The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1872, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY i3, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT, ' FIRST CAMPAIGN CHARGE. North Carolina Opens with a Call to Ams at Weldon. THE GUBERNATORIAL FIGHT. Avowed Lovers of Peace the First in the Field. THE TENT IN THE SYLVAN GROVE. A Day of Jubilee Between the North and South. Nebraska, North Carolina and New Jersey Bury the Hatchet and Shake Hands, Senator Tipton’s View of Re- publicanism. fenator Stockton, Governor Walker, ex-Cover- ner Vanco and General Cling- man on the Platform, Peace, Constitutional Liberty and Equal Rights. A Liberal Bepublican-Democratio Victory or Misery, Tyranny and Shame. WELDon, N. ©., July 12, 1872, To-day has been made memorabie in the annals ef the town of Weldon. Not many things transpire in the experience of Weldon that are worthy of re- membrance or mention. It is a town of not more than six hundred inhabitants, of some importance and growing in prominence as a railroad station, consti- tuting a terminus of the Petersburg Railroad, the ‘Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad; and it is the centre of the remunerative trade of the Roanoke Valley. To-day, however, is conspicuous in its aunals as the occa- sion of the largest crowd that ever collected within Ita precincts, and the presence among them of some of the most prominent and popular leaders ef the liberal party of the country. The place is not far from the boundary line of Virginia, ‘And the great Greeley ratification meeting and speaking appointed for to-day has summoned hun- dreds, not only from all the neighboring counties of the Oid North State, but hundreds as well from th¢ ster Commonwealth of the Old Dominion, The speaking has been gotten up mainly through the agency and influence of Hon. M. W. Ransom, Senator of North Cuaro- lima in the Senate of the United States, nd second perhaps only to Vance in popularity and power among the conservative citizens of the State. Senator Kansom resides but a few miles from the town, and has induced several distin- guished Senatorial associates to come here with Bim to take part in and lend éclat to the liberal grand rally. THE FIGHT FOR THE STATE, The importance of the occasion arises from the @esperate struggle now being made by either side to carry North Carolina in the gubernatorial elec- tion to be held early in August next, as the initiative skirmish of the great Presidential battle. The administration party is expendingevery means te control the result. The result is very doubtful, though your correspondent judges, from conversa- tions had to-day with leading and representative men from various sections, that the present indications are in favor of the State being swept by Merriman in August, and by Greeley in November next. The editor of the News of this town tells me the only danger arises frem the apathy growing out of ignorance mani- festea by many of the white people, espectally in the Western section of the State. Many of these mountaineers hardly know as yet tnat the war is ended, and dare not emerge from their homes wo vote for the fear of being conscripted. Then the republicans threaten that if they vote for the conservative candidate their homestead reservations will be taken away from them, and this they swallow with open and simple credulity. But the conservative hopes are apchored in the splendid canvass of Governor Vance, whose eloquence and wit move the masses with a magic peculiarly his own. To-day thousands have assembled here, and preparations have been made on the most elaborate and exten- sive scale for the great occasion, A GORGEOUS MEETING TENT. The meeting is held in a grove near the town, where a large platform is erected beneath the ‘trees, draped in flags and festoons, the national emblem being twisted around the pillars and dropping from the roof, where appropriate Patriotic mottoes are displayed from broad streamers. Back of the platform is the tnscrip- tion :— DOLE LE LORE IDLDLOLEDEDELIDDPOLOLEDODEN PEACE! PEACE!! PEACE!!! GREELEY AND BROWN, THE NATIONAL CANDIDATES, AON OROODNIOIOLODEDE DE LE LE DE And in front depend flags bearing the words:— CONSTITUTIONAL, TABERTY. AND BOCA? RIGHTS TO ALL, WHITE AND COLORED. 3 edivtirnn iv IMivnmriocrr dark bobtnarteme | And coe. AOLOLOL DOOR DPLOLELEDEDDIDLE DE DELES GREELEY AND BROWN, fHE NORTH AND SOUTH UNITED AGAINST CORRUPTION, AOC DODI DORE OLEAN ATE OEE PEDO SESEDEDEDE PE DEDEDE. A fine band from Richmond discourses inspiring Music, and the throng swells rapidly, filling with the yeomanry of the country and visitors from abroad, and with many ladies, the seats arranged ‘beneath the broad and leafy arches of the arbor, THE PROMINENT SPEAKERS present are Governor Gilbert ©. Walker, of Vir- ginia; Senator Tipton, of Nebraska; Senator Stock- ton, of New Jersey; Senator Ransom, of North Carolina; ex-Governor 8. B, Vance; Colonel J, W. Hinton, of Norfolk, and others of mere local reputation, The utmost earnestness and enthusiasm prevail, and the discharge of ordnance gives utterance to the popular purpose and feeling. A grand barbecue has been spread beneath the trees, Whole roasted oxen and hogs and other edibles on a liberal scale and re- freshments of all kinds salute the eyes and nostrils, and the sunshine streaming over all is auspicious and happy. The speakers were escorted from the £mery House to the stand prepared for them, speaking being preceded by music and the thunder of cannon, and greeted by the enthusiastic and prolonged cheers of the multitude assembled, OPENING THE BALL. The exercises of the occasion are under the direc- tion of the Mayor of the town. The meeting was called to order at twelve M. by R. H. Smith, of , Halifax, on whose motion Mr, L. S, Keener was called to preside. Mr. Keener, in taking the chair, said that as a recent ‘elegate from North Carolina to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore he bronght good tidings. Recognizing the constl- tution “* “he bond of the Union in peace and war, ‘they ‘e party had discarded all old party and, (differences and afiliations, and a 5 & constitutional ticket. The ¥ yh had clasped hands and inst corruption, It had role. ‘uce for its motto, and had d the De. ‘Wf Greeley and Brown as itg | Presidential amd Vice Presidential candidates. (Loud applause.) pn eg tg General Barri on, of No y ina, tn’ duced to the audience’ Senator Tipton, of Ne- braska, and General Ransom, rising, pro- posed three cheers for =e which were given with a will, Senator Tipton said, coming from such @ distance, hardl, knew how he was to reach the sentiments an touch the sympathies of his audience. He accepted the situation. As long as there was a whig party he was a follower of Henry Clay—(cheers)—but when their standard was struck down he and oth- ers did what they were to do now, attempt to reorganize it. Five years aj be had been elected