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Coming to Their Senses.

The Cincinnati Commercial, hitherto one of
the fiercest Of President GRANTS assailants,
has of late greatly modified its sentiments in
regard to him. And the Syracuse STANDARD,
in the same category, has become disguised
by the self-eyident dishonesty of the Cincin-
natl boilers gathering. The Standard be-
ieves GRANTS denomination should be op-
posed within the party, and that the nomi-
nee of the Philadelphia Convention, whoever
he may be, should be supported in good faith.
The Commercial has come to the wise conclu-
sion that "Gen. GRANT is rather safe sort
of a President" and that "his worst blunders
are over" But it is reluctantly forced to say
that he is not absolutely perfect yet. He
still clings to his old prejudices in favor of
his tried and trusted friends. He still reveres
his venerable father, who took care Of him in
his childhood, and he loves his friends, whose
worth he understands better than that of men
whom he never saw, or who he never heard
of excepting through other people, who want
ed him to take care of their friends. These,
in the estimation of the Commercial, are seri-
Gus defects; but then, as he is a safe sort of
President, such objections may be endured
We forgot to mention, among other objec-
tons, that GRANT holds his tongue when
necessary, always minds his own business,
and smokes.
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Cause and Effect.

The Chicago Qll.) Post pays the following
just and generous tribute to the Republican
party of Michigan:
"The record of Michigan is noble testi-
mOny to the honor, the enterprise, and talent
of the Republican party. Official dishonesty
IN the State is almost unknown; its courts
are above reproach; it possesses one of the
finest universities in the world and in its
legislation through successive years it has set
other countries an example OF moderation,
Christian intelligence, and rare political pre-
science"
Very soon after the Republicans came into
power they gave fair warning that dishonest
and corrupt officials could expect no quarter.
The State treasurer proving defaulter to
the amount Of $4,000, was promptly prose-
cuted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the
penitentiary. That was fourteen years ago,
and from that time to this, no Michigan Off
cial has ventured to tamper with the public
funds. He was the first, and the last, de-
faulter during the eighteen years the Republic
cans have been in authority. The result Of this
wise and enlightened policy, and of this ex-
ample of moderation and Christian intelli-
gence, has been to liberalize and humanize
the people. They there carry into practice
the Republican principles that ''all men are
born free and equal" and that they should
enjoy the same civil and political rights.
The following from the Detroit Tribune shows
tina. they practice what they preach:
"The distinct principle of the Republican
IL. Ill IL 4
upon an even footing, without regard to race
or color or previous condition of servitude,
was amply indicated in the town of Gaines,
Kent county, on Monday, by the election of
VIM. j. Hardy, a colored man, to the Office
of Supervisor of the township by handsome
majority, and that, too, over Aaron Brewer,
the present incumbent, and the most wealthy
and influential citizen of the town. Mr..
Hardy and his family are respected wherever
they are known, and he has acquired COM
potency, and is generally acknowledged to be
a man of good business talent, notwithstand-
ing the difficulties he has had to overcome on
account of the prejudice against his race"
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The Difference.

Ten years ago the Democratic party was
beaten by just such split as has now taken
place IN the Radical party. The Democratic
party had two candidates, Breckenridge and
Douglas. The Radicals meyer dreamed then
OF passivlsm as wise policy. They rallied
and concentrated their strength, and beat
divided antagonist. Mobile (4ia.) Register.
There is slight difference in the two cases.
The question of slavery was the rock on
which the Democracy split "ten years ago"
There was mighty principle involved. But
now there is nothing of the kind. Indeed,
there is not the slightest analogy between
them. That was split in the Democratic
party between the North and the South.
This is simply bolt by a few disappointed
office hunters. Instead of being a question
of slavery extension it Is nothing but one of
" bread and butter" The people were in that.
They have nothing to do with this. That's
the difference!
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The People Against the MaicOn-
TENTS.

