Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-09-13


pass SO much on your space because
will have no other opportunity to return to
the subject. NORTH STATE.
The Change i'm the Wind.
There are 5000 OF 5000 German voters
in Allegheny county, Pa, but not Ger
man on the Grant county ticket. The
reason is that the Germans amt going for
Grant.
In 1852, Gen. John A. Logan, now
Grants chief fugleman in Illinois, intro
duced bill into the Legislature of that
State to sell all negroes found there to the
highest bidder! General John thinks the
Democrats very inconsistent in preferriDg
Greeley to Grant.
Richard Edgeworth, who lost an arm at
Malvern Hill, and who has since been sup
porting large family by faithful service
as messenger in the New York custom
house, has been dismissed from his place
for no other reason than that of intending
to vote for Greeley in November.
Senator Wilson denies that he ever wrote
saving that he never was Know Nothing,
and that the one used in his name was a
forgery. He cOnfesses that his association
with the proscriptive party is thug too
well known for successful denial.
Once in a while a good Greeley saying
creeps into The Ne,o National Era. 1t
candidly remarks ''Copperhead Greeley
newspapers are asking the question otter
! ~. 1~sr
Administration is a sufficient answer.
A letter from a prominent citizen in
| Kansas states: "The excitement in favor of
| Greeley is intense. Our Greeley club has
five hundred and eighteen members, of
which three hundred are original Republi
cans. We are organized in every town.
ship in my county, and we confidently ex-
pect to carry Topeka and Shawnee coun-
ties. have never seen such excitement
since 1S4O."
A well-inforned writer from Augusta,
Ga, says "One-third of the colored vote
in this city, county and State, will go for
Greeley and Brown. / have lived here
thirty years, and know, and am well known
| by the colored people. They know that
worked hard for Grant in 1868, and that
ara working hard for Greeley now. The
| BOurbOns are nearly all played out, and
will be completely before the election
| Georgia will give Greeley and Brown 3d.
600 majority in November"
The Liberal movement is certainly on a
strange decline in Minnesota. The Min
neapols EUening Times says ''A1r. Gree
ley will receive, in this State, substantially
the whole of the Democratic vote, and
| IaTfo of no
Republican vote, as it has been heretofore
called. The Germans are for him to man;
the Scandinavans are coming to his sup
port every day in altogether unexpected
| numbers; the Irish are three to one for
him, and no one nationality, as such, can
be said to be opposed to him."
This is how the country is made to pay
\ the expenses of the GRANTEES Since IL e
! first of July, until last week-only two
months-6,00O,OO Of Grant documents
have been folded and despatched from the
rooms of the Senate Chamber and House
these amounted to $1SO,OOO, and for ell
velopes alone 900 were required. The
names of over dozen Congressman, some
of them not supporters of Grant, have been
forged in order to furnish the required
number of franks.
What surprising love the GRANTEES have
for the colored brethren One of the lat
ter named Theo. c. Ray was employed in
the Department of the Interior, and in
private letter to friend, he used these
words: 81 am compelled to say that sym.
pathize with the Greeley movement" Some
of Grants pimps and spies got hold Ct this
letter, ard Ray was instantly discharged.
He had been in the army; had received
eleven wounds; is a man of fine education.
of excellent character, and entirely compe-
tent for his office; but, under the Govern
ment Interpretation of the civil service act,
he was kicked out. Still, "the colored
troops fought nobly."
The Grant press insist that the Liberal
movement is on decline, and are evil
IDENTITY anxious that it shall have proper
attention and medical treatment. 1t
would certainly make lively patient for
any of the Administration practitioners
The Chicago Tribune says "To assume
| that the Reform movement is on the de-
cline is to assume that the people have
lost their intelligence, their desire for hon
est government, and their hatred of corrup-
ton. Instead of the Reform movement
being on the decline, it was never so prom
ising as now. The battle against 10000
L
to draw upon, is, of course, severe one
But contest with fraud, once earnestly
begun, can never fail of final success"
The Western CeU, published at st.
Louis, Mo-, pays this tribute to the Liberal
candidate: When we threw up Grant we
did so because we felt that Greeley was a
better friend to our countrymen than
Grant. Nor shall we ever repent the step
we have taken. We Ieel a pride in being
the conscientious champion of man whom
we know to have stood up for our country
and our race. In the language of fellow
conntryman, we feel that Horace Greeley
land ever had. In 1854, when Henry Will.
son sat, in the city of Philadelphia, as
Chairman of Know-Nothing committee,
whose text was, no Irish, Germans, French,
or other foreigners need apply, Horace
Greeley was receiving the Irish emigrants
on the shores of America with "cead
mile .fddthe."
TAKING CARE OF SOLDIERS WIDOWS.
One of the resolutions of the Phiadel-
phia platform says " The widows and or
phans of those who died for the country
are entitled to the care of a generous and
grateful people," A soldiers widow, who
is postmistrcss of small office in Massa-
chusetts, was accordingly somewhat sur
prised when she received the following
communication, the other day, from the
Hon. and Rev. James Harlan, Chairman
OF the resident Grant Committee at Wash
ington:
" Believing that you feel a deep interest
IN the success of the Republican candidates