The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1872, Page 6

oe NORTH CAROLINA. Deadly Fight in the West Between {}% Conservatives and Republicans, © THE DOUBTFUL waurres, BS iat Senator Wilson “Weaving Deep Impressions for His Party. SAMBO SOLTD FOR GRA i The Penceful Whites Halting Tim- idly Between 'T'wo-:Opinions. | Beerviary Boutwell ard Senator,’ Tipton Spar- ring Aéross the “ Bloody;‘Chasm.” Onarvorrs, NJO., July’ 21, 1872. The tug 6! war as to which party shafl carry thts Btate on Me Ist of August ‘lies tn the great seo- ‘tion of cotmtry west of this. “The figit in the egst “in as good as settled, and in, all probability a vete “could not be changed there.except for a valuatie pecuniary consideration, ‘in the miter place/the people are distinct and *ronounced in their, He ‘tics, coler being the G@tyiding line, though: large pumibers of the whites have refrained from ‘veting ‘eince the close of the war, owing to political apathy ‘and lack of interest in'hoth national and State af- fairs. These, withoutan exception, will how come equarely up to the polis and cast their votes for the ‘conservative nominees, which will, give no incon- eiderable increase:of strength to ‘that party, and may carry a reat “many counties here- tofore republican. In “whe west, however, there are 12,000 white voters who could never te classed as belonging to any 4 party, but whe have cyinced since the clese of the war a decided preference for the republican party. Nine thousand of these: white voters could neve! even by the most thorough and relentless conse tion system, be forced into the Confederate army, and Isrge numbers of'them proved their patriotism by going from theirhomes and joining the Union army. It is the general impression here that these Union menof the west, or a large majority of them, have never voted in any election.since 1865, and it is to make this large vote effective that the efforts of both partics are now directed, Merriman, the conservative nominee for the Gov- ernorship, enda-eorps of national and local orators, gre actively at work in this section, while SENATOR WILSON 18 STUMPING THE EAST, where the blacks are solidly republican and the whi just as unchangeably democratic. The re- publican State canvassers, however, with more perception and tact than shown by the Vice Pres! dential candidate, are concentrated in the West, working, as one remarked to me, “like beavers.”? Here the greund will be hotly contested, county by county, township by township and yote by vote. Never in the annals of the Old North State has there been 60 exciting and interesting a canvass, and mever before have there been preparations so exten- «lve, so effective and so thoroughly minute for the purpose of bringing out the fall vote of beth parties. One thing fs certain, that this election ‘will settle the political status of North Carolina for years te come. Senator Doolittie did cham- pion work for the liberals while here, He was regarded by 4hem as the avlest national orator that has yet visited the State, whose arguments, style and persuasive cloquence were pecuilarly adapted to the people of the West. “If, said a leading Memocrat, ‘Doolittle could go through all those mountain ceunties and make speeches like he did at Greensboro if would be worth 10,000 votes to usin the election.” The Senator's engagements required his presence North, and, with the great- est reluctance on his part, and regret. on the part of his political admirers, he left the State. Ex- Governor Vance, General Clingman and Hardy, sides Judge Merriman, are the sin the West, and a siirewder or abler set of canvas 3 rarely to be found. It is Somewhat singular to state that the republi- leaders, with the exception of the national can ora re conducting their canvass with the utmost secrecy and caution imaginable. What their real or immediate tactics are it is hard to dis- cover, You can search in valn among the columns of the republican organs here for the appointments of Governor Caldwell and other republican spexk- 2s, and vou may ask members of the party at ay point where they ave and what they are doing, only zo de told, “1 have no idea where they but you may be sure they are doing food work inthe cause gomewhere.” Some of the conservatives mali- clously insinuate that the Governor and his co-ad- Jutors have strong motives for keeping their MOVEMENTS SO MYSTERIOUSLY O83CURE from the publie. One of the first is alleged to be a desire on their part to avoid the liberal conservative speakers on the stump, by whom they were cou- stantiy harassed to “divide time.” ~ Anoth f orking where the and hence they do not wish thelr whereabouts to yered. Still another and perhaps plauel- onis that they are indust ¥ ingly, distributing some o Ku-Kiax funds among wavering whites of the We: AML this £3 ever; put Lfeel assured that wher candidates are they are Yanciug the interests of the Goubtful vote in the Sta is now in progress, and VIE QUA which, always in the futerests and will among men ng political wrangle, Throughont 2 tes, ranging from Guilford to Me a doubtiul ture, how- the republican y aud steadily ad- . There is another which a lively fight number slenburg, found at nd influential Quaker ele: ment, ‘this were Unionists daring the war, becat nthey saw peace and in the Confederacy ruin and vicodshed. In the late elections tliey Have not taken any decided political stand, voting rather ior individuals in whom they bad confidence tl i ny party principle. In hey voted tor Genes hich he then an- he Friends pected did not ot hink that the pe come. ast SO say the conservativ and having tried the experiment failed, they are disposed to trust to Mr. Greeley, Besides ihe conservatives have, with their accustomed shiewdness, nominated & maker as their superintendeat of Pubtic Instrne- tlon, and this bait may capture every Friendiy vote in the Statc—a clear loss to the republicans, ‘The only vote about which there {s not the least pos- tible doubt is Mumbering im the sta ght thousand in Tout lignres, which can be as xolidiy counted for the republican candidate the I Al tas if whey were alveady in . Conserva 1 flutter, and make the | wns to the negro, but it I public Deyrors f the philosophic face vid) upon yniour it nay ersion upon fr, Grecley seem the they the cut vlivsiognomy of Soratio yent of sullt themise)ves me. Ekiows better A VAVIEW With ager gent ne: “Well, doun, Who are yOu going to vote for this dime? “lac wine to vote de ‘publican ticket straight aout y ident yin, what's his Ma “No, \ “Why don't yau ve “Don't huow io pane! fiend of white fo “But h No, wal he pets to be President, f he 1o pay dese people for ali de niggers ano den put de balance back in alavery, “Who told you that?” é SAMBO WILL “GO “Never mipd, sah. | Grant, de may what » *pend on.” “But whoever fold you that meant to deecive you.”’ “Yes, sali, | Knows ali dat too. judges folks @e company dey koepr, and When dis wan Gree or Llorace Greei vont dat man. He wil do when is gwine “7 SURE, 1 votes for Gen‘ral What Tknows fean y Iudge | We So-called | ea, in the last | ping to die a te. | gor irecd, | A aco £008 7C a6 tebe’ and ‘secesh’ I got my opinion ob nH of dollars. 8, then, you will vote for Grant 1” and iutegri of the country? b Year 668 reaches the conclusion pe “Yes, sah, I’se boun’ to vote for Grant, and so is | of to-day is tio} citizens exte! killed in the Florida war, the Sloux ae whole culled folks, He's de man what freed us.’ | through every State reaching every election 2 and 1854, and the enne war of You may talk te nine negroes out of ten and pro- | district in the land. Men by act in ower st the government a million of dollars and Pound the same questions, and you will invariably | catry out great fundamental principles in the : the aves of twenty white "This is the cost of receive, if not exactly the same Feplies, comainly ministration of government. Men of like Licked ‘with single tribes, and the worst of it 1s, that substantially the same. The negroes make an ex- g thus voluntarily unite in their politic a ars have never settled anything. ‘The In- cellent nucleus or basis for a republican party m rts for the purpose of pt d Bus rit hy ¢. { dians still remain, elther to be annihilat y, fores the South, ‘but, unfortunately, there is no sympa- | responsible ofices of the people those of t tate of arms, at such ‘enormous expenditures of blood thetic element out of which to develop a party. SontOw ‘cltinana: wader eereramen Sere with “eit | and treasure, or etse to be by conciliatory tn the'enmpatgn, sited down to re aaministered ‘upon, euch tepublierza “pei. | aeumOm NaN Akston teat condition oF elk 2° CARI] |, sifted down toa very fine peint, . - | stan oflices, sted a col on 01 f- ‘become en the republican side the iife of the party | ciples as, in their judgment, will best pr: the suppert. and in the end made one with the whites im the State and prestige of carrying itinview of ‘election, With the conservatives it ts different and their cause isifferomt. They allege they are fighting against the weueral corrup- tion of the repydlican party in the State, the dispo- ‘sitton to make the military subversive ‘et the civil law—as evireed in the Tfolden-Kirk wur in 1870— and they demand constitutional reform, I find that @ large majority of the white republicans are just ‘as anxious for the proposed ¢onstitutional amend- ments a3 are the democrats There\!s no provision of the constitution affecting the riglits or privileges of the people interfered and upon the reform- ator, sitions nearly evetytody agrees that the: Fare solutely essential to'fie interests and re ‘of the le. #ndeed, so gencrally does this opinion prevail that the constitutional amend- mente-Fre no ety As ped 28 an issue and are searcely mentioned im the catvass by speakers on either ‘side, WITH THE REPUSLICANS the ontest has assumed ‘mere of 3 nations] than State character, andthe fight on their side is car- ‘vied on nearly altogether tn the interest of the ad- /Turnistration., This ‘is not the result of any local demoralzation; tut the minor te issues and ‘vounty and Co} ssionel contests are swallowed ‘ap by the more overwhelming feature of carryin; ‘the for the admftaistration, for the moral effect it will have on'the national contest in No- vember. A week has given me a good opportunity of estimating the enthusiasm of the Ly paid par- ties in the contest, Candidly speaking, theconserva- tives are by far the most cheerful sanguine, and pr seem to be more alive to tne vitalimportance f the battle bt republican opponents, Sen- ator Wilson, at Wilmington, Newbern and Beaufort, had immense meetings, nearly exclusively negroes, all of which were enthusiastic aud highly gratilyin; to the distinguished orator; but in the same locali- ties any ordinary Te tanta speaker would have had just as big crowds and just as much applause. SECRETARY BOUTWELL'S TWO SPEECHES, itis stated by conservative stumpers, rather told against the perty than advanced interests. He said Mr. Grecley’s bigoay, chasm should be filled w) before hands could be shaken across it; to which Senator Tipten replied, “Yes, we will fill it up for you, We will fill it up with the political carcases of Grant and you and your followers,” which cre- ated a laugh among the conservatives, who com- posed nearly half of Boutwell’s audience. ALL THE*CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS, beginning with the great mass meeting at Weldon, were large and enthusiastic, and every white con- servative I meet seems to have resolved himself for the present into an active, hard-working politician. “What do you think,” said one to me; “will we carry the State or not?” “T don’t know,”? was my reply. “Well, if we don’t carry it this time I shall leave it and go as far West as a railroad will carry nfe. 1 shall never have any conddence or faith in white Narth Carolinians again.” “Do you think in will carry it?" I asked, “Yes; Lam willing to bet every cent I'm worth that we will carry it by at least five thousand ma- hes It can’t go any other way; it’s an impossi- ty. The republicans, however, speak pear to the same efiect. Both are modest in ciaiming the State by small majorities, and L think they are right; for the smaller the majority the greater will be the chagrin and disappointment of the beaten party. ‘There is this in the event of defeat for the republi- rans to console themselves with, that United States Marshal Carrow ana Supervisor of Internal Revenue Perry will be chie‘ly responsible for the loss of the State to the republicans here in August and to the administration in November, SECRETARY DELANO AT RALEIGH. pea et) nee Grand Republican Rally in Moore Square— Speech of the Secretary of the Interior— What Is Partyt—Defining the Formation of the Republican—Claims of the Ad- ministration on the People—A Re- view of Our Indian Policy— The Charges Against President Grant. RALEIGH, N. July 24, 1872, The Grant and Wilson demonstration advertised for some time past was made here to-day. As election day approaches the contest waxes warmer and both parties are working heartily. This occa- sion was looked forward to with interest, because of the expected presence of the Secretary of the Interior; ex-Governor Harriman, of New Hamp- shire; Senator Pool and other distin- guished members of the party from abroad. The people of this State cannot in the pending elections plead ignorance if they should vote by chance against the interests of their country. The great guns of both sides have stumped nearly every neighborhood. Considering the extensive advertisement of this meeting and the fact that this occasion, as stated by prominent