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Of Vim: great Straggle between Liberty
and Des potion for the lest
Hundred Years.
"President Johnson," say the 'Republi
cans, " after the elections of 1866, no leas
than before, has made veto follow veto,
until, in a year there were twelve or morel,
sod this in a Republic. In England—
crowned monarchy as she is—there has
not been a veto in 160 years. Britons,
though their Constitution permits it, will
not brook the executive throttle upon
acts of parliament. Vetoes were hateful
to the men who cut off Charles' head, and
to the men who dethroned James for
granting amnesty to traitors. The Pres
ident means usurpation as much as Louis,
of France, when he said, The State—that
is me.' The executive grasp is clutching
unlawful and dangerens forms ; the act
ing President of the United States, and
those whose creature he is, are assuming
forbidden prerogatives, meaning to wield
them not only to the public detriment,
but for purposes aimed against the securi,
ty if not against the existence of the gov
erment."
What an awful tyrant is President John
son ! No wonder the people, who are
made to believe these lying hypocrites,
are frightened to think such a man sits
in the Presidential chair. But what are
the facts of the ease ? Let a signer of the
Constitution answer these charges against
the President and those who sustain him.
Alexander Hamilton says in his exposi
tion of "The Power of the President:"
"The first thing that offers itself to our
observation, is the qualified negative of
the President upon the acts or resolutions
of the two Houses of the Legislature; or
in othet-words, tiffs power of returning all
bills with his objections, which will have
the effect of preventing their becoming
laws, unless they should afterward be rat
ified by two thirds of each of the compo
nent members of the legislative body.—
The propensitysof the legislative depart
ment to intrude upon the rights and to
absorb the powers of the other depart
ments, has. already been more than once
suggested ; the insufficieney of a mere
parchment delineation of each, has also
been remarked upon, and the necessity of
furnishing each with constitutional arms
for its own defence, has been inferred and
proved. From these clear and indubita
ble principles results the propriety of a
negative, either absolute or qualified, in
the executive, upon the acts of the legis
lative branches. Without the one or the
other, the President would be absolutely
unable to defend himself against the dep
redations of the legislature. He might
gradually be stripped of his authority, by
successive resolutions, or annihilated by a
single vote. And in one mode or the oth
er, the legislative and executive powers
might speedily come to be blended in the
same hands."
Congress has been acting out for the_
last two years the very propensity the
Constitution has given the President pow
er to guard against, by vetoing their acts.
He has proclaimed in every veto message,
that Congress was attempting to absorb
the powers of all the other departments
of government—even those of the Su•
preme Court.
The " insufficiency of the parchment"—
the Constitution of the United States, to
deter them in their propensity to usurpa-.
tionAms been fully demonstrated to the
people of this nation, to their great sor
row ; and even with the aid of the veto,
the President has been unable to defend
himself against their depredations, and
has gradually been stripped of his onsti
tutional authority, and threatened with
impeachment for even daring to remain
in office, and not resign the executive
chair into the hands of Coogress.
"Bat the power of a negative," says
Hamilton, "has a further use. It not on
ly serves as a shield to the Executive, but
it furnishes an additional security against
the enactment of improper laws. It es
tablishes a salutary check upon the legis
lative body, calculated to guard the com
munity against the effects of-faction, pre
cipitancy, or of an impulse unfriendly to
to the public good, which may happen to
influence a majority of that body.
"The propriety of a negative has, upon
some occasions, been combatted by an ob
servation, that it was not to be presumed
that a single man would possess more vir
the and wisdom than a number of Men ;
and that, unless this presumption should
be entgrtained, it, would be improper to
give the executive magistrate any speCies
of control over the legislative body. But
this observation, when examined, will ap
pear rather specious than solid.
" The propriety of the thing does not
turn upon the supposition of superio,Vir
tue or wisdom in the executive, but upon
the supposition that the legislature may
not be infallible • that the love of power
may sometimes betray it into a disposi
tion to encroach upon the:members .of the
government ; that a spirit of faction may
sometimes pervert, its deliberations. It is
also remarked that the liiog of Great Bri
tain has not, vetoed a bill of Parliament in ,
twiny .yews. But, there would be greater,
danger of tbe,President's- not using his;
poweroarbei neeeteary,,tben of- using it
too often." :-
If twelve vetoes then were needed in
one year to. secure the people against the
enactment of improper laws, the framers
of the Constitution say the President has
not used the veto power too often. " Ve
toes were hateful to the men who cut off
the head of Charles I," but they were not
hateful to Washington and the other pat
riots who founded our government,which
proves that they were not followers of
Cromwell, who beheaded a King that he
might himself become the monarch, and
rule over England as Puritanism now
rules over the South in the form of a mili
tary despotism.
