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CoRINrH. MIss.. Nav l6. 1877:

CoRINTH, MISS, May l6, 1872.
To the Editor Of the NeD National Era:
DEAR SIR: Your paper for the week end
ing May IL, 1872, has not reached me it
certainly has been lost by the mail. Your
journal is of vast Importance to me, and I
would most respectfully request that you
forward another number. That my files re.
main intact beg this as an especial favor.
Politically the Indications are quite strong
that the rebel Democracy Of the South will
be unit for Greeley from JEFF Davis down to
the most Insignificant midnight assassin OF
the accursed Ku-Klux organization. dc
hope the leading Republicans will act (espe.
cially the members of Congress) so as to
wrench from the Liberals every hope that
they now and ON respecting taxation and
amnesty. For Greeley to be elected by the
Democracy, to whom his administration
would be responsible, the fate of loyal mer
in this country is sealed. We have suffered
since the close Of the wal. the most bitter ana
amslmamg prosecution known to any age
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Some of b. Gratz Browns neighbors
have been hunting up his record on the treat.
ment of rebels in Missouri. 1t is not very
encouraging to those who have pinned theiI
faith upon his character for stability. AS
early as 1868 he urged disfranchisement in
Missouri ON the ground: ... ... ...-..-
sit is not within the thought of this nation
and this people that they who have engaged
in this resistance and rebellion, whether
openly in arms or stealthily by device and
falsehood, shall ecer in the future have the
means of controlling our institutions or shap.
inc our politics Franchise is not for such
cannot be for snch--s1iU not be for SUCH"
When the constitution was framed, he was
strongly opposed to many features in it, but
waived everything in consideration of dis
reimbursement. As late as 1865, he wrote:
81 need scarcely say that am one of those
who have from the beginning believed thai
the loyal and the dislOyal can nerer live ir
Missouri together, and the latter must bt
forced to depart, and 1 believe that regis
tration is the only mode that will accom-
plish it,"
Mr.. Brown evidently is not much more
consistent in his course than Mr.. Greeley
himself. -
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Death OF John ID. Seville.

1t is with feelings of deep regret that we
are this morning called upon to chronicle the
decease of John d. Seville, one of our most
prominent and intelligent cOlored citizens,
which event occurred on Saturday morning,
between and 10 O'Clock, after an illness OF
about one week. Deceased came to Potts
vile about four years ago, and took posses
sion of the Union Hall restaurant, which
business he conducted up to the time of his
death in such manner as to make it ia
vorite resort for first-class custom, and by his
superior knowledge and genteel manners
drew around him hosts of friends. He was a
man of good education, and had command OF
more languages, perhaps, than any other man
in Pottsville, acquired in his extensive trav-
els in the different quarters of the globe.
About two years ago he was initiated into
Camp Sc, Patriotic Order Sons of America, in
this borough, being the first colored man ever
admitted to that Order. His remains will be
attended to the depot this morning by Camps
IA and 36, and committee OF the Order viii
accompany them to Philadelphia, where in
tement will take place in Mt. Olive Gene
terry. A good man has passed away, and his
loss is deeply mourned by all who knew him
xiaer's Journal, PottsriUe, Penna.
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refuse them Office. Grant tells US what he
knows about defeating the rebels upon hun
Irnd hnff al -

refuse them Office. Grant tells us what hC
knows about defeating the rebels upon a hun
dred battle-fields. .s NO..
Greeley tells us what he knows about pay
ing four hundred millions for the slaves o
the South. Grant tells us what he knows
about making soldiers of the colored men tC
fight for their liberty.
Greeley tells us what he knows about
conducting great journal. Grant tells us
what he knows about reducing the public
debt and reconstructing the Southern States
Greeley tells us what he would do in the
way of civil reform. Grant points to what
| he has done.
/ Greeley tells the soldiers of the country
am your friend. Grant tells them--I am
charged with partiality towards you, and it
| is true; for / believe the men who paid
the fiddler should have a large share of the
dancing.
Greeley says-I always fought with my
pen for liberty. Grant says-With both
sword and pen have | defended the rights of
man.
