The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-12
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POLITICAL.
Letter from senator BrownIow.

In recent letter, Senator Brownlow, OIL
Tennessee, says: EAT no time, hitherto,
in Tennessee or throughout the country,
have the prospects of the National Repub-
lican party been brighter or more glorious
than now. Victory is in the air, as the
New York Tribune said before the North
Carolina election, and the glorious Repub-
lican victory which was in the North Caro-
lima air pervades the atmosphere in all
parts Of the country. have no idea that
Greeley and Brown will carry more than
five or seven states, and the corrupt coali-
ton which brought about their candidacy
will be more disgracefully beaten than has
ever been any party in the history Of this
country. Our grand old party could beat
the Ku-klux Democracy if it were REIN
forced by forty times the Greeley apostates
who rally to its piratical flag"
Another Prominent Illinois Democrat for
Grant.
Mr.. S. Ashton, lifelong Democrat, OF
Chicago, has published letter in which.
alluding to the Louisville Convention, and
explaining his own position, he says :
"While | believe the many distinguished
gentlemen who participated in the proceed
ings of that Convention were desirous of
preserving intact the organization Of the
old Democratic party, still | believe that
united action against the so-called Liberal
party, in the support of the regular Repub-
lican ticket, will best preserve the principles
of true Democracy therefore, in my judy
ment, it is the duty Of every patriot Demo-
crat and good citizen to SO vote and act as
to prevent so great a calamity to our coun-
try and its prosperity as would be the cleo
ton of Horace Greeley to the Presidency.
Therefore, shall give my vote to General
Grant, and what little influence may have
shall be used for the success of the Repub-
lican party"
The Management Of the National Finances.
In reply to friend who insisted that his
opposition to Greeley is support Of Grant,
Alexander ii. Stephens says: Mr., Ste
phens knows tho defensible and indefensi-
bic points in General Grants administration
much better than those who cry SO loudly
against the rottenness and extravaganza
in its financial management; and that the
monstrous frauds and 'usurpations of
the fifteenth amendment, and the enforce
ment acts are the dead issues of the
war.
"When Mr.. Stephens is attacked for not
assailing the administration upon points
on which he knows no successful assault
can be ade, is he not to speak the truth
in assigning his reasons for not joining in
such an assault? When Mr.. Stephens
joins in an assault it will be upon points
where there can be no disastrous repulse
upon the exhibition of the facts, merits and
truth of the case. Is it not true that
General Grants administration has paid
over three hundred millions of the public
debt and lessened the taxes over three hun.
bred millions of dollars besides ? WhaI
then can be made before an intelligent pub
lie of the cry ever so vocifierously made o.
rottenness and Extravaganza in the face
of these facts 2"
Greeley to be Thrown Over
The New York correspondent of the Phil.
adelphia Sunday Republic thus writes under
date of Sept. Z: "From present indications
under the surface, the country may as well
prepare for a political surprise, in the shape
of a formal withdrawal of Horace Greeley
from the field. All the whisperings among
the knowing ones, at Democratic and Lib
eral headquarters within the few days past
lead to the conviction that there is really
something important in the wind, and tina
it will not be long before it is made mani
fest. The fact is, since the result of the cleo
tons in North Carolina, Western Virginia,
and Vermont have demonstrated that the
Liberal element has really brought no
| strength to the Democratic camp, the old
foxes are realizing what terrible poltica
mistake they made in making their be-
with the farmer of Chappaqua,' and thu
question with them now is, can the burdei
be got rid of without demoralizing the par
ty worse than it is already? If the Main,
election, which comes off next week, doe
not show any Roadway for Greeley, de
pend upon it that question will be pressed
to practical solution, and if the result il
not the subtitution of the nominee of tn
! 'Straightouts,' the probability is that SOM
new man will be placed at the head of tn
ticket, to lead what may now be looked
upon as indeed the most forloIn of all for
lorn hopes" e
Something About a Prominent Coiored Gree
Ieyite--"Barber Bill, of Baltimore"
| This is the euphonious cognomen tina
was generally applied by Republicans il
Middle and East Florida, during the fall o
'GS, to gay and festive mulatt
yOutil, WIZ iliiaoiucu iiHiscii I'LL hiuo
pendent candidate for Congress in thi
State against Hamilton, who was electe
Just as easily as if Barber Bill had nc
stepped upon the track at all. A lively
rafting song, headed as above, and ludi
crously descriptive of the peculiar cccer
tricities of the aforesaid ambitious youth
was widely circulated. When Hamilton
received the Republican nomination 10
Congress, this eccentric mnlatto declare
he "would support Hamilton till h.
froze over, and that he would then supper
him on the ice." The next morning !
audaciously declared himself all indepenc
ent candidate for Congress, and got licked
50 badly that he left the State. His nan
is w. U. Saunders, and he is now ft
Greeley, and being made much Of by Dem'
Gratis, because Greeley colored mon are s
dreadful scarce with them. Saunders is
fraud of the first magnitude. Pensaco
(FM. Republican.