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Horace Greeley on the Military
Powers Of the President.

Previous to the passage of the ku-Klux, or
enforcement act, authorizing the President to
suspend the writ Of habeas corpus when in his
judgment the preservation of law and order
render it necessary, and while much doubt
existed whether the bill would pass or not,
Horace Greeley, in his New York Tribune,
took the ground that the President, under
the Constitution and laws of the United States
as expounded by the proper courts, already
"had the right in time Of peace to use the mill
tary forces Of the nation'-we use Mr.. Gree
ley's own language any State of the
Union. without application or consent of its
Governor" And having declared his be-
lief that the President possessed all the
power necessary to put down Ku-Kluxisn,,
enforce the laws, and preserve peace, Mr..
Greeley proceeded to prove the correctness
Of his position by argument and facts. He
prefaced his reference to the authorities upon
which he relied by expressing his surprise
that the Governors of New York and Penn
sylvania, as they had in their messages, or
that any intelligent American, should doubt
that the President possessed this power. He
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Mr.. w. L. SAUNDERS, colored man,
who Ia a candidate on the Grant electoral
ticket, in Maryland, has left the ranks of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. His letter, giving an
abundance of sound reasons for his course,
furnishes capital review of the vague gen.
eralities of the Philadelphia platform, and is
so direct and pointed that it cannot but exert
a strong influence among the men of his
ace.--N. y. Tribune.
Mr.. Saunders is bright man, and, as a
political trickster, and an inveterate sore
head, has played his part well. Should Mr..
Greeley be elected he could well afford to
place Mr.. Saunders in a position of honor
and profit; but it is all bosh TO talk about
the strong influence the arguments of Saun-
ders will exert among the men of his race.
The men of his race are not Office seekers.
They want only fair play in the race of life.
and this they know very we'll is not to be
found in the success of the Democratic can
didates, but in the success Of the party to
whom they are indebted for all the beneicent
legislation Of the country since the war.
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Of politicians and journalists. The ques-
ton is now, whether the people, those
who have no axe of their own to grind,
will be willing to accept the parts assigned
them by their managers Whether they will
all at once forego lifelong animosities and
preiudices merely to vote certain men into
office, whom they were accustomed to look
upon as the very embodiment of iniquity.
we certainly do not entertain very high opin-
ions of Democratic morality and devotion to
principle Of any description, yet it seems
hardly probable that they are prepared to
turn such sudden somersault. As for the
few deluded Republicans, who had gone in
good faith into the swindle, it seems hardly
possible that the Baltimore Convention
should not have opened their eyes. Up to
the time of the Cincinnati Convention they
had been told that the movement was emil
nently and emphatically Republican, but
since, it has been openly conceded that Mr..
Greeley's only chance of success lies in the
undivided support of the Democrats, they
cannot fail to realize that if elected, he will
be wholly in the hands of the Democracy,
and consequently-willingl or unwillingly-
as Democratic President as Pierce or Blu
chanan. If the special Endorsement of the
Cincinnati ticket and platform in Baltimore
was needed to consolidate the votes of the
Democrats, it will render just as good service
in warning off all Republicans.
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in the national situation Of to-day, which can
afford an honest explanation or ground of
separation from the Republican party, which
did not exist two years ago. Yet two years
ago, Horace Greeley was Republican, and
was battling with the Democratic party with
might and main. The trouble with simple
people is, to know what has happened to
justify this change of parties, which only q
little while ago seemed irreconcilable. Any
man can conceive of sharp and sudden
changes taking place in the general condition
Of the country--such as foreign or civil war
which might instantaneously disrupt party
relations. But nothing analogous to this is
found in the present situation. The political
sky is without cloud. No sign is visible of
change Of wind, yet We see all hands
ordered aloft, and vessels suddenly change
their natural courses and steer in unex-
planned directions.
We blame no man for following his honest
convictions in politics, or anywhere else. A
mans convictions are not infallible guides,
but they are the best he has. Nor is there
anything necessarily discreditable in chang
ing them. Such changes often imply the best
qualities of head and heart. But they must
not bear the stamp of haste or want of de-
liberation. They must be like Caesars wife,
above suspicion. A man who changes his
political course in the absence Of any hope of
Office or honors, has great advantage over
him who changes in the presence of these
tempting prizes. When long line of politi-
cal conduct is deviatcd from, there must be a
broad basis of reason for it, or men cannot
respect the change or the changeling. Plain
ly enough, Mr.. Greeley cannot furnish any
such basis, and probably, for this reason, as
well as others, he now denies that he has at
all changed. But whether he is changed or
not, we know that he is no longer in the Re-
publican party, that he has gone out from us,
and that to-day he is at the head Of party,
which has done little else during the last few
years but scott at loyalty to the Government,
decry every effort to secure freedom and
respect for the rights of the black man.
Wherever else Mr.. Greeley may have been
in other days, wherever he may be to-day to
his inner consciousness, he is practically with
the political enemies Of the black mans lib
erty
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4 Word About An Intelligent
Greeley Man.