Greeley will be able to tell us next fall
what he knows about being tanned by Grant,
which he will no doubt find a tantalizing
subject, and Grant will be able to tell us
what he knows about q grateful country.
The great American heart beats for Grant :;
they believe him to be honest, they know
him to be brave. They have tried him in
the Cabinet and in the field, and he has
betrayed their trust. The honest soldier is
an honest, upright statesman. The hero of
hundred battles is not forgotten by the
men he led to victory. A man Of tho peo-
pie, the people love and trust him.
And when the future historian of this
land shall dwell with pride and enthusiasm
upon the glory which the Union troops won
upon the field of battle, he will confess HIM
self at loss to find words to express his adj
miration for the great, simple, honest man,
fit representative of great people, who bore
all his honors meekly, and never forgot even
in the zenith of his glory and triumph that
he was after all only the servant of the peo-
ple---of the great, noble, grateful American
paOpla
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les. In point Of brilliant and aecura,

Fales. 2 In point Of brilliant and accurate
criticism, it is, thus far, the best of the SERIES
In ''Lohdon Clubs,'' by Reginald wynford,
win be found a very entertaining and vivid
sketch of the character and pursuits of the
great clubs Of the English metropolis. Its
author appears to write from an extended
personal experience. There are two poems
in the present number of Lippincotts, Gar
cassonne," from the French of Gustaye
Nadaud, by John r. Thompson, and cal
ways" Florida Lyric, by w. w. Harvey.
Both are agreeable productions. 'sOur
Monthly Gossip" among other good things.
contains, this month, an article entitled
Through HELPS Glen to Inverary, !" wherein
is given description of the residence of the
Duke of Argyll, and much pleasant chat
about the duke and his family.
The AMERICAN Educational Monthly for June
is at hand, filled, as usual, with highly in
structive and entertaining matter. New
York: published by J. w. Schemerhorn &
Co., IA Bond street.
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In the "I.iberal' delegation from Arkan-
sas at Cincinnati there are some straght-Out
Democrats. When they got to caucusing
about their chairman these gentlemen got to
quarreling. A Republican said it was pre-
posterous for Democrats to be members of
the delegation it was a Republican COnven-
ton. A Democrat replied, with no little
force, that if the Liberals could do without
the Democrats he would tell them they are
mistaken. To this sumner the Republican
rejoined with the crushing point that if such
Democrats as were in that delegation were
Liberal Republicans, it would do well to call
the devil Liberal Christianv' In all
candOr, it is hard to say which took the
strongest ground, but it is certain that both
are right. The conflict of those two truths
reminds us of the impossibility of two loco
motives, coming from opposite directions,
passing each other on a single track without
a snlash-up.-Ner Orleans National Repub-
Hcaa.
The names of the delegates to the Phila-
delphia Convention were badly distorted by
the telegraph yesterday. The delegates at
large are Gerrit Smith VIM. Orion, of the
Western Union Telegraph James n. Mat
thews, of the Buffalo Commercial 4dUertiSer !;
III. b. Clahin, the eminent dry goods mer-
chant Gen. Stephen Mohfat, Of st. Lawrence
colored man of this city. Their alternates
are Andrew D. White, of the Cornell Uni
versity; Freeman Clarke, of Rochester; Jas.
w. Booth, of this city; John A. Griswold,
of Troy Gen. J. C.. Robinson, of Bingham
ton, and w. j. Bacon, of Utica.-Nea0 York
Times.
They are certainly going at the work of
demonstrating the Boston Jubilee building
without batting one iot of heart or hope, and
with three-told energy, since we are told
that "work on the new building has COM
menced simultaneously at both ends and in
| the middle. Bushels of sympathetic letters
have been received from all parts of the coun-
| try since the recent catastrophe. The Boston
| Post nobly says: "Winds may blow and
timbers crash, but nothing can destroy the
| courage, genius, and enterprise which origi-
mated and determined the Jubilee"
Mr.. Greeley is prophetic, and as can
didate against Grant has predicted his own
defeat. In the canvass of 1868 he used these
words: ave are led by him who first taught
sequently in the East also. Richmond would
not come to us until we sent Grant after it.,
and then it had to come. He has never been
| defeated, and he never will be. He will be
as great and successful ON the field of poll
| ties as on that of arms" Here is text for
Republican campaign speeches.
