The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1872, Page 8

| EN er ‘THB POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS. tdoverner Jewel), of Connecticut, on the Pros peets of the Campaign, he Old Nutmeg State Sure for ; Grant. ‘Phe Tilt Between the Colored Men in the Cooper Isstitate Proves To Be a Fizsle—Garnet Weakens and Wants a Postponement—The Greeley Man Declines to Further No- tice Him—The Progress of the Campaign in the Western end Southern States, The Liberal Headquarters, ‘Whe agony of suspense which prevatied at the MBeral headquarters for the past few days is at Bength over, and the result of the North Carolina @ection is no longer a source of anxiety and ex- Peetation. It is conceded that the Grant men have @arried the State by a small majority, but very Mittle despondency is shown over a result which Might very natorally have been expected, all Wings considered. The following is the view @eione! Allen takes of the trial Issue. He says at in 1868 the wajority given for General Grant ‘was 18,000, and that since that the State has gone Both ways, owing entirely to local issues. The ex- @enses of Holden contributed to the republican de- feat in 1870, but the late election was the first test ‘ote of the true feeling of the State, and the issue @annot be regarded but as entirely encouraging to fe Greeley party. The defeat of Governor Merrimon ‘Was not anticipated after the returns of the tirst wo or three days were published, when both the Yepublican and Greeley papers acknowledged a re- publican defeat, and it ts strange, Colonel Allen @unke, that at the eleventh hour Caldwell has Deen given the State. The liberals do not wish to Make any distinct charge of fraud, but the infer- ences strongly favor the supposition that there has Deen foul play somewhere and that the returns have been more or less manipulated. One fact must not be overlooked. Caldwell, the present Governor, appointed all the official supervisors at Whe polls. They had charge of the ballot boxes and St would be easy for them to alter the vote to suit themselves. It is not charged that this has been @one. The reputation of Caldwell is good and he Bas always been considered an honest man; But his’ friends do not have such a good @haracter, and it is not likely they would let an op- portunity pass by which they could—honestly if they ~@ouhl, anyway if they must—secure the return of a Wepudlican Governor and State ticket. Visitors gt the headqnarters assert that they have been in- formed on good authority that more than five hun- @red thousand dollars have been sent direct from the Treasury to North Carolina to control the elec- fdon. When all things are considered the Greeley 0 are satisfied that they have gained a substan- victory; gaining both branches of the Legisia- re and & United States Senator. Why everything @ise was carried and the Governorship loat is con- Bidered a very strange circumstance, and cannot easily be accounted for. Mr, Horton, a prominent citizen of Buffalo and a gtanch supporter of the Greeley cause, called at le rooms aie | the day and yave an encourag- account of the progress of the liberal cause in We western part of the State. He thinks that Greeley will carry the entire section of country West of Albany, and is sure of Erie county by about two thousand votes. The liberal repabiicans and the democrats are acting most harmoniously together, each party vying with the other in mak- ing sacrifices for the common cause, In Buffalo the struggle will be clone, but Mr. Horton is of epinion the victory will be for Greeley. ‘The pros- ts are most encouraging, and the good work wd being done will sweep the State in No- vember. ‘The great intellectual tournament announced to ome oi in Cooper Institute on Friday night, be- tween the colored orators, Saunders and Garnet, ‘has proved a fizzie, and from present appearances will not take place. The Rev. Mr. Garnet, to whom me of the preliminaries was | werts that Cooper Institute cannot be obtained for Priday night, but Saunders offered to meet him in any other hall. The following correspondence ex- Plains itself:— «7 Limenat Rercaticax Hrapavanrens, August 7, 1972. Duan Srx—I will meet you at Cooper Institute or in other hall on Friday P.M answer in writing positive! Per your acceptance. Hxanovarrens Rerce.icay Commirran, August 7, 1872. W.N. Sauspens, Esq. — am in receipt of your note just handed tome. You lst on having the Dreposed ineeting at twenty-four Fs’ notice. It is utterly impossible to get a meeting in Shia city im go short-a time. Twill meet you at the great of the Cooper Institute on next Monday or Tuesday Right or at any other date in the future upon which ghall