Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05
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trip TO Europe as soon as he RECEIVERS suficl-
entity from the effects Of his recent fall
G G. Wright lumber dealer Of North
ampton, Mass having failed for $4,000
and forged the names of two ofhis brothers
in law, has absconded.
On the fifth inst, a Philadelphia Copper
head was bitten in the leg by aBull Terrier
dog The dog died in twenty-four hours.
Poor dorg.
Denunciatons OF Grant and smiles and
cheers for Wade Hampton and Forest were
the alternating courtesies of the Democrat
c National Convention.
The three reputation planks OF the Dem
ocratic national platform may be briefly
summed up in a single clause, 5onfScatioH Of
the property Of loydt men.
Hon VIM. III. Converse OF Conneeticut.a
member of the Democratic State Committee
has announced his determination to vote
for Grant
On the day of adjournment the New
Hampshire Legislature met at five o'clock
in the morning. Nothing like this ever
/ happened in any other New England State
THE St. Louis Republican, Democratic
organ of Missouri, thus harshly speaks Of
one Of its "unwashed" friends Henry
| Clay Dean, the Iowa nuisance, is advertised
TO speak in this State We wish he would
come out for Grant.
The Prisoners at Atlanta, Ga, ON trial
for completely in the Ashblun murder, have
been removed from their cells under bond
and given comfortable quarters in the bar
racks, the bond simply providing that they
anncar at the trial dailv
Why is it, asked Republican of hisreb-
ell Democratic friend, that you have none
but rebels in your National Convention
from the South?' ''Well, confidentially and
not TO be printed, the reason is that all the
Union men of the South are Republicans,
and all the rebels Democrats, and we could
dc no better.
A dealer in Augusta, Ga, publishes this
card in the City papers. No native SCALA
wags" or their money are wanted III my
store from this date. Negroes and Eastern
mon are excusable, even ifthey are in some
cases in opposition to the people of the South
but native that turns traitor to his coun-
try ought not to be tolerated by law abiding
people.
This is the way Massachusetts Republi-
canwrigglcd out of difficulty: You could't
elect an angel of light ON such platform as
that, quoth the Republican to a rabid Dem
/ ocrat "Couldn't?" was the reply, "Why,
| I'd vote for an angel of light on any plat
| form" "Oh, that's not the difficulty, res
pended Republican, an angel Of light
wouldn't stand on il; that's what's the mat
| teri
From this moment the Republican party
moves forward to certain victory. The po-
sition of the enemy is fully developed and
| his weakness SO fully exposed as to leave no
doubt of the result of The conflict x
= s The country will be much
obliged to Mr.. Blair for this warning, and II
the election of President by the Democ-
racy is to result in civil war in order to Sc
cure bv force a Copperhead majority in the
Senate, the people will take excellent care
| that a President shall not be elected by the
Democracy. They have had war enough
and prefer Grants dootrine-"Let us have
peace. = Washington Chronicle
During the war our fighting ships afoat
numbered over five hundred They are
now reduced to about eighty-screw sloops,
| paddle heels, trigates, gunboats, store
ships. &c Five of the most effective of these
are vet III the navy-yards, and mount So
guns seven are with Admiral Farragut,
numbeHing also 50 guns, twelve, OF 113 guns
form the Asiatio Squadron, underRear-A
miral Rowan; seven of 90 guns, arc with
Rear Admiral Dahlgren, ON the South Pacif
ic Station Rear Admiral Craven commands
eleven with 124 guns, ON the North Pacific
Station: Rear Admiral Davis has seven
with rs guns on the South Atlantic Station;
eight with 70 guns, are with Rear-Admiral
Hofl. on the North Atlantic Station; while
Vice Admiral Porter has thirteen, with Ids
guns, in the Naval Academy Squadron; and
seven with 70 guns, are on the lakes andon
home stations.
Not the least dubious of the clauses of
the Democratic platform is that which de-
mands the regulation Of the elective fran
"chlse ia the States by their citizens. 1t
| is impossible for the citizens of a State to
regulate the elective franchise except
through theexereise of the elective franchise.
Now by demanding that the "eitizens" of
State shall regulate its franchise, the Demo
cratic Convention, by implication, de-
! manSs that they shall have the right
To veto in order TO DO so. But this is uni
versal suffrage. What the Democracy real
" means is that oHly the white citizens Of
a State shall regulate the elective franchise
/ for If they eoncede that the entire body of
citizens ola State may exclude any portion
on account Of color, then they may concede
that in South Carolina, the blacks, who arc
nearly two-thirds ofthe citizens, can exclude
the whites and SO disfranchise Gen. Wade
Hampton, one of the authors of tho plat
form,