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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
What He Can't Deny.

SENATOR Wilson's letter, denying the
utterance of certain words imputed to
him, begs the question. He may, or may
not, have spoken, in the heat of ha-
rangue, the alleged sentences, and since
forgotten them. However this may be,
he cannot deny the following facts The
now-Nothing party was formed to pre-
vent foreigners holding Federal or State
offices, and to make residence of twenty
one years in this country preliminary to
voting. The K N. party carried Massa-
chusetts, in 1854, by 1924 majority. In
its campaign, Henry Wilson took a most
prominent part. The Legislature then
chosen, consisting of 412 K. Ms and 4
others, sent him to the Senate. He was
known as the "Know- Nothing Senator"
and presented many X. N. petitions
from several States. A National Conven-
ton of the party met in Philadelphia,
June IA. 1855, with delegates from every
State. Henry Wilson was one of the
Massachusetts representatives. The Slav-
cry question split the Convention. The
Anti Slavery men bolted. They met at
the Girard House, with Wilson as Chair
man. They issued an appeal to the peo-
pie, which reafiirmcd every one of the
old Know Nothing doctrines. Among
the signatures to this appeal is the name
of Henry Wilson. When both wings of
the party suffered ignominious defeat, he
joined the Republicans. In his letter, he
says My profound sympathies were
ever given to the friends of liberty of all
races and nationalities abroad" They
were not given to the friends of liberty
of all races and nationalities at home
and not a Grant organ dares to try to
prove that they Chicago Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
Letter from Hon. VIM. $. GrOesbeck.

COLUMBUS, Ohio July %.
The following letter addressed to Hon.
Jno. G. Thompson and Gen. X. Brinker-
hof Chairman of the Democratic and
Liberal Republican State Executive Com
mittees of Ohio, has just been made pub
lie:
CINCINNATI, July %, 1872.
GENTLEMEN: have your note inviting me
to preside at the mass-meeting of Democrats
and Liberal Republicans, which is to be held
at Columbus on the 3Oth inst, to ratify the
action of the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Bal
timore Conventions. / am sorry to decline
an important invitation, given in such kind
words, but cannot be with you. Lest / may
be misunderstood, desire to say accept
the action of the conventions referred to,
and shall vote for Mr.. Greeley. The Presi-
Dental campaign is now fully and finally ar
ranged. There will be but two candidates,
both Republicans, and we must choose be-
tween them. 1t will not be difficult. And
while we should not hope for Democratic
Administration under Mr.. Greeley, yet as the
nomination has been by two National Con-
ventions, one Republican and the other Dem
ocratic, we may expect an Administration
that will not be partisan. And after all,
such an Administration should be very well
come, and may be just what is most needed
for the present hour. Following heavy civil
war it will be opportune, and best suited to
heal its animosities, and restore goodwill be-
tween all sections of our country and all our
people. 1 differ in politics with Mr.. G rec
ley, who was not my choice, but he has been
chosen, and with extraordinary unanimity,
and is now before us the only representative
of Cancellation, and under pledges for i'm
portant reforms. His great ability, courage,
and patriotism are unquestioned, and if he
is selected we have good reason to believe
we will get reconciliation and reform. If he
is defeated we already know we will not get
them; that the Administration now closing
will be repeated. 1t should not be repeated,
nor should we make it an example for imita-
endorsement a rp-eleCtiOn-
a soldier General Grant has been Justly dis
tinguished. His war services were great,
and should be acknowledged by all. They
have been and were generously acknowledge
ed, and we shall never forget them, but he
is not suited for civil magistracy, and we
should allow his Administration to close
with the pending term. | intended to write
at more length and some detail, but Whit
have already said is fair reply to your note.
Thanking you for your hattering invitation,
am, very respectfully, VS.. GRoEsBECK.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
General Banks Declares for Greeley
and Reform.