These truths will all be brought to
light in this history, which Is designed to
reveal the awful 'nature of Puritanism—
which is now rendered still more alarm
ing by its alliance with Jacobinism. Crom
well and RobeSpierre are fighting hand in
hand against 'Washington and Liberty in
America.
Reflections for December.
FORMATION OF SNOW
Snow is a species of hoar frost • it dif
fers, however, in this particular, t hat the
hoar frost falls in the form of snow, upon
the surface of certain cold bodies, which
attract its moisture, and to which it ad
heres ; whilst the snow, before it falls, is
already formed in the upper region of the
atmosphere by congealed vapors, which
observe the same laws in falling as fogs,
dews and rains. The air is often very
cold, and this may be increased to a con
siderable degree by the density of the
atmosphere, and the accession of acid va
pors.
It is thus very easy to understand bow
the aqueous particles become congealed.
What, perhaps, contributes the most to
give this freezin g property to the air are
the clouds; and generally every snowy
day is cloudy ; and the thicker the clouds
are, the more they interrupt the rays of
the sun, and prevent their ac tion ; whence
must naturally result a degree of color
great enough to make the vapors lose
their fluidity, and convert them into snow.
But, upon the same principle, ought it
not sometimes to snow in summer ? No
doubt this may happen, and snow may be
really formed in the superior regions of
the atmosphere, but the cold in that sea
son is never sufficiently strong to coun
terbalance the effects of that reflected
frinin the earth, which meets the congeal
ed vapors as they approach the Ith4r re
gions of the atmosphere, consequently
they cannot thus appear in the form of
Snow.
This is far from being the case in win
ter ; as it is then so cold in the lower re
gions of the atmosphere, and upon the
surface of the earth, that the frozen va
pors in falling can no longer receive a suf
ficient degree of heat to melt them.
It is a pleasing sight to contemplate
the flakes of snow as they fall • in a few
months covering the whole surace of the
earth, far as the eye can reach; and it ad
mirably justiSes what was- said by the
pious Brookes when he told us that "even
snow has its charms" and winter its
sweets. Pure and innocent pleasures
may be enjoyed by all men, except those
who, for want of cultivating their facil
ities, are become incapable of reflecting,
and never regard the works of God.—
Svc BM'S REFLECTIONS.
'The first great duty of Democrats
everywhere is to subscribe for and circu
late Democratic newspapers. This work
should be commenced at once and in real
earnest. Three weeks before election is
not the time to sow the seed that makes
votes. That is harvest time when the
fruit should be gathered in. The long
winter eveningoishould be made servicea
ble in circulating and reading Democrat
ic newspapers. More effective campaign
ing pould be accomplished in this way
than is possible in the month or two pre
ceding election.—Seneca Falls Reveille.
—The Reveille is right to a dot. Du
ring the few months intervening between
the present time and the political cam
paign of next year, the one
- great and im
portant duty of Democrats is to subscribe
for sound Democratic newspapers and see
that they are extensively circulated
among their friends and acquaintances,
whether they be Democrats or Republi
cans. This work may not make as much
show as the stirring meetings during an
exciting canvass with their speeches and
music and shouts and processions, but it
is far more beneficial and effective. We
have repeatedly pressed this matter upon
our leaders, and the result of the late elec
tions in this and other States is convin
cing•proof of its importance.
rir Three years ago General Hovey
announced in Indiana that he would pre
vent the McClellan men from carrying
the State by his direct use of military
force, mid, a few weeks after, Kilpatrick,
the Radical candididate for tate Treasur
er in that State, made the following dec
laration : "Th e ballot-box in this coun
try is played oat; the country's interests
are to be controlled by a centralizedpow
er." Although the leaders of the Radi
cal party have labored industriously to de
stroy the ballot bor and place the people
under a centralized deepptieni, they, have
made a notable failure in the Northern
'States.
MONWROSE, PA., TUESDAY, DEC. 24, 1867.
From Alabama.
