The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
GREELEY STOCK IN CONGRESS.

wnlcn, IN sweeping IrOW Olncinnati W
Baltimore, was carrying the democratic
members Of congress with It. l find that
II has not had the desired effect; instead,
II has made the south all the more earnest
for Mr.. Greeley's nomination. The dis.
cussion Mr.. Voorhees, speech has
evoked, has not been at all damaging TO
the candidate Of the liberal republicans.
II seems to mo- judging by the facts
around me, that the democratic masses
have determined to get rid Of the present
administration, and when the names of
Charles Francis Adams, Judge Davis and
other conservative republicans, were
talked of MS the probable candidates on
coalition ticket, the democracy, leaders,
and rank and file, cheerfully accepted the
situation; and none more willingly than
the people Of the south, who thought they
saw a path out Of their difficulties. The
nomination of Horace Greeley was so I'M
looked for that everyone here was at sea !;
but the masses having gone so far out of
the we'll trodden democratic path a. to de-
sire conservative republican, for u
special and patriotic purpose, are
now, in my Judgment willing to accept
one who has heretofore been a republican,
but who on republican platform which
Jere Black, the distinguished statesman,
says, is "broad, fair and democratic with
nothing passive in it, promises to carry
out the great object of coalition the end
ing of military usurpation and rule cor
ruption, and rest for the south, through
amnesty and freedom from negro and car
pet-bagger domination in that section.
They being most aggrieved under this con-
dition Of things, now demand that the
democracy give them the means of saliva.
ton by indorsing Horace Greeley at Bal
timore. News received here from all Sec
tions, proves conclusiveiy that there is
most remarkable revulsion in democratic
sentiment. Judge Mason, Of Iowa, writes
here that half the republicans of that state
will vote for Greeley, and if he is nomi-
mated at Baltimore all the democrats will
support him. Hon. II. d. McHenry, OF
Kentucky, returned here to-day from
home, and says that there is perfect ftl-
rore among old democrats there for Gree.
ley, and that that state will give 80, 900
majority for Greeley. Tho condition of
affairs politically is simply marvellous, and
for solution Of II one needs must look un.
der the surface. These things, and speak
Of both the political parties, arc not
brought about by political leaders or the
press, they being merely the mouth pieces
OF public sentiment which they cannot, Il
they so desired, control.
HON. d. W. VOORHEES,.
There Is very general feeling of re-
greet expressed here that some of the dem
ocratic press of the country, who favor
Mr.. Greeley's nomination, should have
permitted themselves TO echo the assaults
made upon Mr.. Voorhees, by Messrs. Sher-
wood, Spear and Roosevelt, for exercising
an undoubted right in his opposing Mr..
Greeley's nomination. Mr.. Voorhees,
democracy is too well known to need de-
Tense, and such unjust personalities will
not result in good, and will not help Mr..
Greeley's chances at Baltimore.
SENATOR ALcoRN ON THE KUKLUx BILL
Last evening Senator Alcorn, of Missis-
sippi, spoke on the Kuklux bill. He most
ably, earnestly and eloquently opposed the
monstrosity. He referred more particu-
larly to the State Of Mississippi, of which
he was Governor when the bill was pro.
posed, and most clearly exposed the falsity
OF the charges brought against that people
by Ben. Buffers son-in-law, Senator Ames
who misrepresents Mississippi in the Sem
ate. This fellow finds it to be his interest
to serve Grant and his henchmen by de-
liberately lying about the people from
whom he expects nothing in the future,
and he whines out stale and exploded cal
umnies couched in the choice language of
"Old Strabismus,' his father-in-law, from
whom, no doubt, he receives his inspira-
tions. Mr.. Alcorn proved by q recent
statement Of the Governor of Mississippi,
that peace reigned in that State, and that
there was no necessity fer any such law
What is true Of that state is true of all
Buffers protege lost his temper, inter-
rupted Mr.. Alcorn and grew quite per.
sonsl, but got good set back by the cool,
self-possessed and polished Alcorn, giving
history Of the carpet-bag senator's Mis-
sissippi career. The effort of last evening
shows Mr.. Alcorn to be ready debater us
we'll rs brilliant orator. His un flinching
advocacy of universal amnesty, his able
report in favor Of system of levees for
the Mississippi river, and his forclble and
eloquent protest against the Morrill,
amendment limiting the jurisdiction of
the court OF claims to only the "trooly
loil' all 60 TO verify the prediction of the
Philadelphia Mercury, an able demo
cratic journal, that he will take the high
position of the great representative man
Of the South in the United States Senate
| ADJOURNMENT.
The House yesterday, by an overwh elm
ing vote, passed tho Senate res olution ia
adjourn on the Goth Of May, contemptu.
ously throwing the request of that body for
its recall under the table. This gives the
House control of the time for adjourn
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