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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

iWIlsoa sna - 18th aod 0efnaas.
The following letter from Senator
Wilson is worthy Of circulation in Dem
ocra&ic Journals much wider than it -
likely to receive. 1t il the contradiction
Of ono Of tho most malicious Of many
campaign liss Of Mr.. Greeley and his
hackers. 1t relates to the " charge" that
1t one time Mr.. Wilson spoke in terms
of unmeasured condemnation respecting
Irish and German citixens:
NATIcK, Mass, July ..
al O. Cxlrer, Esq, State Journal, Mad.
"Mr DKAR SIN: The mail has Just
brought me your note and extracts clip
ped from newspapers, Purporting ID be
speeches made by me. In answer to
your inquiries l have to say that they,
and all thoughts and words of like char
acter, which have appeared in papers,
are pure inventions, wicked forgeries,
absolute falsehoOds. Never have
thought or spoken or written those
words, nor anything resembling those
words, nor anything that the most ma
lignant sophistry could torture into those
words. Could not have done 90, for they
are abhorrent to every conviction Of my
judgment, every throb Of my heart, and
every aspiration Of my soul. Born In
extreme poverty and enduring the hard
lot the sons Of poverty are too often
forced to endure, came to manhood
passionately devoted to the creed Of
equality. All my life have cherished
as bright hope, held avowed as my liv-
ing faith the doctrine that oil mem, with
out distinction or color, race or nation.
atty, should have complete liberty and
exact equality, all rights asked for my
self. My thoughts, my words, my heart
my votes, have been consecrated for
more than thirty-six years to human
rights. In the Constitutional Conven.
ton of Massachusetts, in eight years
service in her Legislature, in more than
seventeen years service in the Senate OF
the United States, in thirteen hundred
public addresses, in press. in speeches
and writing, that would fill many vol.
umes and make thousands OF pages, l
have iterated and reiterated the doctrine
of equal rights of all conditions Of men.
Is it not, my dear sir, strange that part
isanship should SO blind men to sense
of truth and justice and fair play that
they could forge and print abhsrrent
sentiments. insulting to God and man,
and charge them on one whose life has
been given to the cause Of equal rights
at home, and whose profound sympa'
thies were even given the friends OF lib
crty of all races and natiOnalities abroad.
"Yours truly,
HENRY WILSON"
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08
wnaf WILL ng Do /.

Mr.. Greeley by accepting the nomina'
lion of the Baltimore Convention, prac.
t;eally agrees to keep silent upon the
ressnae question when elected PRECEDENT
The osthof new President is in effec,
that Ev VIII perform all the duties Of hi.
Office in aeeordaGce with his judgmen,
and conscience. Ir the pla torn, upon
which Mr.. Greeley stands rs candidate
ss he himielf contends, it is provided
that if u majority Of Congress elected on
the same platform attempts to uproo'
the principles of protection and foist up
on people the free trade system, he mus,
stand by it and refuse to use his veto
power. If he believes, rs he has often as.
serted, that free trade would be destruc
tive Of the best interests of the country
and bring about financial ruin, he must
violate his oath of Office on the one hand,
to 10 consistent, or. break his engage.
ment with his constituency on tho other
Ito be honest. He is placed in a very
asenviablc position. He had to ignore
~ . esrtain extent his past actions and
saxisgs ON this subject to receive the
nominsaiOn. He must now stick to it,
or bis supporters will ignore him. He
must then take the oath required by the
in the same way IS did many
of his friends ~ ths South-in fun.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug, IA large masi
meeting Of colored people vas held in
this city tonight to take action in re.
gard TO the letter Of Sumner. The meet
ing was addressed by J. 8. Hinton, color
ed elector for the State 1t large, and 9th
ers. The following resolutions wers
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The people Of color Of the
United States are sdviaed by Hon. Chas
Sumner TO abandon their party connec
ton with the Republicans, and cast their
votes II the coming election for the new
party, composed chiefly Of the old Dem
ocrats, reinforced BY sun dry dessrser'
from the Republicans, therefore,
R<soired, That our votes are our own,
and that for the proper Use Of the fran
chise conferred upon ~, We are resPoo~
bic only 70 God and oar cosotry, - the
dictation Of one man, no matter bow
great his service 20 our r1ce IN the posa
may have been.
kesolred, That Ne can never Sorges
our obligations to the Repsbsieaa parry,
the great party Of emancipation and en-
ffaachisemeot, and to the uocOquerable
soldier whose resolation and skill led
the armies Of the coantry TO Anai and
eo@plete triumph.
Rssolped, That vs adhers % IL Re-
psbiican party With our jsdgness hsaess
aaA vosss, and viii Do evssytAiag 10
or povw - sscars ~ slselsoo a C.S.
0sass aad Hsasy Wilson.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

