The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-02-02

Washington Letter in the CINCINNATI Commercial.
A GHOST.

Washington Letter in the CINCINNATI Commercial.
A GHOST.
The old Wing party dined with US yes
terday. II came incoming into the dining
room, startling some and exciting all. It
had calm, kind, philosophical counten-
ance,, bald head, and looked at this live
world Of ours through gold-rimmed specta-
cles. It's coat was Of past generation,
and its pantaloons loose and baggy as its
principles. II left an old. battered white
hat in the yestibule, and answered TO the
name Of Greeley.
Dear, kind-hearted old gentleman, it
does my heart good to see him. Brimful
of beneyolence, he does more wrong through
his peryerse notions than any man alive.
With his venerable pate pigeon holed with
vast stores Of information, he enlightens no
one. His farming is farce, his political
economy an absurdity, while his popular
name sends broadcast over the land a jour
nal that does more harm, socially, politi-
cally and morally, than all the others COM
bined. fol
He came into my room after dinner. lie
breaks into room, as it were, and seems
to bring several people with him, there is
such an air Of busy life about him. u
IL don't know any young man." he cri-
ed, s.who needs educating as much as you.
I have, therefore, brought you book to
study" And he handed me his volume Of
Political Economy. g
.'Sit down, Mr.. Greeley ! responded.
II am glad 10 see you. and will study your
book with pleasure, and, perhaps, prof"
II can't sit down. Pm of for New Park
tonight"
He did sit down, however, and continu-
cd: "You free-traders are making great
noise, and it is the noise Of the drum, loud
from emptiness"
Thank you. But VIC are getting the
peeps Il. e., the people, ard you greedy
prohibitionists will have to move or be run
over,
.Ahl yes, you have the people; but if !
was ten years younger
"Why. Mr.. Greeley. you are younger
this minute than ! am. far
II didn't say was not. There is some
thing IN being old in wickedness. Bnt il
| we're ten years younger I'd want no bet
ter sport than to go down into the arena
and clean you all out. a43
Perhaps
s.No perhaps aboutit. met this Per
ry, this Professor Perry, up in New Eng
land. We had discussion, and / knock
ed him fore and aft. And had the crowd.
They passed me in over their heads and
hnrrahed me through. The Professor was
backed up by'some few distinguished fel-
lows, but the crowd was 80 great they could
not get in. / cleaned him" ana & la1
I'D like to ses you do that in the Mac
a-Cheek Valley, where we suffer. You had
the advantage in New England, where they
have prospered in our Woes"
sDeyil bit. might not got a hearing
at first, withso many speeches made on th'
other side against me, but I'd win in th'
end" ah
Don't believe word Of Il; a man
most sensitive nerve is his pocket, an'
there we are touched. But come now
don't let Us discuss that crazy thing, tn
tariff that makes men crazy and violent
Won't you help Us down the 1t. Law
renceg" Al
i ssNo." A4A8A
.ANhy not? ~ sAs =
..Its damned humbug.'
..what, giving US cheap transportation
to tide-water?' f
Certainly; we tried that once, and no
a cursed morsel went that way. New Yorl
Is the objective point for western produce. :
1--WE tried ii before those heavy railroad
combinations raised freight on us
well. build more roads"
..For Fisk. Jr., and Vanderbilt to COB
bic ups
"Well, take your products down tn
Mississippi, and 50 round in New York"
..ln the summer our produce spoils b
that route, and in the winter We are frozel
up. It's an internal shame that VIC shoul,
be 80 treated. While wheat is eighty cents
and dull at that, in the Mack-s-Uhcek,
| Is dollar and sixty in New York. Now
you favor reduction Of the duty on coal y
Il Certainly It's another damned hum
bug. The reduction won't reduce the pric
one cent"
.And you II throw off the duty on salt z
l"Well' llnositatingly) '.ycs."
And on fshi' sialuk l1 ~
What the devil do we want with dut
on fish? We don't import fish; we expoI
!, IT, ~
Exactly. And the duty on laihberf'
j What are you aiming at? | aln IN Fl
yor Of, reoiproeitywith the Provinces.
believe in admitting their products free
and they do admit ours. If the Internal foo
would agrco 10 base their legislation on d
true principles Of political economy.
What am driving az j. this: If v
will moderate our duties on those four Al
, ticles the Canadians will enlarge their q
mails - as to take down vessels of thou
, aud tons each, and with free nayigatit
, give Us their inlaud fisheries as we'll. Nov
help u.s. As
/ II won't
I'll ftVh. ,nt -