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THE STAMPEDE.
Still Another Prominent Repab-
lICan Leader AbandOns Grant,
Ex-C0ngressman Z. H. POttlc. of
the Ontario District.

The following correspondence be-
tween Myron H. Clark, Republican Gov
ernor of the State Of New York in 1855
and 1856-elected over Horatio Sey.
monr-and now one of the strongest
Republican supporters of Greeley and
Brown, and Emery b. Pottle, late Re-
publican member of Congress from the
Ontario District, is published:
CANANDAIGUA, July 16, 1872.
Hon g. B. Pottle, Naples, N. Y: agl
My DEAR SIR: prefer Greeley to
Grant for next President OF the United
States, and ] have just heard that you
are similarly incliped, If SO, / hope
you will take some course to let your
views be known to the people. Very
truly yours, MYRoS H. CLARK.
Mr. Pottle replies at length. We
give the following extracts from his let
ter:
l need not say, what you know, that
from the formation OF the Republican
party ! have been an active supporter
of its principles and practices, and was
(without solicitation ON my part) one
of the delegates from this district this
year TO the Republican State Conven-
ton. l had then seen the Cincinnati
platform, and while yielding to the prin-
ciples there set forth my unqualified as
sent,>as sound and Republican state
ment of the wants of the country, cer-
tainly did expect that the Republican
National Convention would give to the
country a platform equally Republican,
and not less explicit as to needed re.
forms, the principal ones being reform
of our "civil service" so that "honesty
and capability" should be at least main
qualifications for Office, and an entire
change of policy towards the people OF
the South, an adoption of a policy foun
ded upon the assumption that the wal
has closed and its results have been ac
cepted by al. parts of the country, and
hencetorth all sections treated upon the
principle of common brotherhood
with rights common to all.
/ need not say that I have been dis
appointed. While / honor General
Grant for his military service. / can
not believe that continuance of bis
policy will be for the good of the coun
try. 1t is said the good of the Repub
lican party requires his reelection.
dissent from that view, and say that ir
my judgment continuance of that pol
icy will leave the party in hopeless
minority but however that may be
cannot pat the we'll being Of any part,
above that OF the country, and honestly
believing that the only charge for rea
reform is to be found in the success o.
the principles laid down at Cincinnati
and the candidates there nominated,
shall labor for their success, and by sc
doing ] am not called upon to change
my political principles or abandon those
heretofore held and advocated by me
/ regret to differ with old friends, but
must follow my own convictions oi
right while they follow theirs, Respect
fully, ss.s E. B. PoTTLE.
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"He Vow C0nfesses That he SwOre
.rs TO ii Lie"

From the Cincinnati Commercial.l
The GRANT organs are mistaken in
asserting that the opposition newspapers
seek to belittle the importance of the
BiDghamton Republicans evidence of a
bargain between GREELEY and the Dem.
ocrats. The chief witness for the Ad,
ministration, Mr.. G. A. CARPENTER, has
saved .hem the labor. Having sworn
in his affidavit that GREELEY, in one of
his letters to CARMICHAEL, expressed
himself in favor of the passage "of a
law providing that the General Govern
ment pay pensions to Southern disabled
soldiers" he now confesses that he
swore to a lie. False il one thing, false
in. all. The witness has invalidated his
own testimony and shown bis capacity
not only to lie, but to swear to it.
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Special Dispatch TO the New York sun.l

SARATOGA, July 31.--The Hon. Thos.
G. Alvord declares himself unqualifiedly
and uuhesitatingly for Greeley for
President. Alvord is TALKED Of for Lieu,
tenant Governor. There is consterna.
ton here among the Grant men. Seve
raj are On the fence and inclined to fol,
low Alvord. George Opdyke will prob.
ably be Grants candidate for Governor,
The Democratic and Liberal State Con.
ventions will meet on the same day, and
a committee of conference will settle bu.
siness. Gov. Hoffman is here, but be
stands no show for denomination. The
ticket talked of by Democrats aud Gvee.
ley Republicans is Church and Alvord
Beach's friends arc working hard, ,and sc
are Senator Murphy's.
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Let Foreigners Read and
Ponder.
Henry Wilson the Grant
Candidate for Vice
President.
His Bitter Know Nothing Record.