The Buffalo Express asserts that of the two
hundred Republican papers in New York not
more than half a dozen are opposed to the
denomination of President GRANT. In Mas
sachusetts the only Republican paper which
is in league with the Cincinnati boilers is the
Springfield Republican, which was aiso the
only paper in that State opposed to LIN
coins denomination. This is about the
proportion of sorehead papers everywhere.
and much more than the proportion among
the people. Hon. WIN. +. CHANDLER, Sec
tary of the National Republican Committee.
is IN the constant receipt of letters from every
part OF the country, and they all not only
favor the denomination of GRANT, but de-
clare that he will receive an increased ma
Jority over the Republican vote of last fall
The sorehead boilers are exercising a most
powerful negative influence in favor OF
GRANT all over the country. Their abuse is
accepted as the best possible proof of the
Presidents honesty, fidelity, and patriotism
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THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1872.
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

1t is the intention of the publishers of the
New NATIONAL ERA to make it desirable as
a campaign paper as well as useful otherwise
as journal. Published at the political GEN.
tire of the nation it is in a position that can,
and will, be made Of value to its readers.
Reaching as it does, the centres of political
influence in the South and among the ONE
MILLION colored voters of that section, this
journal will be found valuable ally to the
Republican party. We offer to campaign
clubs throughout the country the New Ma
T1oNAL ERA from April 1, 1872, to December
/, 1872, copies for Sc; 10 copies for sl0
or 100 copies for $50.
Before old subscribers indebted to us can
avail themselves of this offer arrearages must
be paid.
Address,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JR.,
Lock Box 81.
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A Miserable Failure.

The prosecution the Congressional Inves-
tigating Committee has very generously per-
mtted DANA, the editor of the New York
San, to commence and carry on for several
days against the Secretary of the Navy, has
come to an inglorious end, and added only to
the od,m that is already attached to the
name of the prosecutor. No one a month
ago thought it possible for him to find a slower
depth" of infamy than he then occupied.
But he has done it, and now deserves the pre-
eminence of the smallest, sceakest, land mean
est" of all GRANTS enemies if not of imam
kind" He has not only failed to prove the
truth of one of his vile charges against Sec
rotary robson, but his own witnesses have
shown that every one of them was absolutely
false, greatly to his amazement and disgust,
of course. The committee, as if anxious that
he should find some proof to sustain his libels,
permitted him to constitute himself public
prosecutor, and granted him the remarkable
privilege, not only of abandoning his specific
charges of fraud and theft, but of going into
a general investigation of all his official acts
And so this fellow spent day after day in
irving to prove that the Secretary had violated
some law, paid too much for some work in
the construction of torpedo, failed to adj
vertise for proposals in every conceivable
case, sold certain arms at a less price than
somebody else would have given, and 80 on
to the end. But he ANONYMOUSLY fizzled even
in this attempt, and proved exactly what he
did not intend. The result of the whole mat
ter has therefore been to exhibit DANA as an
unprincipled, reckless, deliberate, and malig-
nant falsifer and slanderer, and to prove that
in all the history of the Navy Department it
has never been so honestly and economically
managed as during Secretary ROBEsON's adj
ministraton. Thus ends another of General
GRANTS corrupt maligners.
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A STANCE Thing Under the Sun.

One of the queerest things in nature is a
colored sorehead. We can imagine why a
lifelong and greedy office hunter, who has
been compelled to let go his hold upon the
public teat, or who has failed to increase
the number, may become soured, and resolve
to defeat the party which has so long fed him.
He has come to believe that he has a prior
right not only to good Office for himself, but
one for each of his friends. But the spectacle
OF a colored man, aiding and abetting the de-
feat of the party which struck of his shackles
and made him man, and the restoration to
power of the rebel Democracy, is as humili-
ating and painful as it is amazing. 1t is true
such men are like white blackbirds or black
sohitebirds. But there is now and then such a
monstrosity--men who think they are under
estimated by the Administration, and are thus
resolved to "bits off their own noses to spite
their faces"
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Portrait OF - SOreh cad by oae al
them.


