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Immense Grant Meeting in New
York,

| One of the very largest, and in some re-
spects one of the most important, meetings
ever held IN New York assembled in and
about the Cooper Institute Wednesday eve
ming, April Eth, to express the feelings of
| the solid men of the city in regard to Presi-
dent GRANT, to endorse his administration,
and recommend his denomination. 1t was
composed of the merchants and business men
of all classes, and in point of numbers, en-
thusiasm, and especially the representative
character of those composing it, has had no
superior, not even during the rebellion.
BY seven O'Clock the vast hall of the insti-
tute was crowded. Every seat was occupied,
and thousands remained outside. 1t seemed
to have been the intention of the police to
prevent the filling up of the aisles and the
uncomfortable crowdmg of the building. This,
however, proved impossible, for after the
proceedings really began so loud and persist
ent was the clamOr of the crowd outside to
gain admittance that, seconded as the de-
mand was by the audience within the build
trance to the building hundreds thronged in
and in a few minutes it was impossible to find
standing room. The platform was thrOnged
by prominent citizens of the metropolis,
among whom were THURLow WEED, PETER
COOPER, A. L. STEWART, VIM. ORION,
HENRY CLEws, III. b. CLAFLIN, w. II.
VANDERBILT, S. l.. WOODWARD, {. f. Def
MOLD, THEODORE w. DWIGHT, E. d. NOR
GAN, WILLIAM Ii. VERMuYEA,S S. B. CRIT
TENDEN, and JACKSON S. SCHULTZ.
The meeting inside the hall was addressed
by Senators WILSON and MORTON, and by
Gen. SICKLEs, in speeches of rare power and
eloquence. Their defense of the policy of
the Administration, and of President GRANTS
fidelity to the country and to the principles
of the party by whom he was elected, was
unanswerable, and will carry conviction to
all doubling minds, if there are any such.
They, as well as every other speaker, ex-
pressed the most perfect confidence in Gen.
GRANTS reelection. Gen. SICKLEs, one
of the shrewdest politicians in the Union,
declared his firm belief that he would carry
every State he did in 1868, and New York
besides; and Gen. WILSON, whose judgment
is entitled to implicit faith, confidently pre-
dicted that he would carry from twenty -five
to thirty States. There was reason for this
confidence in such demonstration as this,
and the verdict of the people in New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and the
various cities and towns of New York. The
ball is rolling on gloriously.
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A Good Point.

The New York Nation, an independent
paper with Copperhead and Tammany lean
ings, is by profession "reformer," and in
practice chronic growler. Its clamors for
reform are quite deafening. But one of our
contemporaries makes the sharp point against
it that it over does its part, for it sets out
with the assumption that all of the American
people whose wishes are entitled to any con-
sideration want reform then it demonstrates
that only few people in the Republican, and
still fewer in the Democratic, party are in
favor of reform; ergo, a new party is neces-
sary. But since these two great organiza-
tons include the entire voting population of
the country, the Nation here, by proving the
necessity of the new party, proved its impos-
sibility. If there are neither enough Demo-
Gratis nor Republicans to control their own
organizations for reform, it is plain question
of arithmetic that two boiling minOrities in
favor of principle cannot out vote two ma
jOrities that are opposed to it.
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How the Record Stands.

Fifteen States have now declared unan-
mo,lslv i'm favor of Gen. GRANTS renOmna-
ton. They are Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida, giving
l53 electoral votes under the old apportion-
ment. The delegates they have elected are
almost majority of the whole number to
which the convention will be entitled, and
there are % States yet to elect delegates.
Nearly, if not quite, every one of them will
send representatives pledged to Gen. GRANT.
But in the face of the overwhelming express
sion of opinion on the part of the people
already, and the moral certainty that the
States yet to elect will follow the example of
those who have, we now and then hear of an
honest Republican who thinks Gen. GRANT
should be abandoned in order to satisfy the
few score of soreheads who have bolted the
Republican party. Are not the people stupidity
obstinate that they won't abandon their choice
just to crafty these noisy and corrupt dema-
pOpupsS
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The New York Backers OF Greeley

