The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-17
OF DECAY.

The Terre Haute Und:) Gazette pub
fishes q letter from a distinguished
Republican Of that State, now in
Washington, one of the most promi-
nent mem bers of the convention which
nominated Grant, from which we
make the following extract:
This is admitted to he the ~littleSt,
meanest and most trifing administra-
ton the country ever had. How long
wi.ithe people behumbugged by pre-
tenders."
This opinion of the present admins
traticn is let confined, by any means,
TO Indiana Republicans, but extends
everywhere, in proof of which we
have before us a letter of ex-senator
II. b. Stanton, of New York, who, in
3 letter, dated July %, to another Re
publican, says, if General Grant is
nominated:
A large body OF Republicans will
refuse TO support him if the Democrats
act wis iy. What will you aud 1 then
dove, who have acted together or
ucdAit t"ott -hNc Ncd-S! L shall iio
regret the success of n Democrat next
trustworthy on the 'new DEPARTURE"
aud for these reasons, in brief:
/. l Imported General Grant solely
to finish up recOnstruc ion by the rati-
ication of the Fifteenth Amendment.
This done, / have done with him.
Nearly my whole active life has been
devoted to establishing the anti
slavery principles now engrafted upon
the Constitution. The victory being
won, / have no taste for securing the
held TO rifle the slain. The slavery
controversy is ended and the Repub-
licans Will find that they cannot con-
struct a Presidential platform out of
the debris of 4 demolished rebellion,
nor elevate the negro into undue
prominence cn the points of Federal
oayonets.
2. 1 want the South to acquiesce in
the Constitution As it is, and be at
peace. This We shall not see until we
have q Democratic administration
which accepts and will enforce the
three amendments. Then the South
srn malcOntents will give up their
light and submit to the situation.
). You and were Democrats of the
BENTON and Wright school. During
the rebellion the administration ent
outside of the Constitution to suppress
il. In the reconstruction era Congress
kept outside about half the time.
There Is no excuse for remaining out
side now. But, having tasted of UNI
licensed power, the appetite of the
Republican leaders grows by what it
feeds upon. Right there lies the dan
ger. Under the present regime the
government is lapsing into "A CONSOLE
cation, n unless we hasten back
within the constitutional limits traced
by the Fathers, our descendants will
rringe Ut the foOtstOol of a Dictator.
I. therefore, should not object to the
election in 1872 of a State Rights Dem
ncrat of the moderate type of our old
friend Silas Wright.
4. You tell me o a to see ar
pet bag rule at an end. You are right.
1t is q nnckery OF representative gov
eminent, and Is running the South,
which il has invol we'd in debt full one
hundred millions. You also favor
4. Universal amnesty. But do you not
lear that we cannot secure either of
these ends whine Grant or any PreSi-
cent like him is in power:
5. We both agree much more closely
with the mass of Democrats than with
the Republican managers, on gues-
ions OF finance, taxation, trade, &c.
The old ISSUES being Put OF the arena,
mis- alone would have weight in de-
my preference for a Demo
crat; would it not yours?
In further proof of the general dis
read the following from a dis
Republican. In Nebraska,
senator Upton was prescribed by the
for opposing San Do
and for that reason only,
direct overtures were made
his support of that job by the De-
partment of State. He "spurned the
and vas pursued with malice.
He made speech recently at Omaha,
tnd said:
81 am una'terahiy opposed to the
-uinous and corrupting course OF the
present administrations, aud | here
myself To make that opposition
10Th open and uncomprouising."
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