Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

All of the surviving members of Lincoln's
Cabinet, except Simon Cameron who was
kicked outfor stealing, are supporting Sam
uel j. Tilden for President.
Jim Blaine has charged that the CON.
federate Congress- placed at the head OF
the Committee on Commerce 1.alittle rebel,
named Hereford from West Virginia., and II
turns out that Hereford was fighting in the
Union army, while Blaine was sendinga
substitute and drawing in dlyiden di, on MS
Zach Chandler's rebuke to Carl Schurz
recalls to the Boston Post the remOnstrance
of the deacons Of a colored church OF which
Brudder Jones was pastor. Said the dcacons:
"We likes you berry much, Brudder JONES'
an we'd like to make it conf able to you;
but de fac is, we don't like dis heah preach
in bout lynn an steatfn'; we mus haD
our Sundays fer 'ligion.' HI" .
If there is a white man in this assembly
who, because he is a Democrat or because
he is a white man, believes that when l am
elected Governor, if / should be-, l will
stand between him and the law, or. grant to
him any privileges or ~innmunities that shall
not be granted to the eoiored man, he IS
mistaken, and / tell him now, if thatis his
reason for voting for me, not to vote at all
Wade Hampton. 'a+ it@tt~+
Dom Piatt saws: some Of the Iudicrous
features ofthis canvass is to see this Puritan
organization setting up Inide Bob IngersoH
as a missionary, and rallying @bout him with
the widest enthusiasm. NO". mind, L am
making no objection to Bob on account Of
his belief or lack of belief; that is a matter
altogether his own. But the inconsistency
of these men, who how in anguish il a
Catholic be nominated for an office, and yet
accept the ablest and most audacious of inf
dels since the day Of Tom Paine as a leader
and teacher, is exceedingly laughable.'
Gen. Babcock's% acquittals have one great
advantage. They, are SO clearly f~oreseen
that a .prejudiced public, led beforehand to
believe that he might possibly have been
guilty Of some little thing or other, are
spared any great shock of surprise. There
were people who were surprised, however.
The friends and employees of the accused,
including perhaps half of the jury, could
not, we are informed, conceal their aston
ishment and their joy. Gen--Babcock has
been a close student of the jury system, and
will now be at liberty to take orders for win
dications.-N. Y. Tribune. "a r- gsea.
Mr.. William Cullen Bryant is said to have
written as follows in a recent letter to a
friend in Illinois: 81 have just had a letter
from Mr.. John Bigelow, hespeaking what
was unnecessary to bespeak, a fair and just
treatment of Mr.. Tilden's exculpation,
which is soon to appear. Mr.. BigelOw says
that he has examined the facts, and knows
that the statement of them will be such as
Will leave no one any excuse for harborlnga
suspicion unfavorabIe to sFilden's honesty.
For my part L never supposed he would do
q thing SO dirty and base as that laid to his
charge. But that is not saying enough for
Mr.. Tilden. Ihave never thought he would
do even the slightest thing inconsistent with
honesty and honor.'
Republicans, like Geo. William Curtis,
who are obliged to do a good deal of hair
splitting TO account for their working side
by side with men like Blaine and Chandler
for the Republican ticket. draw very fine
distinctions between Repubiicanism and
Grantism. Grantism they say is out; it is
Republicanism, pure and simple. they are
trying TO preserve. Parke Goodwin told a
good story the other night in a speech, in
which he said these people were like the
old Bishop who attempted to excuse his &C.
c~asional profanity by. saying that he sWore
as a man, and NOT as a Bishop. Yes said
his friend, but when you 90 to hell as a
man, what will become of the Bishop?'n
"So.'' said Mr.. Goodwin, hen Grantism
goes where it ought to, what will become
of Republicanism?''