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and with truth-that good taste would have
dictated the appointment of fewer relatives
to office; it has been charged that Murphy
though an excellent collector, was not cnl.
tured gentleman; and that Grant has made
several other mistakes. But these charges
have been condemned by an overwhelming
verdict as quite beneath consideration when
grand principles of public justice were at
stake. 1t would have been ridiculous to re-
mand the Indians to the trading harpies, the
civil service to huckstering politicians, and
the negroes to masked ku-Klux, Just because
n brother-in-law is collector in New Orleans
and one Of Conklin's retainers, instead of
one OF Fenton's, was collector in New York.
The American people have the sense of pro-
portion.
We turn now from the personalities and
determinations Of the conflict. so happily
ended, to the less exciting political issues
of this new quadrennium. May we not well
come back some of those few honest though
mistaken Republicans who have temporarily
allied themselves to the Democratic partyo-
n. ]. independent
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Shall the COlOred People Of the
United States Know
Full Libertyf

A great battle between progress and reac-
ton eliminated on the 5th instant in VIC
tory for the party of progress. The conflict
had been raging nearly six months, and dur
J ing all that time never for an instant did the
Dparty Of progress exhibit sign of fear as to
the final result. They have won most
glorious victory under the standard of radical
principles; principles which, if carried out,
will forever settle the vcxing questions con-
stantly arising out of the injustice of the
white people in this country toward the
black people.
The thirteenth amendment to the United
States Constitution in manner freed the
slaves, but did not accord to them that full
liberty enjoyed by the white people it was
not until two amendments had been added,
with sections providing for the enforcement
OF the amendments by appropriate legisla-
ton, that the means were given through
which full liberty could be accorded to the
cplored people of the nation. That apprO.
Pirate legislation has not been had that will
give complete liberty to the colored people of
this country, and We look earnestly and anx-
iously to Congress for laws that will make a
black man as free in every part of the United
States as is white man. The people of the
nited States have by an overwhelming ma
j"rity in the election of last week endorsed
and adopted the following plank of the Phila-
H'lphia platform:
The recent amendments to the national
constitution should be cordially sustained
because they are right, not merely tolerated
because they are law, and should be carried
put according to their spirit by appropriate
legislation"
The people demand appropriate legislation
or the completion Of the emancipation Of
he colored people. Shall we have that
egislation? The colored people stood man
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The Tribune stu In the Islander
Business.