HENRY WILSON, the nominee
for Vice President on the
GRANT Presidential ticket, used
the following language in a
speech delivered in Boston in
1856.
Foreigners,i is this execrable
.slandercr to be elevated to the
honorable place Of Vice Presi-
dent by your suffrage? He
has never yet retracted a sim
| gle word of all these vile SLAM
ders. Read, we say, and act
in accordance with your hon
est views Of such abominable
sentiments as are here laid be-
fore you. You can have but
one opinion, Here are his
exact words: s<1 -
'In the heart Of the foreign
er beats not a single noble Inn
pulse, not one single throb Of
patriotism! He is so brutal
and degraded that he has no
sympathy for anything but
cabbage and lager beer, pota-
toes and buttermilk, or some
other outlandish dish, fit only
for hogs Of, the street or pen.
All the oaths in the world can
not bind them.
''Some tell me that many
foreigners are intelligent-yes,
intelligent! How in the name
of Almighty God can they say
it? Look at. the Dutchman
smoking his pipe, and if you
see a ray of intelligence in
that dirty, idiotic looking face
of his, show it to me.
"We must change the laws
of the land and prevent these
Ignorant, degraded paupers
here from voting and holding
office. Villains and ruffians
who congregate in and around
Iour villages and large cities;
and live by stealing and beg
ging from the Americans
Some say they have rights.
So they have-the right to
live under our laws and till
the soil, and do as we bid
They are inferior in intellect
and intelligence to the Ameri-
cans, and they must and shall
; be put down and kept down if
lit has to be done at the point
of the bayonet and with pow
der and lead"
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KNOW N0THINGIS NJ
HENRY WILSON'S
RECORD.
Let all Foreigners Read

The thin attempt. of the GRANT Rad
lcals, to prove that liENRY WILSON, the
GEANT teudfaate for the Vice Prcsiden-
uN the leader of Know NothingiSm,
never inSul'cd, derided and vilfed For
eign-bosn citizens having been fully dis.
approved,we furnish our readers another
chapter from bis Know Nothing Record
From the German American.
1t is an insult to the intelli-
gent naturalized citizen of this
country to suppose that he
will, under any circumstan
cast his ballot for Henry Viii
son, the man who boasted that
he was the father of the Know
Nothing party in Massachu-
sets; who declared time and
again, before the people OF that
commonwealth, that
"The uniform of the State
militia should no longer be
dlsgraced by being seen on the
back of a CATHOLIC FRESHMAN
or an INFIDEL DUToHMAN;'
Who drafted and advocated
the passage by the Legisla-
ture OF the law prohibiting any
foreigner from holding a COM
mission in the militia of Mas
sachusetts;
For the man who declared,
in a speech in Worcester, in
1854 while referring to the
monstnous erormitles perpe-
'trated by the Know Nothings
of st. Louis and Louisville, du-
ring the riots OF that summer,
"That BY THE LIGHT OF THESE
BURNING sHANTIEs, the Teuton
and Celt may read the CERTAIN
DOOM that will oyertake them
in the attempt to compete
with the natlve-boul Ameri-
can for political supremacy on
this continent"
Foreigners, another chapter of HENRY
Wilson'S infamous Know Nothing Re.
cord is published in this issue. Peruse
the two chapters and you will have the
opinion entertained of you BY the lead
ers of the GRANT Radicals. 20 a.,
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The Way Radical Judges Take
GoBOred Votes.

The n. Y. Herald's special from Ra.
leigh On election day, August Ist, said
The only circumstance worthy of note
that ! saw in the casting of ballots was,
that when negroes handed in their tick
cts, the Radical Judges opened the bal
lots, and after inspecting them, put then
in their respective boxes. By this means
it was impossible for poor darlky tc
vote the Conservative tickst without ex
posure, which would bring down upon
his devoted head the arathemas Of the
black mob without"
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rs 10 Truey

The Cincinnati Enquirer, of the 2sth,
says that Governor Noyes is depopula-
ting the Ohio Penitentiary He is par
doning felons almost as fast IS they can
be convicted, A number of most vi
cious murderers-life members--have
been turned loose stree Noyes moved
to Columbus. There are dark hints Of
brokers and men who receive comma
sions. Is the brokers' office located in
Cincinnati
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senator schurz Net tor sale.