-
On the 9th of last month meeting
of the Grant and Wilson Club was held
At Atchison, the reputed home and visit.
ing place of Senator s. G. Pomeroy, and
be received very cool comfort from the
very men who had supported him in the
past. We mislaid the report or should
have given il last week. It gives thu
lie to the Democratic assertion that tbs
Republican party designs to carry Pom
eroy along with Grant Here 10 the tel
egrapic account Of the meeting:
Col. C. G.. Foster, temporary chair
man of the Grant and Wilson Club o
this city, called q mass meeting Of on
citizens last night to consider the en-
dorsement Of the past official conduct o.
Hon. s. G. POmeroy, and to enquire
whether it is desirable to endorse him q
the coming election. The hall was crowd
ed and joint discussion was had IL
which Col. Foster and Mr.. Pomeroy tool
part. Col. Foster, although he was jus'
out of bed from spell Of sickness, de
livered q speech of an hours length, in
which he took occasion to review Sena
tor Pomeroy's course as Senator, and
his constant failure during that time td
fulfill in any particular bis promises to
the citizens Of Atchison or Kansas, who
had elected him.
Senator Pomeroy replied in his usual
bland style. saying that he wanted to get
acquainted with everybody, etc, but
utterly failed to answer Col. Fosters
speech. At the close Of the meeting q
vote was taken and the audience decided
without q dissenting voice, that S. C.
Pomeroy had failed to answer the speech
of Col. Foster, and that he was in nc
wise worthy of the confidence or en-
dorsement Of the citizens of AtchisOn
City or the State Of Kansas
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

The SALINA JOURNAL, the leading
Grant Republican paper in Western Kan
sas, terms U. S. Senator Pomeroy "that
mass Of seething corruption" and is
bound to assist in defeating his re-elec
ton. How Is Grant any better thar
Pomeroy! The latter is his henchman
Wis., Crescent.
If the Crescent can convince US by AZ
guments that Grant is one fifteenth par,
as corrupt as Pomcroy, We will support
the man of Chappaqua. We are moi
convinced that Pomeroy +" is one of biz
henchmsn." Now give Us tie facts and
don't stretch your imagination about the
" Gift-takcr," as you unctiously tern
President Grant.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

What \. G. KneW About TIE De0ocSSsse ksS'
~ In 1883.
at was once the boast of the Demo-
cratic party, carefully confined in its
enunciations to quarters in which sus.
picion of culture and refinement could
do no harm, that it had selected the
clcverest men of letters in the land. IL
must be admitted that the claim was not
destitute of presumption, and that nomi-
nally the show was fair one. sever
al able writers were called by the party
name, swallowed the party pap and par
AIDED themselves rs the ornaments, II not
the safeguards of the party. Their con-
decension was tolerably requited by an
organization, the chief Of which could
not spell, and the camp followers OF
which could not read. Mr.. Irving was
called q Democrat, and was sent to Spain
and TO his beloved Alhambra- Mr.. Ban
croft was dubbed Democrat, and was
made Collector of Boston, and Minister
at St. James. Mr.. Paulding, was de-
nominated q Democrat, and received q
port. folio at Washington. Mr.. Brown
son was christened Democrat. and was
appointed Master Of Chelsea Hospital.
These, however, were but nibblers At
the gigantic loaf of Executive patron
age, while the disposition OF the slices
indicated with painful accuracy the pre-
dominating tastes Of the Democracy.
At Washington, its newspapers were
sometimes strong, always coarse, and
never polished.
General Jackson could not write the
English language Mr.. Van Buren, used
it adroitly, but never with the skill or
the taste of o scholar; Mr.. Polk, If he
ever entertained the least passion for let
ters, never told his love, and succeeded
cbarminglv in concealing it; Mr.. Pierce
was q country lawyer, who read what he
was obliged to read and nothing more
Mr.. Buchanan's literary aspirations cul-
minated nearly century ago in the du.
bious shape of more dubious Fourth
of-July Grafton, for uttering which he
has Individually cursed himself and his
stars ninety and nine times. OF the
Democratic Doctors we know nothing
and care to know nothing. Of the Dem
ocratic Lawyers, we can only say that,
il the National bar can yield US no
brighter National bench, the briliiancy
of its members may be utterly binding
in . Piepowder Court, but has not thus
far illuminated loftier tribunals. Ut
Democratic Clergymen, we may remark
that We never saw one, and never heard
Of one, il VIC except those good men
who guard the morals Of our pious tars,
and minister to the souls deceased Of our
Senators and Represensasivss-"-zI'r
bsne.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

