The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-26

70 tno gooQ opinion OF the white and color.
ed citizens of that region. The latter,
and the Hon. Charles Sumner for the rights
now secured to them than TO any other two
men in the country. Ills generosity and kind
regard for Southern men was strongly Illus
rated by bic becoming one OF the ball OF Mr..
Jefferson Davis, which terminated his cruelty
protracted imprisonment. For this step he
was denounced by the Radicals of bis party,
and particularly by such Of them as belong to
the Union League Of New York. They pro-
posed his expulsion; and who can forget, who
has ever read 1t, the proud letter of defiance
which he addressed to the League on the 23d
OF May, 1857? In that letter he quoted ex-
tracts from the Tribune to show how decided
his opinion was that those who had been en-
gagged In the insurrectIon should be enfrau-
ohlsed, aud their estates exempted from con-
dscation. Hejusti6ed having become security
for Mr.. Davis, and 10 his letter, among other
things, said: "Your attempt to base great,
enduring party On the hate and wrath neces-
sarily eDgendered by bloody civil war, is ss
though you should plant colony on an ice-
berg which had somehow drifted into troPl.
cal ted mere eoed 'aa ous OF sn me
your children will select my going to Rich-
mond and signing that bsll-bond as the wisest
act, and will feel that 1t did mere for freedom
and humanity than all Of you were competent
70 do, though you had lived to the age OF
BENEFIoENT RESULTS OF GREELEY's ADM1N1s.
TRATIoN.
You will have thus seen what think of the
present political condition OF the country.
Unless am greatly mistaken, 1t must give to
every uuprejudiced, Intelligent and patriotic
man much anxiety and alarm. bow is this
anxiety and alarm to be removed? BY re-
moving the cause Of 1t. BY refusing re-
election to General Grant, to whom, In great
by placing in the Presidential office Mr.. Gree
ley, whose entire life has exhibited his gener-
ons qualities, his great ability, his brave pa.
trlotism m and his unsuspected integrity. TO De
rich, he will accept no presents, but would
scornfully reject them II offered. He has not
scores Of relatives to provide for out of the
public funds by placing them In offices for
which they are grossly incompetent. and, II ne
had, he would It 30 place them. He Will not
exert bis patronage to influence State elections
or to secure reelection for himself He Will
not permit the public funds, by means OF q tax
upon the salaries of his officials, TO be
used for party purposes. BE will not suf-
to abandon their posts Of duty and their
attention to the public business to traverse
State alter State on electioneering visits. so
az to bring the influence of office in conflict
with freedom of elections. He will zee that
our foreign relations are 30 managed as 10
give honor and not disgrace to the nation.
He will not tolerate the use of the military tor
the control of the elective franchise. he will
not trample upon the rights OF the States or
the people by declaring States to be In rebel
lion when they are not. And my hope ls to
live to see the day when these Vital changes
will be made; when all solicitude about the
fate. Of our country will be quieted; when
peace and prosperity will be secured TO ine
The entire nation; when the guaranteed rights
of the citizen will be protected, the legitimate
powers OF the States maintained, and the au.
thority of the General Government e4erted
only under the restrictions Of the constitution
In word, when the constitution bequeathed
to US by our fathers shall In all thlngs be 90.
served, and when We will have President
intelligent and patriotic enough to keep ME
official oath to ''preserve, protect and defend
It,"
When all these things shall occur, and moi
until then, will our prosperity and power pe
renewed, and our country become, as u was
In former days, the wonder and admiration o.
the world. REVEhDr JOHNSON.