Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-07
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ton, has just gone through bankruptcy
for considerably beyond $4,000
John a. Griswold, of Troy, has writ
ten letter accepting the Republican
nomination for Governor Of New York.
Hon. James Harlan will labor for
Grant and Colfax on The Pacific coast.
The secretary Of the Republican state
Committee of California predicts ma
jjority of ten thousand.
1t was the intention of Mr. Halpnc's
friends to run him as the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Ninth
District next autumn, in place Of Fer
nando Wood.
An immense mass meeting will be
held in indianapolis on the 10th. The
speakers will be Gen. John A. Logan,
Gen Geo. II. Thomas, Gen. Daniel
Il. Sicllles and others. Over 10000
"Fighting Boys in Blue are to be pres
cnt.
The Richmond, Va, Republicans
have decided TO have a newspaper or
gan.
The proposition that the office OF Re
gistrar Of New York, made vacant by
the death of Gen. Halpinc, be conferred
upon Horace Greeley for the balance OF
the term, with the understanding that
the emoluments go to Gen. Halpne's
family, meets with general favor.
Mr.. Joshua Allen, an old citizen of
Hartford, CT, died suddenly Saturday
morning ut the age of eighty-one years.
Mr.. Allen was uncle to Robert Bonner
OF the New York Lcdger
A New York publishing house advcr-
tises POllaid's Lost Cause as 1.-THE
Only Democratic History OF the War"
The Louisville journal calls sherman
Thomas and Meade "satraps' and The
soldiers 'slaves of the satraps." 1t says,
of course they are for Grant, together
with ''all swindlers, pimps, detectives,
adventures, bigots and blackguards, y
but that 1.-The whole responsibility and
responsibility OF the South are for Blair
and Seymour"
Gen. Grant was serenadcd at St.
Louis Wednesday night and made the
following speech:
"GenUemen and EeUow Citizens: [
can scarcely find words TO thank you for
this very hearty and warm reception. 1t
is particularly gratifying to meet 50
many friends in st. Louis, a place
which has arisen since | became a man
grown; where l have interests, and
where intend to become Il resident at
some future day. Thanking you again,
| will bid you good night.
In abiding to the eX-Confederate
generals, in his Dayton, Ohio, speech
last week, Vallandigham said: ave
know these men only as our friends,
fellow-citizens and brothers the descen-
dants of the Washingtons, the Lees, the
Hamptons, the Sumpters, the Marions,
the Prestons, the Haynes, the Laurens,
and others, who, side by side, stood
with the Hancocks, the Adamses, the
Starks, the Putnams, the Gates, and the
w NY Hes Vi tlc N Itll III Vie ncIOlC SlIuS
gle of rs, or with their sons and grand
Sons in the later conflict of 1912, or the
Mexican war of 1S46-Americans all
whose fame is the patrimony of the
whole country"
The Cincinnati Gazette, which was re.
garded as Mr.. Chase's organ until quite
recently, denies the statement made by
friend of Mr.. Chase that he did not
seek the Democratic nomination, an(
;. adds:
"Mr. Chase entered into negotiation,
, with the managers of the Democratic
party for the nomination to the Presi
dency. The negotiation was pushed
on his part, with great activity, and h'
had all his personal followers at work a
it. The world knows that the consider
4 ations of this bargain We're, OH Mr.
e Chase's part, that he would split thu
+ Republican party and thereby enable
the Democratic party to carry all thu
> elections, national and local; and OF
s the other part that the Democratic par
0 ty should nominate him for the Presi
9 dency. These were the terms of the
: coalition. They were fully expressed
u when Mr.. Chase made the first overture
o for the Democratic nomination as if h