THE RECENT INSURRECTIONARY MOVE
MENTS IN BULLOCK COUNTY.
MorrrGIOMEIZT, Dec., 18.
The Advertiser contains reliable infor
mation of the arrest of George Shorter,
a negro of this city, who was the leader
of the recent insurrectionary movement in
Bullock county. The negro, Sborter,
claims to be from Illinois, or one of the
Northwestern States, and says that he
was sent by the radicals of that region to
organize a government in the South. The
blacks gave information of his wherea
bouts, and he was captured by whites and
blacks. When the deluded negroes of
neighboring plantations beard of it they
gathered in considerable numbers, and
clamored for its delivery to them for sum
mary punishment. They would have put
him to death, but the whites interfered
and persuaded them to let the law take
its course. Shorter was imprisoned in
the county jail at Union Springs.
A letter of Shorter's to the negroes,
whorn'he called officers of his govern
ment, has been published, showing the
nature of the organization he bad effec
ted. In this letter, Shorter decreed the
death of Jerry, treasurer of the revolu
tionary organization. There are other
letters of Shorter's in possession of the
civil authorities, and the whole of them,
with the evidence of the blacks examin
ed, will expose to the country, in all its
atrocity, a radical plot to organize the
blacks of the South in a revolutionary
conspiracy against the whites. The fol
lowing is Shorter's letter :
" I drop you a few lines on this case
about that man Jerry. Call all the men
together, and take Jerry and that money
from him, and if he don't give it up kill
him. Kill him; don't let him get away
from you all. I send these men down
to Perote, Bullock county, Ala., to hunt
for him. He has stolen some amount of
money. He has been going about and
telling more lies uubeknowingly j.o me.
He also had a full lie wrote agin me, and
I want ten more men to come down to
Pine Level with George, gild bring your
guns; tell all Ow men to go and take him
or kid him. Jeff don't fail. (Signed,)
" GEORGE SHORTEE."
Captain Bryce, Agent of 'the Freed
men's Bureau at Greensboro, recently
took keys and • liberated a number or
prisoners confined by the proper civil au
thorities. His action is severely con
demned.
At the Sheriff's sale to day, real estate,
railroad stocks, &c., sold at remarkably
low figures. Land at from five cents to
ten cents an acre, and railroad stock at
ten cents on a dollar.
The Bloody Issue. •
The Richmond Whig, which is a
staunch advocate of reconstruction upon
the Congressional plan—so much so that
it is regarded as a convert to the radical
faith—since the negro triumph at the re
cent election says :
" The election returns show with pain
ful distinctness that the negroes have
drawn a deep red blood line between
themselves and the whites, and that with
them principles are nothing, color every
thing. Under the leadership of a few
pestilent and infamous whites, who will,
no doubt, live long enough to suffer in
this world the punishment due to their
crimes, the negroes (with few, very few
exceptions) have arrayed themselves in
hostility against the whites, and have
left us no choice but to regard them
henceforth as enemies. In the language
of the Charlottville Chronicle, " every
conceivable effOrt has been made here to
harmonize the two races. Every form of
overture has been made to the blacks by
the whites. Every appliance was resor
ted to to carry the election. All has been
in vain. Drilled like an army, maneuver
ed like a body of disciplined troops,
obeying an order from the central league
like a sign from a marshal baton, the na
groes have delivered their vote like a
'concentrated broadsidd'
Now that the negroes have drawn a
blood line between themselves and the
whites, and have manifested a fierce and
stubborn determination to establish their
supremacy at the hazard of ruin to all
our interests, it becomes us to cast about
for the means of self protection.
* * The negroes (with some
few honorable exceptions, never to be
forgotten) have raised their hands against
the whites, and threaten us with ruin,
simply because we are white. They have
embarked in a wild crusade against all
whites—the Northern white and the for
eigner as well as the whites of the South.
There is but one way of arresting and
turning back this threatening tide of ne
grolanaticism and ignorance, and that is
by presenting to white people at the
North and abroad such inducements as
they will be unable to resist. No matter
where the whites shall come from or
what may be their antecedents, they will
make common cause- with us, for it is
against their skin, color, and kiudred,, that
this crusade has been set afoot,"
These are plain words from a journal
which is not opposed to nerves using
the ballot.
