The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
POLITICAL.

to arouse and organize, or the Radical
will carry the day.
A Washington despatch, August %
!; to the New York Tribune, says: PR
vate advice from Tennessee, received
here to day, gives rise to the belief tina
President J ohnson's prospects for cleo
ton to the United States Senate are in
creasing 1t is well known that his mos
formidable opponent up to this time ha
been the Hon. Bailey Peyton, who ha
now withdrawn from the contest, and is
warm supporter of Mr.. johnson.
The Philadelphia Post says: GAS:
Packer is said to be 'workingman' can
didate.' Who ehucked him into the LIE
high River? Will his own workmen be stu
pid enoagh to support a man who re
spects their rights only when he is com
PEELED to do SO at the risk of his life
We think not"
| Stokes wants to create the impression
that the Scnter party will revolutionizt
| Tennessee, and array itself against the
| General Government. It is the opinion
of the best informed Republican poiti
clans that Stokes mission in Washington
Will be fruitless so far as his alleged OBJ
ject is concerned !; but Stokes says he
will make an earnest appeal to the Presi
dent for interference.
The carpet baggers are annihilated by
a column article IN the Augusta ga.
| C0nstituttonalist, which closes as follows:
The South has been defeated in battle;
| but she will once more emerge as con
| testant in the arena of reason and on tie
| fields of industry. We have to thank
| our Northern brethren for ruins and ash.
| es. But la the ruins no bats gibber
| TO the moon, grooming over solitude
| which has no hope; and beneath the
ashes our ancient fires are still alive and
still Immortality glow.
A New Orleans paper deplores the OBJ
security into which our Presidents fall as
soon as they are out of office. 1t says
The man who has once won the supreme
honoIs ought to be allowed some sh-eds
of the mantle to carry him with into pIi-
waite life and we, for one journal. would re-
jolce to see an amendment to the constitu-
ton adopted by which our ex-Presidents
would be entitled, during after-life, to
seats in the United States Senate as Sen
ators at large"
The London Telegraph Of 10th says
The statement to which we referred
yesterday, that the British Government
has refused an eceQudtur to Mr.. James
Haggerty, recently appointed Consul for
the United States at Glasgow, is perfect
ly correct. Apparently in utter ignorance
of that gentleman Fenian sympathies
and exertions, the Washington admins
tration appointed him to the post but
when made aware by our government that
the former conduct Of Mr. Hagger;y had
been such as to preclude the possibility
of his being accepted in official capacity,
the United States authorities, in the
franke>t manner, acknowledge the pro-
prlety of the objection, and cancelled the
appointment
The st. Louis Democrat counsels the
Southern people to turn their thoughts
from Chinese importation and seek to
make the best use of the labor they now
have. 1t argues that the Northern,
them, and urges that the South will be
wise if, not building its hopes on Chi
uese labor for agricultural purposes, it
looks, instead, to the fullest development
of free labor, to the invention and appli-
cation of machines. to the higher cutiva-
ton Of smaller estates, and to the COM
plete abandonment of the federal system
and its ideas.
The New York Times says that "The
Democracy must feel quite disappointed
that President Grant has not taken any
step, thus far, in way of establishing the
the despotisna which they declared, last
year, would be the consequence of his
election They felt certain-at least So
they said-that, in case he were elected
President, he would, after attaining pow
er, begin the work of subverting our tree
institutions, overthrowing the n ii u
ton, and establishing a Cesarism in
which he should play the part of Dicta-
tor or Emperor.
4 citizen of Ohio was invited not long
since to address a Sabbath School conven-
ton in Moultrie County, ILL.,, and respond
ed to the invitation. In the course of
his remarks he had occasion to refer to the
Stars and Stripes, which offended quite
number Of his Democratic hearers
He was stopped and told that he must
not talk politics. Commenting on this.
the Bloomington Leader says: In
that county, during the war, the Demo
Gratis have organized regiment of peace
men to fight in the rear, which accounts
for their objections to the flag, and for
the impression prevailing that respecta-
bic reference to the national colors is an
insult to Democrats.
\ letter from Tennessee says: affairs
in Tennessee are about as quiet now as
they have been in its history. Intolar
ance or prescription Of any kind is al
most unheard of, and, batting the news
paper discussion concerned IN the United
States Senatorship, and whether theI e
will be a convention or not, the material
interests of the State mainly occupy the
attention of the people.
ANDY johnson will be in Nashville in
a day or two, on his way to the Sulphur
Springs, in Macon County, where he pro
poses to soiourn for a short time. The
country pressin Middle and West Tennes.
see are generally averse to Andy Senator'S
al Inspirations. His visit to the Springs, in
Middle Tennessee, Is, perhaps not sc
much to improve the tone of his physi
cal system as to infuse a healthy tone tt
| the JohnsonIsm into certain Legislative
individuals in that section of the State
THE statement of the New Yorl
| World, which has elected comment il
certain Radical journals, that the great
majority of the people of Tennessee de
sire to deprive the negro of politica
rights, is utterly groundless. 1t il
doubtful if, in body of nearly one hun
dred Conservative legislators, there are
FIVE men who would feel disposed to inter
fere with the present political status of the
colored men in Tennessee.
"a convention to amend the constitu
ton will doubtless be called Immediately
after the converting of the Legislator,
has full authority in itself to make the
necessary changes in the organic law, es
pecially in relation to the removal of dis
abilities from the whites now disfranchis