The other day we published from one Of
CARL SCHURZ's campaign speeches in 1868,
in glorification Of General GRANT, his de-
scription of the Philadelphia ''Bread and
Butter" Convention--the model after which
the Cincinnati bogus concern is shaped. The
following is his portrait of soreheads in 1868,
when he was begging the Missouri Republi-
cans to make him United States Senator.
Then he was exceedingly anxious to heal the
dissensions in the party, and so he was I'M
sparing in his denunciation of the men who
were conspiring with the enemy, as he is
now. The picture was drawn by the carpet
bag Senator in an article written by him for the
Hannibal (MO.) Courier, and is true to life :
at frequently happens that men whose
personal expectations have been disappointed
magnify their grievances in their own mind,
and by assiduous persuasion arrive finally at
the conclusion that those who have been
more fortunate in obtaining recognition BY
the party or gaining popular favor must ne
cessarily be bad or unworthy men. Our
watchful opponents are apt to take advantage
of this sort of mental disposition, and to bend
all their energies upon fostering the elements
of discord. In this way men who originally
mean to do right are led to cooperate with
them in damaging the cause which is entitled
to their support. Every man who has the
least regard for the great objects the Radical
party is to achieve ought to be well on his
guard in this respect. To become a tool in
the hands Of the common enemy is abont the
lowest point of political responsibility a men,
Der of the Radical party can reach in this
crisis, whatever his personal grievances may
he -
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Mr.. Greeley Distrusted by His
Allies.

1twould be amusing if, after Mr.. GREELEY's
toyings with the Cincinnati Conventionists,
they should refuse to accept him as an ally
and yet such an event is not improbable. A
correspondent of the EreniHg Post, writing
from Cincinnati, says that the leaders of the
new party will insist on demanding free trade;
that it is the first plank in their platform they
cannot concede nor dare they even offer Il
compromise. The new party would lose with
the people all their prestige if they were to
give up their most important declaration for
the advantage of Mr.. GREELEY's co-opera-
ton. Already there have been some en-
phatic protests among the leaders of the Con-
vention in prospect of such a political ter
glversation. We know Ex-Governor Cox Is
opposed to it, and Judge HoADLEY has said:
"If YOU eoncede to GREELEY, you may count
me out" No such compromises are TO be
expected
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GENERAL LoNGsTREET, according to a
good many papers, resigned his post as col
lectOr at New Orleans because he was dis
satisfied with President GRANTS admins
tration; but the General has just written a
letter in which he says: 81 have reason to
hope that we shall now have successful re-
construction. The South believes this is due
to the hand of the present Administration.
All things considered, / think the people owe
it to themselves and to President GRANT to
return him to the Office which he has filled so
we'll and with such entire good faith"
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Where They Always Land.

The man who should claim that a soldier
could have "bolted" the Union army during
the rebellion, united his influence with other
"bolters," to carry on the war in way diff
ferent from the plan laid down by the Govern
ment, was loyal and could safely be trusted,
would be looked upon as mad or dishonest.
Especially if the ''bolter" had been lauded for
his independence by the enemy would he have
been distrusted by loyal men. The same
principle holds good in politics. The man
who bolts his own party, accepts nomina-
ton for Office from brother boilers, and is
elected by the votes of his opponents, may
justly be considered disorganizer, and
thereafter the enemy of the party he has de-
serted. The men who elected him will use
him. The following from the Sunday Chron-
icle is an illustration of the truth we state and
is in exact harmony with our own views of
the case:
"Colonel Mcclure, of the PENNSYLVANIA
Senate, has at last shown his hand, and
placed himselfin the very position every true
friend of the Republican party predicted that
he would after succeeding in procuring his
seat in the Legislature, proceeding that was
carried by the influence and in the interest of
the Democratic party, and in compliance with
the conditions of the original bargain. He
boldly announces himself as in favor of the
Cincinnati Convention, and that he would
attend it. This will hardly harLlonize with
his avowed declarations during his Senatorial
campaign, as being friend of President Grant
and consistent Republican; nor will it ex-
cuse the course OF some of the Republican
press OF the State for advocating his election
and rejoicing over his success In contesting
the seat Of Mr.. Gray, the regular Republican
elected candidate. As the Philadelphia Ctr
Item truthfully says, the people are thinking
and are prepared with the antidote to cure all
such poison"
Nearly every Republican paper in Phila-
delphia encouraged Mr.. McCLURE's defec-
ton, and favored his election as a boiling
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GDDd RissGanse.
Q. A. lIADLEY.