The New York Times has taken the trouble
to analyze the list of officers appearing at the
Observation-Disclosures meeting in New York last
week, and finds among them--giving their
names-thrty Democrats holding city offices
under Tammany; thirty-five GREELEY Repub.
lican Tammanyites, who do now or have
held city offices, and seven men who have been
removed from the custom-hOuse. One eX-
rebel colonel, the notorious DANA, of the
San, and scores of noisy Copperheads and
Irish pot-house politicians, were prominent
at the meeting. The names of Gen. DIX,
GEO. c. COLLINS, r. NJ. BLATCHFORD,
Gen. JOSEPH c. JACKSON, MARSHALL O.
ROBERTS, b. J. PIPPEY, M. DITTENHoFFER
&. c. SATTERLEE, JOHN X. PORTER, and
JOHN A. o. GRAY-nine gentlemen who
were used as vice presidents-about all OF
the entire list of any political responsibility
and not Tamnany Otfice-hOlders or sOrehead
otfice-seekers, have Indignantly repudiated
the disreputable alliance, and declared that
they were used without their knowledge or
consent. These gentlemen were dishonesty
proclaimed as having given their sanction to
the object Of the meeting for the purpose of
giving the public false idea of its character.
They seemed to understand that, without
some such names to give the thing an APP
pearance of responsibility, it would fall still
born. But the exposure of the fraud has
done the boilers more harm than their bona
tide aid would have done them good.
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Protection to Our Own Labor.

We publish to-day liberal extracts from
recent speech by Hon. r. H. DUELL, of New
York, upon the policy of protection to Ameri-
can industry. 1t is clear, succinct, and for
chile exposition of the principle which has
done so much to develop our resources, inn
prove the condition of our wOrkingmen and
all other classes of our citizens, and to rem
der us independent of foreign nations. There
is no truer nor more vigilent or able defender
and advocate of the rights, interests, and dig
nifty of the productive and industrial portion
of the people than Mr.. DUELL. He reli-
giously believes, as we do, that protection is
the surest and only successful means of pro-
noting their interests and securing their per-
manent prosperity. The whole experience OF
our Government proves that he is right. When
we have protected our industry the people have
been prosperous and business has fOurished.
When the free trade policy has prevailed,
business of all kinds has languished, and the
price of labor has decreased. So it ever will
be. And Mr.. DUELL is an earnest and true
Republican as well as an able advocate of the
protection policy. He believes in the princi-
Piles of the party, and, unlike some Of his col
leagues, will do nothing to endanger the sue
cess of the Republican party, directly or indi-
rectly. No member of the House commands
more respect, because none can be more inn
plicitly trusted. He gives no cOuntenance to
what he believes wrong, and never shrinks
from doing and saying what he thinks right.
Such men exercise commanding influence in
the House,
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A subsidized Tribune Correspond
Pnt.

