The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-19

the appearance OF earning their pay
They met and stared at each other and
soon bolted over to the next day to hire
recruits from idlers and boys. Again
they met. and, finding that they would
soon all bolt from each other like q
grindstone shivered bv a lightning
stroke, they called the Louisville Con-
vention, and then bolted back TO the
Administration for reinforcement oi
money and men. Laughter The
Grant leaders at once gave notice that
the weary and laden OF the Bourbon
Democracy can now find rest. Laugh
ter. That the bankrupt in politics and
property can meet with profitable
welcome. and that those who are still
unrepentant rebels, and who protest
against the surrender of the Issues Of
the war, can find genial fellowship and
encouragement in the Administration
ranks. Murphy bargaiued with Tweed
and Connolly and OBrien for safety to
the first and honors for the last, and
they bolted to Grant. The rebel Gem
eral Pillows mules. taken in war, were
bolted into claim against the Govern
ment, and Pillow bolted the Baltimore
ticket, after which they bolted on his
mules Laughter Harris, of Mary.
land, who was cepsured by Republi-
can Congress for disloyalty while a
member OF the House, bolted for Grant
because disloyalty was not maintained
at Baltimore; and
BRICK PoNERoY AND WENDELL PHILLIPS
bolted together for Grant, and for the
same reason. Both are lawless and
revolutionary, and neither have sup.
ported successful candidate within
my recollection. Pomeroy bias sphemed
Lincoln and Grant when candidates
before, and Phillips, with equal iervor,
blasphemed the Constitution and the
Jaws under which they were elected
Both stumped the country, declaring
Grants intellectual and moral unftne,s
for the Presidency, and, as usual with
such chaotic sgitators, when the coun-
try has reached the same conviction,
they bolt in passion from themselves.
Laughter And Toombs bolts and
is made welcome; and Stephens bolts
and is invited 10 the Grant feast. They
bolt because Greeley was Tor the eman-
cipation and enfranchisement Of the
slaves, and Garrison and Douglass bolt
to Grant, bee .use Grant is more Dr the
emancipation and enfranchisement o.
the blacks than Greeleyis Laughter
And we have boilers in Philadel~
phia, nearly one-half of one for every
thousand Democratic votes in the city.
Laughter They are professionals and
should be encouraged, and as they will
probably bolt from and to each other
forty times between this and the elec-
ton, it would be unjust to them and the
public to name them now. Laughter.
The Administration next turned in
quest OF peedv and seedy adventures
70 hire for the
| BOLT TO LOUISVILLE.
The postmaster at Washington, Mr.. j.
NJ. E imunds, who is also Secretary OF
the Grant Congressional Committee,
issued the following circular and sent ii
out to Grant postmasters, under frank
to be delivered to any one who would
90 to Louisville and accept pay for his
services:
WASHINGTON, July 80. 1872.
DEAR SIR-Please send the en-
closed circular to active Democrats in
vour district who do not support Mr..
Greeley and will cooperate in the Lou
isville Convention. Send m list O.
such men in your county Immediately.
"J. NJ. EDMUNDs, Secretary"
By some mistake one of the circulars
came to me, and I concluded, that as
looking after political conventions his
year is my business, would help
Grants Postmaster and Secretary to
distribute his documents tor Grants
side show at Louisville. Laughter.
accordingly sent q gentleman to see
Mr.. Edmunds, and to inquire how the
Louisville movement might be pro-
NOTED As it had no party at all to
back it, it was exceedingly sickly and
needed nursing. laughter Mr. Ell
munds was waited upon at the Grant
committee headquarters in Washington,
and he "smiled 80 childlike and bland
Tlaughter that my friend was for q
time bothered whether Grant was to br
for the Louisville ticket, or whether the
Louisville ticket was TO be for Grant.
The valiant Postmaster had documents
by the thousands, teaching the true
Democratic pathway, and he gave them
out with a.lavish hand.
Here are two Of them. Ser sation
These two documents (the spe 'ker pre-
sented two trsnked envelopss) were re-
celved by my friend from Mr.. E imnnd+
in person, at the Grant com mite head
quarter, in Washington. and the
pamphlets now in them were in them
when Mr. Edmunds delivered them.
You will observe (holding up the en-
velopes) that one 10 ranked bv Senator
Harlan, of Iowa, and the other BY Mr.
Foster, OF Ohio. I will read you the
first paragraph of the pamphlet the
envelopes cover. 1t is as follows.
DEAR SIR-Will you be kind enough
to place this circular in the hands oI
active Democrats in your county, who
will at once commence an organization
for the purpose Of supporting the prin-
ciples Of our party, as they will be pro'
claimed by the Convention at Louis
vile, September 8"
1t is a long circular, and is signed
Blanton Duncan. His circulars were
printed BY the Administration, at the
Government Printing Office, folded by
Government officers. frsnked by clerks
who forged the names Of Senators and
members by contract, and circulated by
postm asters. All that could be done on
paper was thus done tor the Louisville
Grant show by Government clerks and