The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-21
POLITICAL.

The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald suggests
Secretary boutwell, as a candidate for the Presi-
dency.
-fhe Washington correspondent of the New
York Express says that Hon. Thomas L. Tul-
lock- the appointing officer in the Treasury De-
partment, was q Copperhead during the war,
and Navy Agent at Portsmouth under Buchanan.
This information will astonish his New Hamp-
shire friends. Mr.. Tullock was one of the Or
ganizers of the Republican party in that State,
and to his labors have been largely due the
paralleled victories of the party during the past
seventeen years. Mr.. Tullock was Postmaster
at Portsmouth under Taylor and Fillmore, and
Navy Agent under Lincoln until the Office was
abolished. For several years he was Secretary
of State of New Hampshire
The Atlanta Nelo Era notices the unac-
countable absence of Robert Toombs and B. II.
Hill while the question of the negros eligi-
bility to Office was being argued before the
Supreme Court of Georgia, although upon the
stump during the last campaign they were most
eloquent and exhaustive in their appeals to the
white people of the State to stand up for their
rights"
General Washburne, the Republican candi-
date for Governor of Vermont, is a successful
lawyer of Woodstock. He served as colonel of
a Vermont three months regiment at the begin
ming of the war, and then, being elected by the
Legislature to the office of Adjutant and In
spector-G General held that office to the end of
the war; AS legislator, he has had experience
in both houses of the Legislature.
Hon. Homer w. Heaton, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Vermont, is a LAWYER
and long citizen of Montpelier He has
served in both houses of the State Legislature,
and has held the office of State Attorney. He
has been a lifelong Democrat.
Hon. John F. Dillon, Chief Justice of Iowa.
was renominated at the late Republican State
Convention, and in accepting said: LET me say
that this denomination is grateful to me not
only because of its Endorsement of my course in
the past, not only because of its unanimous be-
stowal, but also because it comes from the re-
tnfiU of thn 1NUli oh hnyyn
been identified in feeling, in conviction, and in
action ever since its first organization. 1t is a
party whose glorious history, whose noble
achievements for man and his rights, whose
conquest for rational freedom will never be for
COTTON while there remains on the broad green
earth one heart whose aspirations are true to
the sacred cause of human liberty and equal
rights"
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel sees
only evil to flow from the decision of the Su-
preme Court of that State that negroes are eligi-
Bile to office. 1t says-"The deed is done
Georgia is dragged down to the lowest depths in
the slime and filth of Radicalism-at least so far
the exercise of the high places of the State by
unlettered negroes is concerned. For season
we must submit to our fate. Let all true men
wait and watch and work for the speedy ap-
proach of that good day when their childrens
patrimony, now fed upon by dogs, will be re-
turned to the true owners, and the government of
the State restored to its rightful proprietors."
The correspondent of the Richmond Wing
saw Colonel John s. Mosby at political meet
iGg in Leesburg, Va, on the 14th inst, aud no.
ticed him moving from group to group on the
court green, urging the people to vote for
Walker and the expurgated Constitution Sub
sequently the correspondent met him, and in a
conversation Mosby said:-''Yes, year ago l
swore l wouldn't register, but | now think diff
ferently, and had rather be right than consistent
Then we had our own judges; our own county
officers, and no one of them was required to
take the iron-clad oath. Negro suffrage cannot
possibly impose upon us worse man than
| Wells, and by voting down the Constitution
you vote to disfranchise yourselves, and to keep
the State under the rule of carpet-baggers. Fol
myself, I surrendered four years ago, ant
thought did it in good faith in April, 1865.
have found no difficulty in bringing my judg
ment to the conclusion that it is the true policy
TO adopt the course / now advise, but my pride
held out some time after my judgment was con
vfnced. 1t now seems strange that any reasona
BILE man can entertain doubt az to- his plail
| duty -