republicans, was auticipated as one of the most important of the campaign, the enthusiasm maopi- fested was not up to that usual in mass meetings of | this kind, and especially that exhibited by the | excitable colored race, who, of course, compose | the major part of republican assemblies in the | South. | | | A MIXED PROCESSION, one hundred colored men, women and children, | formed in front of the Court House, and, headed | by the Raleigh Brass Band (colored), marched through the principal streets ot the city, augment- | ing in strength by additions from colored people on the line of march, Halting for 4 moment at the National Hotel to cheer the orators of the | day, the procession proceeded to Moore square, a shady grove on the outskirts of the city, on reaching which the crowd was estimated as numbering about six hundred, Seven-eighths of | the audience were of the colored race, while on the | outeKir(s of the assembly might be seen quite a | sprinkling of democrats ant liberals, who are at- tracted thither by a desire to hear what one of the CHIEY SPOKESMEN OF THE PRESIDENT } had to aif, The absence of large numbers of blacks cannot, however, be taken as | any Indication of Iukewarmness on their part in | the adininistration cause or anything like a serious | split in thei ks. ” Many reasons the demo- crats will receive but few accessions from their ranks | in the impending elections, Some time will elapse | owing to the driti of party, before the efforts of the opposition can alienate any considerable portion of | that vote. The policy of the conservatives seems to | be that set forth by Mr. Doolittle, not to base any calculation on the colored vote, but to advise them, | holding that without their votes Mr. Greeley can | be triumphantly elected. One reason of the com- | parative smaliness of the assembly was perhaps {1% i at no attraction in the shape of harbecue had provided, tnteliectual feasts in this country, as Well as elsewhere, are always more appreciated | When ved with something for the inner man, | THE STAND ERECTED | in Moore square was festooned with United | States yin it was suspended a large picture of President Grant, while at intervals were suspended large placards, bearing the following inscriptions :-— | Qaene rene reve rear PEGE PLETE PELE OOTPDE LODE NOLL DE DELON Grant and Wilson, g pe enee ee tel ene eese sd Le LOOE dt TELE EEGCLOEEEE LOOP HELIN QUEL OLIEEL TATE TIAPLPEEDOLELTELIEEIEDSETD SE LEEE TEE EOS 3 Charity for All; Malice Towards None, | Davee ne snc te tOne reer IEse nese tVel es test eDtT OPtbTbtE HE Qeerecocceceroecoososecessccerrererererecenesereeeeny 3 Let Us Have Peace, preneneceeceeenerese enters setenn eerseceentere be > QUEL PELE TETOLELEIOLELETTISSTBULE MEO AEP OETE HE 188648) }The Union, the Constitution and the Entorce-§ $ ment of the Laws. Oe Present the stand were Hon. United States Senator; Colonel Baker, of Minne- V. Phillips, elector at large; Colonel 1. Young and P. W, Perry, of the United States ve Department; W. Wh A. D. Jenkins, of the State‘ y. private t reis, colored ca on introduced by Samuel F take pleasure in intro guished fellow citizen, M | & member of President Grant's Cabinet. operation we are indebted for much o} | and freedom in elect: | joy. Nothing furthe earnest 4 To bis co he peace be said to e yoctful hearing.” 0 RET Y DKLANO, ry of the Interior then came forward In the remarks which 1 shall make ros ] can party, and consider the claims of the admin. igtration to your approval and support, im North Carolina, but throughout the there are NeW combinations i politics pro; founded on fHe most unwarrantat z | against the repybjican party and | of public affairs. Into the ton propose W inguire, U sure from el how justified upon sound’ poiltical principies, or ned M¥ the public experience of | the last twe LET ME INQUIRE WiNT IS PARTY Ja it a catch word used to flelude, deceive and Impose uver the hepest people Of the andy or is is 1 | At ten o'clock a procession composed of about | Joun Pool, | e | ments of th seen | welfare and prosperity of the whole Country. Ours Js strictly a representative goverument, and there- fore recognizes, thremghout its wholq system, the people's will as the wupreme law, subject only to the restrictions and limitations of ‘tke Constitution and laws. It is not only right andproper, but abso- Tutely neeessary for the Peavey ‘ion of American interests, therefore, that the mest convenient plan be pra ae the popes will and signify its wishes to. Mie governmént, his, in py judg- ment, can be it effected through and by the or- ganization of political parties; for, however just and corregt fhe opinions of all the people of Nerth Carelina might be, they would avail nothing unless the people¥vere allowed to manifest them in the direct voice of their representatives. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. ‘The republican Hi tutional-erganization, springing. quickly into.exist- ence after the repeal of the Missourl Compromise. Its singie purpose was to prevent the spread of slavery into the Territories, and tt laid-‘no hand on or in the States. It ts not my intention to re- peat the history of the rise and fall of slavery or to Call in review the enormities of that system. Theso have, happily, passa away. The most compact and condensed system of wrong which governments ever tolerated or the depravity of man ever in- vented is claimed te have had its ‘origin in war: and, true to its natural instincts for a little longer life and a little mere power, it drew the sword, made war on the American republic, and yer ished by the sword. In that day four millions of freemen were added to the ited States, Depending on the tssnes of that event were farre | weighty considerations. War destroyed all civ! governinent In the rebel States, The tenure of pro- perty was shaken and lost; daha. ky overtook the peaceable and the loyal: many precious lives wero sacrificed, and general disaster was extensively en- dured, But to compensate for these great evils ou have gained freedom and unity for the State, io complaint can now be lodged at the bar of Eternal Justice against the enormity of American slavery. This work has been accomplished by the Top party. ‘he democratic puty, not relishing this condi- tion, again rebelled. Its leaders in Congr and its newspaper press denounced these acts as un- constitutional, an open war on the part of the opposition being found impracticable, RESULTS OF REPUBLICAN POLICY. I now come to inquire what results have been ac- complished by General Grant’s administration which are to be placed to the credit of the republi- can party. All the great questions which were raised by the war have been settled, Emancipa- tion, reconstruction, tmpartial suffrage, general amnesty and civil service reform have ail been se- cured, either by constitutional