the Senate of the United States from the young State of Nebraska, as radical a republl- can'as & man could be to be healthy. (Laughter and cries.) The only issue ener which the radi- cal party was organized was that of opposition to the extension of human bondage, au when the issue was removed THE PARTY MISSION WAS ENDED. There were men in their ranks of all views on the tarlif and other questions, When the war ended they were charged with reconstruction, As a panty, duty, as the mission of the party was ended, it became evident that they would have to legis- late for reconstruction to keep the party together, He had first been denounced as refractery and untrue to republicanism when he had pro- tested and voted against the provision that Missis- sippi could not even change Its e(ucational system aiter reconstruction, Mesias had the same Mil rights as Massachuseits, (Applause.) It be- same apparent to him two weeks after General Grant's Inauguration that any Senator who re- tused to support administration measures would be reported for DISCIPLINE OR POLITICAL EXECUTION. He referred to the contest in Missouri for am- nesty, enfranchisement and Beane: to the people, where Gratz brown first took position and now the people's affections, Then the President was notified that Carl Schurz had taken part in that Hberal movement, and the heads of his friends, the Germans who were his fellow citizens, bezan to drop from the guillotine, He had stood np and fonght with Schurz, but the body of the party tnsisted tha: that was loyal and republican only which tiltere through the BRAINS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. God help the brains of the White House, if Provi- dence could take care of that which did not exist. (Laughter and chee! These liberal re- blicans, alarmed by the administration, ad met at Oincinnat! and given’ you Horace Greeley, who had been adopted at Baiti- more, (Loud cheers.) He had not favored Greeley at fi ut said now that Greeley had been right. He been first in amnesty, risking all his popu- lacie the North, and going on the bail bond of Mr. Davis when he, the speaker, would not have advised it. Mr. Greeley had been ten years ahead of them, and would be ten years ahead of others in goin into the Presidentiat chair. (Cheers.) rant had made war on Fenton and Greeley in New York because they resisted his military despotism. What was the result? The State was lost to him and would go against him by one hundred thousand majority. Ifit went for Greeley only ninety thous- and it would answer all practical purposes, (Laughter.) Grant had thrown the same ad- Ministration influence and made the same quarrel in Alabama, and the result was the same with Goldthwaite in the Senate. The radicals had full controlin Arkansas, and they doubtless knew how to stuff ballot boxes, but Grant had interfered, and aga result the State would go democratic. And a similar meddling and favoritism in Ne- braska resulted in the people leaving at home his pet and favorite Senator. The speaker traced THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR, An independent republican, Logan, had declared in the Senate that no man could be independent and obey the caucus; but he had gone back to Grant, and was his henchman. This war on free opinion and independent action was wrged by the caucus, Grant had been elected on the one term rinciple, to which he was fully comumitted, ut even Grant had seen wiat a fearful crop of treachery and lies the aspiration for re-election produced, When Georgia, had been a State for two years, and a certain gentie- man had almost ruined the State, the Senate had been asked to give these people the lease of power for two and four years more, they sept back Hc Bad ett, and the people sont up a jocrat in his placé, so the liberal republicans were forced to een apart or to demean themselves in their own opinion, MORTON, IF HE LIVED 4 HONDRED YEaRs, would continue to resyrréct the bones of the war and pull the wires Of dead skeletons and skulls. ‘Then came the Ku-Klux law, and the precedent had been given, against the protest of liberal republi- cans— applause) —the unconstitutional power to say when in the country the writ of habeas corpus should be suspended and military rule established. And then came the Election law, whose enormities the speaker exposed, as also the plain violation of honor by which the last law had been adopted in violation of given pledges. These are but a few instances, and there was no way left men, who thought as he, except to leave the party. They had, therefore, UNFURLED THEIR CINCINNATI BANNER, and you have accepted the issue with us. (Ap- Ente Everything should be done that could be lone in the West and North, and you of North Caro- lina must work to bring in every loyal vote. e plause and cries of “We'll do meld It is he knew none of our business what special views Greeley holds, so long as he is an. hon- est man. He hoped the time would come when we would hardly know who was Presi- dent. He was sick of hearing it asked whether the White House thought with him, we had had too much of the President, or we had had so little of a President. We had had to take all there was. (Applause.) He could not expect to believe in everything that Greeley did, wno had investigated all questions on political economy and social sct- ence for thirty years, He had never expected to come among these people to address them, to sympathize with them, to shake hands with the democratic Senator from North Carolina, A LITTLE OF THEATRICAL DISPLAY, (Here Senator Tipton and Senator Kansom shook hands on the platiorm, amid a scene of indescrib- ‘able enthusiaem and feeling.) But these are times of wonderful transformations and changes, and he ae all to come together and forget all differences of the past and dedicate themselves to the service and salvation of a.common country, (Loud and hearty cheering.) Senator Ransom then came forward and happily introduced Senator John P, Stockton, of New Jer- sey, Wo was greeted with cheers, SENATOR STOCKTON’S REMARKS. Senator Stockton said he had always been & democrat and had never scratched a democratic ticket, Be came from a State which gave McClel- lan a majority in the middle of the war, and was the only State that did so. (Three cheers for New Teter He came as a democrat to take counsel in the present situation. He had never before addressed an audience in the South, but he was reminded of his home, where the ladies came to the democratic meetings and made the men behave themselves. He shook hands with Senator Tiptoi ind expressed great surprise at himself to be on the platform with him, appealing to a Southern audience to vote for Horace Greeley. He had held the clothes of those who stoned Stephen, and he could hardly sa: when he had been converted. He believed it was on the cars last night, At the Baltimore Con- vention he had voted against Horace Greeley, and had