It has always been the boast of the New
York Tribune that no employees of that paper,
held. or would be permitted to hold, any OF
fee under the Government. And II we are
not mistaken that paper has often made the
announcement that if any OF its editors, re-
porters, or correspondents accepted pubic
office il would consider il a notice that they
preferred other duties and would dispense
with their further services. But even II IL
had not so ostentatiously declared that none
of its employees could accept Government POI
sitions and maintain their connection WITH
that paper, one would be led to the concur
sion by its bitter and persistent denuhcla-
tons of oilice-holders that it was receiving
and would accept no such favors from the
Government. But such a conclusion would
be altogether wrong, as any belief founded
upon the editors statement would be.
One of the employees of that paper-its prln-
cipal correspondent in this city, and the au-
thor of more villainous libels upon the Adj
minstration and the Republican party than
all other correspondents together-is partly
supported here by the Government. L. v.
SMALIEY, whose dispatches to the tribune are
the most shameless and malignant falsehoods
ever invented, is the Clerk of the House
Committee of Military Affairs, receiving
salary from the Treasury OF not less than
s. day. In plain terms, the Govern
ment is paying portion, if not the whole, OF
the salary of the Washington correspondent
of the Tribune.
Here is the consistency and honesty of one
of the noisiest and most INSCRIPTIONS assail-
ants of the Administration. 1t shows how
much sincerity there is in all the abuse of that
paper of Government Ofiice-holders. Here is
one of its principal correspondents in the pay
of the Government Subsidized" by commit
tee of Congress. OF course he is careful never
to abuse that committee or any of its menu
bers, and is conscientiously scrupulous in
commenting their acts,
We respectfully suggest to Mr.. CoBURN,
the Chairman of the Committee, whether it is
exactly the right thing to keep in the Gov
eminent employment a man so destitute OF
truth, and honor, and common decency even,
as this man SMALLEY proves hmselfto be by
his infamous libels upon the Administration
and his efforts to destroy the party which
feeds him.
z. S.-Since the foregoing was in type
we have ascertained that III. j. Ramsdell,
another of the Tribune correspondents, is also
in the pay of the Government, as Clerk of the
House Committee ON Public Buildings and
Grounds. Two out of the three reporters
kept in this city mainly for the purpose OF
inventing libels against Gen. Grant and his
administration, and false accusations against
all faithful Republicans, therefore have por-
ton of their salaries paid from the public
Treasury. So Mr.. G. can take his place in
the ranks with Ten Thousand Dollar Trum-
bull and Defaulter Schurz as one of the great
civil service reformers of the day.
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Preparing for Contingencies.

The Macon (Ga.) Union notices the signif-
cant fact that there is just now a great firor
in the State of Georgia. and all through the
South, for the organization and revival Of
military companies. 1t says there is no doubt
that the Chief Of the invisible Empire is in
correspondence with parties in England as to
the probabilities of war with that Power. A
war with England, on the Alabama question,
would be the signal for another rebellion, and
the indications that preparations are being
made for such contingency are numerous
ana unmistakable. Other papers confirm
TINS statement. 1t is especially true in Vir-
ginla, where there has been quite an excite
ment upon the subject. This is the means
they are adopting to show their acouiescence
in the reconstruction measures of Congress-.
and to Z" fire the Southern hearth once more
TRUMBULL, SEIZURE & Co., can count on
their cooperation when the Democracy shall
have made one of the conspirators President,
to overthrow all laws offensive to the Ku-
Klux assassins and their bread-and-butter
sympathizers.
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They Understand the Matter.

In one of the resolutions constituting the
platform adopted by the New Orleans Colored
National Convention, they declare that ''aH
the roads out Of the Republican party lead d.
rectly into the Democratic camp" This is as
true as it is well expressed. As we said the
other day, there is no halfway house in this
matter. There can be but one Republican
party, and that is already organized and in
control of the Government. Every Republi-
can who neglects to vote, even, gives half
vote to the Democracy; every Republican
who aids in bringing into the canvass third
candidate, has practically deserted the Re-
publican party, and is on the way to the enc
my's camp. Greeley, and Trumbull, and
Schurz, and the whole gang of soreheads who
have resolved to unite their fortunes with the
Cincinnati treason, are doing more to restore
the rebel Democracy to power than all the
leaders of the Democracy combined. There
is no possible hope of victory on their part
except through the defections of these brawl-
inc demagogues.
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Is SchurZ A Defauiter!

Another of the political privateers-the
chief, and noisiest, and most canting of the
whole lot of sorehead bolters-has been pro-
curing money from the Treasury for which he
has rendered no consideration. The I'M
maculate ScHURz, who was sent Minister to
Spain by Mr.. LINCOLN, and resigned after
five months, dre,c gears salary, it seems,
when he was entitled to only seven
months. This was $4,000 more than he was
entitled to by law, though, with his usual Of
frontery, he claims the whole amount. But
he stands on the books of the Treasury de-
faulter to the Government in this amount,
which for nearly ten years he has neglected
to refund. So they 60. Almost all the great
reforners' Observation-Disclosures demagogues,
have had their fingers in the Treasury deeper
than honesty and fair dealing allowed.
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An UnaccOnDp lished Missi Oh.

