New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-25
DIR NEW YORK LETTER.


siOn-The COIOred Debaters.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
New YORK, August l9, 1872.
Mr.. Greeley returned Sunday morning
from his grand trip through the New Eng
land States. He is delighted with the gen
erous greetings given him everywhere by
the people 1t was a continuous ovation
frern the time he left to the hour of his re-
turn. In the speech-making line our can
didate is a success. Brains tell. He never
opens his mouth without saying something
sensible, and he never puts his foot into it.
Mr.. Greeley is in good health, and is in
spirited at what he has seen and heard in
Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hamsphire,
Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
with regard to the prospects Of the Liberal
movement in those States. Maine is pre-
pairing for a field fight, which, for square,
open-handed work, will not be exceIled
during the presidential canvass. The
Democratic party is consolidated upon
Greeley and Brown. There is no factious
offshoOt among them. They mean business.
The Republicans who have pronounced
against Grantism are the very best men in
that party. They are organizing Greeley
and Brown clubs all over the State, erect
ing liberty poles and hosting new flags in
every valley and on every hill top. An
army Of the best orators are engaged to
speak in the principal cities and towns
Some are already there at work and others
are enToute. Sumner will make one or two
speeches at Portland and Bangor. Banks,
who is now here preparing for his great
Wall street speech, may conclude to post
pOne it for two weeks on account of the in
tense heat and the consequent absence from
the city, just at this time, of very large
number of the most prominent business men
and merchants, and go at once to Maine,
where they are anxious to receive him and
give him a genuine Down East ovation.
1t will be decided to day whether he goes
there first or not. 1t would be dangerous
for any man to attempt to speak in Wall
street at three o'clock in the afternoon dur
ing such awful heat as we have had and are
now obliged to endure. Such an intensely
hot term was seldom if ever known. ThUn-
der storms, terribl and continuous, destruc-
tive to life and property, have succeeded
each days heat, lasting nearly all night
leaving the air yet more oppressive than
before. Each cloud dissipated torrents of
rain. Frequently between two showers
one passing to the east and another ap-
preaching from the west-a clear opening
in tae north would develop the aurora bore
ais flaming their streamers to the zenith,
their upper silvery points wriggling like so
many serpents' tails. These beautiful mete-
Oric lights, instantaneously extinguished
from time to time by the spiteful electricity
of the neighboring clouds, while the pale
faced moon, ever and anon, would look out
from behind tie flying mist, haye consti-
tuted some Of the midnight phenomenal
pictures which we poor, half-stifed city
pent up NOR tails, who couldn't sleep over
much, have been permitted to gaze upon
from time to time
This condition of the weather has really
been exhausting to the energies Of every
one. 1t has had its effect upon politics as
upon everything else. 1t has not only
made great many persons sick, but large
number Of deaths have resulted from sun
stroke and excess of labor. When this
heated term is over and our business men
get back from the mountains aud the sea
shore with their families, look out for some
Of TIE finest political mass meetings and
other demonstrations that the world ever
saw On the whole, the present luIl will
prove beneficial.
To return to New England one moment.
Mr.. Kimban, the Liberal candidate for
Governor of Maine, a thorough canVasser
and very able and popular gentleman,
writes here that the coalition against
Grantsm in that State is the grandest re-
voIution that ever swept over Maine. He
is sanguine t hat he will be triumphantly
elected. Tbs congressional districts will
mostly be carried by the Liberals. Blaine
can not hold his own. His letter to Sum
ner was responded to in his own district by
nine hundred representative Republicans,
who boldly signed a call for a Greeley and
Brown meeting. 1t was answered by Ehe
people who promptly put the seal Of public
condemnation upon. the imPudent carpet
Dagger. Blaine will now have an oPI9rs
tunity to return to his native State Of
Pennsylvania, where congressional infu-
ence is always so generously thrown for
the benefit Of the iron corporations i'll
which ne holds large interests.
Young Hale, the soniu-law of lack
Chandler, United States Senator of Michi-
gan.is using up considerable many Of the
n I'D
of money wrUng from poor clerks employed
in the pOstOffices and other federal places
in Maine, to secure his return to Congress
from the fifth district; but Mr. Pike for
merly in Congress- will heat him.
Mr.. Farewell's prospects against Frye,
the present Grant candidate in the second
district, are improving all the time. Lynch
and Peters Grant will. both be beaten in
the first and fourth districts.
The people have caught the idea laid
down in the Cincinnati platform, so beau
titilly developed by Mr.. Greeley and gen
erouslv accepted by the Baltimore COnven-
ton that they must see to it that
their representatives are posted up
on the great questions Of public
interest, such as the tariff for instance, and
that whatever those representatives, as a
majority. in legislation, say the people de-
sire, he Mr.. Greeley, and all his supports
! agree that they ought and shall have.
Upon this public pledge the people are
wide awake in the congressional districts
everywhere TO secure good men to repre-
sent them. All these tainted with Grant
ism will be set aside if possible. Upon this
general principle the people of Maine are
iaboring to purify and dignity our national
legislation, a reform very much to be de
sired.
Massachusetts, is doing likewise. The
best works are steadily moving, and are
accomplishing great good. Those men