written to his constituents saying that the cap- tains should not be the first to desert, but that the high court of appeals of the democratic party had bod and was to be obeyed. It was not to be disguisdd that the South nominated Greeley; it was to be wondered at that the patriotic party had con- ceded its old opinions and prejudices and taken up the man whom the South demanded. Democratic Senators had told him GREELEY WAS THE RiGHfT MAN to nominate, and they were right. The North had made the nominations twice, the South had made this; he and his friends had taken back seats and believed tie South had done wisely end we nd he was prepared to go In now and Work his for 4 the election oftheir candidate. (Appiause.) He had not cee to Mr. Greeley for any personal reason; | he belleved he would be certainly elected. It wad the wisdom of Providence, the same divine arm which guided the ancient revolutionary fathers, which had inspired that unanimous nomination and dispelled ail the mists of prejudice of his and other minds. That divine arm still guided us, and would lead us through paths of peace to the restoration of the constitution. (Applause.) The speaker denounced the rule of the radical caucus and the series of outrageous and unconsti- tutional measures which had saddened the South with the Reconstruction law. Incidentally he re- ferred to the ties between the negroes and the peo- ple among whom they were born and reared, tles as dear as those of reiationship, which the radicals had deliberately broken so that they could ship the negroes into leagues and inspire them with hatred and suspicion. This was the radical schome. If these amendments, now declared permanent, are not sufficient for a party | supremacy one can easily doit by reconstruction laws. The very FREE CITY OF NEW YORK, where a hostile gun had been never lifted, a ship, with guns double shotted, had been arrayed to overawe and threaten @ free people in times of deep peace. These usurpations he had always resisted; but they had usurped, and would ng | still. If wedo notetrike the blow now there willbe nothing to fight for, General Grant had made this ‘A PERSONAL GOVERNMENT, surrounded with arrogance and clothed with tyr- ranny. ‘The speaker severely arraigned the Presi- dent for his gift taking and favoritism, and as was the master so were the ruled. Peace had been prommed and enfranchisement—a pledge that had been heartlessly broken, There could no peace till the radical party and the tyrants who control it are turned out of power. THE FEEBLE FORRIGN POLICY of the administration alone should suMce to drive it in shame out of power. Domestic corruption could de denied by hypocrisy and concealed by cun- ning; but when the courage and the character of the American people had been destroyed in the eyes of the world there was no concealment. The American “case” in the great Tribunal of Arbitra- tion at Geneva had been concetved jn the spirit of a horse trade at the cross roads; the indirect claims had been inserted, not to be pressed, but with the view of gaining a wide point, and while all the world was looking to see if there should be war or peace the arbitrators met and drove her claim out Of court, Our position was that of hay- ing ATTEMPTED TO ROB GREAT BRITAIN, ond not having the mapiiness to witidraw our un- Just claims until they were kicked out of court, there was not only corruption, but incompetency, The man hadn’t sense enough to get somebody near him who did have sense to manage our foreign relations. There was.no punishment heavy enough for the men who raked w the bones of the war to instigate strife among the sections and to pour turpentine into wounds still bieeding and sore; out so had they kept up the war by exaggerated Ku-Klux stories, disproved by their own reports. Now do you know why I and the democratic party can vote as asa unit for Horace Greeley’ And say to ever; North Carolinian, if you do not elect Mr. Greeley ouahonee you to the bar of public opinion, and to meet when Grant's tyranny Is again upon us. (Loud applause.) tion, TOS? REPUBLICS WERE LOST FOREVER! How shall we escape? We might survive ony de- structive war, but lethargy might lose us our libe ues. Let not these institutions prove a failure; say not we are uniit to govern ourselves! Liberty meant local self-government, He closed une citing the extract from the meect- ing of Herminius and Arminius, There might never be another elec- Better amid these fires to dio ‘Than live in splendid slavery. « And there was loud and long applanse, SPERCH OF GOVERNOR WALKER, OF VIRGINIA, Governor Walker, of Virginia, being introduced (not a carpet-bagger), came forward and spoke, afver nine cheers had'been given for Virginia and the Governor's Greeley hat had been pointed out, He accepted this applause asa tribute to Virginia, He had attended the Convention at Baltimore to contribute his mite towards the cause which he hoped to see triumph in November at the polls, In this contest the liberties of the country Were involved, and it was every man’ ity to buckle on his armor and fight as God gave him strength. The contest involved not only Mr. Gree- ley’s elevation, or the removal of Mr. Grant; it meant more than the promotion of men; it involved a great principle. The overnment could not endure if certa iB principles triumphed ; It would be given new strength and glory if the prin- ciples embodied in the Cincinnati platform suc- ceeded, Tne contest had gone on ever since the the organization of the government between the principles of centralization and those of local self- government, That was the issue now. The men who represented these antagonistic doctrines rep- resented them suitably in their very faces; one rep- resented war, and the other peace in his very glorl- ous and be: ig, benevolent features, POLITICAL ANTIPODES, He and Mr. Greeley had been antipodes; and he would give his reasons for Rupporting him. No man had ever assailed the perfect integrity of Horace Grecley—a man ever charitable to the poor and op- Tease Ever since the close of tho war reeley, in all his works and word had been {n favor of the restoration of the country, and would wipe out all the unpleasant reminiscences of the war, His candidacy involved, too, the restoration of peace, harmony and national feeling. This ground had been taken in Virginia these three years, and Horace Greeley had stood by them honestly and persinenuy, and Virginia rallied to his support gratefully. The State was now or- ed thoroughly, and the only cry was, ‘ge the common foe!’ He hoped it was the same case in North Carolina, with whom his State sympathized deeply when it saw the deep wrongs and indignities which had been put upon her people. He belteved as implicitly as he did in his own existence that Greeley would be the next President, and what man so craven as not to rally z his support? The whole country was looking to e NORTH CAROLINA STATE ELECTION IN AUGUST to set her first example. He besought them to speak, then, in no uncertain sound—to redeem the State from wrong and oppression and corruption. ‘They could put the State where she was before the war; and the encouragement they could give all should nerve them to redouble their efforts. If we go down in this contest we can never, he feared, shake off this tyranny. At the polls we can win the victory, if we are manly enough to reach * out and jess it. You have more interest in this stand than Virginia, and she had more than New Jersey, though the latter was coming back juto he Union without condition, (Laughter.) rginia hi been redeemed, and yet her people felt the weight of federal EN You should rally to defeat the miniofis of powér, who arg ite; ping the foundations of liberty, At no 1 since the war has a Southern citizen en- joyed American liberty. There was always some- thing charged against them. The contest was to restore them all to the full flame of American citl- zenship. More was fnvolved in this than in an: previous contest, and he entered into it with all the zeal, force, mind and heart which he pos- sessed. He wanted to see every State restored and respected, A REAL UNION, AND ALL CITIZENS FROB and equal. We had accepted the equality ofall meu before the law, and no man could truly say that no injustice had been done any citizen. The Cincin- natl sete had included these princ! the democracy had endorsed thei. The beg- garly tool who said “If we ain ower we would deprive negroes of their rights’ was false. Virginia carried out these prin- ciples, whether they had been endorsed or not they did things honestly up there. He rejoiced to wee the whole country Come up to that broad plat- form. Citizenship must be equal, and each ian must be a peer before the law. (Cries of “That's ht.) That issue was not in the present contest, which Involved decentralization and the restora- tion of the constitution. Another principle was that of the honest administration of the Govern- ment. Never before had the American name been 80 disgraced, When corruption pervaded all the departments of government felt it. Greeley would be sent like One of old to expel the rogues from the temple they had desecrated. t North Carolina speak as sbe did a century ago, she did for free- dom. He besought Vance to “charge” ead Ransom to “on” and the people to “fight” for the green ‘raves of their sires, God and their native land. ‘he cheering which greeted Governor Walker was indescribaple. GENERAL CLINGMAN’S REMARKS. General Tromas L. CLINGMAN, of North Carolina, said, some of his friends feared Greeley would de- stroy the democratic party. There was no fear of it in this country. There are but two great perma- nent parties—that of power of prerogative and that of constitutional restraints. Because Greeley rep- resented the latter principles the speaker sup- orted him. He inveighed against nepotism, fave tis, gift-taking and stubbornness, and the corrupt rings by which Grant is surrounded. The New York HeRaup said the whiskey ring already had stolen $100,000, North Carolina was full of such rogues, There were 2,000 federal spies in the State and about ten marshals in every county. Over two hundred thousand dollars had been paid les und these marshals to arrest people, and it was alleged that by these means they hoped to carry the elections; but the people | could not be driven to vote the Grant or Caldwell ticket. He thought a change in the oficeholders would do them good. Randolph said of Jeterson that he had been so long abroad as to forget the last of his “natural titles,” and these fat office- holders did not know how the common people lived. The brave men on both sides were in favor of peace, and he had anticipated such a move- ment as this as early as 1868, ‘Lhe peel le had taken up this movement before the politicians, and the democratic party, recruited by good men of all wie would move on and purify the government. le prophesied the election of Mr. Greeley. EX-GOVERNOR VANC8’S SPEECH. Governor Vance came forward amid loud cheers. He said he was like the darky in the circus, he was 80 glad he was alive; he had been “most dead.” He had despaired of the republic, but thanked God that he was mistaken. For a@ long time every voice of remonstrauce was attributed to the rebellion, and we were robbed in the name of loyalty, He believed now the Northern people, as’ they had saved their Union, meant to save the liberties which were even dearer, originated in Missouri, rose into notice at Cincin nati, was endorsed at Baltimore, and would cul- mtnate in November. fis heart was full of the good news, and he believed, as there was a God in heaven, there was a approaching of conciliation with their Northern — brethren, eter cane we had b& in a four years bitter war, in whi been laid waste and our pleasant We had prayed, hoped and longed to be reconciled on terms of freedom and equality. (This senti- ment was loudly cheered, on motion of General ur flelds had es desolated, Ransoni But there must be a compromise and 1 advance. He did not like to cherish hatred inst the government, and yet even the children learned to late it, because they saw in it oppressive hands, They had seen five hundred men and women dragged through his own town under the guard of DAMNABLE UNITED STATRS MARSHALS to be tried at Raleigh, 300 miles away, for Ku Klux- ism, before suspiciously collected juries and ju avowedly in government favor. But when it pa: into humane hands, men who said there had bee: war, but should be no longer, we could clasy over the bloody chasin, and learn to the government, the Union and the It was as much the as the North It had victory by Washington and the sons of the South, | and when It became the emblem of protection we would be proud to die for it. And we were going to elect Horace Greeley as sure as the day of elec- tion comes, and a ie an era of peace and freedom. He passed to the CONSIDERATION OF STATE POLITICS, and vigorously reviewed the abuses which have stained the radical administration, and Holden’s cruel war upon his own people, ‘The radical ad- ministration had taken all the money appropriated to build railroads, schoolhouses and the Peniten- hel and had not buiit ten miles of road nor a sl igle schoolhouse, and had not provided even for their households. In providing a State prison they had so destroyed the State credit that | fone thousand dollar new issue North Carolina bond wouldn't oring a drink of whiskey in New York. The State debt was forty miilion dollars, and the very soil was mortgaged for its payment. To keep these people in wer would be utter ruin, Thirty-two housand registered voters of North Carolina had never voted since the war, These must be brought out and voted- Over $100,000 had been sent to influence the election; but there were truth and justice on the side of the conservatives, and they would succeed, If you want to