"We cannot admit you," was the reply to
the colored physicians who asked admission
to the late Medical Convention at Phiadel-
phia. "Why?" swell, because this is q
social question" "Ah, is it so? And yet
YOU let in set of fellows who came into
Philadelphia drunk. Is that what you call
social status Pr
/ The question of the indirect claims''
of Greeley upon the Democrats is exciting
great interest in that party. The "conse-
quential damages arr what they are afraid OF,
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Yes, the misery endured for opinions sake in
this country can never be realized by any
living mortal except those who have borne
the burden. Greeley's lightning trip South,
stopping few moments only at each point,
/; where he met only the shrewd and adroit
adopts who had been sent out by a studied
effort of the people to meet him. In fact he
had received fully as much correct Informal
ton of that deep-rooted hostility to the Cen
eral Government, freedom of speech, thought,
and civil and political liberty as he would
standing Oh Sandy Hook gazing at the in
habitants Of the moon through bit OF
smoked glass, to say nothing of the horrors
of the fends known as the Ku-klux. Ii
Horace Greeley wants to get at the real
situation Of this country let him step out of
fine parlors and try the rural districts.
Plainly speaking, let him try the bushes
and advocate true Republican doctrines, and
my head for it, he then will speak as l do.
l have read the Tribune for fifteen years and
have admired him on many occasions, but if
he now places himself in such a condition as
to elevate the Democracy to power then L
must take issue with him pleading in behalf
Of the lives and liberties of the American
citizens.
The Memphis Appeal, one of the most bit
ter and ultra Democratic papers Of this Sec
ton, in calling on the South to support
Greeley appeals to them in the strongest
terms known to genius to suffer it this once,
as Tennessee did with Senter, and that the
result will inevitably be the same as the case
is to-day with Tennessee. This all know.
May the god of political fortune, justice, and
right to all hide from this great nation such a
political calamity. have an abiding conf
dence in the patriotic, liberty-loving Ameri-
can citizen which inspires me with the hope
during these gloomy hours, that the destiny
OF the Republic is beyond any such an igno-
minious fate
Truly yours, A. d. JONES.
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Stupid Generalization.

The Tribune sgnalizes the first day of Mr..
Greeley's absence by the most absurd article
we have seen these many days. The late affray
at Columbia, Kentucky, is the matter under
consideration. A party of five well-dressed
men rode into the village, dismounted in
front of the Cont House, posted two of their
number as pickets in the public square, while
the rest proceeded to the bank, killed the
cashier, robbed the vaults, and then loading
their horses with the booty, rode out of town
and made their escape. We admit that this
was a tolerably bold enterprise, and the
comments of the Tribune upon the want of
spirit and courage shown by the panic
stricken villagers are eminently just, but
When II comes to give a reason for this de-
morallZation, stupidity attains its climax,
Here is the argument
So long as the best portion of n popula-
ton are excluded from all share in it's man.
agement; so long as the mass of intelligence
and strength rs set aside as inert and eifec-
tive, no matter for what preteXt, Just so long
Will there be the utter subversion of law, de-
cency and order which breaks forth in Ku-
kluX klans and Lowery gangs. The very
men who stand perpleXed and dismayed be-
fore the ruffianly violence which tRey are
powerless to curb, ignorant how deep the
abyss OF lawlessness is beneath their feet.
are the same men who went most brayely
into battle in defense of what they deemed
their rights. When the great hound was
chained and muzzled, the meanest beast
even the toady terrier, could insult it with
lmpunity. Whether to chain the hound and
unloose the poisonous-toothed ours is the
wiser policy is matter for debate"
Before we accept this philosophical expla-
nation of the irresolution of the citizens of
Columbia on the particular occasion referred
to, we must be Informed of a great many facts
which do not appear in the narrative or in the
Tt5une's generalizations. We must know
whether any of the citizens of Columbia ever
were DISTINGUISHED or not; if so, how many,
their ages and position in society; whether
by State or Federal laws; whether there is
any citizen of that place who is disqualified
from holding office by the Fourteenth Amend
ment; whether there are any Republicans in
that town; ifso, whether they are carpet
baggers" or scalawags," white or black
and lastly, whether any of the DISTINGUISHED
happened to be at home on the day of the
raid, and were apprised of what was going
on at the bank.