BOSTON, August l
Rumors of the detection of General
Banks from the support of Grant and
Wilson are confirmed by the following
letter:
BOSTON, July 81, 1871
MY DEAR SIR have the honor to ac-
knowledge by this note, in addition to our
conversation to-day, the receipt of your in
Thursday evening, in support of the re-
election of General Grant and the policy of
his Administration. No invitation could
have greater weight with me from any part
of the country nor from any portion of my
fellow-citiZens, and it gives me great pleas
ure to assure you that nothing could be add
ed to your suggestions a representative
of the citizens of Lynn to induce me to ac-
cede to their request. Their kindness to me
many years since is continual life-remem-
brance, and nothing would give me greater
qualification than to review my associations
with them; but l regret to say l am not in
accord with them in regard to the Presiden
tial canvass. Against my wishes and my
personal interests, am compelled to believe
and to say that the perpetuation of the pres
ent policy of Government is not for the adj
vantage of the country, and that it will not
tend to establish its former prosperity, nor
to promote the interests of any class of citi-
zens. No personal feeling of any form or
character enters into this Judgment. 1t is in
interest alone that l am led to this
conclusion. The uniting of the masses
of the people of all parties, sec
tions and races in support of the grand
result of the war is Indispensable to the per-
manent establishment of a general recogni-
ton of these results. 1t can be secured by
no other means. We shall all be forced to
this conclusion sooner or later. This united
action upon this basis has been the hope of
my life. l fervently desired it during the
war, and in the reconstruction of the States,
subsequent to it. 1t is now rendered in good
faith in the nomination of Mr.. Greeley, and,
for one, 1 cannot reject it. 1t was what
desired. Its contamination, although sudden
and startling, does not alarm me. My duty
to my country and myself requires me to
give him my support. l cannot advocate be-
fore your friends different course, which
neither my judgment nor my heart approves.
1t grieves me most deeply to separate myself
in thought or action from any of those with
whom l have been SO long associated, to
whom l am SO greatly indebted but be-
licve the result will justify my action and
give to the country that peace and prosper
ity which is the object of all our labors, and
secure to every citizen the civil and political
equality and freedom which was won by the
sacrifice of SO many valued lives.
Accept the assurances of my friendship
and esteem, and believe me yours, etc,
(Signed) N. P. BANKS.
To JAS. 8. LEWIS Esq, Lynn, Mass.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
THE CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Is an Independent Re-
publican Journal whi.h supports Greeley and Brown
and the Cincinnati Plat form. II believes that. since
all the distinctive principles of the Republican party
have been accomplished and all organized opposition
those principles has ceased. there is something
better of the people than to
fight old battles again. IL holds that the most
Important thing he lone is to effect complete
reconciliation between the North and the South
These two great sections of our common country
have been In bitter hostility toward each other more
than quarter of century in reference to the nsti-
tuition of Slavery. Eleven years ago this hostility
broke out IN War. Seven years ago the War termi'
mated, the Rebellion crushed and Slavery abol.
ished both by force of arms and by Constitutional
Amendment. Since that Time the Southern States
have been reconstructed. Impartial Suffrage has been
established, the payment OF the National debt Sc
cured, and the payment the Rebel debt prohibited,
by Constitutional Amendments. All of the old OBJ
staclcs to Permanent Peace and Reconciliation be-
tween the North and South have been removed. To
effect such return of friendship ami fraterna feel
ing, to the end that there may longer be any
mics of our Government in midst, is the
principal mission of the Liberal Republican party
which assembled Cincinnati the of May,
whose platform and nominees have been wisely and
periodically Endorsed by the Baltimore Conv enton.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
Drill Husbandry.