inutually agree. If you decline the whole respo! Bility rests upon you. Youra respectful IY, NRY HYLAND GARNET. Saunders states that the assertion of the reverend erator is a direct falsehood; that he had more than twenty hours’ notice ; that the hall can be procured, and that the only reason that Garnet wants a de- Jay is that the subject may be announced in all the megro churches on Sunday in order that the hall ant be packed with colored votera on Monda: Bight. Under these circumstances, coupled with ‘Me fact that Saunders is to leave the city on Satur- @ay for his home in Maryland, the match will not @ome of, and the public will be deprived of an in- fellectual treat which would doubtless have called Back the days of Cicero and Demosthenes, by the two gemmen of color. Saunders decidedly carries Sway the palm in good looks, and if the meeting taken piace would have captivated the female pee of his audience, the fair mex of his race being always susceptible to manly beauty. He is not much darker than a @uban, has a pleasing face and a good shape, while Garnet is a genuine African, rather awkward-look- fg in his appearance and as black as night. His dis- shed record as @ successful shepherd of black sheep might have enabied him, however, to over- S his natural defects and carried him success- ay through, e following response was sent to the editors of the Daty Observer, Utica, Who inquired relative to Weauite in North Carolina :— Our victory in North Carolina is glorious. We nave re- ed Grant's majority of °63 from 17,00) to 1,00. We ive galved a United States Senator, Legislature and five ressmnen out of eight. The 20,00) majority boasted of Gur ouponents sinks into indgnificance, and shows eanctusively that in November the honest yeomen of our @ppressed country will rise in their might and hurl from Bewer the ringmasters of the throne. JOHN P, LINDSAY, The following despatch was recelved in the after- Boon from North Carolina :— Brnan Auirs—F close, Official vote ot @an deterinine thi all the whiskey, tobacco gad Ko Klux coun we sustained great losses, where fhe tears or hopes or avarice of the voters could be rated upen by the government official. In Ruther. Polk and Henderson, where Wood went by request, we did splendidly. The Adminiswation will now make niuie efforts to carry this State in November, but we wall beat the rascals. D, M. BARRINGER, Among the visitors who called during the day Were John M. F Secretary Lierat Repubii- an Commit leiphia; G. M. Smith, St. n Hai HG. Lock, New York; &. M, Horton, Buffalo, and W. Horrobin, Vermont. Mr. Horrobin is one of the most prominent democrats in Vermont, cd Bis name was placed at the head of the united Mbera! and democratic party inthe State, but it (wae considered that one who had always been a Fepublican would make a stronger canvass and garry more strength to the canse of reform, Horribin gracefully accepts the situation in the fol- owing manly letter to Colonel E. 0. Cole, Chairman @ the Liberal Repubtican State Convention :— i ‘ Lone Brac Honel E. O, Core, Bennin ston, Vt Wy Deak Kit—When the Convention decided that it tend more to the success of the Iberal party ti ont to piace at the head of the ticket a liberal repub ib anstéad oF a democrs' tes, so far est Foflect upon the im: m @ that the Convention acted y shor one who has always beeu & prominent me i republican party and Who now supports Mr. Gr Ing that that profonnd statesman represents the mite of the best clasws of the American peopie. ft fully approvs the nominations, and take pr bie and distinguished townsma st atour ja the ticket. You may be sure I shi 1 in © do ey power for his election and for tho advancement ot th gete use generally, 1 have the Reng to be. sir, your jens servant, T. HORKOBIN, The Grant Headquarters. 4 Matters have resumed their usual dull appearance ‘@t the Grant headquarters now that the lesue of the @ontext in North Carolina has been definitely ascer- tained. Specuintion has given place to certainty, Gnd the acting secretaries are again at Hberty to yesume ven tenor of their ways, which at best ‘@re far from betog animated ways, Still watera run @eep, however, and there may be as much Beal work done iu this undemonstrative manner a8 Mere would be if the Proceedings were less monoteo- pees and more lively. She following are the names of some of the call. | Sr8:—George W. HL. Alton, Washington; Walter Ser- Fell, Baltimore; 1. H. Douglass, Washington; Teaac Byers, President Labor Union; General Rolinson, Binghamton; Rev. H. H. Garnet, General Averill, BMnnosote; J. 0. PF. Wayland, Oesiivne Poet; ¥, Press, San Francieco, and Governor Jewell, Con- Recticut, p WHA? GOVEENOS JSWELL THINKS OY THE