We never expected to see any newspaper,
much less the Tribune, apologize for the es-
cape of party of robbers from Kentucky
village on the ground that the disabilities
created by the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States had de-
stroyed the courage of the people. Perhaps
fifty persons in the State of Kentucky are dis
qualified from holding office by the Four
teenth Amendment; therefore party of five
highwaymen can rob bank with impmty in
broad daylight That is the argument. We
| respectfully refuse to be nvinced.-BaHi-
more american.
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From the Rochester Express, May ISL
Death Of Asa Anthony,

Asa Anthony, of Greece, an old resident
of that town, died at his residence on Mon
day. He was born in Massachusetts in 1900,
and when quite young removed to Saratoga
county in this State, where his early life was
spent, and where he was married. Before
coming to this country he resided a short
time in Wayne county, and in l847, or a year
later, he purchased a farm in Gates, just west
OF the city limits, and on what is now known
as Gardner street, and on which he continued
to reside until his death.
Mr.. Anthony was born of Quaker parent
age, but some years ago, in consequence of
his extreme anti-slavery views and progress
sive ideas, he, with his wife, left the Society
Of Friends, though they have always MAIN
tanned the plainness of speech and MANY
other characteristics of the society in which
they were reared. His views on the slavery
question, and in regard to many other re-
forms, were similar to those of the late Isaac
Post, and together these worthy men labored,
and succOred the slave when he had few out
spoken friends, or those who dared brave OPP
probrium to protect them, when following
the star which led them to freedom. They
both lived to see the day when there were no
slave hunters in all the land, and it was a
matter of great rejoicing with them.
Mr.. Anthony, though holding sometimes
unpopular views-ideas in advance of the
times--was always greatly respected for his
integrity and moral worth.
Mr.. A. leaves a widow with whom he
lived about As years, three sons, the Antho.
ny brothers, well known business men in
this city, and one daughter. Mrs. Burtis
widow of the late Lewis Burtis, is sister OF
the deceased.
The funeral will be attended from the resi-.
dence of the family, on Thursday, at 10 A. NJ
The services will be conducted by George w
Taylor, Of Erie county.
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Mr.. Jackson Grimshaw, of Quincy, writes
to the Old Flag as follows:
l do not regard Mr.. Greeley as ever having
been a reliable Republican. l was Repub-
lican candidate for Congress in 1858, in a
Democratic district. l ran with a certainty
of defeat to endeavor indirectly to elect Mr..
Lincoln to the United States Senate. Gree
ley then threw the whole force of the New
York Tribune for my pro-slavery Democratic
opponent. l met Mr.. Greeley on the eve of
the meeting of the Chicago Convention of
1860. L was then an active member of the
Republican Central Committee of Illinois.
| told Mr.. Greeley that evening that he did
not understand Western politics, and espe-
cialiy the politics of Illinois. On the next
day the National Convention met in the Wig
wan.
New York had very intelligent delega-
ton headed by VIM. NJ. Evarts, all of them
the firm friends of VIM. II. Seward as cam
didate for President. The New York dele
cation would not admit Mr.. Greeley as a
member. Much to the amaZement of every
one, when the President of that Convention,
in the call of the States, called Oregon, Mr..
Greeley presented himself as the delegate
from Oregon, and, amid the laughter of the
Convention, was tacitly permitted to take a
seat as a delegate from that State and voted
for Edward Bates, of Missouri. We liked
Mr. Bates well enough, but regarded him as
a pro-slavery man, and it struck us as alb
surd, that Mr.. Greeley, an mpracticable
abolitionist, should fail to vote for Mr.. Sew
ard, who was from his own State, or refuse
to vote for Mr.. Lincoln, free-soil Republi-
can, and as a free-soil delegate from Pacific
State, cast three votes for Mr.. Bates. Add
to this his cheap advertisement of himself
when he signed jeff. Davis bail bond, and
it seems to me that politically, Mr.. Greeley
is not entitled to much weight.