fill the hearts of all the ane of the country with rejoicing come out in August and defeat these people, and it will be the augury of victory in November, The eyes of the whole country are upon you. Victory here will virtvally end the campaign, and strike terror and dismay into the hearts of Grant and his cohorts, If you fall to elect Greeley, untold misery. deanotisin agd bankruvi¢v will be your The liberal movement | nm engaged | | the Office-Selling penalty, In four yeara more the men who had opposed enfranchisement, like Morton and Grant, would be more odious than Jefferson Davia had been, and Grant would become a private gentleman once more, There were about five thousand people present, including many negroes, who seemed to be de- lighted auditors, GREELEY AND GRANT—GRANT AND ‘ GREELEY. How the Campaign Waxes. The Philadelphia Press say: “Dr. Livingstone has been found, and in a few years the New York HERALD Will send out an agent to find the demo- cratic party.” The Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer (old line demo- crat), ungraciously says:—‘We perform to-day the most disagreeable and distasteful act of our whole life in placing as our mast head the names of Hor- ace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown as the candidates of the democratic party for President and Vice President of the United States,” As the old far- mer said to the cheese mites, “Let ’em squirm.” What a funny idea—that of the Hartford Times (old Copperhead democrat), putting up the bars against any further additions to the Greeley party! Says the Wheeling Register (originally opposed to Greeley) :—“We support the regularly nominated ticket, and will countenance no ‘bolt’ nor defec- tion.” A Welch paper in Pennsylvania talka thus of Greeley :—"Bip ginly i! Greeley mifn drmpl tamppl hypunt scrilgg gp Prilntyl ot gmshz drullzmp begphy tn writt wemnle dr gunnozit.” No, sir, Mr. Greeley uses gin In no shape. His beverage is the limpid spring water of Chappaqua. Says the Norfolk Journal (democrat):—The Tegults at Baltimore are not as we would have had them, But from now until sunset on the day of election we shall work for Mr. Greeley even more ardently than we have worked against him.” The Richmond Whig (democrat) says-—'‘All ac- counts from Baltimore concur in reporting an in- tense and wide-spread enthusiasm, and a deep- seated conviction that victory is within our reach, ‘We already breathe freer at the thought.” Says the Ohio Statesman (democrat) :—That Horace Greeley will be the next President of tho United States is, to our mind, certain as that his life will be spared until the 4th of March next.’” Cries the Albany Journal (anti-Greeley) :—Upon both sides this is the most corrupt and shameless transaction in our political history, * * This bargain, so disgraceful to both sides, cannot de- ceive the people and will not be endorsed by them.” Ejaculates the Boston Transcript (anti- Greeley) :—‘‘Mr. Greeley is before the country as a Presidential candidate in pursuance of an unprece- dented system of political tradicking, the results of which, if successful, cannat fail of being of a de- moralizing character.’’ Says the Pittsburg Dispatch (anti-Greeley:—“We know exactly now what forces we shall meet. They are strongiy arrayed. In Octoper they will show their strength to the utmost, and then every patriot in the State shouid be at the polls to vote for Hartran{t, who leads the advance in the great battle to be fougit in October tor Grant and the Union.” The Portland Press (anti-Greeley) thinks it would be indeed “strange if the man who has shown himself incapable of forming a correct opin- jon touching any question of vital importance to the Sountry, and whose vagaries a & financtor, po- litical economist and reformer have in turn ex- cited the derision of his fellow citizens, should be selected for the practical administration of affairs!" A correspondent of the Portland Press (anti- Greeley) writes from one of the Northern towné in Oxford county, Maine, that all the democrats, nearly to aman, will vote for Greeley, but not a republican, It 1s stated that there is not a Greeley man fn the town of Phillips, The liberals are said tobe an unknown quantity in the West Somerset section. How is this for the “Star in the East” The Allentown (Pa.) News (democrat) gives as its deliberate opinion “that Horace Greeley is the right man to lead in an inauguration of a better atate of things than has existed under the present administration.” The Syracuse Journal (administration) talks aloud about “Greeley, the Apostate,” saying:— The republican party from which he has basely gone does not waver. It has a great and abiding faith in its principles, for which it has triumphantly fought on many fields, and it will move forward to another national triumph grandly and proudly, compact and confident under its noble standard- bearers, Ulysses 8. Grant and Henry Wilson.” The Buffalo Express (administration) talks of “Doolittle and Greeley, the first and the last rene- gades,” and says there was a peculiar appropriate- ness in the election of Doolittle to preside over the Baltimore Convention, being the fret renegade apostate from republicanism. Says the Buffalo Courter (Greeley democrat) :— “Without doubt many democrats have ac- cepted his candidacy as a “bitter pill” or a ‘lesser evil.” But the situa- tion is changed. The question is no longer between Mr. Grecley and some ideal democratic leader, but between Greeley andGrant. * * * With all respect for the military achievements of General Grant, and with none whatever for his civilian career either fefore or since the war, we maintain that he is not to be named with Horace Greeley, whether ag to heart or brains, ability or character.” We learn from Des Moines, Iowa, that John A. Kasson will ran tor Congress in that district against Frank W. Palmer, the regular republican candidate. Mr. Kasson represented the district in the Thirty- eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses. The Cleveland Herald (administration) thinks that if “Grecley enters the White House it will be with a democratic hook in hts nose.’” Says the Syracuse Courier (Greeley democrat) :— “The ticket will be triumphantly elected, It ap- peals to the whole nation by the integrity, the wis- | dom, the ability and honesty of ite candidates. It will rally to ite support every honest man who loves his country, and will rescue her from the power of Grant and his military rings that rule us to our ruin.” The Rochester Democrat (administration) says th» following colossal combination engiueered G. eley's nomination at Cincinnati and will control Li a if elected: —"The Tammany Ring, the Brook- lu Ring, the Southern Claims Ring, the Land abbersi Ring, the Rebel Scrip Ring, the Cana, ng, the Ka Klux Ring, the Whiskey Ring.” tho Greeley papers are publishing the following & the roll of the rings in favor of the re-election of