The New York World believes that the Re-
publican party has accomplished its original
mission, because "not only is slavery abol-
ished, but the colored race has been raised to
full civil and political equality, and all par
ties accept this result" 1t is undoubtedly
true that the Republican party has abolished
slavery and passed laws which will, if fairly
construed and effectively enforced, secure
to the colored race "full civil and political
equality" But it is not true that "all par
ties accept this result" The Democratic
party, if restored to power, would find means
practically to nullify the constitutional amend
ments and laws of Congress intended to Sc
cure equal rights. tits, therefore, absolutely
necessary for the Republican party to remain
in power to preserve what they have accom-
plished. Their mission" is very far from
being accomplished, and so the people will
decide.
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Governor Blair, Of Michigan.

Some days ago we referred to the very
general report that Hon. AUSTIN BLAIR, of
Michigan, had decided to cast in his lot with
the boiling Republicans, and follow them to
Cincinnati. AT the same time we expressed
the hope that the report was mfounded, and
that he would promptly brand it as utterly
false. Now, though he has not, for some
reason, thought proper to deny it, we feel it
due to him to say that we have reason to be-
lieve he does not intend to plunge into
the Cincinnati vortex, but will support Gen.
GRANT, if nominated-though with great re-
luctance-but will do what lies in his power
to avoid that disagreeable necessity. If he
confines his opposition to fair and honorable
efforts to that end, within the Republican
party, nobody will have a right to arraign him
for it. That is a privilege that every Repub-
lican must enjoy unrestricted. But most of
Gen. GRANTS personal enemes--Iiberal
Republicans gone far beyond this.
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North Carolina.

The Republican State Convention of North
Carolina met at Raleigh and renominated
Governor CALDWELL, the present able and
patriotic State Executive and for Lieutenant
Governor, c. H. BRoGDEN; Secretary of
State, w. II. HowERTON; Treasurer, d. A.
JENKINS; Auditor, JOHN REILLY Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, Rev. JAMES
REED; Superintendent of Public Works,
SILAs BURNS.
"A resolution was adopted indorsing the
acts Of Governor HOLDEN while Governor;
also, resolution requesting the United
States Senate to seat General ABBOTT was
adopted after hot debate.
MARCUS ERWIN and THos. SETTLE were
chosen electors-at-large for President.
Resolutions We're adopted indorsing Presi-
dent GRANT and his administration.
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Mr.. Douglass and the New Orleans
Convention.

The editor of the New NATIONAL ERA
has returned from New Orleans, just as our
paper is going to press too late, we regret to
say, for any extended notice of the Colored
National Convention.
We CLEAN from him enough to satisfy us
that this, his first visit to the Crescent City,
and through the far South, has been one OF
marked interest to himself as well as to large
numbers of all classes with whom he was
brought in contact. The main object of his
attendance upon the convention, and of his
conversations with leading colOred men of the
South, was to impress them with the convic-
ton, that upon the union and success of the
Republican party, depend the conservation Of
all that is valuable in the reconstruction Of
the country since the war; that, in a word,
the triumph of the Republican party in the
persons of its candidates to be nominated in
Philadelphia, means peace and safety to the
newly enfranchlsed people of the Republic
that the division and defeat of that party by
Cincinnati Conventions or any other appli-
ances mean, and can only mean, the loss and
ruin Of all, or nearly all, we have thus far
obtained; that personal devotion to CHAs.
SUMNER Tin which Mr.. DOUGLASS is not be-
hind the foremosD is not inconsistent with
gratitude ndpolitical fidelity to Gen. GRANT
as the candidate of the Philadelphia Conven-
ton, and the one altogether fit to be supported
by the united cOlored vote of the South.
Mr.. DOUGLASS will, undoubtedly, i'm our
next paper give his readers an extended ac-
count of the New Orleans Convention, and
his views of men and things in the South
generally.
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THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1872.
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

It 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 a journal. Published at the political cen.
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
TIoNAL ERA from April l, 1872, to December
1, 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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Andrew G.. Curtin.

