The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN. D. c., July %, 1872.

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WAsHINGToN. D. c., July %, 1872.
Never has Washington been more live
| ly than now in the improvement and or
namentation ofits streets. Thousands of
/, men are employed. and it would seem
that the entire city is being regarded, pa
we'd and severed.
Our new government has just entered
unon its second year, and before It's close
Washington. the Capital of the great Uni
| t. States, will have entirely emerged
| from its od-time lethargy, and will APP
pear to the visitor the grand city he ex-
pects to behold The calculation is to
make Washington the most lovely. the
most noble and grand place to look upon,
as well as to live in. in the world.
GEN. HowARD's RETURN
from Arizona is fraught with every hope
ofa peaceable settlement with the Indians
of the far West 1t is anticipated that
| through his mild and naturally-phil
thropic nature, treaty may be cons-m
mated with them that will be lasting, and
the abuses and causes of the outbreaks of
past years etfectually remedied and remo-
we'd. The President has great confidence
IN him, and will probably consider favor
ably any suggestion from him looking to
their permanent future peace and happi-
ness.
THE POLITICAL POT
has again commenced to boil with all the
fury attending presidential campaigns.
Before and since the Baltimore Conven-
ton, the more intelligent Of the Demo.
crecy here, those who make principle the
guide of their political action, keep aloof
from the Greeley movement; but the
politicians are out in full force, and are
using every means in their power to
bring the Democracy unitedly into line
for Greeley. Thus for they have failed
JOHN D. DEFREEs,
that political fraud, who in 1862, came
from Indiana politically and financially
bankrupt, is the chief among the Gree.
leyites in this section. and is endeaYoring
to tone down the hotheaded brethran of
the copperhead fraternity, and get them
to swallow the Anything to- beat Grant
pill. His training may be successful,
but it is slow work thus far. They can't
go Greeley Who blames them? For
who would not prefer successful. honor
able foe, to such a WORKOUT political
turncoat and trickster.
1t will be remembered that President
Lincoln, looking with pity on the necessi
ties of Defrees, made him superintendent
of printing! How well lie served the Gov
ernment during period of seven years,
at a salary of SO, 500, his estates here, in
Virginia, and Indiana will attest. He is
a Democrat by nature, and by practice
an at the time Congress displaced him,
out Of about 800 employees at the Gov
ernment office, not more than SO of that
number were Republicans. He is a sore
head, and stands high in the Reform par
ty. go
Since the adjournment of the Baltimore
Convention, very strong reactionary
movement has taken place in Pennsylva
MA and in Maryland. A gentleman just
returned from Pennsylvania says ,that
the Democrats in some parts of that State
are boiling the nomination of Greeley en-
nasse and joining Democratic Grant and
Wilson clubs. Another gentleman from
Maryland says they are doing the same
thing in that State, and If the reaction
continues as it has begun, there is more
than an even chance that Maryland,
My Maryland.' - so long peering out Of
the darkness in which she has been CROP
ing, will give her electoral vote to Graut
and Wilson.
The SO called Liberal Republicans are
not now as jubilant as they were before
the Baltimore convention. They see
that Mr.. Greeley has not been able to
sell and deliver the Republican party as
easily as they had calculated upon and
that, after all, it may prove true as to
their candidate what King Henry Y.
said of the French herald, that
"The who once did sell the lions skin,
While the best lived, WAS killed in hunting him."
Mr. Sumner still remains in town, and
says but little as to what he intends to do
| in this campaign. He is not for Grant,
and, according to late issue of a Gin
/ cinnati paper, he is made to say, by an in
terviewing reporter, that he cannot sup
! port Mr.. Greeley without desertlDg his
colored wards that the Democratic party
will control Greeley administration, and
as the leaders of that party have alrea-
! dy refused to support his civil rights bill,
there Is nothing to be expected of them
should they come into power, but the pro-
scIptlon of tie negro.
| Talking with the editor of the leading
Democratic paper in Florida to-nig ht,
who was delegate to the Baltimore con-
vention, he said:
Our State will 60 for Greeley if VIC
can bring iuto line the colored vote. The
colored men of Florida are tired of carpet
| bag rule, and if Sumner would only en-
dorse the action of the Baltimore Conven-
ton. we would carry every colored vote of
the State.
But Sumner does not intend to risk a
| lifelong reputation for political purity on
the success of party or class of men
whose antecedents are known to be anita
gonistic to liberal form of Government.
and whose aim and design is to degrade
the colored man. di>tranchise him. and
bring him back into the chains of slavery
Ch.~lee- -Saaanar- roudoroc
Greeley.
Respectfully, S. 7. B.
Now, as to what Greeley once thonght
lof Hat ho of