SOWING seeds in drills or narrow rows
is a practice as old as the cultivation of
plants in a garden. But, strange as it
may appear, this system of culture, which
was so universal in gardening, did not
reach a more extended field until within
the past hundred years, owing probably
to the want of proper implements, or the
indifference of agriculturists to all inno
vatiOns upon the Old-time customs and
practices. The advantages, however, of
drilling in the cereal grains are as great
as in the case of our common garden veg
etables, and although it must be obvious
that the same principles are involved,
whether they are applied to one square
rod or mile of land, still agriculturists
have been exceedingly slow to adopt this
as well as other improved methods of
culture.
1t is only about a century since the
Scotch farmers adopted the practice of
drilling in turnips, and this was more for
facilitating the cultivation than for any
supposed increase in the crop. But the
English and Irish farmers were reluctant
to adopt this system from their more pro-
gressive neighbors, and when they did it
was through compulsion in order to save
their crops from being smOthered by
weeds, by using horse power instead of
hand labor in cultivation. 1t is true that
the eccentric Jethro Tull had adopted the
drill system of culture years before the
period we name, merely forth purpose of
carrying out his somewhat visionary
theory of pulveriZing the soil to increase
its fertility. and, like many others since,
he regarded this as the only advantage to
be gained. But our more modern agricul-
tnrists have learned that even when no
after-culture is bestowed upon the crop,
drill culture affords better opportunity
for full development of the plant than
under the broadcast system.
1t must be apparent to every one that
any small seed sown with drill will be
deposited in the earth more uniformly
than it is possible to do it by hand, and
covered with pillow or harrow. Then,
again, every grain is deposited at a GER
tain depth, which is quite essential to a
uniform growth, and the drill, in passing
through the soil, prepares a bed for the
reception of the seed. Whether we can
afford to give our wheat, rye, oats and
similar grains after culture, is question
for the farmer himself to decide; but it is
a question worthy of careful considera-
ton well as experiment. In some OF
the best wheat-growing districts of Eu-
rope fifty bushels and over of wheat are
produced per acre by giving after-culture,
or, in other words, horse-hoeing the fall
sown wheat in spring. Now, if we can
by this means increase the yield per acre
FIVE, ten, or twenty bushels, it would GER
tainly pay II handsome profit on the cost
Of extra labor expended thereon.
We know that there is n deep-seated
prejudice prevalent among our farmers
against any new system of culture which
is likelyto involve any extra amount OF
labor, even if it is certain to yield greater
profits. it is but another evidence of the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

suffers from their absence; not satisfied
with employing host of Government
officials in preparing and mailing cleo
pioneering documents ; not satisfied with
detailing another and smaller host to
write and forward editorials for the Radi-
cal rural press; not satisfied with dismiss
ing from office every man suspected of
utilization with the Liberal movement
the Administration is now getting ready
TO squeeze the pockets of its subordinates
in order to obtain the sinews of war
Indeed, that process has already com
menced. Washington kilograms inform
us that all the Departments are being
Thoroughly canvassed by persons carrying
subscription papers, and that each
clerk is obliged to put down his
name for liberal sum, or take
the chances of removal The Chron-
icle, the Presidents special organ, man
aged by Senator Harlan, coolly declares,
in an article published on Thursday last,
that all those clerks who refuse to pay
the assessments made upon them for po-
litical purposes should be forthwith dis
charged There is no doubt this advice
will be promptly and strictly followed !;
and each clerk, no matter how honest,
capable and poor, must turn over por-
ton of his scanty salary to these cormor-
ants or prepare to lose his place.
Wnen we remember Grant loud
mouthed professions in regard to Civil
Service Reform his appointment of a
Civil Service Commission, whose useless
labors were accompanied by such flour
ish of trumpets and the tiattering prom
ises made by the Convention which NOM
mated him for a second term-when we
remember all these things, and then look
at the unlucky clerks being stripped of
their cash under Grants very nose, and
by his express permission, we can obtain
a clear idea of what Grant and his party
mean by Civil Service Reform.-Xissouri
Renubiic0p
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
Another Dish OF Reform.

