The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-19
PoLEEICAL CLIPPINGS.

NIr. Wilson
| Ia the Massachusetts Constitutional Con
vention, in 1858, an attempt was made
to insert a clause in the new constitution,
preventing foreigners from holding Office.
| Mr.. Wilson, who was a member OF the
convention opposed this measure in
strong speech, in which he says:
4 care nothing about the place where
man was born. dc not object to in
serting anything in this Constitution
which will m axe any distinction, under
any circumstances whatever, between
any man or any race Of men. and | would
myself recognize men Of any race, eInne.
and country, upon the ground OF perfect
equality. Constitutional Debates, Vol.
/, page 324.
He further says, in another speech
''The Democratic idea of the equality
before the law of all men, no matter where
they were born, or from what race they
sprung, is the sentiment Of the people
and unless restrained by the Constitution
and laws of the Union, would forever
secure it in the fundamental law of the
| United States "-VoI 2, page 79
These noble sentiments and the life
long labors of Mr.. Wilson in behalf of
equal rights to all classes of citizens fur
nish complete refutation of the SANDER
Gus charges Of his enemies.
The Republicans in Iowa are in hap
py frame Of mind, and everything is
moving on to certain success. The old
reiables are unmoved by Greeleyism, and
still stand where they have for sixteen
gears-fghting for Republicanism.
North Carolina, West Virginia. Maine
and Vermont have knocked every voter
off the fence on TO our side. Greeleyites
are respondent, and have no faith in the
e e ton of their leader. Many who have
given Greelcvism tacit support are now
coming out squarely for the Louisville
movement, and will divide the vote
that Greeley might have received.
[ haven't the slightest doubt of our
victory in November being as
complete as it was in 1870, when we elec-
ted all our State ticket, Congressman,
twelve District judges, and eleven out
of the twelve District Attorneys-loslng
one because he was personally obnoxious
to his own party. This year we haye
four vacancies in District Judgeships to
fill; thirteen Circuit Judges to elect,
and the same pumber of District Attor-
neys.
Mr.. Greeley (some time ago) COM
plimented his Dem ocratic friends with
the observation that ''In those dark
years when the stakeholder ruled from
Boston to New Orleans, the Democratic
party cheerfully wore his collar, and when
he fell from power it still howled and
barked at the heels Of the nation through
out the long and agonizing struggle for
life. This virtue at least it had-the
fidelity with which an il-treated cur
sometimes follows a brutal master; and
it is faithful yet. -
The New York Independent says of
Gen. Dix: His nomination is equiva-
lent to his election, and that too by a
large majority. There are thousands Of
war Democrats in the State whose natu-
raj place is with the Republican party,
and who, under the leadership Of ten.
Dix, will this fall give it their cordial sup
port. This we regard as settling the
question for Mr.. Greeley, so far as the
State of New York is concerned"
Grants silence, compared to Greeley's
noise, begins to tell powerfully in Grant s
favor, and even, to excite a kind of en-
thusias:n about him, which is stimulated
by the personal attacks on him. A man
who in the midst Of the insensate how
ling about his spending a couple of months
at the sea side, goes camly to the Thou
sand Islands on ID jaunt, and lets his en-
emies rave away, shows quality by
which the hearts Of most people are
more Or less stirred, by Time!' says
Hosea Biglow, [ do like man, that
ain t afeard "-Ndtion.
There came from the old North State damper,
Vermont has5struck again,
And now there comes thumper,
From the Pine Tree State of Maine.
where shall Dolly Vardens fly
The omens in September,
Are but the mutterings in the sky,
OF the thunder of November
sad, to hear their pteous CALL
so weary woe betide us,
Come rocks and mountains fall,
And from dire defeat do hide u.s.
A New York dispatch Of the 1lth says
the example of Ben. Wood, in paying
1000 for bet money on bet Of $4,000
that Greeley would be the next President,
is being followed by many other persons
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Astor House
and other resorts. Bets amounting in
the aggregate to $4,000 were compro-
missed Wednesday afternoon and evening,
by men who wagered on Greeley paying
from eight to fifteen per cent. for release.
One bet OF 500 was compromised by the
Greeley man paying SIS.
The st. Peter MIMI Tribune says it
has the names OF oyer 80 Democrats IN
the towns of Cleveland and kasota who
will vote for Grant.
The News may find Sproftable conun
drum IN political arithmetic by examin-
ing the vote of Colorado this year and
comparing it with the vote of 1868. The
Republican majority was then seventeen.
1t is now thirteen hundred. II there
should be the same percentage ofincrease
in the Republican vote all over the coun-
b.,tr 4o, ~
ley?
\ few weeks ago, the Oconomowoc
Times, speaking of the Greelcy party,
said The scum of the North, the re-
pudiaters, the disorcanizers, the moral
iiackals, who prey on graveyards and feed
fat on corruption, are received with open
arms into the new party. The next
week the editor verified his statement
by joining that party himself. st.
Clair Free Press.
The Greeley organs have been pub
fishing, recently, a list of general Is who,
they claim, are in their party. But the
leading Greeley organs In New \ ork are
now complaining sadly that they are pla-
gued with too many generals The New
York Tribune thinks that what ails the
! Greeley party now is the mastery mac
tivity of General Torpor The New
York World complains that General
Stagnation has taken camman1 of its
party Herald says that General Reac-
ton is leading regular stampede to the
rear. The Herald correspondent, who
has been iourneying through the interior
of the State Of New York, says the Gen
eral Indifference aas command Of the
rural Democrats. Here, in Michigan.
the Greeley party led by General Appre-
hension, while Its organs continue TO fol-
low the banner of General Lying.-De-
troit Post.
Horace Greeley is entitled to the Gre