Grant:— The Custom House Ring, the General Order Swindle Ring, the St. Domingo Ring, the District of Columbia Ring, the Seneca Sandstone Ring, the Indian Ring, the Navy Department Ring, the Land-Grabbing Ring, the Chorpenning Fraud Ring, the Cameron Ring, the Washington Lobby Rin, ing, the Internal Revenue Rin; the Whiskey Ring, the Philadelphia re Ring, the Carpet-bag King, the Military Ring, the Cam- eron-Keinble “Ads” Ring, the Monopolist Rings everywhere, the Great Railroad Rings, the National Bank Rings, the Southern Vlunderers’ Rings, the Ofice-Holders’ Ring. The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette (democratic) saysthe action of the Baltimore Convention, “if pursued dil- igently, will, f% is the earnest hope of all true lovers of constitutional freedom, lead to the success It so well merits.” “Bravely done!" exclaims the Baltimore Gazette in its comments upon the action of the Democratic National Convention, “It has done well, and if,’ adds the Gazette, “under the leadership of Mr. Greeley, @ victory can be won which was otherwise unattainable, the unselfish pa- triotism that caused the democratic party to aban- don ita old traditions for the sake of promoting the welfaro of the republic will strengthen it in popular regard and add another rose to its chap- let.” The New Hampshire Patriot (a stanch democratic paper, baptized in the faith of and under the eye of the illustrious Jackson) hoista the Greeley flag, and declares that the result of the Baltimore Conven- tion was @ foregone conclusion long ago, and it adds, “there 18 no question that it isin accordance with the wishes of nineteen-twentieths of the democracy of the Union,” The Pittsburg Gazette (administration) twits its brother of the Post (Greeley democrat and amember of the Greeley Democratic National Executive Com- mittee) upon the satisfaction it must have by float- ing the pame of Horace Greeley, ‘“@ life-long aboll- tionist, whig and republican, President of the United States.” The “Bushwhacker of Chappaqua” ts the latest nom de guerre imposed upon Greeley. Saith the Baltimore Sun (Southern independent) in commenting upon the proceedings of the Con- vention :— The whole liberal republican movement, to which the action of the Democratic Convention yesterday was a response, Is predicated upon the Possibilit of an affirmative answer to theso uestions, That answer only the ballot box next November can give; but to those who have faith in the generosity, justice and magnanimity of the peo- le, and in the truth and reality of republican and lemocratic principles, the prospect of success will appear a thousand fold increased by the heartiness, sincerity and earnestness which have been the dis- tinguishing characteristics of the convention which has just adjourned. Exclaims the Washington Patriot (anti-adwinis- tration) :— The people demand a change from present mis- rule, and they intend to have it, against the com- bined efforts of the oMce-holders and camp-follow- ers, who have Bape tuled this government to venality, degraded the public service, lowered the dignity of the country abroad, discredited its highest honors at home, and polluted the sources of ¢ ite masthead for publie life, Any change must be for the better in premenee Of this degradation, None can be for the orse, “Greeley the next President, and why,""—cries the Brooklyn Times, The reasons given are classified as follows:—First, he is av honest man: second, he is intelligent and capable; third, he ts a devoted and unselfish patriot, The Temes used to be an {n- dependent republican Grant paper. “Greeley is nominated! unanimously nominated! nominated on the first ballot! joymlly exclaims the Providence Herald, and winding up with the proclamation—“Greeley must be elected! Grant must be deposed! Victory first! tien anything you wish.’? “Died, but made no sign |" is the exclamation of the Rochester Democrat upon the adjournment of the Democratic National Convention. The sign was in tne heavens, perhaps, and as the radical Democrat looks 80 seldom that way no wonder it failed to see it, The Chicago Times (old salt democrat) won't swallow Greeley, but is willing to accept the advan- tages of his nomination by the democrats in order to revolutionize certain Congressional and other local districts now republican, It accepts tie treason, but despises the traitor. The Binghamton Repudlican keeps up that “tempest in a tea-pot.” One would have thought that it had boiled over or cooled off by this time, 80 little attention was paid to it. Sam. R. Spinney, chairman of the Massachu- setts Democratic State Central Committee, ts de- clared to be the original Greeley man in that sec- tion. But what good will it do him? “The Apostate Nominated—The Reward of Treachery,” ejaculates the Cincinnati Gazette, in double leaded type, upon Greeley’s nomination at Baltimore, and it goes on to say :— The lines are now fairly drawn. Mr. Greeley now pubiicly puts himself under the strongest obliga- tons, il elected, to the democracy. They can demand and compel that their policy shall govern the coun- try, in default of which by Mr. Greeley, then Giatz Brown's “good luck” will carry him into the Presi- dential chair “before Mr, Greeley’s term 1s out!” That the whole transaction is depraved and mer- cenary is self-evident. * * * The attempt now inaugurated is simply to accomplish, by the treason ofmen in the republican party, what the South fulled to accomplish by the sword in our late rebel- lion, Let it meet the anathema of every true lover of his country and every true friend of freedom, Joyously cries the Wilmington (N, C.) Star (demo- erat) :— Greeley and fraternity! Brown and magnanim- ity: The South grects the nominees of the Baltimore and Cincinnati Conventions as the morn- ing stais that sing together of a blessed reunion and complete restoration, as the avant couriers of aday of everlasting peace and concord, as the first fruits of a generous and magnanimous policy that shall heal for ever the ugly wounds of war and bring @ reign of millennial 19% and rest to a land torn with the dissonance of contending factions. Now for victory! The Cincinnati Enqutrer (old salt democrat) says it “never felt so proud of the democratic party as it does to-day.” It predicts that the nomination is equivalent to an election. The Detrit Post (administration) declares that “the struggle of the republican party is once more with its old enemy in a new coat and a new leader, but with the same bad character and the same bad purposes as before.” The Seneca Falls (N. Y.) Courier (administra- tion) pronounces the action at Baltimore an “un- holy coalition.” The Detroit Free Press (old salt democrat) con- tinues its hostility to Greeley, and avers that the movement “will fail, and will bring into deserved contempt those leading men who have deluded and will continue to try to delude others.” “our flag is there,’ exclaims the saratoga