The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-18
POLITICAL.

me space TO say that Wnen was between
seventeen and eighteen years of age |
taught school at Fairhaven, Massachu-
sets, but had no family, did not whip or
starve any boy, and was not indicted. All
that, in paragraph in this mornings
Commercial, republlshed from the New
York Tribune of 1862, Is a lie. The cuIprit
was Alfred S. Pike, to whom | once went
to school, and it occurred in Boston. 1t
was a girl he starved and whipped, AMI he
aoaS indicted and, believe, convicted too.
He was an exceedingly pious person, an
abolitonist, and aiterward Republican,
and died a Radical.
How Governor jacobs Election is Regarded by
West Virginia Democrats.
The willingness of the Wheeling Register
to extend amnesty to Governor Jacob is
not shared in other equally orthodox quar-
tiers. For example, this from the Martins
burg Ne,c Era, a paper that sometimes re-
ceives editorial contributions from the pen
of Hon. G.. J. Faulkner: 49,.
''.rhe campaign is over and we have no
disposition to keep alive its asperities, but
we cannot refrain from saying that the course
pursued by John j. Jacob is entirely with
out the shadow of an apology or vindication.
We leave wholly out of the question the de-
sertion of his party. Other men have done
the same thing before, and may or may not
have had sufficient justification for their
course, but for the base ingratitude of John
j. Jacob there is no apology or extenua-
ton. He has gone over to the Radical camp,
and his election is their triumph. The Rad
ical papers throughout the State rejoice over
it as such, and they have perfect right to
do so. He is theirs and they are his and,
SO far as we are concerned, they are well
come to him"
The Neao Era is frank, and gives express
sion to what is no doubt an honest wrath
but the Register is the more discreet of the
two. 1t knows that treason ceases to be
treason when it has won !; that Governor
Jacob is master of the situation and it is
wiser for those who may need his favor or
forbearance to keep their curses to them
Selves Wheeling Intelltgencer.
Greeley a Know-Nothing--He Speaks at ii
Knov-Nothing Meeting.
The Ereniag Post says editorially: "Mr.
Horace Greeley, seventeen or eighteen
years ago, was, as well as Mr.. Henry Will
son, Know-Nothing. Yielding to the po-
litical exigencies of the times, he, as well
as Mr.. Wilson, drifted with that tide, and
uStu HIS HllluClSC W eii anu Soullol buc
Know-Nothing party.
''In September, 1854 or 1850, but in
which year we are not quite certain, i.
know-Nothing meeting was held at
Kingston Ulster county, in this State,
ard at that meeting Mr.. Greeley was one
of the speakers. Resolutions were passed,
and though they are not given in the brief
report of the meeting, which we re-
member to have seen, it may
be fairly assumed that they were OF
the usual know-Nothing character. Gree
ley, in his speech. avowed his approval Of
them. He attended the meeting not as an
opponent, but as friend and an advocate
OF the Kno Nothing doctrine. Know
| Nothingisn in Ulster county, New York,
was Just as lovely, or just as hideous,
| whichever 1t was, as in Suffolk county,
| Massachusetts,. 1t was just the same in
| a Massachusetts politician aspiring to seat
in the Legislature as it was in New York
party editor aspiring to seat in--well :,
anywhere. IF to be a know-Nothng was
| in one of these men crime or blunder,
| it could not have been virtue or an'eyi-
dence of wisdom in the other. Whatever
| it was in Wilson, that also was it in
Greeley. IF it was a bad thing for the
man who was to be a presidential
candidate in 1872, it was a worse thing
in the man who was to be a Presiden-
tial candidate in 1872. The half.column,
more or less. which the Tribune has hurl-
ed for weeks past, at Henry Wilson be-
cause he was Know-Nothing seventeen or
eighteen years ago, any Grant and Wilson
paper may take oerbatnm ct laerdtim, SUBJ
shutting Greeley's name for Wilson's, and
hurl them back again at the 1ribuae'S
candidate for the Presidency. They will
fall with the force and precision of an i'll
thrown boomerang upon the heads of those
| who first set them in notion"
Senators TrmnbuIl and Schurz-Why Their
| ScaIps became Infiamed-Iheir Very Modest
Demands Upon the President.
OF this pair of pattern Reformers, it ap'
pears that Schurz desired his friends tt
have nineteen Consulshlps, eight Missions
two Governofships OF Territories, two
Marshalships, one District-Attorneyship
four Indian Agencies, two Suryeyor-Gen
erals offices, one Register, one Pension
Agency, one Chaplaincy, twenty-sevel
Clerkships, twenty Postmasterships, thre'
Revenue Collectorshps and two Assessor
ships, and one Surveyorship of st. Louis
but only one of his friends was sufficient,
humble to be laborer. One of Schurz'
Governors was JIM Ashley, Will
some of his other friends are well known t
fame or infamy, one of his clerks havn
been removed for stealing, which in Sena
tor Schurz's eyes was, we presume, les
crime than that of being Democrat; TO
his ground for asking for the removal of on
Collector was that he was member of tina
party. In all, Mr.. Schurz wanted places fo
l04 friends, and he got his full share.
Mr.. Trumbull wanted places for ninetee
consuls, a consul-general, two commercii
agents, including that in San Domingo
twenty-nine trustees, and four postal agent:
two Judges, two~narshals, two distric
attorneys; three Indian agents, two pensio
agents. one surveyor-general, three supe
intendents of Indian affairs, one librarian
six clerks, one Governor, one claim agen
: seven assessors, five collectors and two 81
pcrvisors of internal revenue, while II
one of his friends all that he begged W;
some office, no matter what. Mr.. Trun
bull put himself i'll writing as to ninet,
seven friends, including brother-in-lav
= His son he did not trust to paper. /
h went and made personal threats to Il
President as to him.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, Declares for Graz
Hon. Joshua Hill, United States Senat
r. from Georgia, who has been claimed by Il