Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-18

Greeley in Scott county viii more than
wipe out the 1928 which the Republican
candidate received two years ago in the
second Congressional district Of Iowa.
The Joliet (In.) Signal says: sIf as
great number of Republicans in other
parts Of the State throw off the Grant col
lar as have done 50 in win county, Grant
viii lose the State by as great a majority as
he carried it in 1862 urps
Kx-Gcg. Myron FL. Clark, of Canandai-
qua, New York, heretofore prominent Re-
publican, has signed call for Greeley
and Brown meeting. Ontario county, 1t is
reported, will go for Greeley, sure.
Gov. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, says:
ave are going to elect old Horace Greeley
to the Presidency. 1 am not for anybody
to beat Grant, I am for anybody 10 elect
Greeley; and in that spirit give my hand
to the strongest Democrat of you all. -
Gen. James K. Moorhead, one of the
leading Republicans of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, and who has several times
represented it in Congress, comes ou
openly for Horace Greeley. Gen. Moor
! head is one of the most popular and infu-
entail citizens of Western Pennsylvania.
Charles B. Howell, Judge of Probate at
Litchfeld, Mimi, writes, that three years
ago the first house was built in his town.
There are now seven hundred Inhabitants.
Nearly all the voters are Republicans.
Several of the leading men and the majority
of the voters have declared for Greely and
Brown.
| A North Carolina Liberal writes to the
New York headquarters: "There are al
ready signs boiling from the GRANTEES,
Notwithstanding that the administration Is
pouring heaps OF money. Five mem
bers of the State Legislature, two of whom
are colored men, have declared against
Grant. Ifan effort is made the State can
be carried In our favor.n
An address to the Liberal Republican Of
Nebraska has been issued over the sigma
lures of long list of names, among which
are those of Republicans in every county
of the State. The addresses calls upon
'all patriotic citizens, without regard to
| political affiliations" to join in aiding for
ward the work of reform. ftEEElsk
/ The Leavenworth Times with great sor-
row says:
ga very large per cent. of the Republi-
cans of this city and county express de-
termination to bolt the Republican party
and go with the Greeley raid. We state
this as a historical fact-a fact which all
good Republicans will seriously regret, but,
a fact, nevertheless, it remains. - I
The Pittsburg Post says: The Grant or
gans here afFecs to make light of the support
Of Mr.. Greeley. If it is any consolation we
can tell them that in the township of North
Versailles alone, whose average vote is one
hundred Republican to eighty Democratic,
there are thirty-one Grant Republicans who
have declared for Greeley, Buckalew and
the whole ticket.
The Brooklyn Times, next to the Eagle
the most influential paper in Brooklyn,
HOSTS the names of Greeley and Brown.
The Times is edited by Hon. Geo. c. Ben
nett, Republican member of the last As.
sembly from Kings county. He will do bat
tie vigorously and ably against Grant, and
in favor Of the Liberal Republican and
Democratic candidates. Tally again!
A gentleman writing from Cortlandville,
n. Y, says: "Greeley and Brown clubs are
forming in all the towns of Cortland coun.
ty, the movement being led by such mel
as Horatio Ballard, W. Il. Shankland, and
A. P. Smith. In the town of CortIandville
sixty-nine names of active working Repub
licans have been obtained to call for q
Greeley and Brown ratification meeting
Homer promises TO do better yet. In
Freetown one of the shrewdest politicians
report that the Republican vote viii be di
vided about equally"
Hon. Charles Black, candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor on the Liberal Democrat
ticket in Illinois; Hon. S. s. Marshall
member of Congress from Illinois, and w
| W. Graham Esq, of Urbana, H., were Al
the Greeley and Brown headquarters In
Washington on the 18th inst. They rep
resent the excitement intense throughout
the State of Illinois and say that there is
no doubt but that the Greeley electoral
ticket viii have from 10000 to 10000 ma.
ority in November.
"The same Greeley madness" says the
Chicago Tribune, (which took the Cincin-
natl Convention off its feet just as it thought
it had nominated Adams, is stealing away
votes by scores in every county and thous
ands in each State, preparatory to a general
Republican stampede to Greeley, as hearty
as the Democratic stampede has been. Fol
if Republicans begin, generally, to consult
their principles and convictions, and cease
to be guided merely by an organization,
their preference for Greeley would carry
every State in the Union"
A letter from Lansing, Allamskee coun-
ty, Iowa, in the Dubuque Telegraph, says:
s'Greeley men are numerous in this city.
Among them you can number nearly all OF
our old Republican 'stif2backs'-such men,
for instance, as ii. 81. Hemenway, S. w
Hemenway, Asa Hemenway, the Haneys,
DR.. j. l. Taylor, the Shsws, T. G. Medary,
the Kerndts; in fact, we have been inform
ed by one who knows, that there are but
fifty-two Grant men in the entire town,
zone Of which is our worthy postmaster.
The Democrats will go Greeley to man.
Speaking of the favorable reports received
at the recent Liberal Republican conference
in Boston, concerning the reform cause in
Massachusetts,, the Springfield Republican
says: ain most cases it is the rank and
file of the Republicans who ara going for
him-very few of the ofTice-holders, lawyers
or leaders of the party have yet begun to
commit themselves for Greeley; but of the
masses great many are ready to support
him now, and great many more will be a
week or two hence. Bis Republican