Senator TRUMBULL, the man who extorted
a te" thousand dollar fee from the Government,
for which he rendered no seaY,ice, while the peo-
pie were being ground to dust with taxes,
and while he was receiving salary of So 600
nom the Government, besides mileage, has
finally dissolved his connection with the party
which has so long fed him and his family, and
TO which he has been such burden. He has
written to his brother-in-law, JAYNEs, whom
he forced into a fat office in Illinois, by fore
ing gallant, disabled soldier out, fully COM
hitting himself to the nominee of the Cincin-
natl Convention Of soreheads and offce-bep-
gars. And the infatuated demagogue has
the folly to predict that he will be elected ,
Good radiance to him and all his tribe. All
we have to fear from him is the odium of his
pretended friendship.
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Before Els Fall!

How truthfully and pertinently does the
following article from Mr.. GREELEY's Tribune
of June Goth, 1869, describe Republican sore
heads and boltors, and what singing COM
mentary is it upon himself and his boiling
associates for their detection to the Republic
can party:
GEN. GRANT a FAILURE.
Upon Gen. Grants accession to the Presi
dencv, a great number of those who had sup
ported his election, with some who had not,
sought office at has hands, or expected him to
bestow it unasked. He was unable to CRAFTY
their aspirations. Most of those whom he
found in Office claimed that they gave him
their votes; some of these he saw hit to re-
tain while the laws of which he is the ser
want required him to reduce materially the cost
of the public service and the plumber en-
ployed in it.
Our great civil war had rendered necessary
large increase of minor functiOnaries the
settlement of claims to pensions, &c, had
excused the retention of hundreds in place up
to the close of Mr. Johnson's term I; but now
law and Justice alike demanded that they be
dismissed, to their own very general disgust.
Their lamentations, mingled with the howls
of the disappointed, made up dolefui dis
sonance, whereof the only meaning deducible
runs thus "Gen. Grant is found wanting
his administration is failure ~
Failure ?'' how? in what? Hare ice not
peace and plenty IN The land? Is not our nag
displayed and respected o'. ereyy sea h hat
foreign foe mOleSts or threatens as WhO fears
iasmrection at home or inUosion from abroad
In which of our thirty-sIx States are The masses
scdating cork, Disseminated, suffering?
/ Consider our financial condition. Nearly
every State and municipality paying on debts
incurred in raising men for the war, while the
national debt has been reduced nearly thirty
millions in the four months that Gen. Grant
has had his hand on the helm. The ptbiic
expenditure is falling off erey SIDE, 'chite The
rere,lue as up to high scoter mark. Even Indian
wars, If unavoidable, must be considerably
reduced in cost by the facilities for moving
troops and stores afforded by our two Pacific
railroads.
Yes; Gen. Grant has tidile1 10 crafty some
eoger aspirations, and has thereby incurred soa's
intense hatreds. These do not and will not
fail and his administration will prove at
least equally vital. We shalt hear iamentotion
after hmetation orer has failure, from those
,chose irish as father to The thought; bit TIE
american people let them pass Undecided. 7he'T
strong aims bore him t1umphontiy through he
,car and into the White House, and they still up
hold and sustain him. They aerer failed, ant
aerey' piH
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Republication i'm the District.