The - Corder of the Pentane,
The hanging of the three Fenians in
Manchester, who were so hastily convic
ted of murder in connection with the res
cue of a prisoner and the death of a po
licemen, says the Boston Post was one of
the most ill advised acts, so far as mere
policy goes, which the Britistgovern
meat could have perpetrated; and so far
as it is to judged by the stable standard
of justice it is certain that it falls short in
no degree of judicial murder. Whatever
might be either the sympathies or the
conduct of these unfortunate men, it was
not Shown that the deliberate intent of
murder was in their hearts, without the
presence of which no conviction of mur
der can be a just one. The English au
thorities have therefore left the case open
far review and decision by the entire
body of Fenians and the Irish people.
Worse than this, they have given mar
tyrs to the cause of Fenianism, which it
stood in particular need of; so thtit it is
now well equipped for the next onset it
would make against English power.
When a government, professedly as
strong as that of England; permits judg
ment to be rendered against offenders in
fear and executed in trembling, it makes
public confession of its inability to -hold
its ground. No other is so likely to
bring it into contempt. The three vic
tims to English trepidation are likely to
spring to life again in the shape of thou
sands of conspirators, scattered through
all the principal towns and cities, and ex
citing ceaseless alarms against an unpro
tected people. If this be a wise policy
for a government, that admits its danger
by its precipitancy, it is after a novel or
der of wisdom. Whether the aims of
Fenianism be foolish or otherwise,the
action of the English authorities is cer
tain to compensate for any fault of its
reputation, and elevate it at once to such
a character as would otherwise require a
tar longer time for it to command.
Tribune Scrape.
The following delicious scrap of poli
tics we take from the New York Tribune
, RETREDICEIMENT
Tried bl the test which they apply to
the President,' Congress might be
peached, individually and collectively, ev
ery session. Scarcely a week - passes but
public money is used for some purposes
fir. which there is no warrant in law or
Constitution. To take an illustration
from the present session : The first issue
of the Globe, a week ago; contains a
speech purporting to have been made'by
Judge Lawrence in the House of Rep
resentatives. It never was made, nor
was permission ever given to have it
printed. Yet it is printed and published
at an expense of about 8200 to the gov
ernment. Here is just as clear a viola
tion of law as is proven against the Pres
ident. Judge Lawrence has no more le
gal right to print that speech at the pub
lic expense than he has to print the
stump speeches he makes in Ohio at the
public expense. Yet no one thinks of
impeaching him for haling done so. Take
another case. For two years Mr. Foster,
of Connecticut, drew a salary of $B,OOO,
and 62,500 for a private secretary, when
he was, by the letter of the law, entitled
to no more than the salary of a Senator
of the United Siates. Mr. Wade does
the same now. He draws the salary of
Vice President, and is known as " Act
ing Vice President," an office not recog
nized by the Constitution or any law of
the United States. It is entirely a bre
vet rank, the extra pay has been attached
to it since 1865 by courtesy, and not by
right; and so on to the end of the chap
ter. Instances might be multiplied to
show that no department of the govern
ment could stand the test of strict ac
countability for its expeniiitures to which
the report of the Judiciary Committee
seeks to hold Mr. Johnson. The Repub
lican Congressional Committee have had
in their employ, as Southern missionaries,
for a year past, a large number of men
paid as clerks and officers of the House of
Representatives. Is there warrant of - law
for this ? It' so, it would enlighten a
great many anxious inquirers to - point out
just where it is.
Deplorable Condition of Florida.
The Charleston Mercury gathers the
followinc , from Captain Lewis M. Coxe
ter who has just returned from an exten
sive tour in Florida :
He traveled from Jacksonvilla to Tal- '
lahassee and Fernanddia to . Gainsville,
and along the varipus routes robbery and
plunder were daily' reported. The cotton
crop was a signal failure, and the little
that matured is carried away by the ne
groes, if not from the field, from the gin
houses, scores, of which have been broken
into and plundered. But little corn was
raised, and that little is going the way of
the cotton. Cattle, hogs and sheep are
nightly mdssacred by the freedmen and
carried off. One gentleman bad three
cattle shot- on one day, but the wounded
animals made their way borne before they
were captured by the desperadoes. A
lady, who a few months ago, had over
eleven hundred bead of sheep, has not
one-to her name to day—all killed and
carried 9ff by the ogroes. The Captain
tbillk4 that cotton planting on a Urge
ecale / has ceased in Florida, at least on-
der the present system of labor, over
which the employer seems to have no
control. With the failure of the great
staple, and the plunder of the remnant of
the crop, which might in part have paid
the advances for raising , the same, and
without corn to last longer than the
opening of the year, the majority of the
planters in Florida are truly in a pitiable
condition.