A triumph of such magnitude as the Re-
publicans have just schieved has natural
tendency to render the victorious party mag
unanimous, and indeed we should like nothing
better than to leave our defeated opponents
to recover from their wounds, and rebuild,
as best they can, their fallen fortunes and
regulations in the pursuit Of useful and
honorable occupations; but unfortunately
some Of the most conspicuous among them
seem by no means ready to take their rout
as the result of the true and honest verdict
of the people. The Tribune, in an article
audacity to assert that the issue had been
decided by untold millions of money which
had been spent to carry the State elections
which preceded the Presidential election;
in one word, that the American people re-
elected General Grant for the sake Of money!
Indeed, it is hard to decide which is greatest
the malice, the result, Or the absurdity Of
this charge. If the Tribune were scoldng at
the whole nation for not approaching the
superior wisdom and virtue Of Mr.. Greeley,
pass over it with smile but when it dares
to accuse the people generally of being mer-
ccnary, it deserves at least passing notice,
especially as the charge is not the mere fruit
of modification and disappointment, but is
manfestly made in bad faith, for Mr.. Gree
ley, as we'll as his personal Organist, knows
full well that even if the people were for sale,
there would not have been millions enough
within the reach of any party to purchase the
enormous majorities which were rolled up in
this campaign. In closely contested States,
where hundred votes may decide the strug-
gle, money may have been brought to bear
on them at times, though certainly not on
this occasion large cities, the receptacles of
the refuse of all nations, could be carried by
fraud, perpetrated through the aid Of money
before the enactment of the present election
laws but the idea that the whole nation
should be at the disposal of the highest bid
der, could only originate in the brains of men
who themselves had sold out their convic-
tons, principles, and friends for the gratifi-
cation of morbid ambition.
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gay- Prof. j. f. NJ. Gilliard, of San Fran
cisco, formerly of Baltimore, will lecture in
the NJ street Bethel Church, subject, 1.-THE
future of the colored American in the United
States" on Monday evening next. Adms-
sion 25 cents. We find Prof. Billiards lee
ture highly spoken of in the California pa
pers, and we can promise from the criticisms
very entertaining evening to all who will
avail themselves of this opportunity. His
effort is spoken Of by the Sacramento Bee as
fine literary effort and we'll delivered. Let
there be large audience.
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fully up to the rack of persecution and out
rage and gave their votes to the Republican
party, because they believed that through
the triumph of that party their full liberty
would be secured. Arc they to be dsap-
pointed? Are we to have more Savannah
outrages, Ku-Klux intimidations, such as
Georgia presented us in October? The an
swer is with Congress, and with the present
ngress. What stronger warrant to give
full liberty to all can the present Congress
wish than has been given by the people on
the 5th instant. The people have declared that
complete liberty and exact equality in the en-
joyment of all civil, political and public
rights should be established and effectually
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation.
Neither the law nor its administration should
admit any discrimination in respect ofcitizcns
by reason Of race, creed, color, or previous
condition of servitude." By the ratification
of the above plank of the Philadelphia plat
form the people have demanded the passage
of measure of complete freedom; and such
a measure has found the best expression in
Senator Summers Supplementary Civil Rights
Bill, which should have become law at the
last session Of Congress, and we believe but
for the timidity Of Republicans would have
been now upon our statute books. The fear
Of losing votes in the Presidential election
can not operate now. The people have
spoken, and in their speech they call for that
appropriate legislation, State and Federal,
that will give complete liberty and exact
equality in the enjoyment Of all civil, politi-
cal and public rights +" to all, without dis
tinction Of race or color. Will the present
Congress feel bound to obey the command Of
the people: If it does the day is not far
distant when the question shall the colored
people of the United States know full liberty
will be gratifyingly answered.
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MIR. GREELEy's announcement of his re-
turn to the Tribune is not very satisfactory
to the New York Times. 1t does not alto
gether like the bantering vein in which he
heralds his resumption of the editorial chair.
1t says:
'Mr. Greeley announces his resumption of
the editorship of the Tribune In doing so
he alludes with cool cynicsm to the 'other
line OF business in which he embarked some
SIN months ago. promises for the liftieth
time that his paper shall be a thoroughly in
dependent journal, treating all parties and
political movements with judicial fairness and
candor; pledges himself to keep his lips closed
on universal amnesty and impartial suf-
fraSe;' VOWS he will never again be a cam
dldate for any Office hopes that he will mot
be provoked to indulgence in those bitter
pers Qualities which are the recognized bane
of journalism and declares that for the future
he will devote his journal to science, indus
try, and the useful arts
III MIR. Greeley tlatters himself that this
hodge-plcdge of impudence, mock modesty,
flash philosophy, and Pecksniffin morality
settles his account with the American peo-
pie, and restores him, unchanged, to the po-
sltIon he once occupied, he is mistaken. 1t
takes two parties to make such q bargain. Mr..
o'reetey mas been dealing with the public now
for many years, and during that period, and
especially for the past twelve months, he has
concerned himself with some of the dearest
interests, this nation has or can have; and
he has shown that nothing was safe from his
foolish and wicked ambition. He has under
taken to grasp power by calling into vicious
activity the most dangerous elements in
American politics. He found the passions
OF the rebels dying out, and he awakened
them with the hope of Democratic ascend
ency. He found the corruptionists all over
the country covered by the courageous expo
sure and overwhelming defeat Tammany had
encountered, and he held out to them the
hope of regaining all the ground they had
lost, and getting possession of the National
Government besides. And this he did in
the case of the rebels in the name of recon
Citation and in the case of the corruption
lists in the name of reform If he imagines
he can dispel the memory of these facts by
wave of his editorial pen, and a flourish of
pretentious promises about future 'independ-
ence,' and fairness and regard to science,
industry, and useful arts, he immensely I'M
derrates the sense and honesty of the Amer
lean people,"
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Total. 20.

