Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-08-31
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette

| Gazette,l
WHO is Gratz Brown-in his family
what are his blood ties ? WHO are the
| eminent men of his genius Who are his
natural supporters His natural friends
| are men who could claim his attention by
! Il community of blood. His numerous kin.
ship has been mentioned. The extent OF
it has not been overestimated. 1t is pro-
bable that he has more than one thousand
cousins living, close enough of kin to claim
his recognition by calling him Cousin
Gratz," and 1t is probable that uihe hun
dred of them have been and are rebels and
Democrats. So when Gratz went back Id
Dem ccracy he went to his old family. and
they received him rs they did back the
Blnirs, who are Of the same family. Let
us sec who they are that received him and
became his warm supporters.
l. The Brcckcnridgcs, John c., YIN. c.
T.. robert D., were all officers of the rebel
army. We know of but one man of this
name now living who is at all prominent
that is an opponent of cousin Gratz-IIon.
sam. breckenridge, of ST. Louis. The
family is large one, very large, and only
few of them were Union men. and still
fewer are now Republicans. Tie subdivi-
sions OF this family. the Graysons, Bull
locks, Gambles, Watts, ETC., were all or
nearly all rebels, and among them such
rebels as Hon. j. L. Holcomb, rebel agent
in Canada, who married a cousin of Gratz
Brown.
,. The Brown fimly proper. Of this
one the vast majority were Southern peo-
pie, Shareholders, and nearly all of them
rebels, and among them is the noted names
OF the Gergers, of Mississippi. Gratz
Browns father was n Union man, and so
were his brothers, but they are now with
him--gone back to the old family roof.
j. Ofthe Preston branch there are n host
and it is difficult thing to find d Union
man among them but rebel officers were
plentiful, William Preston, of Kentucky,
rebel general, William b. Preston, of Vir-
ginia, rebel Confederate States Senator
gohn 5; prestS9an, Esbsl ssRetgal Ao IS,
ISarrs , John Il. Floyd, Of great notoriety;
the Professor Holmes, and Professor Fens
able, Of University of Virginia, who arc
engaged in preparing a series OF school
with Gratz by the marriage OF his cousins:
What shall we say of tile Lewsses, Car
ringtons, Peytdns, JohnsOns. etc, Of Fir,
gnia and the South. They are the choicest
names of Democracy and the rebellion.
1. OF the Smith branch Of this family we
have the Blars and Marshalls, of Kentucky
all now with Gratz, and the most of them
rebels.
.. Then cduics the Howard branch,
with the same result, members of the best
Southern society, shareholders, generally
Democrats, aud rebels-W Wicklifcs, Wool;
leys, Paynes, etc.
We omitted to mention among his kin
Gen. Wade Hampton. We believe it was
Hampton and Blair, both cousins of Brown
that alarmed the North four years ago by
their rebel utterances. If the
South had motive in sGducing Johnson
if Breckenridge would have made the Presi-
dent they wanted ; if Buchanan could have
been cotton out of the way, so will the
very incarnation of rebellion and prosla-
very politics, In its coolest, wisest, most
determined aspect, have 4 representative
in the White House, if Greeley should die,
and GRATIS luck should make him Prcsi-
dcut. What would old man, Greeley, vain
and weak, be in the hands of these men
Frank Blair knew what he was doing at
Cincinnati.