CAMPAIGN. Governor Jewell, in conversation with 6 HERALD reporter, expressed himself relative to Connecticut ‘a0 followe:— s Raronrer—What is the strength of Grant in your State, Governor? “I feel certain of carrying the State in his favor. ‘There are no indications of Grant losing the State. Everything 18 as yet somewhat unsettied and chaotic, but we feel confident that we shall more than make godd any losses in our ranks by recruits from the democrats, The leading democrats go for Greeley. They, however, find it much more difficult to transfer tle votes of the rank and file to one who has always been a republican. I think the -away-from-the-polla party of the democrats will be large; the Tajority, ywever, Will follow their leaders, The truth is that Mr. Burr, Mr. Eaton and Mr. Hubbard take this Gresley, dose with wry faces, while the leas alde and less honest ee of the party pretend to like at. ay have en ont of office for twelve years, and as it looks warm and comfortable inside they will make any sacrifice to get 4 hold of the offices from which they have so long been debarred.”’ “What proportion of the republicans will go for Greeley?” “The Greeley defection is like the stories of Mosquitoes and fever and ague—they always have them in the next town. It is like the ignis jatuus— chase it down and it suddenly disappears, I know of no republicans in Hartford of any folowing who are going for Greeley. 1 know of no defec- tions in other parts of the State except from dis- appointed oitice-holders, Every man who has been turned out of oflice for the last twelve years thinks the republican party is fearfully demoral- ized, and that all the honesty left it when they \d. “Who is the Hon, David Clarke, who appears to be the leader of the liberal movement?” “Oh, David tas We call him. Well, he was an old whig, who made a fortune in selling out groceries, who Was afterwards a democrat,ehanging mainly on the temperance question, and who became republl- can at the beginning of the war and staid so some time for him, but who has not as yet been nomi- nated for any ottice, I think he has not voted for three or four years at all. He was a self-constituted delegate to Cincinnati, and pretends to have given two or three hundred thousand doljlare to benevo- lent objects.” “Do you believe that ?”” “If you ask any Hartford man that qnestion he laughs and says nothing. Clarke is, however, a man of undoubted wealth; but when’ the Hartford men hear the stories about him they only laugh and say, ‘Oh, that’a David !’ That is all I have to say of David Clar! ‘There ts no other leader from the republican ranks, unless you name David A. Wells and Charles J. McCurdy Wells, the latter of whm has been the strongest opponent of Greeley and his principl in the United States for years, and now advocates his election, on what grounds I am not aware. I think the action of the Baltimore Convention had something to do with influencing him, He has been a republican, but has taken no active part in the State politics of Connecticut, His reputation, so far as I know, is good. I know of nothing against him. The demo- cratic papers all support Greeley, and the repub- ir papers all support Graut, so far as I know, in ie State.” “On what grounds do you base yonr theory that there will be a defection in the democratic ranks?’ “I speak from personal observation, and because the democratic leaders take Greeley unwillingly, and are therefore not enthusiastic; while our side is fighting only for old principles. For myself, I be- lieve in Grant and in republicanism, and I think that we shall carry the State bya handsome ma- Jority next fall. Mr. Ferry, our new Senator, is a strong and honest republican, and will vote for Grant and take part in the campaign if he is able,” “What is General Hawley doing 7” “He is in Europe, but will be home in a few Gaya, and will take an active part in the campaign. need not say he is a Grant man.” General Jewell left for Orange last night to at- tend a political meeting. The Democratic Headquarters. Advices received at the democratic headquar- ters indicate a guccessiul canvass in various parts ofthe country, From lowa cheering reports of the success of the State ticket were received yesterday, and it is stated that bets are freely offered in the streets of Des Moines, with few takers, thet Horace Greeley will carry the State. In West Virginia the contest is somewhat complicated on account of local issues, but as both the candidates for Gover- nor are democrats and Greeley men the main isane in the Presidential election will not be affected by the election of the 22d. From Maine the reports are favorable, the defeat of pepeker Blaine and of Mr. Hale,son-in-law