Sen- tinel; “it is the Greeley flag.” STEPPING OUT OF THE GRANT PARTY. Secession of a Member of the New York Repablican State Committec. ELaina, N. Y., July 4, 1872. Hon. A. B. CORNELL, Chairman Republican State Committee :— Deak Sin—Four years ago the republicans of this district and of the country cast their votes for Presi- dent for a man who up to that time had never acted with the republican party, and who declared that “if he was anything at all, he was a democrat.” They felt that success with him was better than defeat with some one else. Four years have passed and they have wrought a change inthe minds of the republicans and of the people of this country. An opportunity 1s now offered to the republicans to vote for “the father of the republican party” and for the life-long advocate of its principles, and to the people to elevate to the highest oMce in their gift aman who has always been honest, faithful and true in every poat- tion In which he has yet been placed. The people believe he has sufficient ‘intelligence’ for the ofice of President, and that his intelligence is more valu- ble than the experience of the present dispenser of Presidential patronage. His long years of un- wavering devotion to the best interests of the country and his untiring labors in the cause of opular righ! ave given Horace Greeley a stiong old upon the hearts of the people. They know him to be able and honest, and they believe him to be the man for President at this time, as Lincoln was twelve years ago. beta believe that the same Providence which selected Lin- coin as the Presidential candidate then, and put it into the hearts of the people to elect him, still cares for the interests of our country.and the wel- fare and nappiness of our people. Believing thus, a fe proportion of the republicans and a great majority of the electors of tnis district have resolved to vote for Mr. Grecley at the approaching Presidential election, Not wish- ing to occupy a _ position antagonistic to that of a majority of my republican friends in the | district, and being earnestly in favor of the election of Horace Greeley for President, I have to request that ic will accept my resignation as a member of the Republican State and Executive Committees. Respectfully yours, 8. C, TABER, PENNSYLVANIA LIBERALS IN LINE, TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANTA:— ‘The issues involved in the pending political | contest are now clearly defined and the lines distinctly drawn. Despite the efforts of those who could not or would not see aad under- stand, the great uprising of the people in behalf of self-government and reform has healed the lingering estrangements of civil war, obliterated sectional differences and effaced party lines in its onward sweep. Political prejudices and distrust have been removed by the highest au- thorities of the political organizations, which are inspired by a common faith and purpose, and patriotic men of all parties can unite for the regeneration of our national, State and municipal governments. No mere political management, however skilful, could thus have de- fled the associations and antagonisms of the past. It is the ground-swell of the long restrained deter- mination of the people to restore all the depart- ments of power to order, economy and law. There will be astubborn and desperate struggle in Pennsylvania, Every channel of power is controlled by those whose mal-adminis- tration has provoked this tidal wave that 1s to destroy them, ‘Their means are neither few nor feeble. The honors, the emoluments, the plunder of the national, State, and city govern ments are in their hands, and the public posi- tions, designed for the benefit of the ople, will be prostituted to the uttermost to defeat the ople in their battle for reform. They will Ferraud the unwary, debauch the venal, intimi- date the weak and flatter the ambitious, and all the muitiptied appliances of corrupt and unscru- yulous authority will be exhausted to protract heir rule, The legislative power and the revenues end Vast resources of the State have been in their sympathies, the affections and the | control, and our places of tered to the most unworthy. revenues, the departments of power, and, as a rule, the’ offices of the law in Phildelphia have been atonce their prey and their shield, and they will surrender them only when the decisive verdict rer have been hare The trusts, the | Of the people dethrones them, The present political rale in Pennsylvania must be overthrown. it is a living libel upon republiean- ism and a blistering blot upon the Commonwealth. Every dictate of patriotism, of Integrity, of per- sonal honor and of public safety demands it, Its corruption, as authoritatively exposed, ‘ , ervades — alm! every channel of public Tust. Its prostitution’ of power and trafic in federal, Sta and = municipal — offietal favors have driven com not and upright men foom the public service, and iis complete subordi- nation to the interests of Cameron makes every path leading from it pot to public al and individual manhood. 2 eS Ee ve appeal to the people of Pennsylvan! . out ‘uustluction of party, to join ih crit thorough organization to redeem oar elty, our Legislature and our State. No district, city or county is hopeless in sich a contest” ‘The power of plunderers, however organized, not Withstand the assaults of an aroused people. The misrule with which we must grapple stands ag exceptional in our history in point of magnitude and daring, but in one thing it cannot be excep- tonal. All similar misrule has been overthrown and died without worshippers, and there can be no evading this execrable fate. On every hand erly. ties are proving power- less to array faithful people against them. selves, and their interests and tue decisive is battle now to be fought. If the present rule could be sanctioned by the people at the polls the policy of the city and State woald be settled for Years to come, and fraud, oppression and corrup- tion would be perpetuated by the highest authority Known to our institutions. If defeated now, as it must be, it will be defeated for alltime, and tie men now struggling for the honors and power of the city and State will seek safety in obsenrity, This battle for reform must be fought in our Stato contest. In vain will the leaders of misrule plead to escape the trial before the people by hiding their deformities under a national standard. However people may differ on national questions, the election of an honest and competent Executive is their . buiwark of safety. The election of proper delegates to the Con- stitutional Conveation will make organized plun- derers impossible hereafter. The election of an honest Legislature will restore the government of Philadelphia to the control of her own citizens, will brand with infamy those who would sell or buy & seat in the first Legislative tribunal of the nation, and will make our revenues secure from the