Nor day passes that the action of the
Administration, or its agents, does not
throw more light upon that most impu-
dent of humbugs-Radical Civil Service
Reform. 1t was doubtless intended by
the unanimous nominators at Philadelphia
to keep up this humbug until November
by II carefully devised system of outward
appearances, and thereby gain many
votes; but as Grants chances become
more and more desperate, the disguise
grows thinner and thinner, and may now
be considered as flung aside altogether.
Not satisfied with sending Cabinet
Ministers right and left on spcech-mak
ing expeditions, while public business
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

"Waal-no. thankee, Cigars amt bad
Fur city chaps, such as yaou be,
But then, when corn cob's to be had,
killikinick tastes best to me.
whisky. Now thar yaou tech me, Squire;
jest a finger, seem it's yaou,
Here's-wish yaou allus might perspire
Freely sir, same as yaou now dew.
'Twere there at Gettysburg, you see,
We'd been trampin' long thru June,
Hating two days, maybe three,
Down by Gum Spring. But starting soon-
- The hrst day of July came at last,
And we still stuck at marching pace,
When from the front, growlin' blast
Told us all we'd won the race.
:" We laid that night, our guns in hand,
When down the line a rumor crept,
That little Mac had got command.
Then waves of cheers along US swept.
:" The second opened bright and fair
And still we LAID. as rose the sun,
All quiet. save when thru the air
A thirty-two lept from the gun.
And so. till long to'ards afternoon,
The ereycoats hit our range off pat,
And shells and ronnd-shot plaguey soon
Made us wish us outer that.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
-Joch Ril1inps saws. &C

Josh Billings says: "When we cum
to think that there amt on the face of the
earth even one bat too much, and that
there haint been, since the daZe of Adam,
a single surpluss muskeeters egg laid by
acksident, we kan form sum kind ov an
idee how little we know, and what poor
lob we should make ov it runnin the ma
chinery ov kreashun. Man is a phool
emmy how. and the best ov the joke is, he
dom seem tew know it. Bats have a des
tiny tew fill, and l will bet dollars they
fill it better than we do ours"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

DELIGHTFUL SURPRIsE.-Ladies whose faces
clouded by superficial dscoorations. and who
have resolved to Try HAGAN's MAGNOLIA BALM as a
remedy, have no idea of the welcome surprise they
Will receive from their after few applica-
tions of that heaIthful purifier of the complexion
If ali excitabe they will scream with rapture on
behoding the change; whether the bemish 1t Is de-
sired to remove be sallowness, blotches. pimples;
freckles, roughness unnatural pallor is bound
TO disappear under the tonic operation of this won
derful agent. To say that the blemish disappears,
does however, convey any idea of the effect pro-
duced by this celebrated beautiier. The unsightly
tnge, whether diffused over the whole countenance
in spots. patches, is replaced by a uniform,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
The Chicago Tribune is an organ of Progress.

1t believes that there multitude of abuses to
be reformed and that no time should be lost in com
has become an instrument of party tyranny and
object of selfish greed It is the great corruptor of
are openly used to control inventions and cIectons
that is the taxes collected from the People
dence Of his fact is presented to the public every
day and the proofs of It furnished overwhelnl
ingly by the recent Custom House lnvestigatl9n IN
practice such dangerous lengths that of Iresi-
dent Grant. and it is becoming question whcth
the People themselves strong enough TO throw
off the yoke thai has been imposed upon them THE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE will labor Tor thorough Re-
form of the Civil Service
The country also needs Reform in the Revenue
System. whereby the taxes collected from the People
shall go into the Public Treasury, and not into the
Golfers of private individuals and corporations THE
CHICAGO TRIBU NJ holds that the doctrine of Pro-
lection is a delusion, whereby millions of dollars
lost each year both the producer and the
will labor. therefore. for such Reform as Will
gradually reduce the Tariff Revenue standard, to
the end that Industry may he free the revenue
requirements of the Government, economically adj
In short. THE CHiCAGo TRIBUNE proposes to
Living Present and leave the Dead Past to
bury dead 1t claims for its course the merit of
Honesty and Independence. 1t has affiliations
with any class of ofticehoders or Its
with the People only. 1t seeks to ele
ity and encourage independence of thought among
its readers. In this endeavor it has been amply
tanned. From this course 1t VIII not be swerved.
Terms of the Weekly Campaign Tribune.
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sent to subscribers till November Is. the fol-
lowing either in clubs to separate addresses
Single copy
TWENTY-FIVE copies
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Posoce order or in registered letters at our risk
Address,
THE TRIBUNE COMPANY,
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
Vfueunr that will Keep Pickles.

