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Another Political Bounty Jumper.

Sayles j. Bowen, of this city, has added
his name to the list of political bounty
jumpers. He came hero hungry and noisy
Democrat, received the bounty Of a clerkship
from that party. He remained faithful to its
obligations till its power departed, when he
deserted to the Republicans, received a
double bounty from them-the City Post
office and the Nayoralty of the city. Fail
ing to obtain still another, being defeated for
Mayor second term and disappointed in his
efforts. to procure bounty from Gen. Grant,
he has 'jumpcd' his bounty, deserted back
to the Democracy, and is now one of the
most malignant, as he is one Of the meanest,
assailants of the President.
But, after all, Bowen is fair representa-
tive of that class of confidence men who have
dubbed themselves 'LiberaI Republicans"
Nearly the whole lot of them are mere adven-
turers, large portion of them deserters from
the Democratic to the Republican party when
they had nothing more to hope for from that
quarter, accepted a bounty from the Republ-
cans, then back to the Democracy with the
expectation and promise of a bounty from the
Greeley party when they get pos
session of the Government. Bowen is no
worse and no better than the average sore
head. They are all close imitators of that
infamous class of swindlers by alternately
enlistng and DESERVING, known as "bounty
jumpers" who enlisted and received bounty
one day, deserted and enlisted and received
bounty elsewhere the next, and so kept it
up till the war closed, unless they happened
to bring up in a prison or were compelled to
flee the country for safety. AS ignominious
a fate awaits these political bounty jumpers.
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went up from the crowd, mingled with cries
of $50 on! go on! I" But it was becoming
late, and the chair introduced Hon. Henry
Wilson, who was received with vociierous
cheering, the band playing an appropriate
air. Mr.. Wilson dealt out telling and unan-
swerable arguments going to show why the
vote Of the South should be cast for the Re-
publican ticket, and for the sake Of peace for
the next four years he appealed to the South
to vote the straight Republican ticket.
John II. Smythe, Esq, a young colored
lawyer Of Washington, recently graduated
from Howard University, was the next
speaker. He came, he said, to his native
for the first time to take the stump, and the
clear and able style in which he pointed out
the disasters that would befall those of his
race, should they waver at this critical mo-
ment, was well appreciated by the large mass
of people who composed his audience. There
were few, if any, left that meeting without a
full understanding of the situation.
Virginia is not without her able working
Republicans-Col. Hughes, and Col. Pop
ham, Of Virginia, also addressed the vast as
semblage. They are men who can lead to
victory. Rev. VIM. E. Troy, - Taylor,
and Landon Boyd, are among the leaders OF
our race in this State who deserve especial
mention and encouragement from their con-
stituents. These are the trusted leaders, and
to the voters of Virginia you should see to il
that they are elevated by your votes to
places of honor and trust, where they can the
better subserve the interests of the people.
The ball in Virginia has received a noble
start, and if it can be kept rolling it will in
November next pile up a handsome majority
for Grant and Wilson,
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The Campaign In Virginia.

The campaign in this State has fairly begun.
most enthusiastic ratification meetings ever
before held in the city of Richmond. Taking
into consideration the intense heat that per-
vadcd the atmosphere during the entire day
OF Wednesday, the 25tb ult., it was truly
patriotic in those eight or ten thousand vo-
tiers who stood for over five hours in one solid
mass, and listened attentively to the remarks
OF their next Vice President and Hon. Fred
erick Douglass, who by the way, was re-
ceived by grand ovation, men, women, and
children joining heartily in the cheers that
greeted him at his first appearance in Rich
mOnd. To one who has entertained doubts
that Virginia is not alive to the issues of the
day, and that the Republican cause in that
State is losing ground, this demonstration
would have placed their minds at ease could
they have witnessed it on the day of this
great ratification meeting. Trains came run
ming into the city during the entire day,
bringing thousands from the neighboring
cities and towns, till at night when the grand
torchlight procession formed, there could not
have been less than twenty-five thousand
men in the streets, and the only sounds that
could be heard for hours were the cheers that
rtnt the air for miles around for Grant and
Wilson. 1t was really gratifying to every
Republican that witnessed the scene.
The meeting in the afternoon was presided
over by James H. Clements, Esq, of Ports
mouth, Virginia. Prayer was offered by
Rev. w. E. Troy, of Richmond. Hon.
Frederick Douglass was the first speaker. He
addressed the large audience for over an hour
and q half, and on his retiring cheer after cheer
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Colorcd Mes Take IA Back Seat.

