Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-16
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

| Granb.
e.ay" Samuel Proctor, one of the colored
men who signed the letter to Sumner, pub
fishes a card saying he will give his support
to Grant.
s15y@ The Rutland Herald is authority for
the statement that the circulation of the New
York Tribune has fallen of one-half in YER
mont since Mr.. Greeley's nomination.
s8y~ new locomotive, named Horace
Greeley" has recently been turned out of the
Schenectady car shops. It ran off the track
the first day.
~ In a recent speech at South Bend,
Ind, Vice-Presidect Colfax predicted that
Indiana would go for Grant by "the old
Republican majorities of 1864 and 1868"
~ Schurz carries with him very little of
the German influence or vote. The Wash
ington Chronicle prints list of 119 German
Republican papers which are unqualfedly
for Grant.
sss- A letter from Gen. Dix is published,
in which the General states that he is inca
pabe of supporting Greeley for President
without utterly abandoning all political
principles,
- The colored citizens of Detroit, Du-
buque, TeTe Haute, Pittsburgh, Oberlin,
etc, ETC., in mass meetings assembled, have
placed themselves on record in opposition to
the puerile advice of Sumner
szsy~ The Morrisania On. " Journal has
placed the names of Grant and Wilson at the
head of its columns, and gives the following
in explanation of its opposition to Greeley:
'He was nominated by trickery, in pursuance
of bargain. In that bargain, fellow Dem
ocrats, we were included; we were bought
and sold like cattle, but we are not yet deliv-
cred"
~ The Boston Globe says: ave do not
hesitate to say that, in this community, nine
persons out of every ten who have called
themselves friends and sympathizers with
the senior Massachusetts, Senator, now de-
cidedly and openly express their disapproval
of his political course. If Mr.. Sumner ex-
poets approval for his selfish and egotistical
conduct, he must look for it among his
former enemies and traducers."
10y The other day the Tribune published
a list of defaulters to the Government. OF
the men included in the list, the New York
Commercial says: ''Three of them are dead
five are fugitives, and the other thirteen are
supporters Of Greeley. There is not de-
faulter in the country but favors Greeley's
election. If there is one that does not, he is
as great curiosity as white elephant
"a The resident Committee at Pittsburgh,
having in charge the arrangements for the
National Soldiers and Sailors Convention, to
be held on the nth of September, at busi-
ness meeting on the 9th, determined to have
a grand torchlight procession and mass
meeting of citizens during the session of the
Convention. Responses received from all
parts of the country indicate that the Con-
vention will be one of the largest ever held
in this country.
ea3~A Massachusetts, man, who had been
unjustly accused of Greeleyism, denies the
impeachment and propounds this shrewd
connndrum: Had we not better let well
enough alone, and go on pegging away at
the national debt, thus strengthening our
hands at home and our credit and reputation
abroad, than to put an Administration in
power at least tainted with the flavor of re-
pudiation, if not fully committed to its ad-
vocacy.
"a William Lloyd Garrison, in a column
and-a half letter, addressed to Charles Sum
ner, reviewing the Senator's recent commu-
nication to the colored voters, says: II pro-
pose to speak with equal plainness and as
earnestly to counsel my colored countrymen
not to follow your lead in this matter, but as
voters to move unitedly for the reelection of
Grant for every consideration of their safe
ty happens to be connected with the cause of
equal rights, and the furtherance of national
peace and unity"
~ The exact amount of the reduction of
the national debt since Grants Inauguration
as President to August l is 1887, ,4O4, sos. 81,
being at the rate of about SI00,000,0 600 per
year. At the same time, the amount of in
terest has been decreased s22, ,6lO 457. And
what is equally important, during the same
period the expenses of the Government have
been reduced $175, ,672, 5Ss n, and that amount
of the peoples tax burdens removed by acts
of Congress. And yet the Democrats at.
tempt to scout the idea that the present Re-
publican Administration is remarkably sue
cessful one, financially.
ssgg@ As the campaign progresses the evil
dences that President Grant has warm and
hearty support among the people are crop
ping out everywhere. The formations of
Grant and Wilson Clubs and of bands of
Tanners and Cobblers numerous as they are,
are not of so much Importance, of them
selves, as they are significant of the general
tide of popular feeling. They are not organ
lied for effect. They are simply vents for
Republican enthusiasm, and exist naturally.
The Liberal movement has little or no effer-
vescence of this sort. 1t has no great CEN
tral heart within its organization which cir
culates life throughout all its branches.
Imagine crowd of Democrats forming a
club and heartily shouting for Greeley In
the manufacture of campaign enthusiasm the
new party is certainly having a hard time of
it.-Chicago Inter- Ocean.
ERy- A dispatch from the Thousand Islands
says that the President, in an interview on
the 5th. stated that he considered the result
in North Carolina victory for the Republi-
cans. He was not anxious for second term,
but consented to receive the nomination
simply because he thought it the best way OF
discovering whether the majority of his
countrymen believed what was alleged
against his Administration and himself per-
sonally. The asperities of an election cam
paign, he added, will give my political OPP
Fonents and personal enemies opportunity
or excuse to say all that can be said against
me. All those who have treated nc unfairly
nave now cnance TO declare themselves.
He did not personally covet the Presidency a
second term, but the campaign would test
the sentiments Of his fellow-citizens in his
behalf.
~ Kentucky held her municipal and
county elections yesterday, and, to the sur
prise of everybody, the Greeley Democracy
were defeated in the old Democratic city of
Louisville, and in Lexington and Covington,
and, perhaps in other parts of the State. The
regular Democratic ticket in Louisville was
supported by all the Greeley papers, and the
Citizens ticket by the anti-Greeley papers
and leaders, Result, 5000 majority for the
Citizens ticket. On the morning of the
election the Louisville ComricT-Jouynal, the
leading Democratic organ, spoke of the Cit
izens' ticket rs virtually Radical ticket and
said; ave can't afford to have it go abroad
| that the Democratic party has been beaten