In the present Congress, which terminates
on the 4th of March next, there are one hun
dred and thirty-eight Republicans, and one
hundred and five Democrats. The Republi-
cans have therefore gained sixty-four members
and the Democrats have lost fifteen-that is,
the Republicans have gained every one of
the forty-nine additional members of which
the House is composed under the new appor-
tionment, and taking fifteen besides from the
Democrats, making a net gain of sixty-four, as
above. Every sorehead Republican deserter
who permitted himself to be candidate has
been slaughtered, and the more malignant
they were the worse they were defeated.
Will not slanderers and traitors take warning
from this terrible chastisement?
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The Popular Vote at Prev iOEs
Elections.

AS matter Of interest to our readers at
the present time, and to enable them to make
a comparison between the popular vote at
the election just held and previous Prcsi-
Dental elections, we select some statistics
upon this subject from the Philadelphia
Press. In the first Presidential election
held in 1888 under the Cons titution, at which
in all save one (Virginia) was made by the
Legislatures. OF the sixty-nine electoral
votes, George Washington received every
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TRUMBULL staked his all on securing q
Greeley-sorehead majority in the Illinois
Legislature, and he has ingloriously failed.
1t contains an overwhelming Republican ma
jority, and ofcourse he stands nOmore chance
of being reelected to the Senate than he
does of being transported to heaven bodily.
AT the recent election his own city of Chi
cago, his own ward and his own election
precinct, as we'll as his own State, gave an
increased majority against him. The people
there k7so,o him!
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The Next Congress.

The following table gives correct list oil
the members of the Forty-third Congress re-
turned by the election held the present year,
with the exception of New Hampshire and
Connecticut. They are yet to elect their
members for the next Congress, and there
fore we give the present delegation, which, in
New Hampshire, is solid Democrat, and very
likely to be changed at the next election, as
they now stand. 1t will be seen that we have
two-thirds majority again, as we already
have in tho Sonata.
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Only u Quarter of a Million.

Pennsylvania has given Republican ma
jority of only quarter of a million. IF Cur
tin had returned few days sooner, and few
more reformers of the Morehead, Mcclure,
and Grow stamp had taken the stump against
Gen. Grant it would possibly have reached
half million. But they say enough is as
good as a feast, and so we must be satisfied
with what we have, and hope for better
things next time
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The Popular MI jOrity.

The popular majority for Gen. Grant at
the recent election is not yet officially deter
mined. But below we give an estimate,
based upon such returns as have been re-
ceived, which will not vary far from the ac-
tual result. At any rate, it will be near
enough to give our readers tolerably correct
idea of the terrible power of the tidal
wave" which has swept Greeleyism out of
existence, and washed Democracy so far up
salt river that it will be many long years be-
fore it can return.
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AMONG the prominent "Liberal' leaders
slain in battle whose names we neglected to
record in our list of killed are those of Geo.
w. Julian, of Illinois, and Gen. Ashley, of
Ohio. There are several others of more or
less prominence who fell in their efforts to
revolutiOnize the Government. But those
we have given are enough to serve as a
warning for ambitious demagogues hereafter.
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AUSTIN BLAIR, who imagined he carried
the Republican party of Michigan in his
brooches pocket, has just been defeated by a
majority of fifty thousand, an increase of
more than thirty-three thousand since 1870.
His own county has gone against him for the
first time in years, as well as his own city of
Jackson. And this is the last of him, too.
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"A Paris writer is authority for the fol-
lowing illustration of the rapidity with which
Dumas the elder worked. The writer says
that it was at his country villa, Monte Cristo,
that Alex. Dumas wrote the majority of his
later novels and one of his best was composed
under rather curious circumstances. He was
asked one day at dinner how much time he
would require to write novel of four hun
dred pages. Seventy-two hours, answered
Dumas. A wager was immediately proposed
and accepted, viz, that at the end ofseventy-
two hours he would not have completed
novel. Dumas called for pen and paper
four hundred pages were numbered out for
him, and he began at the dinner table. With
the exception of few hours repose he wrote
necessarily, and before the time had expired,
one of his most interesting novels, The
Chevalier of Maison Rouge" had received II
a finishing touch.
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BISHOP SAMPSON TALBOT will preach a
sermon ON the death Of Bishop J. w. Loguen,
on Sunday, the 18th instant, at John Wesley
Church, at 3 p. NJ.
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This gives Grant 90 States and 292 cleo
toral votes, and Greeley States and "A
electoral votes.
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The Final Result.