Gen. PLEAsoNToN says that GRANT
authorized him To offer Senator CARL
ScHuRz all the patronage he wanted If
he would support GRANTS San Domin,
go Annexation scheme. SEIZURE referred
to pLEAsoNroN's communication, in his
St. Louis speech, AS follows:
The statement seems to indicate that ]
had good chance for more patronage
than I wanted, had ! concluded to ScrUe
the President at the expense Of my con-
uictions Of duty. IF ONE OF Us WAS
IN THE MARKET, IT WAS NOT l."
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More Mexican Oufragcs.

BROWNSVILLE, Aug, 6 6-Cartain King,
the largest stock owner in Texas, was
attacked six miles from his rancho by a
band of eight Mexicans. A German
named Specht was killed. King and
others escaped. The Mexicans fled
when their fire was returned 1t is be-
lieyed these men were sent TO murder
King to prevent him from appearing
before the Depredatiops Commissioners
at Brownsville. The Commissioners
express astonishment at the crimes and
outraees the Mexicans have perpetrated
on the people of Texas, as shown by
the testimony taken
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N'I am compelled to be-
lieve and to say that the per
petuation Of the present policy
of the Government is not fol
the advantage of the coun-
try Gen. N. P. Banks let
ter, July 81.
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Condition of L0ngteI,oyy.

A dispatch from Saratoga says Long
fellow is completely disabled. The sus
pensory hgaments are injured, and there
is not the slightest hope they can ever
perform their functions. He can not
stand firmly upon his left leg, which is
the seat of disaster, The leg is hathed
twice day with cold water, and his
Gripping walk to well, thirty yards
from his stable, too plainly indicates the
severity of his injury. John Harper
Gays Longfelow is hopelessly broken
down
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COL. Zen, wilson.

The First West Virginia Ccngres
sional District Convention nominated
Hon. BENJAMIN WILSON, Of Harrison
County for Congress, on the 9th inst, a
Clarksburg. Col. BEN. is a firstrat'
Democrat, fine speaker, supports CAM
DEN for Governor, iavors the New Con
stitution, apd GREELEY and BRowS.
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That Know Nothing Record
THE RANEf,ALS FRIGHTENED
ANls TALKING LOUD,

The Radical GRANT family editors, of
advertising contracts to carry the mails,
and of silly little stories against GREE.
LEY and Brown, are in a bad way just
now because HENKr WILSON, their can
didatc for Vice President, has very dis
graceful record as Know Nothing, and
because that same record is being pretty
industriously circulated to the damage Of
Radcalisr
They deny: tlt&n abuse every one who
believes it true; call all editors Rebels
who don't have collar on stamped ;
"Fm GRANTS Dog" and give vent to
their ignorance in various other ways.
Now, 'tis O matter Of Record that
HENRY W1LseE, the GRANT candidate for
Vice President, was the Know Nothing
candidate for the United States Senate
in Massachusetts, in 1856; and was the
acknowledged LEADER of that infa.
nous Know Nothing organization that
proposed to enact laws to compel ali
Foreigners to remain in america t,centy-
one gears before being permitted to erer-
case the rights and priciisges Of cti&en-
ship
in that campaign HENRY WILSON
.stumpcd Massachusetts and succeeded
in having a majority of Know Nothing
candidates elected to the Legislature !;
they elected him United States Senator.
That infamous speech, published else
where in tie SPIRIT, was popular then in
Massachusetts and gained him what he
sought, seat in the Senate. Nobody
denied then that HENRY WILSON, OF Mas
sachusesss, uttered the speech word for
word but now, when the fruit is fully
ripened and his opponents are placking
it to the great disadvantage of the
GRANT WILSON family party, the brain.
less chaps, in charge Of their Masters
newspapers, commence their annual
howl of ''rebel," ''liar," "disgraceful,"
malignant" and other deIicate and re
fined epithets, just because the truth
hurts their candidates.
Be calm, ye who stand as the defend.
ers of the present corrupt Administra-
ton, and of your Know Nothing candi-
dates Record. The supporters of HoR-
ACE GsEE-Er, Amnesty, Civil Service
Reform and the policy Of "clasping
hands across the bloody chasnl," have
entered the campaign with your full Re-
cord before them, tis shameful one,
and intend to lay il before the people
just as it is, So rest easy while you
may, for some chapters of it will make
you vince and fairly yell IN your agony.
g"Grant has not one single quail
ification for Chief Magistrate."-GlD-
raN WSTJFs Serref1qu of the Manu- apHe,,
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THE DIFFERENCE.
Letter From Horace Greeley.
Nrw YoRK TPIpuNr


