Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-01
OUR WASHINGTON LErTEIs

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN, ID. G., July %, 1862
Never has Washington been more
lively than now in Improvement and
IornaTnentation of its streets. Thou
sands OF men are employed, and it
would seem that the entire city. is be-
/ ing regarded, paved aud severed.
Our new government has Just enter
ed upon its second year, and before its
close Washington, the Capital of the
great United States, will have entirely
emerged from its old-time lethargy,
and will appear to the visitor the grand
/ city he expects 10 behold. The calcu-
lation is to make Washington the most
lovely, the ueble and grand place to
look upon, as well as to live in, in the
world.
GEN. HoWARD's RETURN.
from Arizona is fraught with every
hope of a peaceable settlement with
the Indians of the far West. 1t is an
ticipated that through the mild and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nature, a treaty
maybe consummated with them that
will be lasting, and the abuses and caus-
es of the outbreaks of past years effect
uaIly remedied and removed. The
President has great confidence in him,
and will probably consider favorably
any suggestion from hin looking to
their permanent future peace and hap
piness. -
THE POLITICAL PLOT.
has again commenced to boil with all
the fury attending presidential cam
paigns. Before and since the Baltimore
convention, the more intelligent of the
Democracy here, those who make prin-
ciple the guide of their political action,
keep aloof from the Greeley movement;
but the politicians are out in full force,
and are using every nl,'a,'s i'm their
power to bring the Democracy united
ly into line for Greeley. linus far they
have failedi 1.op feaf
= g 1n JOHN d. DEFREEs,
that political fraud, who, in 1862, came
from Indiana politically and financial
ly. q bankrupt, is the chief among the
Greeleyites In this section, and is en-
fdeavoring to tone down the hotheaded
brethren. of the copperhead fraternity,
and get them to swallow the ''Anys
thing-to-beat-G Grant" pill. His train
ing may be successful, but it is slow
work thus far. They can't go, Greeley.
Who blames them? For who would
not prefer successful, honorable foe,
to worn-out political turncoat and
trickster.
= It will be remembered that President
Lincoln, looking with pity on the ne
cessities of Defrees, made him superin-
tendent of printing! How well he
served the government for a period of
seven years: at salary of $500, his
estates here, in Virginia, and Indiana
will attest. He is Democrat by ma |
ture, and by practice; and at the timei
Congress displaced him, out of 800 em-
ployees at the Government Office, mot
more than 30 of that number were Re-
publicans. He is sorehead and stands |
high in the Reform party. ~ i
Since the adjournment of the Balti-f
more Convention, "a very strong reaction
ary movement has taken place in
and In Maryland. A gen.
tlemaii Just returned from Pennsylva-
MIA say that the Democrats in some /
parts of that state are boiting the nom-
ination of Greeley en- nlGSSe and joining
the Democratic Grant and Wilson
clubs. Another gentleman from Mary
land says. they are doing the same
thing in that State, and if the reaction
continues as it has begun, there ismore
than an even chance that Maryland,
'sMy Maryland," SO long peering outi
Of the darkness in which she has been
cropping, will give her electoral vote to
Grant and Wilson. ass
The so-called Liberal Republicans
are not now as jubilantas they were be-
fore the Baltimore Convention. They
zee that Mr.. Greeley has not been able 1
20 sell and deliver the Republican par
" as easily as they had calculated
Upon; and that, after all, it may prove
rue as to their candidate what KingI
Henry V. said of the French herald, L
that
The man who once'did sell the lions skin,
While the beast lived. was killed in hunting
him."
Mr.. Sumner still remains in town,
md says but little as. to what he in Ii
ends to do in this campaign. He is II
lot for Grant, and, according to late
ssue of a Cincinnati paper, he is made !
10 say, by an interviewing reporter
that he cannot support Mr.. Greeley
without deserting his colored wards;
hat the Democratic party will control .
Sreeley's administration, and as the
eaders of that party, have already re- 1
used to support his civil rights bill, =
here is nothing to be expected of them J
hould they come into power but the !
prescription of the negro"
Talking with the editor of the lead
ng Democratic paper of Florida to-
light, who was delegate to the Balti- /,
nore convention, he said: rn 10
sour State will go for Greeley if we
an bring into line the cOlored vote.
The colored men of Florida, are tired {
If carpet-bag rule, and if Sumner {
would only endorse tbeaction of the I
Baltimore Convention, we could carry
every colored vote ofithe State. t
But Summer does not intend to risk a
lifelong reputation for political purity \
)n the success of a party Or class of men
whose antecedent are known to obe an
.agonistic to liberal form of Govern
nent, and whose aim and designis toi
degrade the negro, disfranchise him,
md throw. him back in to the chains of s
slavery. 54ae 8E5i hH0750 II
Charles Sumner will never endorse |
Greeley. -. -
Respectfully, S. T. B.
j BARNEsYILLE, O., July q, 1872. /
I MIR. EDITeR:-On Wednesday eve
ming last, in pursuance of an invitation
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