Below will be found statement of the re-
suit of the Presidential election on Tuesday |
week, and also the vote of 1868:
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A majority gilmore than seven hundred thou
sand of the people have, therefore, recorded
themselves in favor Of Repablicanism.
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At the election just held General Grant
has received larger relative majority of the
popular vote, as we'll as of the electoral vote,
than any other Presidential candidate since
Monroe's election. His majority will not be
less than 10000, and Of the Electoral Col
lego, consisting of 3G6 members, he will have
292 votes to Greeley's "A, being majority
of 2lS. Yet Greeley boilers and rebel Dem
ocrats declare that Grant is not popular
man, and has only been elected from indif-
ference on the part of the people, or because
be was the choice Of evils. 1t is not strange
that these men should attempt to give some
reason for their awful defeat. But if they
were half as ingenious as they proved them
selves INSCRIPTIONS during the contest, they
could invent something not quite so sclf-cvi-
IDENTIFY stupid as this is.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-05

GUILLEaIN's GAs-FrrTING EsTABLIsHNEST.-
The handsome building with the Mansard root
In Cumberland street, one door from Meeting,
just completed by Mr.. John H. Devereux, is
occupied by Mr. P. L. Gullemin, who for a
number of years had carried on his business
in Church street, opposite to the gas works
The upper or Mansard story of the building
makes fine hall, large enough for dancing
purposes or for billiard room. On the second
story are five fine rooms, with bath room,
kitchen and other convenences. On the first
floor are the workshops, and commodious
circular-fronted store and show room. The
workshops are fitted up with forge and all
the tools needed for gas-6tting and plumbing.
In the show room is as handsome display of
gas fixtures as can be found in any Southern
city. They are Rew in style, and range from
the six-light chandelier to the modest bracket.
Many of the patterns are very attractive, and
the stock is large enough to enable all tastes
and all pockets to be suited.
Mr.. Gulllemin is thoroughly Trustworthy
man, and We hope that he will be visited In
his new establishment by all his old customers
and by host of new ones.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-05

THE BOARD OF CONTROL OF THE CoSFEoER'
ATE HONE gratefully Acknowledges the receipt
of the following donations: During the month
of November-One barrel Of Irish potatoes,
from an unknown friend; two barrels sweet
potatoes, from John F. Townsend, Esq.,; sweet
potatoes. grIst and wood, ftom R. Press.
Smith, Esq, Of st. Stephens; one ton Of coal,
from Mr.. q. F. Baker; one barrel sweet pota-
toes, from ia friend;' one half ton Of COAL
from Mr.. johnson. During December-One
bag potatoes, from Mr.. Legare; one tlerce rice,
from .'a friend;' six hams, from an annual
contributor; one barrel apples, from Messrs.
Welch Il Brandes; one box raisins, from Ar.
". Il. Welch; sugar. from Mr.. Feldmann; one
box raisins, from Wilson Brothers; coffee,
from Mr.. Ahrens. For the Christmas tree
donations were received from Captain J. 3.
Fairly, Mr.. J. R. Read, Mr.. Lengnick, Mr.
McLoy, Mr.. Ashton, Mr.. Uferhardt, MIR. Furch-
gott; Messrs. Knsman Brothers, Mr.. Won San
ten, Mr. Claussen, Mr.. George Bart, Mr..
Knobeloch, MIR. Koester, Mr.. Klein, DR..
Aimar, Mr.. Helms, Mr.. Livingston, Mr. Lehn-
,tuhl and Mr.. Cappel.
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REAL ESTATE SALEs.-The following real es-
tate was disposed Of yesterday morning al
public aSetion:
BY r. NJ. Marshall & Bro: The two sdJoin
ing plantations, Pine Grove and Spring Grove
in St. James Goose Creek, on the south Of the
main road leading from Strawberry Ferry to
Charleston, in all six thousand and ninety
acres, for $4,000.
Tract OF one hundred and thirty acres on
Johns Island, on the Bohecket River. adjoin-
ing the lands of Vim. R. jenkins on the north,
for 5000.
Terms-one.third cash, balance in one and
two years.
BY hLeitch & Bruins: Lot No. 20 George
street, with two and half story wooden house,
twenty feet in front by one hundred and TWEEN
ty teet deep, for $3.50 cash.
Lot, with two-story dwelling, on the north
SIDE Of Magazine street, two doors from
Mazyck, forty feet in front by one hundred
feet deep, for $3.50 cash.
Vacant lot on the south side of Prices alley,
adjoining the property of Mr.. Webb, the
florist, twenty feet in front by seventy feet
deep, for s2l0 cash.
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THE RETURN OF THE COTTON TAX