of Senator Hale, of Michigan, 1s considered certain, A great ratification meeting of the liberal ticket is tobe held at Augusta on the 2th inst., at which Senators Schurz, Tipton and Trumbull are to be present and are to make ad- dresses. Horace Greeley, it is expected, will also be there, an? < yreat success is anticipated. No = ea from “North Carolina were reccived yea- jay. BLOOMINGDALE LUNATIC ASYLUM. A Woman Who Has Been Confined in the Institution for Eighteen Months Desires to Be Discharged—Writ of Ha- beas Corpus in the Case and Prelimi- nary Hearing Before Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court.. The case of Miss Teresa Drew, the return to the writ of habeas corpus being returnable yesterday, came up this morning before Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court Chambers. It will be remembered that the writ specified that she was an inmate of the Bloomingdale Asylum, and the effort was throngh the writ to obtain her discharge from the institution, the allegation being that she was of sound mind and illegally restrained of her liberty. The RETURN TO THE WRIT was made by Dr. Brown, in charge of the Asylum. He stated that Miss Drew was committed to the Asylum under a commitment from Justice Cox. Such commitment, he further stated, was based on Bcertificate of Surgeon Hammond that she was not a proper person to be allowed her liberty. He added that her admission to the institution was with the knowiedge and consent of Miss Drew's brother. DEMURRER TO THE WRIT was made by Mr. John D. Townsend, He insisted that the commitment was illegal in form, and tne return to the writ an evasive one. ‘The commit- ment, he urged, was illegal, through fatling to con- form to the statute, which requires that, in ad- dition to the certiticate of two physicians, the tes- timony must be taken in writing and filed in the County Clerk's ofice, and, with the seal of the Court attached to the commitment, verifying the existence of such testimony and its deposit in the ofiice of the County Clerk. The certificate of the physicians that she was dangerous to herself and others comprised the entire recital of the commit- ment. The BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM LAWYER took exception that the brother of Miss Drew had not been notified of the present proceedings, as re- juired by the statute, he having an interest inher etention in the Asylum, As to her detention or otherwise, he insisted that the ofMicers of the insti- tution had no possible interest, Her brother had han bonds for her board, and, of course, was an interested party and entitled to notice, Mr. Town- send in reply PITCHED INTO THE BROTHER unsparingly. He claimed that if this brother haa an interest in the matter he waa, under the cire stances surrounding the case, the last person who should have the ear of the Conrt. They came here prepared to show what the condition of Miss Drew ‘was when committed to the institution, and he in- stated that the Court should render {ts decision on this evidence alone. There was still FURTHER EXCEPTION TO THE RETURN on the part of Mr. Townsend in that, while it stated that Miss Drew had been insane at some prior time during the eighteen months she had been in the Asylum, it did not allege that she was now insane. The presumption of law, he insisted, was in favor of her sanity, and the onus provandi rested on the respondents to the writ to show such present in- sanity as to warrant her detention. EXAMINING THR LAW. After some farther remarks Judge Barrett stated that he wished to examine the statutes applicable to the case, and to give the time requisite ordered the case to stand over till next Tuesday. During the above proceedings Miss Drew was in Court. She 18 about forty-five years of age and of stom f appearance, and was neatly but plainly dressed, She gave close and evidently intelligent attention wo the remarks in her case. THE SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW. German Saloon Keepers in Council. A meeting of Gerinan lager beer retailers, num- bering about two hundred, Christian Schmidt pre- siding, was held at the Bowery Garden yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of taking action to insure protection againgt the re-enforcement of the Sunday clause of the Excise law, and to aecure the passage Of a law by the Legislature which will compel the brewers to furnish fall measure and to have their casks stamped. A committee, ap- pointed at @ previous meeting, recommended @ plan of organization, which wis adopted, to the effect that an organization shall be formed in each Assembty district, with a view of forming & central organization, to be composed oi delegates