amendment or by provisions of law. Important and threatening duferences with foreign nations have been settled by treaty, and are now in process of amicable ad- justment, and a new and important principle has been introduced into our foreign intercourses which proposes to settle differences between foreign nations upon the principle of arbitration, which, it is believed, will secure the government against the recurrence of war in the future with foreign nations, and tend greatly to advance the civilization, peice and happinéss of the world. Every State is fully represented in Congress, All parties profess to acquiesce In these results, No considerable fattion in any State to-day continues, openly, to agitate for the overthrow of these measures or dispute the justice and wisdom of the republican policy. ‘The foremost journal of Europe, the representa- tive of Buitish nation and the British debt, which formerly spoke in disparaging terms of American credit, and was never very friendly to American interests, has expressed astonishment at what we have accomplished, and has frankly ad- mitted that no nation in Europe could have borne the like strains upon her resources without the most serious embarrassments, OUR INDIAN POLICY, T fee] compelicd in these remarks to refer briefly to what is known as the Indian policy of tie pres- ent administration. It1s not denied nor has there ever been on the art of the government any effort to conceal the fact that there are occasional acts of theft, robbery and murder by Indians. These have been most frequent in Arizona and on the Texas frontier, but they have often been provoked and increased by the cruel and wicked conduct of bad white men. These acts of outrage have not been committed by organized tribes, nations or bands of Indians, but, on the contrary, by individual or associated Indi- ans, acting against the wishes of their nation or tribe, and not under tribal authority, The fact is, there are bad Indians as well as bad white men, and if, under our civilization it is impossible always to suppress or even punish robbery, theft, murder and other crimes, is it wonderful if such practices are more frequently committed and seldom pun- ished among the savages ? During the existence of the present administra- tion there has been an organized and systematic attack upon its Indian policy, The plan has been to misrepresent by denying that any good has been accomplished, and to exaggerate for sensational purposes every wrong committed by the Indians, and sometimes to assert that Indian outrages ha been committed, which assertion had no founda- tion whatever in truth, Many of these statements been suffered to pass su) silentio, Some have corrected, others denied, it is too apparent, ever, af the present noment, that this system is to be continued with increused vigor and audac- ity, for party and political purposes, to aliow of longer silence. [have resolved, therefore, to ex- pose these misrepresentations; and in order to do So with the greatest accuracy, I have applied to the able and efficient Commissioner of Indian Afuirs, General F. A. Walker, for certain facts connected with the Indian service, which I am about to present. Ishall put these facts against assertions ; or, to speak more plainly, truth against falsehood, and then trast to the judgment of a candid and honest people for a righteous verdict. Upon the authority before mentioned I therefore assert that during the present year more than twenty-five thousand Indians have been added to the pumber of those directly under the control of the government, During the three eau of the Pntcne luninistration more than eighty thousand ndians have been brought to agencies and placed under the care and supervision of Indian agents. Not to exceed fifty thousand Indians are still roum- ing beyond the supervision of their agents, notwith- yet intervenes between the settled portions of the country. It has become almost a certainty that the conung year will see the number of roaming tn- dians so far reduced that, substantially, THE WHOLE INDIAN RAC within the United States will be settled upon reser- vations. These reservations are located with rei- erence to allowing the finest development of rail- road communications, the largest extension ofagri- cultural tements and the safety of white citl- vena, They are also loc ing the best interests of the aboriginal population, and in order to afiord the members of that unforta- nate race ihe opportunity to learn the ai ts and cus- toms of civilized life, and, I trust, in the end to par- ticipate in the happy destinies of the American pco- ple. Such a vesntt wonid be well attained at any expense, for the free development of railroad com- munications and the extension of our settlements is of incalculable yaiue ely from a pecuniary point of view. Every year the advance of our fron- tier takes in a new extent of lands teeming with agriculture and mineral wealth equal to the area of pany of the largost States of the Unton or some of the most powerful empires of the world. To accomplish this without delay or em- barrassment to the aborigines of the country is one of the first duties of statemanship at the present time, and this is being done under the humane and Christian policy of the republican administration, not ouly with strict justice to the Indians, but in the spirit of merey and peac Of the 293,090 In- dians within the liinit of the United States, exctu- sive of Alaska, according to the last estimate which itis possible ‘to form, 130,000 are now supporiing themselves upon their own lands, receiving abso- lute nothing from the government beyond the int t of their own money, or annuities granted them in consideration of the cession of their lands. The lands which they have ceded have been sold by the government to actual settlers at three, five, ten, or twenty times the amount paid the Indians for them. THE AGGREGATE COST OF TEE SUBSISTENCE of the 115,000 Indians at agencies, who sre, in whole or in part, often in a very small degree, subsisted by the government, was for the past year $2,146,000, including the excessively high charges ‘the transportation of supplies which prevail in Histaut jong, The fact that this sum, | divided among 115,000 Indians, gives an average of only $21 60 head, is sufiicient lence that lary these Indians are already closely condition where they wiil be self- others a suppor | or sixty agents, with e of employes, carpen- tors, blacksmiths, farmers, millers aud teachers, to the number i al of 900, are engaged in the work of instructing these people to break up their own lands, build their own fences and cabins, saw their own lumber and grind their own corn, as well as to speak in our language and write in | oar alphabet. The cost of 80 great an enterprise is | necessari'y heavy, but it is as nothing