The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-10-20
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AtieT 81 that has been said about
The celebrated Jew order" the public
~ill be surprised 60 learn that General
4 Grant never issued H. Iharc just seen
8 letter from Capt Du Bois. Of the
Third United States Cavalry. now sta
toned at Sante Fe. New Mexico, ia
which be saws that the order issued at
Holly Springs Miss, was addressed to
bis own command, aud without the
knowledge Of General Grant, and that
f5r SO dong be, Capt Du B5.s was
suspencd from command As 10 tho
order being issued by order Of Cen
eral Grant, the General never saw or
heard anything Of il until il appeared
in the public press Capt Dn Bois, il
will be remembered, was charged thro'
the Copperhead press with having issu-
ed the document by order Of General
Grant; and this, as will be seen, be
most emphatically denies What next
The bold, bare-faced attempt of the
Sheriff Of Philadelphia TO muster a vol
unteer force OF citizens one thousand
strong, armed with bludgeons, for the
ostenEibls purpose Of preserving the
peace, but in reality to protect Demo
cratic "reT eaters aud colouized voters
meets with very general condemnation
even by the more respectable portion
Of the Democratic leaders Of this city
He we'll knew that Mayor McMichml,
whose special duty it is to preserve the
peace, had made ample arrangements
to do so. and the Sheriff had no au-
thorIty to act until called upon to do
so by the Mayor himself The Demo
Gratis of Pennsylvania seem to be ami
mated 10y the same villainous spirit rs
their klu-Klux friends, and would
rather rule in hell than serve IN heav-
en-. The most Infamous attempts-in
some cases openly-were made to pre-
OF a majority of the legal voters from
ruling the State. Thousands Of "roughs"
were imported from New York a whole
regiment of Lees soldiers from Balti-
more; and, it is believed, thousands
more entered the State for illegal pur-
poses from the Western counties Of
Marylpnd and the valley Of Virginia.
The people of York and several coun-
ties of the Southern tier, it will be re-
membered, were in full accord with
the rebels during the late War; and
while Lee and Stuart could obtain all
the information necessary as to the
movements Of the Union troops, it was
next to impossible for our Generals to
obtain any information from the inhab-
itants as to the movements Of the enc
my. II was in this way Stuart escap-
ed from Fitzpatrick when he had him
cut of at Hanover The only reason
ever given for this sympathy was that
the people on the border had made n
profitable business Of catching runaway
slaves, and hence they aided their old
employers. But, thanks to the vigi-
lance Of Mayor McMichal and other
Republicans, the raiding Rebels who
came into the State to vote have not
succeeded in d 9feating the will of the
people, though probably ten thousand
Illegal votes were cast for the Demo
cratic candidates. 1t is i'll wind, how
ever, that blows nobody good The
course Of the Democrats in the present
campaign will hs We the effect of caus-
ing Congress to pass a law requiring
all naturalization papers TO be issued
by the United Sta ties Conrts.
/ Were it possible for Seymour and
BLAIR to be elected in November, it
would not be safe .or Union men to
live anywhere south of the Potomac
They would not be safer in Washing
ton than in 1901, when every man
carried his life, as it were, in his hands,
The old residents of the city to-day,
are as bitter against the Government
as they ever were. True, as n matter
Of policy, they do not show their col
ors openly very often but the old VI
rus remains, latent though it be, and
can be seen cropping out everywhere.
The children OF this class continue to
dress in Rebel grey, and they talk as
, gliblv Of yankees" and "niggers" az
! though they lived in Georgia or Ala
bama. They have, until ecentiy worn
Rebel badges in the public schools, bat
now have changed them for pins bear
ing the likeness of Seymc ur or Blair
or both; and woe be 10 the unlucly
wight who happens to wear Grant
{ badge. Children Of Union parents are
forced to leave these schools; the pen
atty for wearing Grant badge being a
: "butting" punching a boys head
against fence or post and af orwards
a ducking under the nearest pump
, This state Of things does not apply to
all the public schools but I am assur-
, ed law GOOD authority that IL does 10