1t is asserted that Andrew G. Curtin,
our Minister to Russia, and formerly nominal
Governor of Pennsylvania under A. X. Nc
Clure, is coming home to oppose the nonina.
ton and election of Gen. Grant. AS he has
held an important Office by President Grants
appointment, We do not suppose that it is by
his own free will that he makes this base re.
turn for the honor. If the report be true, ii
Is more likely in obedience to the orders Of
Mcclure, who is said to be his conscience
keeper, that he has decided to aid the rebel
Democracy into power. 1t is quite possible
that the runor was started by the boilers, and
that it has no more foundation than their w.
ing statement that Mr.. Morehead, ex-Gov.
Newell, Gen. Dix, Marshall o. Roberts. and
scores of others have deserted the Republican
party,
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rules for the reform of the civil service. He
signed the bill, appointed the Commissioners,
received and approved their report, and is
now enforcing it, as he does all laws. 1t does
not follow, however, that every Repubhcah
is bound to approve the measure, or that all
who oppose it are opposing the President.
Mr.. TRUMBULL invented the scheme
for no good purpose, it may safely be said,
and Congress unwisely passed it into law
in utter ignorance of its character. 1t is,
therefore, Congressional as much as an EX-
ecutive measure, and to Congress belongs
the responsibility of it IN reality. Those
who denounce it, as most of the very men,
bers who voted for it do, are as much the en-
emies of Congress as of the President.
Gen GRANT is rigidly enforcing an obnox-
ious law, and when Congress gets enough OF
this crude and miscellaneous invention they
will repeal it. The President requires no
law to enable him to carry out every needed
reform in the civil service. He began the
reform before the law was passed, and has
placed the service on better footing than
it ever occupied before, or than that of any
other country. The cry of civil Service
Reform" which sorehead politicians have
made one of the planks in the boilers plat
form, is intended to deceive the people into
the belief that the administration of President
GRANT is thoroughly corrupt, and that every
ofiice-holder under it is a swindler. 1t was
invented by knaves and demagogues, and
given countenance and vitality by law OF
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Amnesty.

The main plank in the sorehead boilers
platform is universal amnesty" The laws
excluding such purjured traitors as DAVIS,
BRECKINRIDGE, WIGFALL, BENJAMIN, n.
B. FOREST, and their associates from Con-
gress, the Presidency, and the Federal
courts, to every one of whom has been re-
stored the right to vote, is denounced as a
gross outrage and injustice; and they are
infinitely more earnest for its repeal than
they are to protect the lives of Southern loyal
men and secure political and civil equality
for five millions of colored men.
Indeed they are utterly indifferent to the
political and civil rights of our colored pop
ulation, and even to their lives, for their
abuse of the President for his efforts to pro-
tect the lives of Southern loyalsts against
Ku-l<lux assassins is only excelled in vio-
lence and bitterness by their attacks upon
what they characterize as the oppression
and wrong of the Government in not per-
hitting such traitors as we have named to be
elected to Federal offices as well as to rote
for them. The ability, time, and zeal of the
bogus Liberal Republicans" like ScHURz,
TRUMBULL, and Upton, are all devoted to
the interests of the bloody-handed traitors,
and to the repeal of laws designed to protect
loyal men from their Outrages.
The strong protest adopted by the New
Orleans National Convention against univer-
sal amnesty fairly represents the views of
the five millions of colored American citizens.
Surely the voice of class of our population
casting nine hundred thousand Republican rotes
in relation to question that deeply concerns
them, is entitled to some respect from a Re-
publican Congress. To repeal the laws eX-
Guiding the leading traitors from Congress
only score or so in each State-and refuse
to enact supplementary civil rights law Sc
curing to them what these very prescribed
traitors enjoy, would be gross insult to
colored men, and as unwise and impolitic as
it would be useless. Not traitor would be
conciliated by it. On the contrary, it would
only make them the more eXacting, inso-
lent, and senseless. The result of every
concession we have made to them, and they
have been numerous, has had no other effect
than this. Let Congress avoid the breakers