A Democratic Town.
The town of Jackson, Auglaize comity,
Ohio, at the recent election, polled four
hundred and nine votes, all for the Dem
ocratic ticket. This fact has called forth
considerable criticism as to the character
and intelligence of the citizens of that
town. The New York Commercial Ad•
vertiser made the following commentary,
based on alleged personal knowledge of
the ignorance prevailing in that region :
" We had the occasion to travel Through
that portion of Ohio a few years since,
when a colporteur informed us, as the
result of his observations and inquiries,
that but one in thirty of the people could
read, while, on an average, only one in
fifty five possessed a Bible."
The Democrat, published at Jackson,
iu reply to the remarks quoted above, de
clares that the informant of the Commer
cial, the " colporteur," as he ;is called,
was an itinerant vender of " Helper's
Crisis" and other abolition tracts, for
which he could not find a purchaser in the
place.
The Democrat adds that there is not
one voter in Jackson who cannot read
and write, and to back its assertion, of
fers to give a silver cup for every voter
who can be found there who cannot both
read and write. 'There is not a person in
that township, male or female, above the
age of fourteen who cannot do the same!
There is not another rural' township in
Ohio, or anywhere else, with the same
age of settlement, that has more industry,
wealth and general intelligence. Besides
the best of schools, the town has a fine
Academic Institute, kept in successful
operation ten months in the year,.that
accommodates two hundred students.
Among the cbvrch buildings one stands
there that cost forty five thousand dol
lars. In that township are model far
mers, manufacturers and thrifty and ac
complished merchants. Why should such
people vote any other than the Demo
cratic ticket ?
Abraham Lincoln's i Opposition to Ne
gro Suffrage,
Abraham Lincoln was uniformly, and
to the last hour of his life steadfastly hos
tile to negro suffrage. He never aban
doned the belief that it would be improp
er and dangerous to incorporate so large
a mass of ignorance in the body politic.
On the very last day of his life the ques
tion of reconstruction was discussed in a
Cabinet meeting, and a plan partially ar
ranged, loooking to the adjustment of the
difficulties. There was no clause incor
porating negro suffrage in it. At a cabi
net meeting held very shortly after the
accession of President Johnson the same
subject came up, and the Cabinet were a
unit then against negro suffrage. Secre
tary Stanton, in his evidence before the
Judiciary Committee, says :
The President expressed his views very
clearly and distinctly. I expressed my
views, and other members of the Cabinet
expressed their views. The objection of
the President to throwing the franchise
open to the colored people appeared to
be fixed, and I think every member of the
Cabinet assented to the arrangement as it
was specified in the proclamation relative
to North Carolina. After that I do not
remember that the subject was laver dis
cussed in the Cabinet.
The insane project of making voters of
all the barbarian negroes of the South
came from Congaess. That body alone
is responsible for the iniquitous and de
structive system which is now work:ng
ruin in the South. Stanton and some
others who were members of Mr. Lin
coln's Cabinet, after the adoption of ne
gro suffrage by Congress, supported it.
But it never received the sanction of Mr.
Lincoln,
General Grant on the Presidents Policy.
Below we give a synopsis of tho testi
mony of General Grant before the Judi
ciary (impeachment) Committee, taken
from the Philadelphia News. It is far
from comforting to the radicals : •
The General considers President John
son's policy as to reconstruction identical
with that of Mr. Lincoln. He says: "Mr.
Lincoln prior to his assassination, bad in
augerated a policy intended to restore
those (the Southern State) governments.
I was present once, before his murder,
when a plan was read. The plan (idol).
ted by Mr. Johnson, was substantially
the plan which had been inaugurated by
Mr. Lincoln, as the basis for his future
notion. Ido not- know that it was ver
batim the same. think the very paier
which I heard read twice while Mr. Lin
col%was President was the one which
was carried right through V'
The paper to which General Grant here
referred was the proclamation with refer
ence to the reconstruction of North Car
olina.
It is not wonderful that the Washing.
i VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 52.
ton correspondents say that Gen. Grant's
testimony does not please the radicals.
