Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-09
POLITICAL ITEMS.

eB A French biography Of General
Grant has been published.
E#- The New Orleans Republican says :
"We asked an old resident if he saw the
Democratic celebration on Saturday eve
ming. He replied: l saw long process
sion Of General Grants paroled prisoners
lis that what you refer to p"
CB The World says the Democratic
party "is no more bound by General
Blair's previous declarations, than by Gov.
Seymour's." Which we take to be true.
1t isn't bound by anything, not even a
sense Of decency. Hartford Post.
CE A letter from General Sickles, to a
gentleman in Cleveland, says: al am re-
joiced to hear from every quarter that
Ohio is sure for Grant Pennsylvania is
all right, and do not regard me as a rash
man when tell you that New York is as
sure for Grant as Ohio.
re- A Democratic exchange says
1.-THE Radical party will go out of sight in
November" This is an admission we
were hardly prepared for at this stage of
the campaign. We expect, of course, to
leave the Democrats a long way behind,
but not so far as to be "out of sight" "
quite.--Hargord Post
EE George Alfred Townsend stated a
few weeks ago in one of his Washington
letters that Reverdy johnson, our Minis
ter to England, preferred General Grant
to Horatio Seymour, for the Presidency.
II is said that that statement is confirmed
by intelligence received in Baltimore from
Mr.. johnson himself
CB The Philadelphia Press says "a
few weeks ago the Democrats were con-
fident Of carrying the State in October,
and eager to wager heavily ON the certain
ty of their triumph in the city. Now
they,refuse entirely to bet on the one, and
only agree to put up money on the other
when heavy odds are secured"
CB- The New York Sun is informed, on
"good authority, that our distinguished
fellow-citizen, James Il. Brady, Esq, has
This will be a serious disappointment to
many of his Democratic friends" Brady
is one of the best esteemed and most influ-
ential Democrats in the city of New York.
eT The Meridian Miss Mercury speaks
the real rebel Southern sentiment in the
following oath: "With the skull and
cross-bones of the lost cause before us,
we will swear that this is white mans
government. We must make the negro
understand that we are the men we were
when we held him in abject bondage, and
make him feel that when forbearance
ceases to be a virtue he has raised power
that will control him or destroy him"
CB On the night of the 21st ult., near
Horn Lake, De Soto county, Miss, two
colored men and one colored woman were
hung. The crime Of the two former was
that they dared to be Republicans; the
crime of the poor woman, that she recog-
nized the assassins and might tell the story
of their fiendish deed. They had been
together in the field, picking cotton, on
Monday, and on the following morning
their bodies were found dangling from
limbs in neighboring forest, ~ p
E% At the reunion of the 10th Connec-
cut regiment, the other day, at Savin
Rock, Lieutenant Frank Otis, one of
whose arms is on a Southern battlefield,
just as he was leaving the banquet, ex-
pressed curiosity to know how the old
10th felt politically. On calling for a
vote every man stood up for Grant. AS
the cheers which the incident ELECTED sub
sided, at is the same old fight" said Otis,
waving the empty sleeve, in his enthusi-
asm.
E8r At one of the Cabinet meetings
while General Grant was in the Cabinet,
President johnson was indulging in some
of his characteristic glorihcations over
the " sacrifices which he had made for the
country, and one or more of his Cabinet
Joined in the same strain of self-praise
Gen. Grant quietly and modestly said
"Well, gentlemen, so far as / am con-
cerned, haze aeVer made any sacrifices
for the country. The country has always
done more for me than have done for it.
suppose would be ready to make sacri-
fees, but have never had the opportu-
nifty and think that as general rule,
our public men get more from the country
than they give it."