The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

Both Grant and Wilson were orig
inal Democrats.
Both Greeley and Brown were orig
inal free soilers.
Enthusiastic ratification meetings
everywhere.
III. G. stands for Honest Government.
|5[Golden Age.
Greeley's Pennsylvania prospects ap-
pear to be excellent.
The Grant Republicans are likely to
carry North Carolina in August. They
have power to throw out any number
of votes.
The Philadelphia Press says that it
has been openly proclaimed on the
streets of that city that certain cam
didate on the Republican State tc'let
shall have $50 much majOfity-in
plain words, he shall be counted in"
The National Committee of Liberal
Republicans are responding to every
demand for speakers and campaign
documents with the greatest alacrity.
One hundred and fifiy-five thousand
campaign documents were received at
the headquarters yesterday, and over
one million and a half are being printe'l
to satisfy the great demand from all
parts of the country The ahiest
speakers in the country were registered
i'm the book of the National Commit
tee, ready to answer calls from any
part of the Union TO speak in favor OF
Greeley and Brown.
The following letter was written BIZ
Mr.. Greeley to citizen of Washington
at the time he went on the bail bond
Of Jefferson Davis: "OFFICE OF TILE
TRIBUNE, New York, May IS, 1857
Dear Sir: beg YOU not to feel con
cerned about me. / shall stand straight
,,p to the rack, and though expect To
lose good many subcribers, i mean To
be vindicated i'm the end by the good
sense and Iiyht feeling of the people,
North and South. | know what Is
right, and have acted according, and L
trust to lie understood i'm the end.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY"
The Hon. Horace Greeley il a Uni
yersalist, a member of DIR. Cbapin's
church in New York; Hon. Ii. Gratz
Brown Is Presbyterian, u member OF
the First Church, st. Louis, of which
the Rev. G.. A. Dicky is pastor. Presi-
dent Grant is not member OF any
ID.
the Methodist Church, of which his
wife and most of his relatives are
members, and to this church his con-
tributiohs are quite liberal. MIR. VIII
son is a consistent member OF the
orthodox Congregational Church, ami
is in practice strong total abstinence
man.
LII a speech made at Dixon, Illinois,
last week, Senator Trumbull called at
tention to the report of President
Grants Civil Service Commission,
showing the expressivencss OF the
present service by which one-tourth OF
the revenues were lost in coiiectlob-
The revuenuc last year was S333, ,UO,WD-
The loss, therefore, on this amount, ac-
cOrding to Radical Rcpublican author
ity, was upwards of 95,WO,E1 rms
Is n monstrotIs sum. IL Is more tliail
sufficient to pay the whole expenses OF
the government, economically admili-
istered. The boarding of gold in the
treasury, "a pet policy of Mr.. Bout
well and the President is another sources
of loss. It costs the people $36,UO,VvP
per annum. Andyct Mr.. Boutweii, hi
his Carolina speech, deciaimed against
Mr.. Greeley because he Mr.. Greeieyb
opposed the boarding, which Is ap-
proved by able ilDanciers who do not
favor Mr.. Greeley's election. IN"
Revenue system and the gold-hoardIn.--
policy together result in loss OF Sl3l
tUO. .Op, There is moi the remotes6
prospect of saving the vast sum hy th"
reelection Of Grant. 1t can only bo
done by change of Administration.