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VOLUME XLiiJ.j
MILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, A U G U S T 21, 1872.
NUMBER 4.
THE
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.