The Washington Daily Chronicle gives to
the colored people of the District Of Column
bia its annual lecture against colorcd men
seeking to have one of their race NOM
mated for an Office of high position. We
would ask the Chronicle Gf it allows col
ored men to ask anything or to have say in
political matters) whether it is not clannish-
ness on the part of the whites to band to-
gether for the purpose of holding all the inn
portant offices in this District? For such
seems to be the fact even with those who
profess to believe in equal political rights.
We have the Republican party divided into
two wings here, one protesting great friend
ship for the negro and a desire that he be not
ignored in the government of this District,
and the other not making any special pro-
fession in that direction at all, but both
doing their utmost to prevent the nomination
OF colored man for Congress because of his
color. We fail to see why prejudice against
the negro will be increased by the fact of a
colored man being candidate for Congress
any more than by the fact that colored men
are elected by overwhelming majorities to
I'LL positions in the Legislature. We know
of colOred man being elected in Washing
ton to the position of City Register by over
1000 majority, and at time when the city
nation.had not progressed as far as it is now
in liberal sentiment. Colored men of the
District has not the time arrived when you
must assert your manhood, and refuse to be
the mere voting machines of pretended
friends and spoil seekers?
The article of the Chronicle is an insult to
every cOlOred man in the District. What
| right has it to lecture colored men for meet
ing in the parlor of a friends house and ex-
pressing a hope or wish that man in
whom they have confidence be candidate
| for an office. Would such an article have
appeared had such meeting favored white
man?
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marck should be capable Of so unstatesman-
like an act. He must know that it would be
attempting the impossible, besides shutting
up the most efficient safety-valve against
revolutionary troubles. As long as people
find here refuge from oppression, odious
laws and regulations, and onerous burdens OF
taxation, they will flock to our shares, and no
arbitrary preventive measure can stem the
tide.
The religious complications, too, continue
to be a source of trouble. The law for the
dissolution of the order of the Jesuits and the
expulsion Of its members, if foreigners, has
been passed by a large majority, yet in such
a shape as to give little satisfaction to the
Radicals and the enlightened part of the peo-
pie, who declare it an inadequate halfway
measure. The truth is, the Emperor and Bis
marck are as uncompromisingly opposed to
religious as to political radicalism, and toll
Grated the encroachments of the priesthood
and of the ultramontanes as long as possible,
as kind Of counterpoise against radicalism.
Only dire necessity, imminent direct danger
that threatened the peace and security of the
country could prompt them to more ener-
getic course Of action, and so it will likewise
be in the future, until the evil will have as
sumed such formidable proportions as to COM
pei war to the knife, as the only means of
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Hon. Charles Summers letter.

This letter appears in the morning papers
just as we are going to press, and we can
consequently make no extended mention of
it. 1t is written in the interest of Horace
Greeley. 1t comes upon us at time when
the professions of favoring equal rights made
by the party nominating Horace Greeley, are
being proven false pretense in Savannah,
Georgia, by the shooting of colored people
for trying to exercise their right to ride in the
street cars of that city. This specimen of
Liberal Republicanism is not well calculated
to encourage colored men to cast their lot
with the supporters of Horace Greeley whose
journal encourages such outrages by apollo
giving for them.
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Gen. Grant .sud Rel u5licanism In
sjlinuis.