JACKSON GRIMSHAW.
Quincy, AprH 2G, 1872.
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Negroes In the Indian Territory.

The negroes that were held as slaves by
the Indians in the Indian Territory until freed
by the thirteenth amendment, are becoming
somewhat uneasy about their status in the
country in which they were born and raised
Their position is an anomalous one. They
are not enumerated or claimed as members
of any tribe, and they are much disturbed by
rumors to the effect that they will have to
leave the Territory. They have determined,
however, to pick out their land and claim
equal rights with the Indians in all tribal
property, and appeal to the Government to
protect them in the enjoyment of the benefits
of all treaties made with the Indians. They
form large portion of the population, and
are said to be quiet, Industrious of
them possessing considerable property-and,
for the chances they have had, pretty intelli-
gent. 1t is said that if they were allowed to
vote they would turn the scale in favor of the
policy of opening the Territory at once.
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The Cincinnati Convention.
Judgs stanley Matthews Repudiates ITS Re
f0rmatory Pretensions,

formatory Pretensions.
Judge Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, in
the course of his speech, on assuming his
duty as temporary chairman of the late So
called Liberal Republican Convention held in
that city, made the following statement:
And so, gentlemen, in every Department
of the Government the slow poison of corrup-
hon-Only not sufficiently slow--seems to
have pervaded the whole civil and political
administration of the country from the head
to the foot" [Applause.]
A personal friend of Judge Matthews, con-
nected with one Of the Departments of this
city, after reading his speech, wrote a letter
to the Judge, calling his attention to the
above statement, and expressing the hope
that when he should come to look calmly at
the statement he would regret he ever made
it.. This brought from Judge Matthews the
following answer, which is now made public
with his permission:
CINCINNATI, May G, 1872.
My Dear SU-Nothing connected with the
recent disgraced and disgraceful convention
at this place has given me so much pain as
your note calling my attention to statement
taken from speech of mine, pointed with the
Interpretation you evidently put upon it.
Allow me in the first place to say that
was put forward as temporary Chairman of
that convention without an hours notice, and
that consequently what / said was totally
unprecedented; and in the next place that
the extract you make, and which if l had in
tended to be taken in its literal sense would
be justly matter of regret that it had been
uttered, does not represent the truth Of my
sentiments.
On the contrary, have no reason to be-
lieve, and never have believed, that person.
ally the present Administration were guilty
of corrupt conduct or motives, and ought to
have expressed myself so as to have avoided
any such charge. What l was striving to
say had reference to the general corruption
of our public political life, pervading it in
every department, whereby personal and
party ends seemed to be substituted for the
public good, and the latest and best illustra-
ton of which L am free to say is now to be
found in the action of the convention in the
presence of which this declaration was made
1 am greatly chagrined at the whole mat
ter, my own participation in it included, and
have concluded, perhaps not sufficiently soon,
that as a politician and as President-inaker
/ am not a success.
greatly regret that have given cause of
offense to you and to many other personal
friends, whose integrity may have seemed
to have questioned, but which l can assure
you was farthest from my thought.
1 hope you will be able to regard it as
though it had never been said.
Very respectfully, your friend,
STANLEY MATTHEW'S
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"A mass meeting to consider the mixed
school question was held in Washington last
Thursday evening and was very fully at
tended. The ACCESSIBILITY of admitting to the
schools children without regard to color was
fully discussed. An excellent speech was
made by Mr.. Frederick Douglass; another
by Senator Wilson; and letters sympathizing
with the purpose of the meeting were read
from Gen. Grant and Messrs. Colfax, Sum-
ner, Conkling, Forney, and Durant. One OF
the best speeches was by Mr.. George I.
Downing, who, as colored man, said: "We
suffer under an increased sensitiveness, got
ten by partial enjoyment of our rights. II
we are to be degraded, let it be thorough and
complete. IN. y. Tribune.