of the different Asscinbily district organizations. Several committees were appointed to carry out this plan of organization. A committee com; 1 Of Messrs. Charlies Kos- ter, Wagner, Feldstein, Craemer and Obihorst was appointed to wait upon the Excise Commissioners in reference to the Sunday vac to see whether the lager beer retailing trade should not be excunpi | from the operations of the Bunday jaw. —_—— Loud Wails from Out-and-Out Democrats. Call for a Convention on Sep- tember 3. Mosby Outdone--A Terrible Broadside Poured Into the Liberal Democrats’ Ranks, What Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull and Fenton Have Done. ‘The following circular address has been issued by the Democratic Executive Committee :— LOvIsvILLE, August 6, 1872, DEAR StR—Will you be kind enough to place this circular in the hands of active democrats in your county, who will at once commence an organiza- tion for the purpose of supporting the principles of our ty as they will be proclaimed by the con- vention at Louisville, September 3? utter abandonment of principles, a3 evinced by the coall- tion between the spoilxmen and place-hunters in their attempt to elevate Horace Greeley to the Presidency, is a evidence of tne de- moralization and corruption now existing in our midst; and based as that bargain is, upon fraud and hypocrisy, the utterance of one set of sentl- ments in the North and another in the South, it must be repudiated and spurned by ovary man who has a spark of honesty in his hear There are hundreds of thousands who already proclaim their purposes of maintaining the demo- cratic organization at all hazards. The disintegra- tion of the radical party into two factions renders it self-evident that the democratic masses can elect one of their own faith, instead of a llie-long enemy like Greeley, who still loudly asserts that he haw never abandoned his principles, and points proudly yet to his record. And such a record! Can democrats, who have boasted that they sup- port ‘4 leaped not men,” agree to /alsify their past life vy clasping hands with the worst men of the radical (ke umber, Schurz, Trumbull, Fen- ton and the thousand other leaders, who rally around Grevley, and would control hjs adm nist:a- tion if his election can be secured? Who are the men that thus seck for the highest honors and emoluments of this country, and who have obtained the support of the trading politicians of the Tam- many school by a promise o1 dividing the soils? Without exception they are the bigots, whose bit- terness has been evinced for the past twenty years in defamation of their opponents, They are the men who have uttered the most unchristian, the most ferocious, the most villanous sentiments about and against the Southern people (women and children as well as men) during the war, and who have done most to develop and pass that legis- lation sjnce the war which true democrata de- nounce as subversive of Hberty and against the spirit of our institutions, ‘They are the men who have riveted the South In its chains and burdened it with its inoreased debts, the peenecns of which have gone into the pockets of the aclect few who have fattened upon the mia- fortanes of the people, and who turn to the new ting and the Tammany alliance in order still fut- ther to enrich and ennoble themselves. Warmoth, who has increased the debt of Lonisiana $45,000, in three years, whose fraudulent acts and villan- ous State legislation have been denounced in the democratic pers from Maine to Texas, is the leader par excelience of the chivairy of the South! His influence at Cincinnati and the sixteen votes of his delegation insured the nomination of Greeley, and yet we are coolly informed that the people have done it with enthusiasm! Warmoth can control the Feeney im Louisiana, and can elect by fraud such candidates as he pleases; just as the Mayor of New York has the deciding vote in appointing all the return officers for Mr. Greeley, who can, if not checked, carry out the open assertion of 80,000 ma- jority in November. And Augustus Schell and others have written urgent letters for the ‘‘good of the cause,” that the Louisiana democrats shoul! work in harmony with Warmoth, And it is boldly proposed to place in the United States Scuate as a reward for his infamy. Can it be that the peopie are so degraded as thus to sanction a premium for their own dis- honor? Is our body politic to be inoculated with the base poison by fraud? Is this a better method of secaring our liberties than the partisan use of those laws which were originated by the promi- nent leaders of Mr. Greeley’s party, and placed among our statutes to be enforced by the bayonets of the present administration’ me gufer our liberties. to. perish citheY by slow poison or by the sword; or, preferring rather to maintain them and to insure free expression of the (eden will, shall We not make war against all parties who attempt to pervert the constitution ? Can the people of the South clasp hands with those men who have wronged them from the termmation ofthe war? Can Northern men condone such of- fences by placing them in power ¥ In Texas—to re- instate Governor lease, whose arbitrary course was go nobly rebuked and thwarted by the generous and statesmaniike acts of Hancock ? In Arkansas—toen- dorse Senator Rice, who was the first to concoct and carry out those frauds by which a radical Legislature was installed in power and the infamous Celt aa ing? which disgraces that State was brought into In Missouri—to load with honors Brown, who, in August, 1963, out-Heroded Herod for disfranchise- ment and persecution, and recanted poly when ofice was to be obtained and future plunder was in view? Blair, who came into the party to destroy it, and nobly has fulfilled his mission ? Schurz, who, loudest of all, “would swee; the South with the besom of destruction,” an viewed the election of a democrat as the worst ca- lamity to befall the country only six months ago? McNcil!, the butcher of unarmed prisoners? In Kentucky, to honor Burbridge, the most dotested of all its citizens? In Geor, Brown, who (a8 an oficial during the war, and since, under the cor- Tupt administration of Bullock, which plundered the State of many tillions) has been and is accused of using his ofiicial station for private gain? In Alabama, Warner, who never neglected to out the most unrelenting crusades while the pay of his office rewarded his efforts? These and such men whose antecedents are too well and too dis- gracefully known are to be the Southern leaders in conjunction with those selected politicians who a a ago denounced them as the most unscrupu- lous scoundrets! If the fraudulent bargains are faithfully executed by the selected chieftain of the clan cannot the people truthtully say, ‘par nobile Jratrum, latrones ambo?” And yet they dare to sail under a flag upon which they embiazon hon- esty! In the North the leaders of this movement are known to be incited by jealousy, rage and revenge, because of their failure to receive the dispensing of patronage from the government. The entire coall- tion 1s a rope of sand, with no cohesive power but that of plunder in prospective. The people have always, and in all countries, placed the stamp of thelr condemnation upon similar bargains. They will do it again. The only precedent in history for the immediate selection of a deserter as a com- mander-in-ctuef 18 that of Coriolanus, and‘for the democrats the comparison 1s unfortunate. Corio- lanus betrayed his army and spares Rome when she was prostrate at his feet. So Mr. Greeley, with Sumner and other champions of negro s0- clal equality (re-endorsed with emphasis since his nomination) ; truculent advisers of centralization and tyrannical oppression of their adversaries; un- compromising enemies of that constitution, which to them is “a league with hell and a covenant with death,” ready to do anything for power and place, will unscrupulously betray thelr own followers if necessary ior their own advancement, even in the hour of victory. Political parties are necessities for the welfare ofa country, provided they advocate fixed doctrines and present them to the bp wed for their decision, Our party is the party of the future. It will be fixed as a rock in its principles, Its honesty of gig 4 will attract the support of the masses, and its future will be crowned with suc- ecss. ‘ihe two radical factions, which are now fighting each otherfor the offices, are actuated by considerations of individual aggrandizement. The leaders of each have vied in eiforts to legislate for the black race alone, and to elevate them too sud- deniy into a controlling position, which education | and time can only tit them for, ‘The interests ‘of the white race—that vast ma- jority of our citizeus who gain their living by the honest sweat of the brow—have been wilfully neglected and their just claims ignored. Dema- gogues have excited the passions of the ignorant and politicians have secured their services without avy return, It should be the duty of our purty to wisely legislate for the benefit of the faboting classes, educating, elevaung, ameliorating their condition, rejecting and reiuting the fanatical doo- trines taught by professed friends, who yet are | their worst eneinics, and, by demonstrating that we are their firm friends and taitnful in our profes- sions, secure their powerful co-operation in the support