Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-02
Political Items.


"A Grant Club was organized In Ne1
Orleans on the I'd, at which 800 white mel
enrolled.
Senator Fessenden saysfhat, The presi
dent could no more Johnsonize MINNIE thar
he could capsize the White Mountains.
"A Seymour and Blair club, in the tow
of Sumter, S. O.. has for ITS President
white man, and two colored Vice Presi
dents.
Bets are offered in Washington tina
Grant will carry every Northern state. An,
yet there are no takers. The trouble is
the democrats are all takers.
Pennsylvania is alive to Grant anC
Colfax All over her mountains, and al
through her yalleysthe tanners are at work
and loyalists are moving forward. 81
| The Mobile Nationalist says that on
of G, 900 colored registered voters in tina
city, the democrats have been able to in
dnce only 10 to become members of ther
| club
The Philadelphia Daily News, for
long time the leading representative o
'.rny policy" in thrt city and democratic
organ, has taken ground in favor of GRAM
and Colfax.
-Gerritt Smith deems the election o
Grant ''the life OF the nation" He there
fore proposes to speak once in each coun
ty in New York, where it is supposed ht
can do most good.
Republican papers in Delaware claim
that the republicans are daily receiving
large accessions from the Disguised demot
racy, and that Wilmington will give COO
majority for Grant in November.
On Monday eighty-ive workmen, all
republicans but two, and among them foul
one-legged and three-one-armed soldiers,
were discharged from the Portsmouth navy
ward blythe new democratic incumbents
there.
AT Mortified, Vt, pure white swal-
low can be seen flying over that village any
evening" with large flock of his colored
friends. At South Hero, in the same State,
white robin has been captured. They dc
not threaten to form a white birds party.
Every campaign has its jokes, and
this of 1868 is bearing very good
crop already. The richest one of all thus
far, is an Grafton on Radical Extravaganza, .
delivered in Portland, by Richard O'Gor-
man, a New York Copperhead ofice-holder,
with the emoluments of S150,000 year.
Senator Van Wrinkle is on the stump
for Grant and Colfax. At a meeting in
Parkersburg. the other evening he said he
had been surprised ut the prevalence of a
rumor that he had left his party, which
would best be answered by his appearance
on that occasion as a speaker before u
Grant Club.
The Springfield Ill } Register, speak
ing of the constitutional amendment repu-
dating the rebel debt, and declaring the
validity of the onion debt calls it the
''sum of all villanies." The Register
doubtless would place the provisions of
the amendment Ujce cerSd.
The Cincinnati Gazette is reminded,
by the pretended satisfaction of democrats
with the Vermont election, of John Phn-
nix's description of the way he once whip
ped an antagonist. Il inserted my nose
between his teeth, said the warlike John, 4"
land thus held my cowardly assailant
down."
"A specimen of the campaign I" straws"
was seen in Fitchburg, Mass, last Wednes-
day When the Thirty-sixth and Thirty
ninth regiments of the State militia
marched under the Grant and Colfax ban
ner, they halted and gave three tremendous
cheers, but went in silence past that which
bore the namestof Seymour and Blair.
The Richmond Wing says: 'It has
reached us in very direct way that Mr..
Seymour has expressed the opinion that a
certain speech falsely reported, we believe)
of a distinguished Southerner cost the
democratic party of the North 900, 900
votes. Better not say anything than use
language that only exasperates and
strengthens our enemies.
GENERAL LEE swore to support and
defend the Constitution ten times, as APP
pears by the files IN the War Office, and
then took up arms and attempted to de-
stroy it. Beauregard took like oath
seven times. Now these two worthless are
out in a letter declaring that if those who
fought to maintain it are entrusted with
power, it will be DESTROYED.