The Chicago Journal, whose editor we
know from long personal acquaintance to be
a candid clear-headed and intelligent man,
is not only not alarmed by Trumbull's trea-
son, but is satisfied that the Republican
party in that State is all the stronger since it
has been fairly rid of him and his little squad
of followers. The Journal thus speaks for
Illinois:
GIVE have taken special pains within the
past ten or dozen days to ascertain from
influential and trustworthy men in various
parts of Illinois, the effect that the attempt
of the Liberal sOrcheads to surrender the
Republican party of this State into the hands
OF the 'possuming Democracy is having
among the Republican masses. The result
of our inquiries may be summed up in a sem
tence: The Republican party Of Illinois is
stronger to-day than it has been at any time
in its history, and with Grant for President,
Oglesby for Governor, and State ticket of
good and true men, its majority in November
Will be larger than it has been at any preYi-
Gus election. This opinion is based upon
reliable assurances from every part of the
State, given by men in whose judgment we
have the most complete confidence Results
will ratiiy its correctness in due time"
The Springfield Journal, of the same State.
publishes list of sixty-eight Republican
newspapers in Illinois that denounce tho
Cincinnati movement, whilst only one fayors
| it. Considering that our State furnished
three candidates for the Cincinnati nomina-
ton, this does not look very encouraging.
And yet the list does not embrace nearly all
the Republican press of the State that are
trusted and true. Illinois will be found
among the foremost in her fidelity to the Re-
publican party. And Jacksonville cores
pendent of the st. Louis Democrat declares his
belief that Gen. Oglesby will beat the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor $4,000. The
refusal of the Chicago Times to support the
Greeley-Tammany ticket fully justifies this
prediction. The Times is one of the ablest
Democratic papers in the Union, and yields
greater influence than any other.
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The Called Jade WinCes.

One Ambrose Folliott, trustee of schools
in the county, is out in note to the Chroni-
Gle as reply to an article that appeared in
our columns some weeks ago. We mem
toned in that article the fact that a removal
had been made in the county of trustee
against whom no charge of incompetency had
been laid, and the appointment of man in
his place, "who did his best to prevent the
building of good school house for colored
children, and who looks upon colored people
asking for equality before the law as inaugu-
rating a war of races" All Of which is true.
We did not name the trustee, and as there
were several removals at that time, our
description Of the man must have been per-
feet, or why does the "galled jade VINCE"
as the letter in the Chronicle indicates?
This man Folliott was the leader of a
gang who sought to have the Senate refuse
to confirm Lewis H. Douglass as member of
the Council, on the ground that he Doug
lass) was inaugurating a war of races because
he had introduced resolution in the Legis-
lature favoring equality before the law and
making our public common schools what their
title implied. We look upon no white man
as friend to our race who seeks to degrade
a colored man for attempting to secure for
his race all the advantages of education and
advancement possible. Such white men be-
long to that class who like the negro well
enough in his place, and to have that place
degraded one. We had scarcely imagined that
knowledged the truthfulness of our article, as
he does by his letter to the Chronicle. There
were some three or four removals and ap-
pointments at the time We wrote the article
to which this negro-hater refers, and we did
not name any one in commenting upon the
appointments. We felicitate ourselves on
being rather fair at picture making, as Folli-
OFT has truthfully discovered that he is the
man.
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Cond ensEeG by His Own Followers.

The Greeley Tammanyites are devotinp
much OF their weak energies to the denuncia-
ton of the Enforcement" act of Congress.
designed to protect the ballot boxes, and
give the people fair election. But every
stab they make at the Republicans Cor enact
ing this law their dagger passes right into
the bowels of their own candidate for Presi-
dent. OF this most necessary measure, the
Chicago Tribune, controlling interest in
which was purchased by Horace White with
the proceeds of a fraudulent whisky specula-
ton under Andrew Johnson, thus exhibits
its wrath:
perhaps ne act of the Grant party in
Congress was more dsreputable than its
legislation to take the elections out of the
hands of the people and commit them to a
lot Of United States marshals and their
deputies"
This is what the New York Tribune said
upon the subject at the time:
cit is urged by the Democratic organs that
the law is to be enforced in State and NUM-
cipal elections. This is done to make it more
obnoxious, if that be possible, to their party.
But, unfortunately, this is an error The
law applies only to Presidential and Con-
gressional elections, though we heartily wish
it could be made to apply to all Others"
Says the Chicago Times, Democrat y
'AIr. Greeley earnestly supported this act,
and regretted that it had not a wider scope.
He desired that the Federal bayonet election
law should have universal application. And
this same Greeley is now the Democratic can
didate for President of the United States!"
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North Carolina.