compared to the cost of a moith of general Indian war. It must | also be remem vessarily inter- | rupts the progress of railwa ell us ie settie- he of our country, and renders insecure the | | lives of those who live On its frontier, The total amount appropriated for the Indian service in the fiscal year ending July 1, 1872, inelud- ing all deficiency appropriations, was $6,055,774. OF this sum $1,277,00+ Was appropriated ouly in the ise that it gave the admiustrative ofieers of the vnment authority (0 pay to or expend in be- of the indians moneys belonging to them These moneys Were the price of the cession o inany & huadred milhon eeres of land, now cov- | ered” by the Jarms and factories or the cities of the ‘over, of the sum appropriated considerable 28 Of three hnndred thousand dollar | mained unexpended at the close of the | Cucing the actual expenses of this gigaut | below Jour and @ half millions of dollars, SIKGLE WARS QF THE UNITED STATES | Witit single trines of Uijans have cost the ireasury standing the immense extent of territory which | ted with a view of seenr- | arty from the first was a consti- ; by mutual sympathy and by @ common devotion to a@common coxntry and the same Heavenly Father. CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL GRANT, Imust reier to some of the unreasonable and frivolous charges made sasinat General Grant, which it secms to me mothing but the mendacity tice would allow honest men to iterate or reiterate. One is that he is inattentive to the duties of his office and recreates too much at water- ing places. Those who know anything of the labors of @ President of the United States understand well that he does no more of this than is necessary and proper. They understand also that no public business suffers by any neglect of his, sy it to remember his four es years of toil and hard- ship in the field which, followed by the exhausting duties of his office, absolutely require all the time for recuperation which he takes. They ought to remember that amid rain and sleet, and snow. he spent part of one winter in recreation before melson: and, for the pleasure of the American ple, by the ap oF his are soldiers, returned 000 _prisone! the United States; and that again in the tollowing summer, ON THE BLOODY FIELD OF SHILOH, he recreated; and that next, after that, he was found idling away his time in surrounding Vicks- burg and driving the enemy inside of their fortifi- cations, where at last he compelled them to haul down their colors and surrender to the flag of the Union some thirty thousand more prisoners; that soon after that he was sent to the mountains of cparenoogw and Chickamauga, where he made the rebels again retreat; that soon after that he spent an idle summer in the Wilderness, and then a win- ‘ter of pleasure before Richmond, and Sony in the next spring, amid the pleasures of recreation, re- ceived at Appomattox the sword of General Leo and the surrender of his entire army, the last or- ee rebel force against the union of the States. ‘emembering these facts, some patience and in- dulgence is commended to those who think now that every day of his life, during a hot mid-summer, alter his necessary toll and labor, should be spent in the city of Washington, BUT HE RECEIVES GIFTS! How can he be an honest man and faithfully ad- minister the affairs of the nation ? The Injustice of this charge is so apparent as to justify the epithet of meanness and audacity. The President, without wealth, entered the loyal army, with the patriotic desire of aiding in the work of vatlan the Union, He hazarded life and health during four long years of danger and hardship; he rose in rank only as his merit and victor:es justified; from asubaitern he became a Lieutenant General, until, alter breaking up the last effective organization of rebel troops and receiving the sword of General Lee, the grateful hearts of the American people -naturally turned to him as their defender and their great deliverer. During his toilsome years of labor many private fortimes were made and others largely augmented, while it must be acknowledged that neither oppor- tunity nor avarice had prompted him to accuma- late a farthing. OUR GOVERNMENT GRANTS NO TITLES of nobility, nor settles estates in the form of annul- ties upon her benefactors; but there ia, notwith- standing, a sense of justice and generosity with the sovereign people. This prompted certain persons of large means, who had gathered and enjoyed the fruits of the President's great services aud noble sacrifices, to offer him, voluntarily, before he was spoken of as President, such testimonials of their regard and esteem as should contribute to the moderate wants of himself and family. These ofer- ings were the spontaneous outpourings of generous: feelings, creditable to the donors and honorable to the nation, They were a fitting evidence of thut sentiment of justice which characterizes the Ameri- can people, ‘they were intended not as compensa- tion for what has been done, for that was bevond price, and they furnished evidence that God yet ipa es man toward the performance of his most delicate duty. How envy, or party malice, or poli- tical rivalry can torture these noble deeds into acts to be censured and condemned passes the compre- hension of all reasonable men. DEATH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The democratic party must be regarded as dead. Its adoption of the Cincinnati platform and of the Cincinnati nominee is the announcement of its dis- solution. The present canvass is its political re- quiem. Willits old members go like Logs to the shambles driven by their leaders? Was there no principle formerly holding them together? Is there nothing now to which they aspire except the loaves end fishes of office; and will the cohesive power of public plunder, under the patriotic watchword of “anything to beat Grant,” induce all former demo- crats to vote for Greeley? Ishall be amazed if it is so. I cannot and will not believe it until I see it. It.is monstrously absurd that all these men—the rank and file—“Tray, Sweetheart and Blanche,” shall at once begin to bark tor Mr. Greeley and go for the Cincinnati platform, General Grant was then accuged of whitewashing the South. He was censured for the liberal terms anted to General Pemberton when he surrendered icksburg. He was accused of too great liberality when he received the sword of General Lee at Ap- pomattox and permitted his destitute and half- starved troops to be fed with our rations, He was thanked by Lee when he permitted the rebel treops to take home, for use on their farms, the horees which they Caled owned; and when General Lee was prosecuted after surrendering upon the agreement that future good behaviour should be his protection, General Grant insisted, like a noble aud courageous man, that Lee must