of law and order, integrity In every sphere of society, @ restoration of fraternal feeling between the people of all the States, and an umparalieted prosperity under the constitution truly interpreted and justly executed. The commitéee recommend an immediate ap- pointment in every county of a committee of five or More, the chairmen of wiich shall constitute the | District, Committees; that Congressional District Conventions shall be assembled on or before the 25th August, and select two delegates and two alternates from cach district, and that full delega- Uons from cach State shall certainly be present on the 8d September. Correspondence from true democrate ts solicited from every county. For the Executive Committee, BLANTON DUNCAN, Chairman. A bill fa now before’ the Nattonal Assembly of France to reorganize the Legion of Honor, The committee proposes to fix the number of members as follows :—Knights, 25,000; officers, 4,000; com- Manders, 1,000; grand oMcers, 200, and \ oor crosses, 70, The present surplue would be | by extinction, one nomination only being made for | three etvil varanclea'and ane for to military. A. STINGING INDICTMENT, Judge Black Arraigns President Grant Before the Court of Popular Opinion. ——— He Accuses Him of High Political Crimes and @ross Official Misconduct—Denouncing the Leading Measures of His Administration as Wot Only Unconstitational, but Anti-Constitutional, Subversive of the Rights of the States and the Liberties of the People. OF “THE BALTIMORE Ga: WJ baci Baurio) Suiyanrtora, | Dar 8rn—Ever since the My urnment of the Baltimore Convention certain radical journals have persistently misrepresented the course of promi- nent democrats, and have sought Se every Way, to place them in 4 false position re. the ‘country. Am the number you have been frequently men- tioned os being hostile to the action of that body, and in this way your name bas been used by political tricksters to promote the success of the radical cause. Without waiting for consulta- tion with yon, but simply relying on my faith in our exalted patriotism and unflinching democracy, Thave unhesitatingly contradicted all such rumors, In times past you “have done the State some service, and they know it,” and on the strength of your past ret Ihave assumed that in the present political crisis you willbe quite as zealous as you ever were before in defence of constitutional free- dom and civil reform. I need not ask you if I am right in this assumption, because of thut I feel assured; but I take the uberty of suggesting that at this time your views and opinions upon the im- nding Presidential contest would afford much ‘atification to the democratic and conservative Masses of the country. Believe me to be, with great respect, ever your friend, Hon. J. 8. BLack. WILLIAM H, WELSH. To WititaM H. WELSH, Editor of the Baltimore My Dxar Str—I promised the gentleman who delivered your letter that I would answer it fully and as soon ae I could consistently with other en- gagements. Lam fulfilling that promise. If I take more time and space than might be expected you Will please to remember that I and a great many other democrats are ina position which requires something more than a mere definition. We can- not avoid misconstruction without furnishing a rather {ull explanation, I admit that the next President must be Grant or Greeley. The circumstances of the political situa- tion limit our choice to these two men, as strictly as if nobody else were legally eligible. We must weigh them it one another, and, like practi- cal men, decide the case beiore us in favor of tue best. en it we find no good in either of them hae must take that one who shall appear to be least p Itis undeniable that the leading measures of this administration are not only unconstitution but anti-constitutional, showing not merely a co: temptuous indifference to constitutional obliga- tions, but a settled hostility to those rights of the States and those liberties of the people which the organic law’was made to secure. The President's appointment of oficers and his general exercise of puvite authority, under the inttuence of men who Pald lum large sams of money, are scandalous out- Tages, and the efor; to defend them has combined with other like cauges to extinguish among his subordinates all he for those rules of morality Which used to be held sacred. When we consider What these men have done in the North, and add to it the large-handed robberies perpetrated in the South by the retainers of the President, with his direct aid and assistance, we are compelled to ac- knowledge that no other government now in the world {8 administered so entirely for personal and partisan purposes, or