grasp and the perils of the speculators. The elec- tion of an honest Auditor Gencral will save hundreds of tiousanda of dollars to the trea- sury, and enforce fidelity in the adminis- tration of our financial affairs. The elec- tion of judicial oMcers who are in sympathy with the regeneration of the government preserves in all its sanctity and power the last refuge of an op- pressed recy If the discharge of this plain and imperative duty by the people tn October shail defeat or endanger elther Greeley or Grant in November in this State there can be no argument or apology offered for his success. t the candidates of reform be sustained under all circumstance: regardless of pase y associations or prejudices, and the triumph of October will restore our State and city to houest, enlightened and patriotic govern- ment, Ifthe cause and candidates of the liberal republicans cannot, then, achieve victory in No- vember tt will be because they are not the most deserving. We are content to abide the issue, . K. McCLURE, Chairman Liberal Republican Stute Committee, Robert Morris, E. HW. Raven, C. W, MCKREHAN, PuLaveLruta, July 11, 1872. Secretaries, Fall of the Thermometer to 85 Degrees Prospect of a Change for the Better— Historic Hot Days. There was a marked falling offin the register of the thermometer yesterday. The highest point reached at three P. M. was 85 degrees, being nine degrees less than on Thursday, and fourteen less thanon the warmest day of the “heated term.’ ‘The day was, however, close and far from being cool, The skies were overcast and the indications pointed towards rain. There was a ligit fall of rain a short time before noon and at three P. M. afew drops also came down, The changes for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corres- ponding day last year, as registered at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD building, are as follows:— 1572. 1871, 1872, 78 91 85 7 7 82 1% 82 3 “HOT WEDNESDAY” IN 1802. Persons interested in meteorological phenomena may be inclined to doubt whether the reported temperature in England in 1802, and other years, is worthy of belief. In Europe the mercury does not rise from day to day until a torrid heat is reached, nor on any of the occasions to be men- tioned did there occur any cases of coup de soliel, or sunstroke, though cattle died in great numbers from the excessive warmth of the weather, The “heated terms” in England were confined to single Gaya, at long intervals, and were always followed by terrific thunder storms. On Wednesday, July 18, 1802, just seventy years age, the weather was marked by so high a temperature as to obtain for it the name of “Hot Wednesday.” At Middlesex two thermometers, the one made by Ramsden and the other by Carey, were observed at noon, and found to record ninety degrees in the shade. At the strand an other marked 101 degrees later in the day. At Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, two other thermometers, situated in a north aspect, recorded ninety-four degrees at one o'clock in the afternoon. Human efforts were paralyzed under such a teme perature and many animals succumbed, At one oe a large quantity of sheep were found dead. aving perished from the heat. There is no recor of any person having died from its effects, After a day of the most oppressive and excessive heat the neighborhood of Bath was visited with a tremen- dous storm of thunder, lightning and hail. It was the severest ever remembe ‘rhe rolling distant: thunder and quick, successive flashes of lightning were the most fearful ever remembered, One man was torn to pieces by the lightning. “HOT TUBSDAY IN 1790." Then again there was the “ Hot Taesday” in the month of July, 1790, which was, however, several degrees below the temperature of 1802. Men and women fainted, and horses and other animals died under the ene of a temperature so unusual in England, Inthe Strand, in an open window look- ing into St. James’ park, a temperature of ninety- four degrees was observed. In July, 1825, the ther- mometer at the Royal Exchange was eighty-eight At Paris, same day, it was eighty-seven ‘at Hull; 112 degrees, and at Brussels, ninety-seven degrees. On eacli of these occasions fearful thunder storms followed, causing great de- | straction to property—the glass in windows shat- tered to pieces, and trees bi; THERMOMETERS. We are not able to determine whether these re- ports are entirely reliable or how far the ther- mometers then in'use may have been correct re- corders of the heat. Numerous precautions are necessary to obt accurate results from the in- struments, A good cal depends upon the heighth and nature of the ground where they are placed, the direction in reivrence to the points of the com- pass, the vicinity of other objects, and whether the place is covered or uncovered, All these considera- tions effect the degree to which the mercury may rise in the thermometer. At all events it is evident from the records quoted that England, so far favorably situated in respect to climate, has had its “heated terms,” though of brief duration. In one case the thermometer rose to a higher point than at any tue during the present month in New York. THE MURDERED BROOKLYN POLICEMAN, The inquest in the case of John L, Donohue, who died at the City Hospital on Thursday morning from injuries inflicted on him on Sunday morning last by the murderous Battle Row gang, Williams- barg, will be commenced at the Morgue, Willoughby street, Western District, at ten A. M. to-day, The following named gentlemen will compose the jury:— Jas. O. Bradley, 203 Kent avenue; Chas. H. Fellows, 83 Lee avenue; Daniel Mauger, 624 Grand street; William §. Cooper, M. D., 384 McDonough street; Edmund Driggs, 279 Washington avenue; Jacob Moreh, 217 Grand street; James Hall, 13 Ortent avenue; George Ricard, 118 South Second street; Charles G, Sanford, 186 South Fourth street; Ben- lowell, 96 South Ninth street; N. B. Law, Peed avonhe. ig The obeegulgs of the murdered officer will be cele. brated in the Church of Sts. Peter and 1 at one orclock to-morrow, when the oilicers a’ e police off duty will attend. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. Captain 8. B. Lord, of the yacht Vixen, reports that when off the Connecticut River, on Thursday, his anughter Clara, aged five years, fell overboard, and would in all probability have Ryrepes had it not been for the prompt action of Mr. E, Smith, of Essex, who chanced to be in a sailboat in the im- mediate vicinity when the accident occurred, ‘ed by the lightning. TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, The Long Branch Express train from Philadel+ phia struck an employé of the ratiroad company at Scherck’s station yesterday and broke his arm. His name is John Gillingham. A tramp, name un- known, was struck by a passing train at Princeton Junction, on Thursday night, and severely cut about the head. He has been sent on to Philadel- phia,