be protected, These facts are too fresh and too important to be forgotten. Justice has not fled to brutish beasts nor have all men lost their reason, Time will awaken bare eae memory will lead to reficction, and reflection will show candid and upright men, whose desire for ofiice does not swallow up all other considerations, that General Grant for an -honest democrat isa much more desirable candl- date than Mr. Greeley. Tne old democratic party having expired, the members are not coimpelled to swallow the Cincinnati platform and the Tammany nomination also, but they are at liberty to rear- range their party relations and join such organiza- tion as in their judgment will best promote the public peace, prosperity and welfare. * Senator Pool was next introduced, who ad- dressed the audience at length, arraigning the democratic party generally and confining himself mainly to the discussion of State politics, ‘After the speech of Senator Pool, who charged that the whole effort of the late democratic Legisia- ture was directed to the exposition of re- publican frauds, denied that a Legislature of a State had an, right to dictate to an American Senator. Thirty-six thousand North Carolina votes had been kept from the polls by some cause. He claimed that of this number the republican party would receive 25,000 votes; that 130 or 140 had been gaiaed in Wake county by his assiduous efforts, Mr. W, P. Wood addressed a note to Mr. Delano to-day containing very strong statements as to the standing of the honorable Secretary. Mr. Wood's | statement will be considered by all who read | every possible description, fr it. as somewhat damaging to that high officer of the government, The people seem unanimously jn favor of some kind of reform, and your corre- spondent only speaks of what he sees and hears. Secretary Delano certamly fell far short of the expectations raised among his friends. He is no doubt a “clever — fellow, but none of the orators seat’ = down here can change the opinions of our honest think- ing people, The people of this State accept fully the situation; our opie are not only ready to clasp hands across the bloody chasm, but to ill it with every remembrance of the past which can possibly cause pain in that remembrance on either side. We have leaders in this great movement full 2 ve to the great interest of the country. . M. Ba ringer, late our Minister to Spain; General Bradley T. Johnson, true to his instincts is also here, aiding in the great work of reform, It is claimed nerally for the counsels of Bragg, of North Carolina, deceased, late the in- trepld defender of popular rights, devoted to con- stitutional liberty, that he fought till he died against the usurpation of unwarranted power. "the crowning glory of his life will be hailed by | his survivors as an inestimable heritage. Personal | and political Governor of North Caroiina once, his maatle has fallen on all our eee who take pride in upholding it, Peace to the ashes of i ailis, Badger and others of the Greeiey dead, their ashes live their wonted fires, UIDERAL MASS MEETING. | McClure at High Point and Boiling Over—He ee, th Answers Secretary Boutwell’s Speech at Groensboro—Enthusiasm and Good Appetites. Thien Port, N. C., July 24, 1872. One of the grandest mass meetings of the cam- palgn was held here to-day, which was addressed by Colonel A. C. McClure, of Pennsyivanta, and ex- Senator Clingman, of this State, It was an as- sembly fron Quaker communities, rarely witnessed, and strongly reminded one of an old-time political gathering. Over five thonsand people of all ages | and conditions were present from the counties of | Guilford, Randolph, Davidson and Forsythe and the | enthusiasm, for Quakers, was unbounded, The people came in Wagons and unique vehicles of distances ranging rhe meeting was held ia from five to thirty mites. agrove northwest of tue village. A United States Nag hung over the speakers’ stand, ile in trout | of it were banners bearing the following :— , erarcutianiugnae “elt anette aeaae > Fe y LEY, ot fork. [ant Another banner bore the names of the conserva- tive candidates jor Governor, Lieutenant-Goveruor M’CLURE ANSWERS BOUTWELL. Colonel McClure was the next speaker, and upon being brought to the stand there was great 4 plause and loud cheering. During the course of Temarks he a tribute to the great national in- Comensent _— of the conntry— he ae ht RA LD—W! was wari crowd, While criticis! Raete Boutwells ech at Greensboro, Mr. McClure ¢ oa . Y fail to | they go down under syste! | too will be t succumb to the same | power. “Why, Colonel, ts the South so frank in accepting | Mr. Greeley 1" - re rhe tiwave sume ied the atten- = of lis hearers to the tans | yan ee wi ppueere the sentiments expressed in that speech | nant were ntterly repudiated by the great | Since abotition has been tod tepublican masses of the North, and ns a proof of | th in of the American | is the HERALD, the great 1 people, had demanded not only the recall of Bout well from North Carolina, but ha demanded his removal from the Secretarrahip of the National Treasury. This occasioned the wildest applause. The epee throughout was listened with marked attention, and it is regarded by many as the ablest and most telling that has yet been deliv- ered in the campaign. A CAROLINIAN IN NEW YORK. The Views of a Man Who Is Not a Politician— The Old North State for Greeley—The Col- ored Vote—Origin of the K. K. K.— ‘Why the South Wants Greeley and Dislikes Grant. A talland somewhat slender gentleman, of ma- ture years and erect carriage, with a clear-cut and thoughtful outline of visage, bine eyes and gray hair and a cleanly-shaven face, has occupied apart - ments at the St. Nicholas Hotel {for two or three days past, and will to-night leave for his home in the old North State. He has vis. ited New York solely on business affairs, but having had an experience of perhaps fifty years in North Carolina, and having been the associate in his early days, as well as in his later years, of men famous at the South, it is not altogether unreasonable to suppose that his views concern- ing the approaching election in North Carolina will be of interest at this time—within precisely one week of the contest. This gentleman Is Colonel William Johnston, of Charlotte, N. C., President of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroads. Colonel Johnston isa graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he studied law and was a col- lege mate of Tod. R. Caldwell, present Governor, and candidate for the same position on the radical ticket in the present election, and of Frank Blair, Everett and other men well known in political life, The Colonel has never himself been a politician, and has no political ambition now. During the past sixteen years he has been identi- fled entirely with railroad interests. At the outbreak of the war he became “a war man” on the Confederate side, of course, and was appointed Commissary General of the State by Governor Es, though against his own personal desires. He retained control, however, of the yailroads) with which he was, con- nected, and in 1863 was the candidate for the Governorship, in opposition to Zebulon Vance, This embraces the Colonel's public record, but he is “chuck full” of reminiscences of men and times that are historic of that old Southern institu- tion, the field of honor, and of tilts, defeats and victories in the forum. Last evening a HERALD reporter called upon the Colonel to obtain some facts outside the ordinary routine of the politician's story of “campaign prospects.’ The Colonel sat in his shirt sleeves by the window, and quietly whiffed out the smoke of a very good cigar as he detailed, with the manner ofa gentleman of the olden time, his opinions ou the canvass in North Carolina. He said:— “J was quite surprised upon my arrival in New York to find such @ general impression existing that Grant would carry our State. My experience of affairs there is drawn from intercourse with people ofall classes, devoid entirely of the excite- ment of political discussion, and embraces their quiet expression of belief or opinion, [ feet per- fectly assured that THR LIBERAL TICKET will be successful. On Thursday, of next week, they will carry both branenes of the Legislature by & very decided majority, and that Merrimon’s majority for the Governorship, over Caldwell, will reach fully 8,000, And my reasons for believing as I do are these:—There has not existed anything like a pertect unanimity until now between the old line whigs and the democratson any ticket, but now they are singularly united and jointly vigorous. In 1870 Shipp was elected Attorney General by a clear majority of 4,500. Since then a large proportion of the colored population has goue into South Carolina, Georgia and others of the more southerly States, and they are a clear loss to the radical vote. Then, again, in that election of 1370 there were fully twenty-five thousand white voters who took no part in that election by reason of the terrorism that prevailed, These were mostly busi- ness men, and the State was so full of administra- tion officials, such as revenue Inspectors, marshals and detective oficers, who played a second part as spies, that these business men found their very means of living imperilled, and avoided the polis.’* “Do you think they will come to the front in the present election ?”” “I think we shall get out fully one half, perhaps two-thirns of that dormant vote on the first of August,” continued the Colonel, timating, therefore, this gain and the loss in the colored vote, and combining their probable results with the majot rity given for Shipp in 1570, [ think eight thousand is not an exaggerated estimate of the coming liberal majority. And most certainly the carrving of the State for Merrimon will insure the State majority for Greeley in November. “To what cause, Colonel, do you attribute the emigration of colored people from North Carolina to more southerly States ?? “Precisely the same causes that prompted slave- dealers IN THE OLD TIMES to carry their slaves into the more southerly States, ‘The demand for labor and the rates of compensa- tion are now, as they were then, higher in those States, and the frecdman_ having leatwed this fact, hastens to avail himself of the benefits, It is a singular state of iacts, but | 1 assure you it is the case, and | I derive the knowledge 1 have on this subject tr my experience as a rafiroad man and by act | contact with them. I have carried over a singls | road, of which J am President, over two thoasand colored emigrants into Georgia and other States south of us, and f know that they left for the higher rates of wages paid there. “What Ig the Sentiment of the colored people in North Carolina concerning Grant—do they look upon | him as their deliverer?” “The sentiment of the colored people is in favor of Grant; but it Is fostered ant controlled entirely by the Loyal Leagues. The negroes have had one prominent id insted into them, and it is almost the only idea the masses of them have—it is their life-long idea— that the white man will some day seek to re-enslave them. hey appear disposed to trust no white man an they have that idea of them all, from. Greeley down. The Loyal League tnstils this feeling everywiv among them, and enitivates distrust of every othe nization, For these reasons they inctine to H look upon Grant as a deliverer, forgetting that | Greeley made their freedom the issue | of | his jifetime. The carpet-baggers used — the fact against the Southern people, that they were | opposed to giving the negro the suitrage as evi- | dence that the whites desired again to reduce them to bondage. ifrage and you can therefore trust us,’ and, of ourse, the eifect of such an appeal upon an ignor- ant mind was very potent.” in every form that be could do, he he the onve to convince now that the movement is sincere, and Party {a still in existence, though now one common effort.” ‘Thi aut tially the interview, and the Teporter took his leave, THE GREELEY HEADQUARTERS. ne Movements of the Philosopher—Buasiness at the Glenham—Distinguished Vist- tors=The Disabled Soldiers on Grecley— Hon. Thomas Davis’ Position. Philosopher Greeley remained secluded at bis stopping place in Brooklyn yesterday morning, re- ceiving no visitors, He persists in taking the reat he so much needs by working on his encyclopwdia. Idleness is no rest tor the Philosopher. A day spent, in pure leisure is to him a day lost. fe takes his rest altogether in the leisurely pastime of wood~ chopping, searching old authorities for facts, or writing chapters of the encyclopedia. It is thougnt how that he will remain in Brooklyn until to-more row. AT THE GLENTAM HEADQUARTERS yesterday business was lively. Dozens of packages’ were mailed by the indefatigable Lowenthal, baskets full of letters were received by Johnson & Everts and answered by the ready writer, Major Staples, while visitors of various grades of distinc~ tion thronged in and ont, passing a word or two with one another, vaprer ty | the situation and the prospects, aud congratulating one another on the possibilities, Sometimes they go out into the rear parlors and drink Chappaqua spring water, but not often. Temperance in the use of ltquids is one of the principles unbued strongly in the sons of all Greeley men. THE LIST OF VISITORS at headquarters yesterday is as follows :—Senator Blair; Colonel Billy Wilson, of New York; CoioneL F. W. Latham, of Brownsville, Texas; Charles M. Ellard, St. Louis; Sanuel J. Tilden, of New York; oe J. Meany; H. L, Swords, of New Orleans; P. J. Gleason, Brooklyn; Charles T. Beara) of New York; D. W. Churchill, of Ne ‘ork ; Colonel Frank E. Williams and Jonn Shirley Ward, of Nash- ville, Tenn.; KR, 8. Torrey, of Geneva, N. Y., and Colonel Wiiliam Johnston, of North Carolina, THE SOLDIERS’ VOTE. The following letter from the National Military Asylum at Dayton, Ohio, of which Genera) Butler is President and General Grant one of the Board of Trustees, signed by George Hunter, asks for all the Greeley documents that can be sent. The letter says :— ‘There are some three hundred inmates here and two hundred of them are for Greeley. We are anxious to know if we can vote in this State or will we have to go home to vote. HON. THOMAS DAVIS, OF RHODE ISLAND, FOR GRE! e RLEY. | A letter received from Bristol, R.1., states that the writer recently had an interview with the Hon. Thomas Davis. He freely announced his preference for Mr, Greeley and thought the signs of the times propitious for his election, Colonel J. W. Johnson, Chauncey M. Depew and Apt datas! J. Meany were sent to Sing Sing lass night, to speak at the meeting there, THE LIBERAL REPUBLIOAN STATE OOM- MITTEE. The above committee met yesterday morning at ten o'clock at the Astor House, and remained in session for four and a half hours. There were pres- sent of the committee of sixteen members the fol- lowing gentlemen:—John Cochrane, New York; Ben A. Willis, New York; J. W. Coe, Brooklyn; Gunnell Burt, Warwick; J. W. Hasbrouck, Rondout M.L. Filkins, Albany; D. E. Parks, Sandy Hiil; Alfred Wilkinson, Syracuse ;-G. W. Fowler, Water- town; J. R. Allaben, Delhi; W. P. Raymond, Oswego; E, R. Reynolds, Albion, and Jolin Walls, ele General Cochrane, the Chairman, pre- sided. Nearly the entire session was occupied in recely- ing reports from ali parts of the State, from which it appears that in all the counties there is advanced organization. The sentiment in all parts of the State the committees report to be in favor of an early State Convention to nominate a State ticket. The place for holding it was discussed, aud the feeling in the committee appeared to be In favor of The Executive Committce was i tue Convention, and they meet in @ day or two to fx the time and pia | Geenes at the Grant Rooms—Mod+l Secre- tary—The Leck of Docaments—Y¥ isitors— The Soldiers’ Convention at Piitsburg. At the rooms of the regular republicans, in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a heavy air of eminent respect— ability and dulness prevailed all day yesterday. Mr. William E, Chandler, the Secretary of the Com- mi , & lively, thoroughgoing politician, young in years but old in canvasses and campaigns, who- talks with the utmost equanimity to friend and foe alike, apparently never concealing anything however contraband, and yet never telling anything that he ought not to tell, is away in Washington at present; but Mr. Dudte: Chandler, aud i grace, was inc who is about as well posted as. nething of his conversational yesterday, Busiess was not 89 active appareiutly as it might have been had the committee heen a young and frisky ativir instead of the staid and respectable machine it is. A few | Inostly of books and pamphie' ‘They said, ‘We have given yon this | “And you conecde that they are influenced by the | Loyal League »” “Tani sure of tt. ‘they have moulded the negro to their will and have aljienat the South alike from the pe whites by every means in their power, would be roand the Novthi NO TROL ALE AT THE SOUTH pnt for the loyal Jeaguers, They have % prime cause of all disorders even in other st than South Carolina, It was Governor Scott's (of South Corolina) assertion that the rifle and balt ia negro hands was the only means by which to wovern the Southern people, followed by hits indiscriminate arming of the negroes a5 militiamen, that gave birth to tae Ku Klux Klan, ‘The Ku Klux was organized asa purely defensive measure against the prompt- ings of men like Scott uttered to the negroes; but im- prudent rash men in the Ku Klux jed to the cond nation of that organization, Instead of remaining a defensive organization their fears and, perhaps, | their spirit of retaliation led them into acts of vio- lent aggression, and for these I myself condemn | them as heartily as anybody.”* +s “How does the South look upon Grant ¢ “As @ bold, though weak aud vactiating man, Whose vacillation readers his boldness dangerors, Ife has supported State governments at the south | that have been A CURSE TO THE SOUTH. At the request of vagabond Executives, such as Bullock, Holden and Scott, he has used the military arm where it should never have been interposed, and by sending them armed support whenever they requested it he enabled them under shadow of his sanction te carry out many infamous schemes of ti @ own. The Southern people do not like Grant because be has been regardiess of rights both ) the reguis vd the white people of | There | | during the day. | | | documents lay about the — table, consisting 3 abusing or ridi- enling Mr. Grecley and ¢he Cincinnath Conven- tion, One called “That Convention” is a book of some siz le up of humorous articles by Mark Vetroleum V. Nasby, F. G. | Welch and other anti-Greeley humorist, with cuts by Frank Beard. ‘fis clerk of the committes, how- ever, states that the present commitice has no Jurisdicti vlative to the distribution of doo. ments, but only 2s to the forwarding of speakers ye The Congressional Committee at Washington w tend altogether to the documentary part of the campaign. Colonel of New Orleans, was « yesterday tliat no Grant documents seen throughout country, but pamphlets were found everywhere, Colonel Pratt, of Washington, replied to him that thirty thonsend documents were sent cut of headquarters every da: Among the visiiors to headqu were Governor Morgan and a number of ot Roscoe Conkling did not_eall, Gener was at the Fil’ Avenue Hotel, and pressed the conviction that he would jut as the General a strong Greeley man, his failure to © for. il 1 Greeley vestorday them tla be + accounted THE DEMOORATIO HEADQUARTERS, ‘The rooms secured at the Spingler House by Mr. Scheli, comprise the suit of four rooms on the first Noor, just to the rigt of the ladies’ entrance, rui- ning through from Broadway to the rear. The committee will @ possession to-day and go hard at work at one THE VETERAWS’ CONVENTION. The following named prominent soldiers have accepted the invitation of the “Veterans’ National Committee” to be present and address the Sol- diers and Sailors’ Convention at Pittsburg on the lith of September:—Generals John A. Logan, Joseph R, Hawley, James 8. Negley, R. J. Ogiesby, | Lucius Fairchilds, Horace Binney Sargent, Dennis F. Burke, John Goburn, J.C. Abbott, B. F. Noyes, John I. Beveridge, M. D. Leggett, kdwin 8. McCook, Julins White and Walter Harriman, Many other prominent veterans have been invited, and their names will be auuounced as soon a8 re plies are received, #5