Mr.. j. Sella Martin has written letter to
the editor of the New York Tribune giving
his reasons for going over to the Democratic
candidate, and it seems that the editor Of the
Tribune commends his letter as proving that
Mr.. Greeley is the only candidate which an in
telligent coloredman can support. There is no
DENYING that Mr.. Martin is himself an intelli-
gent man. As writer and speaker he has
few equals Some of his pulpit efforts might
well take rank with the best utterances of
Henry Ward Beecher, but something more
than oratory, something more than literary
ability is needed to make a safe and trust
worthy political leader. We have met with
many ignorant men at the South, men who
know nothing of letters, but who being free
from personal ambition and having only the
good of their people before their eyes, could
teach higher political wisdom than we have
been able to find in the brilliant rhetoric Of Mr..
Martin Here is a specimen of his rea-
soning
"The other thing wanted to say was that
the revolt from Grantism is made by the most
intelligent portion of the colorcd people here.
over the minds and hearts of the colored
people of this State simply as the head of the
Republican party. They questioned neither
his past political record nor his present acts"
But the asserted intelligent revolt from
Grantism, as it is called, does not appear to
be very intelligent after all. Intelligence
which neither questions a mans records nor
his acts, hut follows him blindly, never
dreaming of revolt until class Of boilers OF
another race has set the example and created
the opportunity, does not seem to be of a
high order. If this high intelligence has
thus far bindly followed Grant it is hardly
to be expected that it will less blindly follow
Greeley. 1.-THE more intelligent of the col:
ored people" says Mr.. Martin, (meanng him.
self, "argue that Mr.. Greeley is the apostle
of the Abolition press" Any man who as
serts this gives a stronger proof of his ignor-
ance than we should like to have given Of
ours. So far from being the apostle of the
| Abolition press, it is notorious that he merely
| followed in the wake of the prosecuted Gar.
rison, Gerrit Smith, Wendell Phillips, and
other eminent Abolition leaders, who are now
| wisely favoring the reelection of Gen. Grant
We do not remember that Horace Greeley
ever opened his lips in an Abolition meeting
in his life, and it is all nonsense for Mr.
Martin to serve purpose to exalt Greeley tc
the dignity of an Abolition apostle, for he
never was and is not anything of the kind.
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An Honest Democrat VS.. an ApOs-
tate Republican.

