my convictions. The advocates of the election of Gen. Grant object to Mr. Greeley be cause he is supported by Democrats and former rebels. But he was, like Giant, nominated by Republicans. The Democrats and rebels did not put him in the field—had nothing to do with nominating him as a candidate, and they would have supported al most any other capable Republican who was honestly and sincerely in fa vor of a needed reform in this gov ernment, had he been brought out by the Republican Convention at Cincin nati instead of Mr. Greeley. So to my mind the fact tl at the former reb els of the South and the Democratic party support him is the moet gratify ing spectacle that has been presented since the war, for it shows that they accept the verdict of the war and are willing to abide by it and by its le gitimate results, only asking in return honesty iu the administration of the government and the same rights of self-government which the citizens of the northern Stales enjoy. If the election of Mr. Greeley will bring peace, good order and fraternal good will in the South, it is certainly a “consummation devoutly to be wish ed.” I think it will. The most in telligent people of the South, and of administration in order to arrest the tendency to federalism and cen tralization, whither this one is rapidly hastening. It has been argued, and I have re cently seen it repeated in the letter of Hon. James G. Blaine to Mr. Sumner that there is danger that the Congress that will be brought into power with the election of Mr. Greeley will refuse to legislate to enforce the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of theConstitu-tion, and without such leg islation, they (the amendments) are but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals to the colored man. If these amend ments depend upon fche acts of Con- gresstogive them force anf vitality, then, indeed, are they as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, for what one Congress does the next one may undo. The very reason for their be ing imbedded in the Constitution is, that they may be beyond the reach of Congress or State Legislatures. They are enforced by the courts precisely as an act of Congress is enforced. Be sides, in every one of the Constitutions of the rebel States are provisions se curing to the people of those States the same rights which are guaranteed by those amendments. If the people of Illinois must rely upon laws en acted by representatives from Missis sippi, Georgia and* Massachusetts tor the enjoyment of their rights, or if the people of Texas and California are to depend upon Congressmen from Il linois or Pennsylvania, then their rights are held by a very feeble and uncertain tenure. No, the nearer we get to popular sovereignty the better. The law-makers and courts and the people for whom the laws and courts are provided should be near each other, should be all one people. I thank the committee and yourself for the invita tion extended to me. I would gladly have accepted it, or refrained from taking any part in the canvass, could I have felt it consistent with duty to do so. I know how intolerant and ty rannical a party long wedded to power becomes. As the pro slavery party would tolerate no independence of thought, or speech, or action, so it is now. Every Republican who refuses bis support to Grant is personally as sailed and denounced. Charles Sum ner has been twice stricken down in the United States Senate. The first time the blow was struck by Preston S. Brooks, because he denounced the slave oligarchy ; the second time I need not say who struck the blow. It is fresh in the recollection of the peo ple. With kind personal regards to the committee, I am respectfully, Ac., John F. Farnsworth. George D. Prentice was for years a strong political opponent of Mr. Gree ley, and probably wrote as many se vere attacks upon him as any mau of his generation. But lie had a sincere respect for the courage, sagacity, and those most interested in the preserva-j honesty of the great journalist, and tion of good order there, say it will. ! when he lectured in Louisville. Mr. A large and intelligent portion of the j Prentice urged people to lay aside their Republican and the entire Democratic : prejudices and go to hear him, saying, party of the North say it will have i “I regard him as the ablest as well as Our special correspondent in North Carolina, Mrs. B. A. Lockwood, sends us an interesting account of the can vass in thatfStatc and the election; but it was received too late for use in the paper of to-day. She was present at a meeting of the colored men of Ra leigh, who were addressed by two col ored speakers. One of them did his hpst to make bis brethren b«liove that ! good that effect. The present administra tion has failed in this, and is there any promise in its continuance for another four years of better result? It is now seven years since the termination of the war, and what do we see? The advocates of the election of Geo. Grant are fighting the battles over again, re peating the same old, stale denuncia tions, and threatening to hang Jeff Da vis on a sour apple tree. In my opin ion it is high time we should give our attentions to issues which concern the present and future welfare of the coun try. Mr. Greeley is a true type of the self-educated, self-made American re publican. With Chase, Sumner and Hale, and Julian, and many other apostles of the anti-slavery cause, who are now, I am glad to see, in favor of his election, he helped to form the Re publican party. From these men 1 received almost my first lesson in poli tics, and I have less distrust of my own judgment in this matter from the fact that I am still in their com pany. Mr. Greeley is thoroughly fa miliar with the history of our