New YORK TRIBUNE.
To A. H. Dowell, Esq, St. Nicholas Hotel:
DEAR SIR: I Idecline decidedly to ask
my friends to furnish money to sustain
a newspaper in Washington. do not
consider this legitimate political ex-
penditure If the people will not sup
port newspapers that favor my election,
we must get on without them as we may.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
HOW THEY MANAGE THESE THINGS IN THE
RADICAL CAMP.
Major Thadeus c. Stanton, paymas-
ter in the United States army, has been
detached from duty on the Pacific Coast
and ordered to Washington to assist in
editing one of the Grant organs in this
city. His special duty, it is understood,
is to be the advocacy of the renomina-
ton and election of General Chapman
as Delegate in Congress.
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Gen. Rank,sEalter.

Gen. BANKS letter, in which he with.
draws from the GRANT family party and
emhatically declares far HORACE GREE.
LEY and the platform of principles adop
ted at Cincinnati and Baltimore, will be
found on our first page.
The tide has set in against GRANrIsM
with q rush that is carrying the States.
men of the Republican party, to GREE
LEY and the platform declaring for 8
thorough Reform Of the Civil Service. -
And it will not stop until the corruption
at Washington is completely strangled
and driven from place and power.
Let the People rejoice with exceeding
great joy! An honest Administration is
what they desire
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AnGtsser Influential German Fa.
per Endorses Greefey.

New York, August 1.-The Stats
zeitung, by far the most influential Ger
man daily in New York, has finally came
out square for Greeley, finding addi
tional reasons in Summers letter to sup
port Greeley. 1t thinks. Sumner th'
chief of Greeley's friends, and that hi.
letter will give him weight, influence anG
position with Greeley, when elected, es
pecially in foreign affairs.
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EyHon. W. p SpRAGUE was renem,
mated by the Radicals of this Congress.
ional District, at Marietta, on the Sth
inst. AS Mr.. SrRAGUE has been con.
slant supporter Of all the destructive
measures Of the GRANT Administration
twas proper that the officials should re.
nominate him.
The Democratic and Liberal Conven
tion will, on the 18th inst, nominate q
candidate who will defeat bim in Octo,
her
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ana--pleas0ntGn--SCi,urZ--A
Leaf From ERisfOTy.

GRANT has not yet denied the last state.
ment of General PLEAsoNTeN that he
authorized him to Brihe Senator Carl
SCHuRE with offers of patronage to gain
his support to the San Domingo scheme
GRANT has had some bitter experience
In the way of denials. He denied that
le promised Ex President JOHNSON that
he would not give up the War Depart.
mcnt to STANTON.
And within forty eight hours JouNsoE
procured written statements from sever
members of his Cabinet that GRANT was
appointed Secretary of War, ai interim
With the distinct understanding that he
was to hold the office until relieved 10y
the President. let in the face of his
promise he yielded the Office 10 STANTON
and ,caS c0aricted Of base fdlSoh0oa ana
deception By cightmea.
That's GRANTS public character fol
truth and honest dealing. If the Radi-
Gals IKE it, no one ought TO complain.
&y'For the benefit Of the supporters
of GRANT we publish the following
from the n. ]. Tribune, of the 9th inst
"Mr. Wilson may think It hard that
his long-buried speeches against Demo
Gratis and Wings, against Jews and for
eigners, should be exhumed for Use il
this political canvass. 1t may do no
harm to remind him that the nercena
ries of the Administration are playing
the same game, and that he has not
himself always objected to taking {
hand in 1t. If the Grant men, whether
generals or privates, want reminiscent
ces, they can be fully and easily accom-
modated."
GRANTS candidate for Vice President
cannot escape the consequences of his
abuse of Foreigners, viz:-the loss oI
nine.tcnths of their votes.
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p"Speaking now for my
self, | have to say that my
vote will be given for HORACE
GREELEY Senator Summers
Letter July 20.
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CheCkn1ated,