Gov. Austin Blair, of Michigan, whose de-
sertion to the enemy was announced last
week, signalized his apostacy by speech at
Jackson, in that State, in which he denounced
the Republican party, and abused Gen. Grant
in terms more vile and malignant than any
decent Copperhead ever. uses. But We pro-
pose to refer only to his mean, dishonest, and
wilfully false charges against Gen. Grant of
accepting presents. The meanness, dishon-
esty, and mendacity of Blair consist in his
attempt to convey the impression that what
ever presents he has received have been as
brides since his election. He knows that it is
untrue that Gen. Grant has received single
present of any value since his election or
while candidate. But we have called at
tentOn to this matter for the purpose of
showing the difference between constant,
lifelong, high-minded Democrat, and an
apostate, unprincipled Republican. We shall
do this effectually by publishing the state
ment of the Louisville Co,rier-Jomnal, a
leading Democratic paper of the South, in
regard to this matter of present-taking. In
what marked contrast is the following defense
of the President by that paper, to the vulgar,
unmanly, malignant assault of the new Cop
perhead recruit of whom we have spoken.
The writer vindicates the personal integrity
of the President, and then says:
1.-THE President has been and is possessed
of this property, viz: 100000 donated to
him by the merchants of New York house
in Philadelphia, $4,000, rented now at
81, 400 per year; six hundred and forty acres
of land near st. Louis, purchased, with all
improvements, at less than $4,000; one
fourth OF one hundred and twenty acres of
land situated near Chicago, $1,000; $1,000
stock in Michigan iron company; his Long
Branch residence, $50 900, and small amount
in Adams express and railroad shares. The
bulk of this property was obtained through
the gifts made to him by the New York mer-
chants before he was elected President, the
real estate presented to him in Philadelphia
and in Washington, and his purchase of the
ST. Louis estate from his brOther-in-law. 1t
is not improper to state more specifically that
the Presidents income, outside of his salary
as President, is about $4,000 per year."
1t should be remembered that this is the
statement Of a Democrat, and moreover that
it only confirms and substantiates the exhibit
of the Presidents affairs made some time
since in Republican journals, while the matter
of appointing his relatives to Office has been
shown up as equally absurd and untrue as the
other allegations.
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Regulating Their Own Offs pring.

The "Civil Service Reform" scheme was
an invention of the "Liberal Republican"
apostates, designed to embarrass the Admin
istration and to keep Copperheads in office.
Trumbull offered the resolution in the Senate
requiring the appointment of the Civil Ser
vice Commission, and from that day to this
he and Schurz, and Fenton, and Upton, and
Greeley have kept up dcafenng cutlery in
favor of that pet measure, and against the
removal or appointment of men to Office for
political services. The malignant and re-
lentless warfare waged against Collector
Murphy, of New York, by Greeley, through
the Tribune, was avowedly based upon his
removal of men in the customrhouse for po-
ltical reasons. That, of the then editor and
present rebel-Democratic candidate for Pres-
dent, was the source Of all the alleged
frauds and corruptions in the custom house,
and the Cincinnati Convention of soreheads
embodied the policy of civil service reform,
about which Greeley had clamored so loudly,
in their Mosaic platform.
But hardly had it been announced that the
Chappaqua sage had been selected as the
national standard-bearcr Of the "Reform-
ers," when he formally repudiated the whole
scheme of "civil service reform" over his
own signature, and boldly announced the
doctrine that "to the victors belong the
spoils," declaring, in effect, that if elected
he would distribute the offices among those
who support him. His letter of June ii,
1879, published originally in the Hartford
Comm Times, fully justiies this construc-
ton. But, that there might be no doubt as
to Mr.. Greeley's intention, should the people
prove so mad as to make him President, his
confidential representative in this city has
interpreted it to mean that every Republican
will be removed from Office without remorse.
And the Tribune publishes that interpreta-
ton as Mr.. Greeley's real purpose.
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rims tbe Presidential candidate of the

Thus the Presidential candidate OF the
Liberal Republicans" one of the fathers OF
civil service reform, has publicly repudiated
his own offspring, and one plank Of his own
platform, almost as soon as it was born, and
long before it was capable of taking care OF
itself. And so he will repudiate every other
promise he ever made and every principle he
ever protested. He is nose OF wax in the
hands of the rebel leaders, the Tammany
thieves, and corrupt adventures of the Carl
Schurz species. The civil service reform out
cry has served its purpose. BY its adoption
they have secured the retention in Office OF
Copperheads and unrepentant rebels until
the 4th of March, and then if the people give
them the power they will make short work
with Republicans and all loyal men!
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a Democratic Prediction.