Republicanism in the District of Columbia
is undergoing a severe trial. We have III
this community set of men who make poll
itics business, and who can act as readily
with the Democratic party as with the Repub-
lican, only providing such action is pecuniarily
profitable. The Republican party to-day is
cursed in this city with set of men who are
Republicans only to make money out of their
professions. These men have labored hard
and spent much money in an attempt to dis
rupt the party or control it in their own
interest. Through the Vaccinations of these
disorganizers we have two Republican Gen
eral Committees in this District. Emulating
the example of the Cincinnati Convention
lists. these professed Republicans have bolted
from the regular convention of the General
Committee before the time of its properly
called session, and have organized a commit
plished by the use of money and intimidation.
1t is now left to the honesty of the Republic
can masses to uphold the right and discount
tenance the wrong. Viewed in the light of
precedent, there can be no question OF the
regularity Of the committee presided over by
DIR. CHAs. b. PURvIs. This committee has
been organized precisely on the same plan
of the committee preceding it, and in perfect
accord with the custom obtaining all over
the country. We look to a high sense of
justice and right on the part of the deluded
followers of the boilers to act in such a man
ner as will conduce to the maintenance of
the Republican party in this District-pure
and undeiiled.
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candidate. And those which did not support
him vouched for his Republicanism, like the
Press, declaring that he would act with the
Republican party, and, above all, that he was
decidedly in favor of GRANTS denomination.
Indeed he could not have been elected if he
and his supporters had not taken this ground.
That he has falsiied all his pledges, badly
cheated those who trusted in his honesty,
and gone into the Cincinnati camp of sore
head boilers and bummers, does not surprise
us. 1t is where all boilers land. They
must lie to secure their election and then
cheat those who trusted them.
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THE Times, which originated the reform"
movement in New York, and which did more
than any other, if not more than all other.
papers to produce the reform" victory in
the city and State, admits it has proved a
fzzle" in consequence of the bad faith of
the Legislature.
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The New York Eceaing Post, the leading
and ablest free trade paper in the United
States, thus welcomes Mr.. GREELEY into the
ranks of the "revenue refomers -
"This conversion of Mr.. Greeley may be
regarded by some readers as suspicious for its
suddenness; but we are not disposed to ques-
ton the sincerity of the Tribune or of its edi-
tor, and heartily welcome it as a new and
important ally in the great cause of revenue
reform. We desire nothing more in the way
OF tariff legislation than that the principles
which Mr.. Greeley now openly supports be
| faithfully carried out"
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Mr.. II. R. CLuM, chief clerk of the In
dian Bureau, has our thanks for the Report
ofthe Commissioner ofIndian Affairs for 1871.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
Atmospheric Poison.

Tine spring sun calls up something besides the flow
and grasses. 1t evolves from the damp earth tur
bid rivers stagnsnt pools and black morasses, the
gaseous provocatves Of disease. From the ofal and
garbage Of unclean cities, too, it exhaes efiuvia
destructive of health and vigor Periodic fevers OF
various types raging with unusual virulencs
in various parts of the country and there are COM
plants from all quarters of singularly unhealthy
spring. WHAT is to be done in this emergency The
answer is simple and to the point. Strengthen the
body. Weakness predisposes the system to disease.
Commence at once of the most genial of
toncs, Hostetters Stomach Bitters Be assured that
infect the physique that has been fortified and
lated with this glorious vegetable restorative moist
atmosphere aggravates dyspepsia and all diseases of
bilious type. and the sudden thermometrical changes
common at this season. severe trial even to
strong constitutions. There is but way of com
batting these deleterious agencies and that is by in
MIGRATING the body. and imparting healthy activity
to all its functions The only specific required for this
purpose is Hostetters Bitters Of all vegetable tonic:
and alternatives it is the purest and the best. Its
medicinal ingredients include all the juices and ex
tracts of the most approved tonic antibilious and
antiseptic products of the Botanic Kingdom and they
combined with stimulsnt far superior in quality
to the alcohol used in preparing the tinctures and
tracts of the regular" pharmacopma.