Year: 1872

Marshals, deputy Marshals and spies tha
infest our Southern land, give the lie il
the plainest terms to the malignant hypo
critical statement.


But perhaps some may think we Ough
not to speak thus plainly about SO promi
nent man, especially one who SO ostenta
tiously airs his sanctity, the man wht
wears not only the cloak of religion an6
the mantle of charity, but every other kini
| of garb that modern ready-made saint
shops contain in short, the man who has
! the cheek thus to speak of himself:


In the course Of my political career
have visited 27 States and addressed ], 300
assemblages, and never in my life have
written a lie or uttered sentence tending
to degrade any man, black or white.
We have indeed tried to be moderate in
our expressions. If our readers think we
have failed, We suggest that they read the
speech a few times for themselves, and see
if they can be aLy milder.


But here is further proof Of the love this
man says he bears toward us


We propose to elect Grant for four years
longer, and Congress to support his ad-
ministratiOn. Tell the Greeley men to
work on, talk on, we are going to beat you;
but we can't trust yOu-yOu may be right
now, but you were wrong yesterday ; and
TO prove you are worthy, next Winter come
to Congress and vote for Summers civil
rights bill, and help build up the country
and make this-what it is fast becoming
the grandest government on the face of the
earth. Democrats, stop talking about the
despOtism Of the Federal government when
you know there is no despotism. You can
not open any book of history and show
where any country OH the face of the earth
has been so merciful. No man can stand
up here to-day and assert to the contrary
the denial is the most gigantic lie on re-
cord.


The Southern man who can read such
language as this, and that, too, from man
asking his suf1rages for the second high
est office in the gift Of the people, and not
despse and hate the lying wretch is cooler
and more moderate than we are.


Coming to the pending State election,
Wilson said:


About your North Carolina canvass l
know little, and propose to say less about
your local politics. But as your election
is at hand, l will say to you it is destined
to exert an immense influence upon the
vote of the country. The people of the
United States are looking upon this vote
of North Carolina as the settlement of the
Presidential contest. If the Democrats
carry it, it will give more votes for Greeley
than you think, but if you carry it, you
will give more votes for Grant than you
have got in your whole State.





Give us a victory here and we will carry
twenty seven of these States. | confess it
fairly, if you Republicans will give us a
victory here, that there will be no more
fighting-we will canter over the field
But if you allow Democratic victory, you
will put burden on our shoulders which
will make us stagger. We may stand de-
and toll to recover, and it will then afford
a substantial evidence that there is dissat
isfactiOn with the administration.


This is the only part of the speech that
bears any semblance of truth, and we call
upon cur friends everywhere to note the
confession here made by one Of the Phila-
delphia candidates. that in fact the contest
between Greeley and Grant will depend
upon the result of our North Carolina State
election.


Let us rouse ourselves, then, and get
to work, and keep at it increasingly until
the polls close on election day. Let us
leave nothing to chance. We have the
DESTINY of America in our keeping.