New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-04
THE CAMPAIGN.


{ The cost of putting down Democratic rebel
llon was over Ss,OOO,OOO,OOO.
One of the Pendleton escort is said to be
wandering in the Rocky Mountains.
Che Hartford Post announces that hcCieiN'n
sfill take tlle spade for Seymour and BAir.
Tie Raleigh On. c. Standard sC Oar",Ine
kooo n,.I, Tor Grant and Colfax North Carolina
Who boasted that they would not ~ sT'o
pOr dollar to put down the heOSiiO"
Party.
NJ g., IF Seymour g. Blair is in shaky
nc I'm ,a,v potss fan due miNovember, and col
lapse Is expected. ,
4 IN. Ue,,on Advertiser says: |" 1t is st ated
,.t,o p,irs have been putting their heads together
dreadfal case Of Poiie'h
4 sMoDitor Clubs" in honor of our next Gov
-Dor the Hon. John A. Grswold, being organ
kzed throu. hout the state
Ex-senator George z. Pugh recently said:
live are the most oppressed people the face Of the
earth" Il the Fenlans believe thati
Judee Culver spoke at Kingston, n. Y, last
evening He viii address the RepablcansOt Union Vii
aage, Washington County, on the nth inst.
Answer to a cOrrespondent-You are entirely
mistaken Postage viii not be reduced to one cent on
letter in case OF the election of Seymour.
The Democratic State Committee is to meet
ht Utica on the 10th Of August This to be near sey
nour Tho day for the state Convention viii then be
detected
II ia contemplated to hold three Soldiers
Mass Meetings in New-Jersey during the coming cam
agn: one at Camden. at Trenton and the third at
Newark
/ An ardent Democratic sheet published In
GexAs teils ms 10 90 to h Thank you We never did
attend a Copperhead pow-wOw and we are too old to
bapin now lChoago Post.
Gen. Littlefeld, with a saw-mill and 100000
acres OF pine land near Charleston South Carolina is
= sarpetoa Dagger"
The Neio- York World says SeymOur's
friends" comprise the majority in New-YOrk. That ac
counts for that NewYo is the worst governed
bity In the United States lCleve' Leauer'
/ If 4 State had to run HOratiO Seymour D
kimes to elect him Governor times, how many times
kn 81 States have TO him. elect him President (or
Governor Of them times
There is a proposition In Democratic circles
bring out Erastus Corning of Albany, a competitor
ith Hoffman Murphy for the partys nomination for
GOvernor.
' Gen. Grants great grandfather Noah Grant,
commandtd company Of white and black men in l776,
ana fell AZ the battle Of White Plains did his brother
Bolomon Grant.
Why does not some ingenious Democratic
baper cite the fact that Gen Grant was with President
ohnson when swung around the circle as PROOF That
Dc y not a isadieai
The Detroit Advertiser says: The original
harpetbagXers were Democratic patriots who with
kmau roll Of clothing undor their arms ran away TO
canada to escape the draft"
+ 1t was a great oversight that +" Black Re-
publican" like Thomas jefferson should have been Sc
kected to draft the Declaration o. Independence, the
pOrner- stone OF the republic
/ A friend suggests that mistake is made III
Attacking seymour for saying "the war was failure
because it is now evident that he meant his war the
Failure wss the part of his friends"
A Vermont Volunteer writes THE TRIBUNE
pIhavs great respect for carpetbaggers having been
bne myself during part Of the time during the late on
bleasantness' MY carpetbag Was marked L. g."
The Hunterdon On. j. Republican, Repub-
Moan paper published Of the most benighted Cop
herhsad holes in NewJersey, has been enlarged 1t ia
kravely aghtiBg q good fight, and deserves a whole
sOuled support
p An exchange saws "When Wade Hampton
1eft Columbia, the approach Of sherman's army he
Announced that be was bound to Texas or hell lie
6idnt 20 to TexAs but the Democratic party. Hasn't
be kept his wOrdf"
Heretofore the Democrats have objected to
Aha Republican party Oh the ground it sectional
that IL had no members in the South. Now they com
plain that it has members in the South than II
ought TO have.
William I. Dowdal of TIE Peoria Democrat,
having read Brick PomerOy out OF the Democratic party
Ehe latter replies by calling DOwdal an idiotc swill
headed chunk" WhereUpon DOwdal calls Brick a " Pan
hemoniac Iaste-pOt Cnt.throat."
The Boston Post says the Democrats of Yer
mont had an oldfashioned Convention last week and
khat "the enthusiasm rose 90 hgh-water marx" The
Vermont Democrats set OF cheerful CLAIMS gentle
Bow makes 1t hgh-tide for them.
The Democracy of Lima, on Friday evening,
held ratification meeting TO listen to the Hon H. NJ
Beck OF Tennessee The orator made dead failure ana
confessed that he was nothing but travelling gum
beddler The Democracy acknowledged the corn.
II is worthy of mention that a young and
poor oOOred man. Richard Greener by name carried on
hhe FIRST pze for defamation At Harvard University,
against twenty competitors, all white and Massa-
Eehusetts allows Mr. GFeener vote What shame
The Boston Post, the leading Democratic
bSwspaper Of NewEngland said Of Schuyler COfax in
AsSs: "He Is intelligent active. working good
printer good editor good citizen, and has discharged
bis duty cOrscientiOusly have doubt, as public
knan."
The Democratic candidate for the Vice-Pres-
fdenoy in his letter Of acceptance says the issues Of the
eoutest ali resolve themselves into the old and
occurring struggle Of few to absorb the political
power Of the nation" Isn't tins rather hard the Blair
fAmfyt
Democratic paper praises Seymour on the
ground that he neither called a Peace Democrat
Dor War Democrat dlstnctvely" Since the publica-
kon OF Frank BaiPs letter before his nomination there
ban be no doubt concerning him. He is a strong Var
Democrat
An irate Democrat at the National Conven-
Bios, mistakiDg the uniformed policemen Union sol
srs thHs exclaimed II is time this buecoated des