Stanley Mathews. the tempory chair
man Of the Cincinnati Convention, made
n long speech in Cincinnati on last Fri.
day in favor Of Grant and Wilson, Civ.
ing as his reason for deserving Greeley
and Brown that the concern was too
strongly tinctured with Democracy TO
meet his views of reform. That is the
way any man Of conscientiousness would
honestly post il.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

The late Hon. Andrew Stewart Of
Pennsylvania, was first elected to Con-
gress in 1890, and was the last time q
candidate in 1870. Within these fifty
years he was elected n,se tines and de.
feated Eve timea.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

General Hastssaft Is quite confident
ne will be elected Governor Of Pennsyl.
yapis and that the State will give de.
cissIs majority for Grast ssd Wilson.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08
REPUBLICAN, SAFE CONVENTION.

Republican State Convention IN nominate candi
dsses r governor and other state officers, and sSsae
Ce.sral Committee, will be held at Topeka, wednes
day. September 9TH, at e O'Clock, noon.
A Republican State Convsntion TO nominate m-m
her. Of congress and presidential electors viii be he'll
atLaxrsucs, Wednesday. septe-nbz 9Th. atlso'caoek
Doos.. - .:.'., - -
he R&phblican Voters OF Kansas are instructed Il
assemble in their districts Thursday
August sQ and elect delegates and two alternate
% the convention nj Topeka, and two delegates aux
svoslieruates to the convention af Lawrence.
Bxqedef Of the State Genital Committee.
D. Il. ANTHONY,
JoW 4. AAs1n. Chairman
Sec pro ismpors.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

The unaersigned has now In kiln and VII oonsinos
n manufhcsurr during the sucsent Quaasaey
OF brick to supply al drmAods. 1hese brick ~ naa
nom the bese clay md Wifh - ufDcss cav
Ina HENRY OLT0AN.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-08

Boomers noted horse, Joe EIlsoee, 70
said 10 have trotted . mile in 2-lS3 on
the Mystic course, At boston. 2-lslis one
and one-quarses second faster than Gold
smith Naid's recent claimed time. 2-163
and and one-half seconds better than the
fastest time on Observation-Disclosures
Maids 2-17-and one and three9sasser
seconds faster than Dexters hmoas
time, 2-l7f.
The Ute Indians belonging 70 the
White river agency, Colombo, and Uni
tab agency, Utah, Who lately cosgregas-
ed in the sosthefn sectaoe q Ne Tenn
tory, and Who started 10 Loose . Sev
days ego, have ssoppsd sd dseles1
thar intention to rsessn, - -
hostilities.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
WHAT FURTHER 2

With both Houses fully organized, and
the prompt repeal Of the bills against
which the cutlery has been the loudest, we
inquire Of the agitators, What further !?
What excuse can the Democratic members
have for longer remaining away from their
posts Of duty? To the members Of the
House who have been wandering around
the streets and holding occasional sessions,
sometimes in the Gem saloon, at others in
places mot to be made public" and for
the past day or two in the Cosmopolitan
restaurant. the way to Mechanics Institute
is perfectly open and unobstructed. The
presence Of the police on Dryades street
merely affords them a subterfuge to evade
their duty. Anybody presenting himself,
with lawful and honest purpose, is per-
mitted to enter without hindrance:
especially is this the case when
the applicant is member Of the
Legislature. If the absentees wish
to return there is not the slightest excuse
for the employment of force and buster.
AS members they will be welcomed; bat if
they come in the guise Of mob, they
will naturally be resisted. And as the
Republican members of the General As
sembly have conceded all the Democrats
demanded in the way of repeating certain
bills, let them now rally to sustain the
Governors vetoes Of the Crescent City
Waterworks and other obnoxious bills that
are vet pending Unless more than one
third of the members Of each house vote
to sustain these vetoes. the bills may yet
become laws. The place for these men,
bers who favor reform is now in the Capt.
tol.' We can see no reason for them to
stand out anv longer
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
A BAD NAME.