RALEIGH, n. c., July %, 1872.
TO the Editor Of the Mac National Era
We only have tmo to say to your many
readers that the good Old North State, to
which all eyes are now anxiously turned, will
do her whole duty on Thursday next. That
the friends of the Government, of peace, law,
and Justice will have no cause for disparage-
ment in the result of next Thursdays cleo
ton. The skies are bright. The Republic
cans entertain the highest hopes of saving
the State by at least six thousand majority.
Every township in the State has been eff
fectivcly canvassed. From every section the
news is Of the most cheering nature. Many
negroes have been imported into this State
by the Greeleyites, and also a large number
of professional ballot-bOX-stufers. But the
eyes of the people are open, and these gentle
men will be detected and punished SHOULD
they attempt any such game here. Hon.
Frederick Douglass and J. III. Smythe, Esq,
addressed one of the largest and most intel
ligent audiences that ever assembled in this
city, at Metropolitan Hall, on the 25th.
Their speeches had a telling effect upon both
white and black. Near four hundred whites
were in attendance.
Yours, in haste, NORFLEET.
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nO-Every colored man who votes for the
candidate Of the Democratic party for Presi-
dent, votes for the perpetuation of caste in
this nation. Every Democratic proprietor of
a restaurant, soda fountain, ice cream saloon,
Or hotel in this city seeks to evade law in
accord with the first plank in the platform ac-
ccpted by "a false pretense) the Baltimore
Convention. The Horace Greeley organ of
this city. the Daily Patriot, is q defender of
those who insult and attempt to degrade re-
spectacle ladies and gentlemen because of
their race and color.
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BenIfO Ju8reZ.