As the picking season is now at hand and
many of our readers are concerned about
having vinegar that will keep their pickles.
we deem it our duty to inform them that
Prussing's Cider Vinegar is just the thing for
this purpose. 1t is celebrated for its purity,
strength and flavor, and warranted to keep
pickles. His works are the largest of the
kind in the United States yet we are in
formed he can scarcely supply the demand
as those who once use his vinegar will have
no other Ask your grocer for Prussipg's
Vinegar every time if you wish something
sure to keep pickles.-Cht. 1ffb.
EDITORIAL OPINIoNs.-An advertise
ment is, as general rule, an elaborate
eulogism on the merits of something
which the advertiser desires to sell. The
editors and publishers of the paper in
which it appears are not responsible for
its statements. Sometimes, however,
highly important discoveries or inven-
tons, announced to the world through the
business department of the press, seem to
demand a few words of editorial common
dation. We have no hesitation in saying
that the excellent medicine introduced
by Dr. Joseph Walker, of California,
under the name of VINEGAR BrTTERs,
belongs to this category, and has just
claim to favorable notice. There can
be no doubt as to its utility as tonic,
stomachic and alternative. We are cog
infant of many instances in which it has
cured cases of chronic dyspepsia, sup
posed to be incurable, and know that the
estimation in which it is held as remedy
for bilious and nervous disorders, inter
mittent and remittent fevers, rheuma-
tism and general debility, is founded on
experience and well deserved. The testi-
mony of "a cloud of witnesses" goes to
show that it is eminently useful in large
majority of the disorders to which the hu
man family are subject. The fact that it
contains no alcohol cOmmends it to the
confidence of that large and increasing
class of the community who insist that all
spirituous stimulants are active poisons.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

THE Elmwood Collar with its fine cloth
surface and folded edges, is daily making
new converts from among those whose pre-
iudices against paper collars have heretofore
been invincible The Elmwood is comfort
and deservedly the most popular collar among
gentlemen. Ask your furnisher for the Elm
wood
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

THE LITTLE CORPORAL.-TheA August
number of this sprighty little magazine is just as
good any previous issue, which is saying much
in its praise. Its literary contents are made mp
of original contributions and editorials which pos
sess the additional merit of being attractive and
appropriate reading for the young people. The
Illustrations are excellent. The and beauti-
full chrome Cherries Ripe is still offered to
subscribers. Published by JOIN f. MILLER, Chi
cago, at : 50 year.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

OFFICERS and soldiers who served in the
army physicians, surgeons and eminent men
and women everywhere, join in recommend
ing JohHSoJe'S -tl,od7,e L'ninient to be the
best internal and external family medicine
ever invented. That's our experience.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

ALL thhe year round, Sberidan's Cdndity
Condition Ioc,lerS, should be given to horses
that are except up" To horses and cattle
that Craze in summer they should only be
given in winter and spring.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEBIcINE.-Sdn-
ford's Lirer Ipei1orat0r-A purely Vegetable
Cdthartic and Tonic-for Dyspepsia, Constipation,
Debility Sick-headache, Bilious Attacks, and all
deran gements of Liver. Stomach and Bowels. Ask
your Druggist for it. Berdre of limitations.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17

THE PAIN KILLER.-Special attention is
invited to the testimony, voluntarily gwen
nv Rev p NJ Baker, of Elmwood, in Sc
we're case of Asiatic cholera. We would also
saw that we have frequently tested the mer-
its OF the Pain Killer, and we advise no per
son to be without it.-Irocidence az. ~ Id
ye1TjSsy