The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-08
Washington Correspondence.

from the support OF Horace Greeley.
the regular nominee OF the party, the
Grant mon have decided to concentrate
their efforts on grand aud simultaneous
endeavor. all over the Union, to reclaim
Che Liberals back into the Republican
fold. The men detailed for this work
are ''ohild-like and bland" of manner.
not argumentative, but persuasive and
affectionate. They tell you that they
know Grant is going to be elected, and
that there is private understanding
between the Administration party and
the leading Democratic Senators, Repre-
sentatives, and other leading politicians.
that Grant shall be supported by suffi
client number of Democrats in the doubt
full States to secure him majority of
electoral votes, in return for which q
certain number of Congressman and
State officers are to be conceded to the
Democrats. The "oapper" even goes so
far as to say that he, himself, would
prefer Greeley, if he could be elected,
but that he. the capper, knows how the
cards are stocked. and goes for Grant
only because Greeley can't win, &c. The
organization of the Grant men ia 80 COM
plete that their committees in Washing
ton and New York can issue their orders
to the postmasters, collectors, and other
offioe' holders, very rapidly; aud their
orders are promptly obeyed. But it is
too late now for the Administration to
think of coaxing the Liberal Republi.
cans back to allegiance. It shows, how.
ever. the desperate straits to which the
Grant party is reduced. But their labors
will avail them nothing. The Liberal
Republicans are, il anything, more bit.
ter towards the party they have left than
the Democrats are. They have been be.
hind the curtain, and they know how
it is themselves.
l was up at the Capitol this morning.
Well, it was rich. Tho Grant men, who
occupy the entire Senate wing of the
huge edifce, for the purpose of folding
and franking their lying documents,
were about the sickest looking lot of
ducks have ever seen. Indiana thay
gave up last week. Pennsylvania they
now conoede to Buckalew, with curses
loud and deep on the old sinner, Came
ron, who insisted on the nomination for
the chief magistraoy of the second State
IN the Union, OF a man after his own
heart, public swindler, who refers tho
people of Pennsylvania for his moral
to penitentiary convict,
pardoned by the present Republican Go
vernon for the purpose of Insulting the
people by the proffsr of his testimony
to the moral purity of his pal. Within
a very few days. advices from Ohio, of
which have hitherto had no hopes are
also OF such character as to make all
the Administration cheats" here shaky.
They are afraid, if they carry the State
on Tuesday, it will be by suoh small
majority as to be easily overcome by the
Liberals in November. It will be cheer
ing to the friends Of equal rights and an
honest administration of public affairs,
to know that the Grant men also give up
North Carolina. They know that we
lost that State in August for the reason
that all the nominations had been made
before. and, therefore, of course, ire
spective of, the Cincinnati Convention,
and that the usual bargains and pledges
OF support had been made by politicians
aud the friends of candidates, &C., &C. |
Now, however, they see, to their utter
dismay, some OF the most Influential
men in the State who worked hard nc
cording to previous promise for Re-
publican candidates for Office during the |
late State elections, working still harder |
for Greeley's election. I know myself
three influential and highly educated
North Oarolinians who, not anticipating
the political revolution inaugurated at |
Cincinnati, had pledged themselves to
Pool, and who went to North Carolina |
from Washington, and did, or pretended |
to do, what they could for him, but who
have been ever since devoting their best
thoughts and energies to the redemption
Of the old North State by the election of
Horace Greeley. But perhaps the re-
suit OF the campaign in Georgia is the
bitterest pill the Grant men have had to
swallow thus far. OF course, they say
they expected it. But know that they
did not expect go marked and overwhelm-
ing defeat as they have suffered in the
Empire State of the South. I cannot
!orbear, in this connection, hazarding a
lew words on the apparent remissness of
our leading men in not making as much
political capital out of the result of the
Georgia election as they might have
made.
If the Liberal and Democratic Ma
,ional Committees and the State Central
Committees Of Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio
md Pennsylvania had been wise, they
would have managed, among them, to
upply every newspaper in those States
hat advocate the election of Greeley
md Brown, with sufficient number of
lalf sheet "extras, containing the. result
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