Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-08-20
Why Men of the South should Support Mr..
Greeley.

The Lynchburg NTginidn one of the ablest
and best conducted papers in the South thus
torcibly presents the reasons why men of our
section should support Greeley:
First; he will give US fair representation In
the Executive department of the Government,
by putting some of our best and ablest men in
the cabinet to be his constitutional advisers
Grant has not done it,
Second; he will see that State rights are re-
spected and local selfgovernment maintained
in all of the States, the South included. Grant
has done otherwise.
Third he will institute thorough reform in
the Government, by expelling thieves and sub-
stltuting honest men in all of the departments
of the public service. Grant has not so DONE
Fourth he will command the ''carpet-bag-
gers to the rear and give the public offices in
the South to our own eitizens-to men of char
acter and capacity, whose sympathies and in
terests are with us. Grant failed to do this.
Fifth he will not make the government an
institution for the benefit of his relations, nor
be engaged in SO distributing the patronage of
the Government and administering It's affairs
during one term as to secure denomination for
another. Grant has done this.
Sixth he will break up the military ring.
send the epauletted civilians about the White
House, to the army, and abolish all the forms
OF military government that Grant has kept
up.
Seventh; he will see that the civil govern
ment is supreme over the military everywhere.
and that personal liberty is inviolably secured.
Grant has failed in this also
Eighth; being man of labor and skilled in
all that pertains to the science of government.
our own especially.-he will give his personal
presence at the Metropolis, to attend to the an
propriate duties Of his Office, and relieve us of
the humiliatiug spectacle of Presidential absent
eelsm, and Junketing at horse races and places
OF amusement, which we have been compelled
to witness during the incumbency of his pre-
decessor.
In short, it is because we believe that Gree.
ley will be infinitely superior In that high Of
hce to Grant, and that he will surround him
self with a different and better class of men
than those who control Grant, that we will sur-
port him, with all our heart, for the Presidency.
Therefore we put his name at the head of onr
columns to-day, and shall keep it there until
the day of election. And now let all who favor
reform IN the Government rally to the support
of Greeley and Brown.
The TALE OF A COMET In February last il
was reported that certain Swiss. professor
named Plantamour had predicted that about
this time the earth would encounter-not the
tail OF comet as In 1862-but the nucleus of
one so large that this globe would either be car
ried on IN Its train to be destroyed by the sun.
or be dissipated into particles and dispersed
throughout the solar system A short time a0o
it was heralded throughout Europe chat the
approach OF this ominous visitor had been Oh
served by two scientific gentlemen. one of them
being the said Professor Plantamour- and that
the said disastrous event would occur between
the hours of $40 P. M. and 6:3OP. M Green
wick time, on the 18th instant-yesterdav-
the very latest. The announcement is said to
have created considerable sensation in Europe,
and certain papers in this country have endeav-
| ored to impose upon the credulity of weak
minded persons by reproducing the prediction
and It's terrible consequences There are, how
| ever, some drawbacks to these statements. Tn
the first place no comet has made its appear-
ance. Secondly, it is affirmed that Professor
| Plantamour made no such prediction. Thirdlv.
| the scientific men assert that the solid matter
| in large comet might be compressed into a
lady s thimble, and that the only result of an
encounter with such q wandering BODY would
| be shower of shooting stars. It is now shrewJ-
| ly coDjectured that the whole story was mann
| factured by some newspaper reporter in seorch
| of a sensation. Whatever NAV he the c.. e
the case it is certain that Professor "a
and his alleged prediction will be coveroJ ~.
ridicule, as well as the newspapers which Eua
participated in the fraud in this eonntrv ~ =
quletgdisregard of our people to be vo,ld- he
sensation proves conclusivey that tbose MI
have experienced the harmless results of tro~aI
ling through a comets tail are not to he fr;nht
ened by any such tale of comet Ro1i;,@s,a.
Gazette of the 18th. ''s'"'0f'