We have very little more faith in the wis
dom than we have in the honesty Of the
Democratic papers. Even those which for
time so valiantly opposed the nomination of
the Chappaqua farmer by the Baltimore
Convention, don't seem to have been in
fuenced by any question of principle, how
ever wise from Democratic standpoint, that
course may have been. They have proved
their destitution of principle, by promptly
giving in their adhesion to Greeley, with a
single exception. The Chicago Times, the
ablest paper in the Northwest, still holds
and even the New York World have COM
menced the task Of eating all their words of
abuse and insult against Greeley in the last
three months. During their brief interval of
apparent independence and honesty, some of
them uttered truths in regard to their candi-
date that they will find very troublesome
The World not only uttered many practical
truths, but sometimes INDUCED in predictions
that will undoubtedly become truths. Only
the week before the nomination it sad
accepted, it is possible that Mr.. Greeley would
be nominated at Baltimore but his nomina-
ton, under such circumstances, would most
certainly be followed by formidable Demo
cratic bolt result which the World earnest
ly deprecates. There is imminent danger of
a bolt even if Mr.. Greeley should be nomi-
mated under the two-th;rCs rule. There ale
hosts of Democrats who, in their present
temper, could not be brought to vote for Mr..
Greeley in any event. They are altogether
more numerous than the Republican voters
who, as things now look, can he drawn 10
the support of Mr.. Greeley
The Democratic wirepullers who have pro-
cured the nomination of Greeley will prob
ably find to their cost that the World will
prove true prophet. They will find that
"hosts of Democrats" will not support so
weak and unsafe man, and so malignant an
enemy. Thieves, gamblers, defaulters, I'M
repentant rebels, and every corrupt and dis.
honest man in the Union will undoubtedly
support him. But the honest and consistent
Democrat, aerer.
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second Assembly District.

The ordinary branch of the Republican
party, OF the Second Assembly District, at
their meeting on Monday evening last adopt
ed resolution instructing their delegates to
cast their first vote for ID. A. Straker, for
Delegate in Congress, at the ensuing election.
Mr.. Straker will be recognized as an old
correspondent of the NEW NATIONAL. ERA.
He is graduate of the Howard University
Law School, and is gentlemen of fine at
tainments, good ability, integrity of charac-
ter, and unwavering Republican principles
As colored man of much promise and honor
able aspirations, we are pleased that this
compliment has been paid him by one of the
Republican organizations of the city.
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A Defaulier Heard From.

The Liberal organs, notably the New York
Tribune, chronicle with gusto the name of
every recruit who achieves fame by adver-
Using himself for Greeley. The latest an
is, that Gen. J. B. Steedman,
who is decorated as the "hero of Chicka-
mauga," is out for Greeley. There are some
people here who are glad Mr.. Steedman has
been heard from-notably the accounting
officers of the Treasury, on whose books he
stands a defaulter to the amount of s2l2,-
1868 in cash, besides some half million
dollars more in uncollected taxes, all achieved
while Collector Of internal Revenue at New
Orleans by the grace of Andrew johnson.
Of.course, it is natural and proper he should
be for Greeley.
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THE Philadelphia Press puts the truth
about colored voters In small compass:
The colored men vote for Grant en- masse,
promised little, he performed much"
They would rather vote for the man who
whipped JEFF. Davis than for the man who
bailed.
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OF MASSACHUSETTS

Complete liberty and exact equality in the
enjoyment of all civil, political, and public
rights should be established and effectually
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation.
Neither the law nor its administration should
admit of any discrimination in respect Of citi-
zens, by reason of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.-A Plank ia the Plat
form of the Philadelphia Convention.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-01-12

"TALL OAKS FROM LITT1I
ACORNS Growth the summer
of 1869, E. l.. Hoycy went into tn,
Passumpsic House and told Mr.
Hale that he was about to start ;
printing office. and asked if he
knew of suitable room. Hale
thought a moment. and then aske
HoVcy rOund to til, back side Of the
building, where the Times Office now
is. He thea told him he could en-.
large his house to cover that point
and would build him two rooms ola
certain size. Uovey considered it a
minute. and told him to go ahead.
The new Avenue House soon sprans
into existence, and tho Times was
started with a list of 2i00 names,
nearly one half being skunks and
dead heads. All of the consc-
quenccS no man can enumerate.
Uovcy, Ropes and Simonds were
proprictors. They soon fell ont and
separated. Simonds went off and
purchased the Manchester Journal,
and Rankin came in with Il0vey.
Then DR.. Bullard purchased. Then
Earle committed financial suicide 10y
paving $500 for the concern.
Camp OF Newport followed his OK.
ample by purchasing Earlc's Barton
Standard, and taking in a partner.
The Barton people got up an excite.
ment aud raised $500 for q new
paper, soon to appear under Web
ster's management. Rowcll pur-
chased the .joo Office, and is now
a prosperous office on Rail.
road street. Rankin has sued How
ey. Billiard has sued Earle. Earle
has sued Billiard twice. Grout has
sued Earle. Earle has sued circuit,
and Earle has sued nearly one hun
dred of the subscribers. We hear
rum ors that Rowell and Simonds
each intend to sue Hovey. Where
will be the end OF that fifteen min.
utes transaction which took place
behind the Passumpsic House in the
summer Of 1869 Lynd0a UHi0u
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T'erHont state BOARD Of Education