Senator SUsIN Err so completely del:ior-
allied the supporters OF GRAM by his
letter declaring for Mr.. GREELEY and
advising the colored people to support
him, that two of their prominent men,
BLAINE and WV. LLOYD GARRISON, have
published rerly's.
The Senators reply to Mr.. BLAINE has
certainly cooled that gentleman's ardor
for letter writing, as it simply fayed
him and left the fragments to be gather
ed ZIP and carried away by the sorrow
ing friends of the family.
&g~ The ". 7. 1ribune says of Gen.
eral JOHN A DIX:
"Gen. Dix entered political life as @
supporter of Adams and Clay They
were beaten, and he promptly went over
to the Jackson party. where he was
presently provided with office He
clung to that party till the last hour
when it fell hopelessly from power with
Buchanan Then he as promptly ad
hered to the Republicans, and was soon
quartered afresh on the Treasury He
never yet deserted party while it had
control of the Treasury. 1t will not be
time for bin to join the Liberals till
next March" s., r7
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Gyr A grain elevator was destroyed at
Chicago on the 9Th inst; the grain de-
stroyed was vaIned at $4,000.
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EgThe State election in West Vir-
sinia takes place on Thursday, the 22d
inst
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wThe changing from GRANT to
GREELEY, by Republicans who have
grown tired Of the family party, is on
the increase. .~- e.
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sG-"If i wanted Patronage
I had n very geod chance to
obtain IL. at the expense of
nay convictions of duty
Senator Carl .ScharS's Reply TO Grants
Offers Of Patronage for has Support Of
The San Domingo Stoindle. IA
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E-"My duty to myself and to my
country requires me to give him
Horace Greeley my support. - Gea.
A. p Rgbks Estt}. Jplg3l 81
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voice srom tn. Tomb.

KNOW GEN. GRANT BETTER THAN ANY
OTHER PERSON IN THE COUNTRY CAN KNOW
H,w. IT WAS MY DUTY TO STUDY HIN, AMI
| DID SO NIGHT AND DAY, WIEN SAW
HIM AND WHEN ! DID NOT SEE HIM, AN1
VOW TELL roU WHAT ! KNOW; He CAN
NOT GOVERN THIS coUNTRT.-1he tate
E9riu If. Stantoa's Dying Words.
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~ hold that. subject to our solemn
constitutional obligations to maintain the
equal rights Of all citizens, our policy
should aim at local self government, and
got at rehabilitation.
:. That the eivil authority should be su-
pvens oper the n.ilitdry.
aFhaf the .orit of hubeas corpus, should
bejealeasly upheld as the safeguard OF
personal freedom.
"Thutfhe indiridaal citizen should en-.
joy che largest liberty consistent soith pub
Ec order.
AND THAT THERE SHALL BE NO FED.
ERAL sUByRRsIoN OF THE INrERAL POL
fTf or THE STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES,
E"Eut that each SHAH be leJs FREE 10
hNFORCE THE RIGHTS and aromott
TIE WELL BEING OF its inha6staxts b.
s,ek meaxs AS THE JUDGMENT OF
IT'S OWN PEOPLE SHALL PRE-
SCRlBEr--FFem HoRAoE GREELEY
Letter Of Acceptance, May 20. 1879.
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@"Grant has not one single quail
ification for Chief Magistrate."-GlD-
EoN WELLEs, Secretary Of the Nary unde1,
LINCOLN ..
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RThe old Tammany TWEED King
in New York supports GRANT. TwEEr
is a ft representative of the GIANT
Moa1os, LEEr, eTool-iSG Administration
.9irIs Of q feather flock together
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Of Missouri.

eT AcCEPTYOUR NOMINATION.
In THE CONFIDENT TRUST THAT
THE MASSES OF OUR COUNTRY
MEN, NORTH AND SOUTH, are
enger to clasp hands across
the bl0Ody ciaxIR which haas
long divided them, FORGET
TING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
ENEMIES, IN THE JOYFUL CON
SERIOUSNESS THAT THEY ARE
AND MUST HENOEFORTH RE-
MAIN BRETHREN.n Horace Gree
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Foreigners, another chapter of HENRY
Wilson's infamous Know Nothing Re.
cord is published in this issue. Peruse
the two chapters and you will have the
opinion entertained of you BY the lead
ers Of the GRANT Radicals. - 20 a.,