The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-14
A Glance at the field.

/ A Glance at the = LEU.
The Boston Post, the leading Democratic
paper OF New England, whose columns re-
feet the views and are adorned by the pens
of the brightest minds in Massachusetts,
gives n coup deR of the present situation in
the following stirring style:
"What O running to and fro there Is,
/ from end tc end OF the Radical camp. Ali
is commotion and coniusion-Grant rushing
forth from his giit-cottage at Long Branch
northward, Wilson tearing from Virginia to
North Carolina and thence across to In
diana, the members Of the Cabinet flying
| different ways between Oregon and Maine,
Coliax coming out only to run in again out
of the storm, Speaker Blaine cramming the
mails with pleading letters for help in his
own district, Conkling bowing and smiling
ut the Democrats in hopes to propitiate
them, Forneyy loading and firing his battery
with terrible precision into the ranks OF his
own party in Pennsylvania, blue Saturday
| in Boston for the assembled managers OF
Massachusetts Grantisnl, Dawes offering al.
| most any terms to Butler in hopes OF paci.
fying the party In his own district, and the
l-h.,,- c..-n-~~.a-r,-~Ai;~s~c, -.
unison to make the laugh fit the opposite
corner OF its mouth. Greeley is running like
wilddre everywhere. Whether North Caro-
lima goes this time for Grant or not, the four
thousand warrants held over the heads OF as
many white men, and the emptying
OF quarter OF million dollars from
the treasury into the State, with half
the Cabinet aud the candidate for the Vice.
Presidency following after, have rot accom-
plished what was hoped for, and thus are
broken the hopes OF the administration at
the start The feeling uppermost Is that
oil is lost Sumner discharges his colum7
bads, and the effect Of bis explosive shot is
visible oil over the country. Blaine tries to
reply, Garrison drags up his rusty gun for .
return fire. and the small arms OF the melt
ing Grant force pepper away with all the
spite possible; but the noise ends, tie air
clears, and the havoc in the Radical camp is
unmistakaDle. Banks sends round-shot
that tears an ugly hole straight through the
ranks. One wing cries out 'Ku-Klux!' in
utter despair, and the other responds
treason in accents equally deplOrable.
Coiax declares he never called 'copperhead'
in his life, ald Porter says he is not at liber-
ty ITO tell how many Democrats are ready
to pronounce for his master when tho right
time comes. Grants Own is confident
thatno selt-respecting Democrats are going
to vote for Greeley, though it said the Dem
ocracy we're dead years ago.
"The President has taken the stump for
short experimental speeches, writes letters
to Chattanooga, aud all about, and freely
consents to be interviewed on the subject OF
hissentiments. He says he never wanted a
second nomination, though Forney declares
it was part OF the original bargain in 1868
that he should have it. East and West is In o
perfect political uproar; North and South are
completely alive. The Germans are coming
over to Greeley by thousands, with steady
tramp, from Wisconsin to New York. Maine
is cutting loose fro'o the rotten hulk Of
ring Administration New Hampshire is
walking straight out OF meeting; Vermont
is on It's feet; little Rhode Island entertains
Uncle Horace with its champion clam .bakes
and biggest popular turnoats; Connecticut
has plunged head-ioremost into the mid
summer Madness and Massachusetts fairly
huns with the buzzing in the party whose
leaders are gladly leaving it every day.
Oyer the rest OF the Union the tile is roaring
in and threatening to submerge the last ves-
tiges of corruption, nepotism, and political
charlatanism. Liberals OF both parties are
all awake to the issue in New York, and Or
ganizing for sure victory. Cameron is
pushing and pulling Hautranftin in Pennsylva-
MIA, while Forney assures them both that
Buckalew will carry all before him in Octo-
Der. The mass conventions of Democrats
and Liberal Republicans in Ohio are some
thing stnpendous, reverberating in thunder
tones across the noble Buckeye State Nor
ton Ia fairly stunned by the shouts OF the peo-
Pile for Greeley in Indiana, and begins to
lose heart in the result. The great COM
motion sends back its echoes from Wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Minnesota, the ocean tide of
revelation pouring over the whole Northwest
in resistless flood.
"Well may the party that is fast going |
into permanent eclipse manifest all this
commotion. The managers find no comfort |