We have fallen very low, indeed, if what
the correspondent Of the Times says is
true, that the people at the city of Wash
ington already look upon us in the same
light as they do the mad anarchists Of
South America and Mexico, and refuse to
pay any further attention to our difficult
ties. Ten to one, this correspondent is a
Democrat who has become fully disguised
at the failure Of his friends in thisssquarter
to create revolution. The capital which
he was looking for from this quarter to be
used against the Republican party in the
political campaign at the North has not
been forthcoming and now we may look
to hear the entire Democratic party unite
in abusing Louisiana as place unfit for
decent white man TO live in. That We have
established very bad name in the North
is tolerablv certain. and that the Democ-
racy is responsible for it. and should so be
held by the people Of Louisiana, is equally
certain: for they have spread defamatory
reports without regard to truth OF to their
effect upon themselves and their neigh
bors. And yet they pretend to be the best
friends Of the State. Well, pretense is good
Where the real article is wanting.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
THE TIMES GIVES REFORM THE COLD
SHOULDER.

1t may be paradoxical, but it is still a
fact that the prominent feature of the
Times yesterday was a great omission
Either as speeches from Carter, resolves
from the Democratic committees or pom
derously indignant editorials, the Times
for weeks has demanded the repeal of the
election, registration. constabulary and
printing laws. These obnoxious and
oppressive measures We're Yesterday wiped
from the statute book by a Republican
Legislature, and the only reference this
patriotic action received was tame and
garbled report Of The Warmoth Legisla-
ture, - stuck away in an obscure column.
If this action had improved a certain
gubernatorial aspirant's prospects We
should have expected displayed headlines
and would not have been disappointed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
ON CARONDELET STREET,

The undulatOry movement in cotton has
again evinced downward tendency, though
this IS only apparent in a lax demand said
to be caused by advices from New York dis
cOuraging to purchasers. As price in any
commodity is usually measured by the ma
ture of the demand, it follows where this
without spirit or rush it is indicative OF a
fall. Factors, however, do not see any rea-
son to lower prices from the previous rates,
so tracing out the ordinary course of the
market, beginning at a dead point, then a
fall, subsequently higher rates, afterwards
still higher, until the elimination,
then a dead point again-the same
order to be repeated until the
season closes. The sales and receipts of
cotton are such as to encourage every bust
ness man. especially when the belief seems
general that the trade of New Orleans is
on the wane. Among factors, many are now
preparing for All active demand. which, it
is calculated, must take the place soon of
yesterdays depression, which is simply
pause, and not halt. Cotton being re-
moved, by the nature of the business, from
political troubles. has been in no way at
fected by them, and during the time of their
prevalence has been bought, sold, laden
and atfreighted just as if all the affairs of
State were serene, but among stocks bonds
and State Obligations the case is widely diff
ferent.
Warrants are considered the barometer
which foretells the practical future of the
State government Yesterday they were
firm at SIS, and holders, if they hung on to
it, could obtain Sc or 80, while those who
bought for speculation would not sell for less
than 60. They are by no means hard to SELL
Fancy stocks generally have been killed
Oft. They are strewn from one end of the
street to the other, but are not touched.
Their day has come and gone. Hereafter
the stocks that will come upon the street
must have something as basis besides
liberal amount of imagination, which is
not marketable in a well regulated mart
Their name was once legion; they are now
a corporal's guard in the army of values.
The only sale at the Board of Brokers
last evening was 200 shares Louisiana Levee
Company at 49, IS. The offers and bids
were as follows
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
THE POINT FORCIBLY STATED.