burlington. January, 1872.
The annual session of the Teach
crs' Institute for Orange County vii
Ge held in the village of Vest Ran
doiph, commencing on Monday, Jan
uary -, at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, and
closing on the Saturday following
at o'clock, p. NJ.
Observation-Disclosures II. Allen
A. NJ, late Principal of the State
Normal School at plattevllle, Wis.
Edward Conant. y. NJ, Principal
OF the Vermont State Normal School
at Randolph. l.. A. Butterheld,
Teacher Of Elocution in the Vermont
Conference Seminary; Miss. Fannie
Z. Taft, of Castleton.
The day sessions Of the Institute
will be devoted to the discussion
and presentation of methods of or
ganizing, classifying, governing,
and teaching common schools.
y lecture may be expected each
evening.
An examination of candidates for
State Certificates will commence on
Tuesday, at 9 O'Clock, A, NJ.
superintendent are requested to
nc .iy every teacher i'll their respect
i've towns, and to urge them to be
present at every session of the In
sttute.
All friends of education are invit-
ed to attend,
Clergymen are respectfully re-
quested to give notice of the lnsti-
tute, from their pulpits.
The Inequalities of the people of
Vest Randolph are generously ten
dcred to the members of the Insti-
tute.
Free return tickets will be furnish
ed to all members who pay full fare
on the Railroad in coming to the
Institute.
A law, passed in 1869, gives any
teacher the right to close school and
attend a Teachers Institute, without
loss of time.
JOHN FRENCH, Secretary.
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WAR EsIa,sD.

In Williamstown, Dec. 25th, by Rev. d. VIII
lis, John r. Husc and Miss Ellie Andrew,
both of Berlin.
In hcwbury. Jsn. |, at the homo of the
brides father, Samuel Tucker, Esq, by Rev.
w. S. Palmer, Henry +, Randall and Miss
Clara X. Tucker, both of n.
In Braintroc, Dee. .Gth by Rev. II. Dyke of
West Randolph, Carlos b. Edmnster of Wcat
Lebanon, n. H., and Martha ]. Holm an of Il.
In Coppcras Hill, by Rev. Charles A. Downs,
Richard w. Wald OF Lebanon, n. H.. and
Miss Kate +. Cleveland of tho former Place
In StraiIord. Jan. |, by Rev. VI. Atwood, Al
bert o. Smith of New York city, and Miss An
nette NJ. Prescott of S. No cards
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Notice..

The amount ofthe Capital Stock the West
Falrlee Railroad Company. required by the
Act OF Incorporation, having been subscribed
the undersigned commissioners of said road,
hereby give notice, that a meeting of the stock
holders of said company, will toe holden on ne
Both day of January a. ID. 1872. NJ the office of
Hon. Aivah Bean in West Fairlce in Orange
County. for he election Of seren directors, in
accordance with the provisions of the act-"to
incorporate the West fHirloc Railroad Com
pany.'
hLNAH BEAN. STEPHEN THOMAS,
!. %. DEARBORN, ELll'lIALET ABBOTT,
JOHN PRATT.
Commissioners of the West Fairlee Railroad
Company.
West faiilce. VT December 9th, 1871
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Editr National Opinion A sad accident
occurred here this morning by which i. Il.
Drown of Lyndon, VI, brakeman on tho
the act of coupling The train to the saloon ear.
standing with one foot inside the rail, hnd ia
80 doing his right forearm was caught between
the "dead.woods" and frigptfully crushed
The saloon car rcccdcd. releasing the arm and
causing him to fall when two trucks passed
over his right leg near the body, mangllhg IL
in terrible manner 10 wits IA sober young
man, and leaves wife and one child. liz had
been II, work on the railroad only one day.