Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

preulcIS one nuuureu ana UIIy
! majority for Greeley in New York.
The West Virginia election for Gov
l ernor, Congressman, ETC., is to be held
, this yearOn Thursday, the twenty-second
Of August.
Mr.. William S. Wallace will probably
be the choice of the Democrats of the
Pennsylvania Legislature for United
: States Senator.
Wendell Phillips doubts Grants re-
election, and thinks Sumner quite as
! strong in Massachusetts at the present
time as he was a year ago.
The Democrats and Liberals of Ohio
propose to cOalesee and nominate a joint
ticket, State and electoral, dividing the
hOnOrs after the manner of Illinois. The
conventions of both parties meet at Des
Moines August first.
Many prominent ex-arny officers,
members Of the Grand Army of the
Republic, have signiied their intention
Of Withdrawing from that organization,
the purposes Of which are subservient to
and under the control of Grants mill
tary friends.
Huntington county, Indiana, is now
claimed for Greeley and Brown by a
writer, who says: Me- are stepping
across party lines as across a straw. All
admit Grant a good General, but few
have the audacity to say that he is a
statesman
The Greeley fever is alleged to be
dying out in Virginia for want of oppo-
sitiOn. In racing paTlance, it is antiei-
pated that Mr.. Greeley will be allowed
to walk Over the course, as the Grant
party seem to be making no effort, and
the cOlored people are apathetic.
The Raleigh North Carolina) .NetUs
states that Major William A. Smith,
the nominee of the Radical party for
Congress, got entirely off the Radical
platform in Chatham county. He de-
nounced the civil rights bill and the en-
fOrcement act of President Grant.
Says the Boston Courier: "a Long
Branch correspondent informs an adj !
miring public that General Grants
turnout, presented to him by Tom Muir
ply and others, excited considerable at
tentiOn.' His other turnout, to be pre-
sented to him next fall by the Liberal
Republicans and others, will excite
mOre.n
The Democrats of the South defend
themselves from the charge of incon-
sistency in rallying To Greeley, by say
ing if the Republicans could take a life
long Democrat in General Grant as
their standard-bearer in 1865, why
should we hesitate to take Mr.. Greeley
in 1872 ON the excellent basis of the
Cincinnati platform and his letter of ac-
c~eptance?
Morton, of Indiana, whom the Gin
cinnati Enquirer pleasantly styles ''the
and withered agent of the Fed
eral family" says the first thing Gree
.leys administration would do would be
to recognize the validity o fthe rebel war
debt and make arrangements for its
payment. If such should be his policy,
his ofiice-hOlders would have to steal a
good deal less than Grants have done,
or he would never accomplish the job.
A letter from Cleaveland, North Car
DINA, says: "Our people a short time
ago were dispirited, and it was thought
that many Conservatives would stay
away from the polls. 1t is nov believed
that their prosecutions and prosecutions
as kuklux, instead of intimidating them,
has served to arouse them to a ems of
their danger, and you may safely count
upon a large Conservative vote from
cleveland, Castor and Rutherford"
A telegram to the New York State
Liberal Committee states that the Hon.
@. w. Harding, the successful opponent
of the Hon. George w. Woodward for
President Judge of the Luzerne county
(Pennsylvania) district, has "come out
from among the foul party and de-
clared for Horace Greeley. 1t is also
said that Mr.. Harding, being the repre-
sentative Republican of Luzerne, this !:
will give the Cincinnati candidate about
four thousand majority in that county.
Here is a neat and truthful boiling I
down of Henry Wilson's curious Know |
Nothing record: /. He believed in re- J
fusing the right of suffrage to foreign
l, He did not believe in re-
fusing the right of suffrage to foreign
born citizens, but only said that he did.
If he did not believe in refusing the =
right of suffrage to foreign-bOrn citizens,
he must have had N object in view in
that he did. 4. He was elected
to the Senate Immediately after the
great KnOw-N0thing triumph, and by
KnOw-Nothing votes.
Since the RAIDS have been running the
government, bankrupt States are among
blessings they have conferred. The !
Wilmington North CarOlina) Journal
that according to the statement Of I
he Treasurer, the principal of the debt
IF North Carolina, on October j, 1867. "
-wenty-nine million nine hundred thou
and and forty-five dollars, w~ithinterest,
part due on that day, of three million a
me hundred and eighty-four thousand "
i've hundred and ninety-six dollars.
The interest on the principal from Oeto-
yer 4, 1872, amounts to i've million three
hundred and eighty-two thousand and
iOht dallQrg. To eomnlV with tho oon
titution the sum of eight million five \
hundred and sixty-six thousand six hun j
lred and four dollars will be required ~
or back interest. d
Says the New York Sun: "Queens "
ounty viii give thirty-five hundred
majority, Lawrence, Oakley, and Sher- al
u Henry who carried the county by =
Orty-nYe hundred majority on the Re n
ublican ticket when Hoffman received j
twenty-five hundred majority, are all
for Greeley. Talmadge and
theirs are in the same boat. Coming a,
in the Hunters Point boat 1 met p
n old farmer from the north side. IN
here two hundred acres are worth so AZ
lany thousand dollars to-day. The =
gentleman had been a Democrat all Y
life, and he confessed it came hard
} him at first to support Greeley. But -
II tell you what it is, Captain he L
I'D, this thing is a good deal like eat
lg tomatoes, it's Al acquired taste. At
rst you don't like them, but after YOU
ace get the taste, you want 'em all the 4
EAR round ye
Never before has such an exodus Of sly
merican cIergymen been ehronieled as as
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