Smyrna times., 1872-08-14
Political Notes.

NOtSS
Horace Greeley said, "Gen. Grant never
has been and never will be beaten" True.
We call North Carolina to the witness stand to
prove it,
The Liberal Convention of Louisiana has
nominated full State ticket, having been un
able to effect any fusion with the Democrats or
Pinchbackers.
Ex-Governor Haight, of California, peremp
torily refuses to contribute to the Greeley and
Brown campaign fund, and says he will not
vote for Greeley.
Ex-President johnson addressed Conserv.
atiVe meeting at Knoxville on Saturday night
He said he accepted Greeley ''on the principal
Of universal pressure.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, formerly Republican
Congressman from Pennsylvania, has written q
letter in favor OF Greeley. 1t is dated Hons
tOn Texas, the 5th of August.
Governor B. Gratz Brown has written his
letter of formal acceptance of the Baltimore
nomination for the Vice Presidency. He saws
that severe illness delayed the letter.
Democrats do not like the looks of things in
Indiana. The tremendous audiences that
everywhere greet Henry Wilson are altopatber
TOO large for State that is supposed to be
doubtful
The item is current that out of the one hun.
dred and nineteen editors, reporters. comnos
itors, pressmen, clerks, &C., of the New Yort
World, ninety-seven of them are for Grant
against Greeley for President
An observant traveller in the New England
States was quite surprised to find very MANY
Democrats IN every town who will vote for
Grant in preference to H. G." He adds: 'If
Grant does not get three times as many Demo
cratic voters as Greeley does soreheads, | am
greatly mistaken"
The Rev. DR.. Sears, the eloquent Unitarian
writer, says at the close of a recent article in
the Religious Magazine: Booth s bullet made
US clasp Lincoln more closely to our hearts, and
forget his tolbles. Summers ruthless attack
viii make the country receive Grant into a
warmer gratitude, and be more jealous than
ever OF his fame.
An active political canvass is going on in
Maine, whose State election will take place ON
the 9th of September. General Moves of Of
Ohio, is speaking on the Republican side. and
ex-senator DOolittle in the Democratic and
Liberal interest Senator Wilson is expected
to take part IN the canvass. Theodore Tilton
addressed Liberal meeting at Portland on
Saturday night.
No man has assailed the President more
bitterly for 'nepotism" than Senator Trumbull.
When charged recently with having provided
othces for his own relatives he replied Il
know OF no reason why competent and uuali-
fed person should be excluded from office
because Of his relation to me-" His defence
was the defeat of all his TRADES against the
President, and yet on this very ground he .is
still defamlng the President
Wendell Phillips on the Situation. Wendell
Phillips, In letter to Col. X. Hinton, Just
received at Washington, in abiding to the
political situation, says: 81 have already
written for Grant as against Greeley, and shall
take more active part, for | feel what is at
at stake. Greeley is simply wax in the hands
of traitors How sad Summers act | cannot
understand it. 1t is the great mistake of his
hfe-a terrible fall"
i, The freenlan's Journal Catholic) prints Mr..
sumner letter and remarks
1t is, nominally, addressed to the negroes.
But Ssmbo, Cufy Caesar, &C., cannot read it.
IL they could they could not understand it, If
they understood it-j judging from the course of
the few darkies that can read and think-it
would not convince them.
Mr.. Sumner kept in view, as he was writing
his letter. that it was not intended for the
negroes to whom it was n0minally addressed.
what fraction, then, Of the white population
was 1t intended to impress? Not the struggling
sorehead republicans-for each one of these is
going to act on his own hook, as his selfish
interests may dictate. Not Democrats-fo he
double-coats, for democrats, with wOrmwood
and gall, the Greeley pill that most of them
have been trying to swallow.
We cannot help thinking that this letter OF
Mr.. Sumner is, pure and simple, plea of the
modern Massachusetts Cicero pro dOn,O Suo-
for himself
Judge Schofeld on iSumner.-The Harris.
burg State journal gives the following as Hon
Olea. w: SchO6eld's opinion of Mr.. Sumner
istics:
Sumner has a fault; he is the creates
hater L ever knew. He will go philan
taroplc theory, he will do all he can to elevate
the cOlored people, but he don want anybod,
. contradict him. He got mad at William
fltt Fesscnden, and wouldn't speak to him O
t. Trumbull or Mr.. Wilson his own colleague
lie wouldn't speak now to Hannibal Hamlin
one OF the mildest and cleverest men | eve
knew, simply because one time when he mad
=, long speech on one side of the question
hamlln said: Amt you going to sing tn
qT11ology! Tie don't speak to his own wife
ne ne, met Secretary Fish at dinner party, anc
although Mr.. Fish spoke twice to him, think
ing he had not heard him the first time, h
Paia no attention; and it was because b
"Ouio not speak to the Secretary and lare
NUMBER OF his colleagues on the Foreign Con
mutee, that the Senate refused to keep hi
him. ''-0 --''0- WV