country, political, industrial, educational, and legislative. He has been successlul in his own business. His education and profession did not instill any of the elements of aristocracy. They were essentially republican in their influ ence. 11a is confessedly the chief journalist in America, and it does seem to me that that profession is quite as a preparatory school tor the if the Democrats were successful one of their first acts would be to restrict negro suffrage, even if they cut off some of the poor white vote by so doing. Both of them praised Horace Greeley, and were cheered lor praising him, but denounced his associates. They had evidently learned their lesson well, aud their words were suited to the temper ature of the people they addressed. Judge Merrimon addressed a vast aud ience the same evening iu an able aud effective manner. Every possible ef fort was made by both parlies to carry the election. Old gray-headed white men, who had not voted for years, were carried to the polls to deposit their vote against carpet-bag usurpations. The coutest was between the State and the Administration ; and the former would have gained a splendid victory but for the negroes whose fears uml prejudices and passions have been play ed upon by the Administration mana gers. A tew weeks more of active canvassing among them would have completely turned the tide of negro sentiment. The Presidential election will find thousands of them on the Lib eral side.—Golden Age. the most conscientious jounralist itflthe north; he has outlived the ordinary pe riod of life, but his mind is in the full ness of its power. It is something for the rising generation to look upon the form and features of such a brave and daring cheiftain. When he shall de part from among us he will probably not leave his peer behind.” After the lecture Mr. Prentice wrote the follow ing poem, addressed To a political Op ponent : I semi thee, Gree ley, word* of cheer, Tbou biaveot, truest, best of meu- For I have marked thy etronj; career, As traced by thy own sturdy peu. I’ve seeu thy struggles with the foes That dared thee to the deepest fivht, And loved to watch thy goodly blows, Dealt for the cause thou deem’st the right. Thou’ct dared to stand against the wrong, When uiauy faltered by thy side; In thy own strengb has’t dared he strong, Nor on another’s arm relied. Thy own hold thought thou st dared to think, Thy own great pui poses avowed; And none have ever seen thee shrink From the fierce surges of the crowd. Thon all untided and alone, Did’st take thy way iu life’s young years With no kind baud clasped in thine own, No geulle voice to soothe thy tears. But toy nigh heart no power could tame, Aud *huu hast never ceased to feel Within thy Telus a sacied tiame, That turned thy irou nerves to steel. Thou still art in thy manhood's prime. Still foremost’mid thy fellow men. Though ill each year of all thy time Thou had compressed three-score and ten. O, may each blessed sympathy, (treat e on thee will! a tear and sigh, A sweet (lower ic thy pathway be, A bright star in tny clear, blue sky. An Arkansas man had the invita tion to bis tin wedding printed on square sheets of the metal which were duly enclosed in envelopes. Presidency, especially in time of peace, as an education at a military academy and the profession of arms. Who would not prefer the counsel or advice of Horace Greeley upon a political question to that of any of the great military chiefs of the country? Who is a more competent judge of the statesmen and statesmanship of the country than he? I will not compare. The friends of the present adminis tration, it seems to me, are indiscreet in challenging comparisons. There are many reasons why there shouid be a change of administration. I have been a member of Congress 13 years, and truth compels me to say that during that period the most waste ful and extravagant use of the public monev, and the least accountability of of those who have disbursed it, has been during the present administra tion. There can and will be no genu ine civil service reform under this ad ministration. The feeble, apparent efforts which have been in that direc tion are a standing joke in Washing ton among the chiet friends of the ad ministration, and have only increased the methods of “ how not to do it.” Indeed, when they declare that the ad ministration is in favor of this much needed reform, it is. done with the wiuk of one eye at the grim ness ot the joke Theio shouid be a change Methodist Statistics.—The fol lowing statistical items gathered from the last General Minutes of the Meth odist Episcopal Church South, by the Advocate, will be interesting to many of our readers : The whole number of traveling preachers is 2,858. Local preachers, 4.S98* White members, 600,909.— Colored members, 7,841. Total min isters and members 621,188; increase during the year, 35,506. There are 4,433 Indian members ; increase 481. There are 6,520 Sunday Schools,an in crease ol 847 ; 45,217 officers and teach ers, an increase of 9.212; 300,523 schol ars, an increase of 18,056. The sum of $60,082 57 was collected for Confer ence claimants, an increase of $5,205 55, aud the sum of $73,SI3 84 for missions, a decrease of $9,862 03. A report recently piesented to the English Parliament gives the average daily pay of Mechanics as follows .— Austria, one dollar; Belgium, sixty cents ; France, one dol ar and tea cents ; Denmark, sixty cents ; Italy, forty cents ; Netherlands, seventy-five cents ; Norway, sixty cents ; Sicily, thirty cents ; Portugal, forty cents ;— Prussia, seventy-five cents ; Russia, siveuty-five cents ; Sweden, sixty cents ; Switzerland, sixty cents. The Greeley electoral ticket for Cal ifornia is composed equally of Demo* crats aud Republicans.