The fact that their proposed candidate
for the next presidency swears that, ac
cording to the best of his knowledge and
belief, the reconstruction policy of Presi
dent Johnson is exactly the same as that
officially recommended by Abraham Lin
coln, must be very disagreeable toi the
radical politcians. It puts them in a very ,
uncomfortable position. They must et-•
titer repudiate Grant,.or virtually endorse
Johnson.
We have been looking for the heavy
point to be made against President John
son and have at last foun4 it in the testi
mony of Col. Matthews. If this testimo
ny can be corroborated we have no hesi
tation in saying the President ought not
only to be impeached, but shot. Let a t n
astonished world read ;
The following is the testimony ofStanley
Matthews, of Ohio, who commanded a reg
iment in Tennessee, sworn July 1et,1867:
State whether you saw Andrew John-
son at Cincinnati in February', 1865.
Answer—l had an interview with Mr.
Johnson in February, 1865 at the Burnet
House, in Cincinnati, Ohio. During our
conversation, and while sitting togeather
on a sofa, he (Mr. Johnson) remarked :
" You and I were old Democrats." I said
yes. Mr. Johnson said, " I will tell you
what it is, if the country is ever to be
saved it is to be done through the old Dem
ocratie party." Immediately afterwards, I
took my leave.
Important to Executprs, Administra
tors, Trustees, tr.o.
In a cinder addressed to United States
assessors the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue says : " Pains should be taken to
acquaint executors, administrators, trust
ees, &c., of their persional liability for leg
ancy taxes, and that it is not only their
legal duty but for their own private inter
est and protection to pay legacy taxes and
succession taxes, under section 138, upon
ecah sum before it is paid over to the leg
atee, distrubutee or successor. All per
sons should be informed that a succession
tax is a fir st charge on the interest of the
of the successor, and of all persons claim
ing in his right in all the real estate in re.
spect whereof such duty i§ assessed, and
that snch estate is liable to seizure and
sale, even in the hands of a bona fide par
, chaser."
Got it at List.
" THE OLD DEMOCRATIC PARTY." '
West Virginia Diode of Voting.
Under the system that prevails in this
State, the radicals can always manage to
keep the majority. The modus operandi
is this : The Board of Supervisors meet,
overheul the list of registered voters, and
summon any citizen to come forward and
show cause why bis name should not be
stricken from the list. It is all the same
whether be appears or not; his name must
go off if the radical supervisors will it. Ia
this way a gentlemen who was elected by
tte Conservatives of Jefferson county to
the House of Delegates last year was de
prived of his right of suffrage,, though he
had been a consistent Union man through
out the whole period of the war. As a
matter of course be was also ousted from
his seat in the Legislature. This was ef
fected by throwing out, for alleged infor
mality or somerhing else, the vote of two
precincts wherein be had a majority;and
the seat was accorded to his radical op
ponent.
A reference to the returns of the re
cent election held in this county, purloin.
ed from Virginia, will show the whole
strength of radicalism, and the extreme
to which proscription is carried. The, full
vote of the county, without disfranchise
meet, would be about 2,500. At the re
cent election 'there were polled for the
two opposing candidates for the Senate
331 votes, the radicals electing their can
didate by a majority of 11. I'm it will
appear that seven
. eighths of the old vo
ters are disfranchised, while 171 radicals
control a county having 2,500 men who
should be voters, but are not. And this
is but a sample of what we may expect
from the Hunnicutt party in Virginia af
ter they shall have a Constitution in ac
cordance with their notions.—Lynchburg
Virginian.
A LOST MitirstEn.—While trudging
along and day all alone, a soldier met a
Methodist circuit rider, at once recogniz
ed him as snob but affetced ignorance Of
it. Preacher—" What command do you
belongs to ?" Soldier—" I belg to the
—th Texas regiment, Van Dora 's army.
What army do you belong to ?" Preach.
er—(very solemnly)—" I. belong to Abe
army of the Lord.' .Soldier—"My friend,
yeu have got a very long way fro.. head
quarters."
—The New York. Tribune late; Mad :
If the blacks are not enfranchised, Vall
andigham could beat General Grant for
President.
Then Greeley only wants the negroes to
vote to help the Radicles to elect , a Piesi•
dent. Grant or anybodp else who carries'
the negro will be beaten for the,Presiden•
cy. -
—Garibaldi is again -taming from C*-
prers, and another at,tompt:Otr Rom, is
apyrobended.