In the death of President Juarez the world
loses one of its most remarkable men, Mexico
its most able ruler. to whom it is chiefly in
debted for the preservation Of its integrity
and independence. When we consider the
distracted condition of that country, where
revolution and conspiracy are chronic dis
eases, where no respect for the constitution,
no fear of the laws will prevent any unscru-
pulous ambitious man from attempting the
overthrow of the Government, we cannot
overestimate the wisdom and energy, the
truly admirable craftsmanship through which
this man-originally an illiterate Indian
emerging from the lowest degree Of the social
scale, succeeded to maintain himself for four
teen years as the chief head of an unruly peo-
pie, restored quiet and order in a measure
never known there before. In the darkest
hours, when the Republic seemed lost beyond
hope, he never yielded, never lost courage,
and finally conquered and destroyed the for
eign usurper. He inaugurated important
measures of improvement, and constantly
threatened by secret as well as open enemies,
he knew always how to preserve the hearty
affection of the masses of the nation, who
faithfully stood by him and supported hin,
against would-be usurpers and conspirators.
Clearheaded, sagacious, unselfish, virtuous,
enlightened among superstitious people,
persevering, combining energy with modera-
ton and kindness, he would have been an
ornament to any nation. No act of cruelty
or of needless severity can be charged on
him, and even the shooting of Macmillan
which called forth the cutlery of monarchial
Europe, mostly on account of the imperial
blood of the offender, was an act rendered
necessary by the political situation of the
country. The secularization of the church
property was one of the greatest measures Of
his administration, and resulted in incalcula.
BILE benefit to the country, though it brought
on him the bitter hatred and enmity of the
priesthood and church party, who have con.
spired against him ever since, and were in.
strumental in melting the foreign invasion.
Juarez has been accused of unscrupulous
| lowing himself to be elected for another
PRESIDENTIAL term, contrary to the provision!
Of the constitution; yet when we remember
the disturbed condition of Mexico, where
every Presidential election-no matter how
regular in itself-is made the cause of civi
strife, and tbs defeated party invariably re
sorts to the decision of the sword, his course
appears as if justified by circumstances, an,
has to be Judged by a standard widely differ
ent from our own. 1t is, moreover, admitted
that he used his power with rare disinterest
edness exclusively for the benefit of hi
country, to which his death will prove al
irreparable loss. Unfortunately there is n,
man worthy and able to fill his place, ant
probably we shall soon see Mexico agail
plunged into anarchy. Many of the great re
suits Of his rule will undoubtedly be lost, bu
his name deserves, nevertheless, to be pre-
served as that Of one of the purest patriot
and greatest statesmen of the age.
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THE fact that the Hon. J. W. lie Barnes
when acquainted with ladies of color treats
them as ladies, whether in the street or in
the parlor, is sufficient to induce the Erening
Star to bring outall the scurrility at its com
mand. Mr.. lie Barnes accompanied ladies'
to the theatre, what 4 crimcl Does the .Sta
wish to carry on the District politics on
basis of color? Does it mean to imply that
the candidates it will support will not treat
colored ladies with the same degree of civility
as other ladies? Colored voters wait for a
reply
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In the hand clasping across the bloody
chasm business it is singular fact that the
Northern men all have to 60 South to reach
the other hand, while the hand-claspers of
the South never think Of coming North in
search Of hands to clasp. No Southern
speakers come North to assure US of their
love for us and of a wish for peace, and of an
acceptance OF the doctrine of all rights for
all. They leave all the hypocrisy and false
pretences to be practised by the Northern
doughfaces.
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WE learn from correspondence in Wyan-
dotte county, Kansas, that Greeley stock is
so far below par as not to be thought of at
all. The colored men in Kansas are true to
the party that has elevated them to
citizenship and against the party that dis
plays the flag of truce only to enable them,
as did General Forrest at Fort Pillow, to
crawl into the stronghold of freedom and
slaughter its noble defenders.
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ICannot the colored young men of the
District of Columbia organize an Equal Rights
Club, open to membership without regard to
color, and through such an organization CON-
tend for all rights guaranteed by law, and
provide ways and means for a legal protec-
ton against a violation Of rights
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Complete liberty and exact equality in the
endowment of all civil, political, and public
rights should be established and effectually
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation;
Neither the law nor its administration should
admit of any discrimination in respect OF citi-
zens, by reason of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.-A Plank IN the Plat
form of the Philadelphia Convention.
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NORFLEET.
Yours, in haste,

PURGATIvE PILLS have become settled
necessity with the American people. In
deed, cathartics always have been and al
ways must be used in some form, by all man
kind. In this country the pilular form of adj
ministration has been growing in favor since
pills were first made of Aloes and Rhubarb,
rolled into ball. Their high position in the
public confidence has finally been secured
and fastened into pemanency by Ayers Ca
thartic Pills, the most skillful combination OF
medicine for the diseases they are intended
to cure, that science can devise or art pro-
duce. Those who need pills no longer hesi-
tate what pills to take if they can get Ayers
Wheeling (Va.) Press.
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THE New York Tribune correspondent in
North Carolina, gives as reason for the
unanimity of the colored voters of that State
for the party that gave them freedom, their
intense ignorance-ha ha!
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b6Every blatant negro hater in the Dis
trict of Columbia hurrahs for Horace Greeley,
and SO all over the country. Colored men re-
member that Horace Greeley is the chosen
leader of the negotiating party in this coun-
try.
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CINE of the strongest advocates of Horace
Greeley's election is Garrett Davis, of Ken
lucky, the negro-hatcr par erceUence of the
United States Senate.
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LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of hapl mess
are considered special privileges for the ne
gro by the Liberal Republican Democrats.