The following is the memorial to Congress,
for the return of the tax paid on cotton, adopt
ed by the Board OF Trade on Wednesday
| evening, and ordered to be forwarded under
the seal of the Board:
To the Honorable the Senate and House Of
Representations of the United States:
The Board of Trade of the City of Charles.
ton, South Carolina, respectfully represent 10
your honorable bodies
That the termination Of the late unfortunate
contest left the State Of South Carolina in
most deplorable state OF poverty and desutu-
| ton, from which she has not yet recovered.
A portion Of her citizens still held their lands
but without the immediate means OF cullt-
vating them. Some held cotton, portion OF
which was seized under military orders. and
the balance, together with the fruits Of her
subsequent industry, were subjected to the
tax under the laws of Congress of 30th June,
1864, 18th July, 1866, and I'd of March, 1857.
This tax on cotton your memorialists De.
lieve to be unconstitutional, 1t being declared
in Article first, section ninth of the Constilu-
duty shall be laid on articles exported from
| any State.n
The great market which controls the psice
of our cotton ls Liverpool. England. Our cot
ton there meets In competition with that raised
In India, South America, and all portions Oh
the globe, where the article Is grown, and no
tax paid by us in the United States adds one
fraction to the value of cotton In market, thus
placing the tax entirely upon the producer.
Again, the constitution declares
''All duties, imposts, and excises, snail De
uniform throughout The United States"
We beg leave to call the attention OF Con-
gress to the fact, that cotton is produced IN
only eleven States of this Union.
Your memorlalists believe firmly that no
Republican Government can permanently eX-
ist unless founded upon justice, purity and
honor, and we believe that the unfortunate
departure of Congress from the constitution,
In imposing the cotton tax, has had most
demoralizing effect upon some OF our State
Governments, who, contrary to all law, "are
harassing our people and eating out our SUD-
stance"
Your memorialists earnestly ask Congress
to refund the cotton tax, which, In the end,
will rebound to the interest OF the United
States. It will stimulate the production OF
cotton, by throwing capital into the Southern
States where 1t is so much needed, and where
the interest on money rules at 80 high rate
as to be almost ruinous to the planter. 1t will
once more give us the control OF the cotton
market of the world. Large crops will bring
low prices, but the planter will live within
himself. and raise food which he now pur-
chases. Our railroads will flourish, employing
large numbers OF our people. and az carriers
of our own produce across the ocean, an I'M
mense American mercantile marine must
spring mp, which will again be the pride and
~ J. B. E. SLOAN,
: WILLIAM GURNEY.
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:CHIuHEY ON F1RE.-A little before seven
O'Clock on Wednesday evening, an alarm was
spread caused by the blazing of chimney on
the premises of Mr.. P. Duuning, In Woolfe
street. The flames were speedily extinguished
without bringing out the engines, and, the
case having been brought before the Mayor,
sghe owner was fined!two dollars.