American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-12
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

CAMPAIGN NOTES.
-Blanton Duncan's True Democra,
is no more. Postmasters can step forward
and view the corpse.
1t is said that Moses, the Grant can
didate for Governor in South Carolina,
was rebel and fired the first shot at Fort
Sumter, in 1861. OF course it will be said
that Moses is bad man !; but what are
we to. think of party that would make a
governor of him.
The price of a vote in Calais, Maine,
at the recent election, opened at $40 and
closed at sos. The government canvass
ers surrounded the polls, green-backs In
hand, and every demand of the. voter was
promptly met, the corrupt freeman be-
ing outbidden i'm his own estimate of his
own value.
The Columbus (O.) Sentinel, speak
s"rhis accession to the reunion party is
worth 5000 votes. The daily Volks6iatt
is a paper of great influence, because its
editor is a man of great ability. 1t is bet
ter to have one man of brains in your
favor than forty fools. The fools neutral.
ize the work of each other.'
-Vice-President ColfaX continues to
make sad and stately speeches in eulogy
of the achievements of the great Republican
party, in the historic past but he sor-
rOwfully refuses to make any eulOgy OF
President Grant or Henry Wilson. The
sad Vicc-President is entitled to all the
credit for sincerity Of a man whose days
are numbered. What he does say is inn
portant; and what he refuses to say is nc
less so.
Not long since statement attrib-
uted to Secretary Boutwell, was started on
its rounds to the effect that the aggregate
of defalcations under Grant was only
about SAG, 600. While this precious state
ment ia floating at high tide, we have one
single case, the johnson defalcation and
cause a loss to the government of $685.
600. II Mr.. Boutwell, knows no more
about other matters in his department
than he knows about its defalcations, he
is sadly in need of instruction.
There has been trouble in the par
entail post-office at Covington, Ky. One
report states that the venerable Jesse r.
Grant, with high hand and up
lifted cane, cleft the Uranium of the
scarcely less venerable acting Post
master Henry G. Easton;' - but as the
about with an unbroken head, this rumOT
was evidently exaggerated. A Grant or
gan hastens to assure its painting readers
that it was only war of words, and that
Mr.. Easton is, as ever, a firm RenOmina-
Zionist.
In 1854, Gen. Dix opened his mouth
and taught them, saying: If the South
ern States, after calm deliberation, and af.
ter considering all the consequences, had
decided, with the consent of the others,
and with q full recognition Of their respon-
sibility to the Union, to withdraw peace
ably from it. there are many of us who
would have preferred separation to civil
war; Now Dix calls all those who wish
to heal the wounds inflicted by civil war,
and restore the Union ON the basis of mu-
tual interest and Observation-Disclosures" II
perfectly convenient, will somebody hunt
up an old musket and give this venerable
humbug a dose of "sho0t him on the
spotf"
We wish that somebody would
compile genealogical directory of the
Dent family for the use of the press. so
that the Judges may not be COMPOUNDED
with the Brigadier Generals and the third
cousins with the brothers-in-law. For
our own part we find it hard to keep the
eral point Of resemblance is that each
member of the tribe Is making money out
of the public; but now, since the little
of f1Ogging editors has been in
trOduced, it would not be fail to confOund
the comparatively peaceful Dents with the
pruisers of the same appropriate name.
1t is what Mr.. Weller, Jr., would
call VERY singular coincidence, that the
of labor to be performed in all
sorts of Government works should hap
pen to increase SO suddenly just before
an election. Until very lately there has
been scarcely anything to do in our navy
yards, and now, in the most unexpected
manner, such press of business has
fasf tx o,e nf;
the demand. In the Brooklyn yard alone
more than z, 500 men are already engaged,
and others are daily arriving. For some
reason or another It is evidently deemed
important to employ enough hands to go
all the work before the cold wealth
er sets in-which will probably be soon
after the November ballot.