A gentleman, who has had some eXpe-
rience in legislation, and who has been a
careful observer Of the struggle which has
been going on i'll the State House of Rep
resentatives, remarked, There is one
matter that can Judge without reference
to the question Of actual members present
and that is the so-called expulsion of cer-
tain sitting members on the third instant
while some eighteen or twenty members
were absent under arrest That movement
was such a palpable, undisguised fraud
that it ought not to bind anybody, 1t
don't deserve the name Of Legislative action.
Why what if there We're tifty-three men,
bers present? Suppose those fifty-three,
instead of doing as was done, had, by
etual force or violence, removed the
eighteen outside the bar or outside the
House, and forcibly prevented them from
returning, and while they We're thus forcibly
kept away had voted five or six of them
ont of their seats, would not such violence
have vitiated their action? And is it any
better for their side-is it not, in fact, III
finiteiy worse-that, instead of using vio-
lence to change the majority, they resorted
to the instrumentalities of United States
warrants? No wrong" said he, sis so
heinOus or so dangerous as that per-
petrated in the name and under the forms
of law; and We're I /. member of that
House, l would not stop to inquire whether
there was a nominal quorum there when
they attempted to unseat the five or six
and put others in their stead. l would
say such action is too grossly fraudulent
to be regarded as anything but nullity.
should feel it due to the dignity and in
tegrity Of the present and all future legis-
lative bodies to take that stand: for if a
majority can be thus changed, legislation
becomes worse than farce.
We thought the gentleman took quite a
sensible view Of the matter
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
OUR NEXT LABOR.

The Bee gives us world of trouble.
No sooner is it corrected of one error than
it falls into another. One day all fire and
flame against the federal authorities for
interfering in local matters, the next it is
all fire and flame because the federal au-
thorities do not interfere in local matters.
General Grant was usurper yesterday,
striking down the rights Of the States
with mailed hand; to-day he is delinquent
to his duties that he does not crush q
State and set his army over her as mas
ter. The oratory which we have used in
such abundance to make the Bee accept Of
the right of the federal government to en-
force its own laws has had too great an
effect, for it has converted our contempt
rary SO thoroughly that now it insists that
the government shall enforce the police laws
of the city Of New Orleans. From an alb
stractionist about the reserved rights Of
the State and the inherent capacity Of the
people to govern themselves, the Bee has
suddenly turned to become an enthusiast
and the enemy Of popular government.
This weakness on its part subjects US to new
labor We must begin to undo the work
which we have done too we'll We must
map out the middle ground so that our
contemporary may be enabled to recover
from the oscillation which has carried it
from one extreme to the other, to that
better principle which the French call by
the name of jus.e milieu This will, no
doubt be the work of days, perhaps weeks,
but We intend to accomplish it in spite of
wind or weather.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
MERE JUG HANDLES,

The Times innocently and stupidity
suggests that the Legislature could not do
better than to refer al its perplexities to a
committee If two respectable citizens.
This proposition is followed up with an
award which this arbitration might make
that would pacify the country, and elevate
the traditional goose 10 the most felicitous
heights. SGppose the suggestion should
be accepted, and the committee of two re-
iected the award, and decided that the
Legislature had done nothing that needed
correction, what then would be the result
with the Times Would it submit and adj
here to the Legislature, or would it kick
up and demand q new arbitration? Our
private opinion, publicly expressed, is that
the Times would fly the track, and even
use hard names toward its own offspring.
But, alas, there will be no opportunity for
US to verify our opinion, for We are salts
fed that the Legislature will reject the
remedy of the two best citizens. as it has
resisted all the other jug-handled sugges-
tons Of the Times.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
NOT THAT BAD YET,

If the community had followed the
promptings of the Times and Bee there
can be no doubt but that Louisiana would
be considered in Washington and else
where as given over to the same condition
Of anarchy that prevails in Mexico. When
a State offends the authorities in the City
Of Mexico, the custom in that country is
to turn the governor out and appoint one
from the capital, and he is put in office
by the amy. So long as the States
behave themselves, and conform to the
desire OF the central government the Mex
lean President lets it alone to depredate
upon the people as it sees fit; but the in
slant 1t attempts to have will of its own
i'll opposition to the special interests that
control affairs at the capital of Mexico,
down goes its house, and along comes the
national army to rectify matters on a
different basis.
The Times and Bee have insisted that
Louisiana should be treated after the Mex
lean fashion, but fortunately the people
and the authorities took better view of