New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-27
OURLONG BRANCH LETTER.

Especial Correspondence Of the Republican.
LoNG BRANCH, July y, 1872.
The political war wages with unre-
strand activity. North Carolina is the
battle ground for the present. Grant and
his political and gift enterprise satellites,
alarmed at the outlook from their stand
point, have determined to precipitate all
their forces into that State, with the hope
Of initiating victory at the opening Of the
campaign, no matter what may happen in
any other part Of the field The truth Is,
Grant and his advisers, who have been in
close counsel here for some time, are
alarmed. The rapid and steady advance
of the Greeley column has naturally pro
duced this feeling. They have decided
that cost what it may, North Carolina
must be carried. The moral effect Of such
q victory, they contend, is needed, first, to
show vitality in the administration, and
second, as an encouraging example to the
colored men in other States. To this end,
money in extravagant sums has been pro
vided and scattered into every part Of the
old North State. This money is apprOpri-
ated in various ways-tO secure control OF
certain presses and pay for printing full
some articles about Grant; abstracts Of re
ports made in Washington to whitewash
the corruptiOns Of the administration in
customhouseq. the internal revenue service,
postofices, Indian bureau, pension bureau,
State Department, and in covering up Mr..
Boutwelrs "syndicate" swindle and other
financial jobbery.
Large sums Of money are also paid to OBJ
tain speakers, and induce the people Of
North Carolina in the remote parts Of the
State, to give their time and attend meet
ings. Cabinet ministers have been ordered
bv Grant to abandon their official business
and take the stump in that State, and Bout
we'll and Delano have done so. Grants
Know Nothing candidate for Vice President,
Henry Wilson, has been pressed into the
service Men in the various bureaus Of the
departments at Washington, and yearly all
Of the federal ofice-holders in North Caro-
lima have been compelled to violate all of
the rules Of civil service, and, regardless of
the necessities of the public business, are
doing Grants political drudgery in North
Carolina The situation of the administra-
lion party is most desperate. They assume
the position that if they lose that State all
ia lost, and if they gain it.that all is gained.
The theory Of the Greeley management
ia guite different. They lay no special
stress upon North Carolina They believe
they will carry it, but they do not believe
that il is necessary to do SO to elect Gree
lev. Their strength, which is impregnable,
ia elsewhere The Greeley forces are
watching VITA interest the operation Of
federal dictdtiOn and official corruption in
influencing tie election in North Carolina.
The .cul red vote" so called, has been
treated 10y the Grant men as Thought was
so much cotton in the market to be sold
for cash Many of the more intelligent
cOlOred men DO not believe the clap-trap
sermunizing Of Grants speakers, such as
Boutwell,, that Mr. Greeley has gone over
to the Democrats. They know that such
assertions are utterly false, and that men
like George S. Boutwell, know that they are
false.
They explain to their colored brethren in
that State exactly what the real situation
shat Republicans who pioneered the Re
publican party from its birth, nurscd it in
It's infancy, watched and defended 1t
through its varied trials and triUmphs,
wrestling with rebellion, hberating 100000
slaves, thus removing d disgraceiul insttu-
ton from the land, clevating the degraded
freedman to all the rights Of manhood and
forever removing black stigma from the
national eseutcheOn, are the men who went
90 Cincinnati, and inauguTated the Liberal
Republican movement. They adopted a
platform of principles which has received
the universal Endorsement Of every intelli-
gent man and woman in the land
Horace Greeley, the cOlOred mans friend
the philanthrOpist, philosopher and journal
ist, was nominated. He did not seek the
Office. 1t sought him. He accepted it, and
with his graceful pen and choice dictiOn he
developed strengthened and beautlfed the
platform. The Democratic party nOml-
mated Mr.. Greeley while yet they cursed
him. He did not seek their nomination.
They sought him as a necessary refuge
against the perpetuity of despOtic govern
ment. All the wOrld-press and people
declare Horace Greeley to be an honest
man. The settled Judgment of all intelli-
gent and honest Americans is that U. 5.
Grant is neither honest, capable nor just.
1t is fact in history, indisputable and
never doubted, that when U. 5. Grant was
nominated as the Republican candidate for
the Presidency in 1865 it was a necessity
which could not be averted, because Grant,
ambitious, armed with military prestige
and surrounded by non partisan but per
sonal and military friends stood ready to
accept the nomination of the Democratic
party, with all its rebellOus and treason
able purposes unrepented of, and upon the
same platform on which HOratiO Seymour
stood. To prevent this national calamity,
the Republican party, weak and still rent
with disatfechons, produced by rabid
and impraCticable men IN the ma
tiOnal councils, departed from its usual
practice of nominating a Republican and
nominated General Grant, a lifelong Dem
.Ocrat Always willing to accept anything,
Grant readily accepted the nomination.
Had this nomination not been T,Iade by the
Republicans, it would have been made by
the Democrats, and the Olicy of Mr. Grant
chen would have been to yield to the anti
Republican doctrines of the Democratic
platform, which he would have as willingly
accepted as he ever did a house, horse or
a dog He has cOnfOrmed to the platform
Of the Republicans, and played into the
hands of the cOlOred men, because il was
policy for him to do so in order that he
might be in harmony with the vast Radical
majority in Congress, and consequently
pave his way to the White House for an
other four years.
Seeing no hope to inaugurate their views
into the government of the Democratic
party of to-day, like the leading pro-slavery
Democrats of former years, such as Bout
we'll and Chase and Banks and Butler,
have abandoned their old line of policy,
adopted progressive tactics, ana do &C
knowledge that they have been wrong in
the past, by adopting principles of action
for the future cOnsCnant with the demands
of the people and the wants of the times.
In other words, they accept the situation.
Universal amnesty and universal suffrage,
the announced doctrine of Horace Greeley,
ia the Democratic balm of Gilead.
These are among the teachings of the in
tellipent colOred men of North Carolina.
TheV understand the difference between
Horace Greeley going, over to the Demo
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