New-York tribune., 1872-09-17
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

There is great rejoicing among the pos'-
masters An organ has heard OF two meh down 5ouln %
WHO expect to get compensated for their slaves il "ee
ley is elected.
The SprinafeH Republican thinks there is
directness and ring in President MahaAs wofus ,o
senator Wilson. which somehow sussest NathaD's
"ThOu art the man." ~ ,
A new weekly journal has been established
at Terre Haute, called The reform. II is pubhsned 10
the German language, aud it advocate the eseon .,
The Lhcral Republican candidates for the ohccs Oh
President ard yice-President
A writer in The Troy Press takes hand in
the resurrection business and vouches for the accuracy
OF the following extract from speech del.v9red 9y
crate the labors OF my life the dissolution Oi lhe
Union; and care not whether the bolt thar rehnS I"
shall cOme from heaven or from nell
The windy strains of Grants Oion concern
ing the result In November little too loud to inec'
the appreciation Of the othe: denomination organs
recent speech calls forth this gentle remonsirancc
from The PhiadeDhfa Press: "Te New York Times oi
Yesterday makes statement that wei nigh taxes Que
the Republican state Committee are leaving no stone
unturned' and then adds the astounding lltrgencs'
we mean to carry this city In November IDS y a eon
summation deyouty to be wished, but at tns distance
the task looks impossible"
The Columbus Sentinel, the present capital
organ OF the Democracy in the Buckeye STATE prns
the speech OF Samuel s. Cox, candidate for Con
gresham at Large in NewYOrk. because, as II says
first the speech is a Enthusiastically good one
second because everybody within a hundred miles OF
Columbus knows Sam Cox and likes HIM, and IL lnt.I,
contains sound advice which few dsahected Demo
Gratis i'm Ohio would do wisely 10 follow. oar rec0nee'
ton il that Mr. Cox rated tOleraDy ,ound Dem
ocrat when he lived in Ohio. II be support Greeley
without difiiculty it would that the purest Of
his late Democratic constituents may 90 AAe"i'c Win
out compound fracture of his cOnscleuce'
At least one Grant organ is not so lost to
all sense OF decency TO abuse Mr. sumner me Looef
Courier is warm supporter OF Grant, yet II mas the
manness speak thus deseryedy OF the great senator
Charles Sumner Is the foremost man among American
living statesmen He is head and shoulders above all
his contemporaries as scholar, orator. as thinker
as man Of culture. No person can 20 into me United
States Senate without seeing at gLahce tH,t NJ sun
ner is the greatest there No person can become
acquainted with that body Dy repeated aud conI.ueo %
visits without learning that Chaiies sumner
all his fellow legislators IN most OF the VI
the true statesman. And his long record OF over Sen
years III constant service Is one OA the plo.tst Az @
annals. His devotion TO the rights OF the Aglcn race
has as we have often Remarked been thoroughly SUD
lime. No other word expresses IT,"
Not content with prophesying that New
York city Will be carried for Grant, The " Times a.
lows its Connecticut correspondent say that the LIB
eral Electoral Convention in that State was failure
and therefore there no longer any donb but that tLe
state will go for Grant The yeracous correspondents
writes that there were Liberal Republicans Of pron
nence in the Convention. me HdrUofd itWes says .he
foIowing were some of the distinguished men present
all OF whom Republicans Judge icN uIdy oI lyme
bridgeport; Hon. Gideon H. Hollister. OF Sraiord Cen
Cooke. OF Goshen; il. L. Reed, OF DaDbury,
member T.o5c oI Tue Bromey '" OF Hartford Mr.
Chft OF Mystic, member OF this Legislature; cen Ely OF
Kiugly; the Hon Leverett f. Pease Of Somers, Chas.
Adams OF Litchfcd, and Deoss IL stephens or ldYer'
White of Brooklyn, and tw. Preutss Of Aew-IOndon;
the Hon Albert Austin and David A. k3ed OF 'unrIui
IOhu = Cheney Manchester, and the Rev D. J. Peluc
OF Meriden, together with many more Sno are well
known III most parts VI the state.