Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-31
POLITICAL.


as the date for holding the Massachusetts,
Republican State Convention at Worcester.
1t is announced that the letter from the
Court Of Russia asking for Minister Curtin's
recall was written at his own request.
Although Mr.. Greeley did not preside at
the dinner to George Butler, he sent note
of apology expressing his regret and his en-
tire sympathy with the occasion.
The Belfast Journal is authorized to say
that Gen. s. F. Nickerson has Withdrawn as
a candidate for the Democratic Congressional
nomination. This unites Waldo county,
which will present but one candidate, W. H.
Mcclellan, Esq.
Great numbers of communications express.
ing firm adhesion to Grant and Wilson are
daily received from ex-solders, at the Ma.
tional Republican headquarters in New York.
An immense Liberal Republican meeting
was recently held in Bienvile parish, Louis
lana. The enterprising gentleman who got
it up nominated and elected himself for Pres
ident, dispensed with secretary, drew reso-
buttons from his pocket and declared them
adopted. Strange proceedings but be was
the only person present.
Hon. VIM. Kellogg of Louisiana, says the
strength of the Greeley party in his State is
greatly overrated and entirely misunderstood
at the North. He predicts that the State will
give handsome majority for not only the Re
publican ticket at the next election, / ut for
Grant and Wilson.
Grant wears a Greeley hat. He does not
wear Greeley head. -Courier-J Journal.
If Grant wore Greeley head the rebellion
would have been a success, and the wayw ard
sisters would have had matters all their own
way.-Cincinna,i Gazette.
Greeley and Brown flag appropriately
waves ov-r the site Of the Andersonville
prison pen. Somebody evidently has keen
eye to the ''eternal fitness of things"
The rumor that A. T. Stewart is for Gree
ley and has given twenty thousand dollars
for the Greeley campaign is absolutely With
out foundation. Though he is taking no act.
i've part in the campaign, he is squarely and
positively fox Grant and does not hesitate to
say so to his friends at all proper times. So
much for another of the numberless misrep-
reservations by which the democrats hope to
impose their candidates upon the people.
The swallowing process between the lib
erals and the democrats reminds contempo-
rary of the ballad of the cook and mate Of
wrecked vessel, who were reduced to the
necessity of deciding which should eat the
other to prevent starvation. Says the mate ::
81 loved that cook like brother dill
And the cook he worshipped me;
But we'd both be blowed if we'd either be slowed
In pother chaps hold. dye see?'
Mr.. Frederick Douglass, in an article on
the Presidential campaign, says that "wher-
ever else Mr.. Greeley may have been other
days, wherever he may be to-day in his inner
consciousness, he is practically with the pc.
litical enemies ofthe black mans liberty"
The Prairie du Chieu (Wis.) Courier, a
Democratic journal, is to be added to the list
of those who refuse to advocate the election
| of Greeley. The editor says that he knows
that there are over five hundred of his read
ers in the county of Crawford, Wisconsin,
alone, who do not wish to vote for Greeley.
"They are true Democrats, he says, "have
stood by us many years, and now we intend
by them"
This is the way Tilton talks about his sis.
ter, Susan B. Anthony: "She alighted, dove
like, in the midst of the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, and found no resting place for her pref
" feet in that surging flood. She came down
upon Baltimore, like an eagle descending
| from her mountain eyrie to snatch.a kid from
the flock, but was scared away without so
much as one little lamb to flesh her beak
upon. At Philadelphia. hover, it was other.
wise; there she and her sisters found recog-
milton, and upon Philadelphia she drops her
benediction, and over its doings flaps her
wings"
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