in such complete dusre- gard for the mghts and interests of the general public, This demoralization is not confined to the executive branch; the tide of corruption tolls in upon the Legislature, and in some places it has risen high enough to touch the fect of tue judiciary, Even the rank and file of the President's party have become debauched, let us hope not aire CHEE but certainly in a feartul degree. Acts which in former times a hardened criminal would hesitate to whis- ber in the ear of his accomplice can now be opeul; advocated by a political leader, not only witl safety, bui witha tolerable chance of being sus- tained by a sort of oe opinion. Tiat love of liberty ana justice which used to pervade the whole community now “reneges all temper,” and yields without resistance to the unprincipled demagogues who would enthrone fraud. Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them tile, knee and approbation, With Senators on the benoh. If General Grant had been equal in mind and heart to the exigencies of the time) be could easily mare tse nioeels Pe ey Peis Teh pain ip mig! vo purified ofticial ani b simply netelg mé 6Xampie in fi ow peron or (4 clean-handed devotion to duty. His own obedience to the laws would have restored them to universal supremacy, All the objects of the constitution as recited in the preambie would have been accom- plished but for the obstructions with which he him- self impeded them. Unfortunately the interests of certain rings were in conflict with the interests of the country, and they, by large presents, seduced him into their service. ‘The public contracted to give him the salary which hia predecessors had been content with; the rings otfered him more; he accepted their bounty, fell over to them and took the ee into his hands as “a black republi- can jo Now, a8 to Greeley. It cannot be pretended that his political life is very symmetrical, He was in the ranks of the radical abolitionists fora good man jie That is bad, for such associations would ave @ natural tendency todebase him. But we must not forget that though he was with them he was not always of them. He refused to be a par- taker in their worst iniquities; he had none of thetr diabolical hatred for the constitution; he did not lend lis lips to their ribald blasphemtes, and his feet were never swift in running to shed inno- cent blood, Before the great conflict began his Opposition to the designs of the abolitionists against the federal and State governments i pelled him to the opposite heresy of the secvssionists. Like the Roman father who killed his daughter tosave her Irom a worse fate, he chose to destroy the govern- ment rather than see it dishonored and violated by lawless force. When the war was flagrant he pro- voked the extremest rage of his associates by cx- erting himself for a peace which would have left all tne people in Meat of their constitutional Uberties. After the close of the contest he was the advocate of reguiar and legal a3 well as honest gov- ernment for all parts of the country. I have good authority for saying that he never gave his ap- proval to any form of kidnapping or murder by military commission. In short, although he did join the abolitionists in their ‘devils’ dance,” ho never learned to keep step with his partnera, and we all know that when he could not stop it ine left it and denounced it with becoming indignation. On another point he ought to have credit. The friends of religious freedom owe him an old debt of gratitude for the zeal aud ability with which he re- sisted the church burners when banded together in the secret lodges of the Know Nothing order. It is but reasonable to belleve that his opposition saved the country from the great danger it was once in of being subjugated by that infamons organization. He has often been accused of complicity in cheats ofone kind or another, butin every case he has pee refuted the charges. For this and for other reasona I conclude that his personal in- fg, 885 A without a stain, le has many times spoken of the democratic party and its most honored members in harsh and abusive terms, Theseare fauits of manner and of temper, which, when’ mended, are always par- doned. We will not "apa aieaamens to be dis- turbed by considerations so trifing as this. I have looked into his past history only to ascer- tain what he is now and what he 13 likeiy to be in the future. I am bound to care nothing for his “antecedents,” except as bes fornish the means of estimating his character. [ thipk I have found out with reasonable certainty how far we may con- fide in him. I devoutly believe that, if chosen President, he will keep his oath, preserve the con- stitution inviolate, execute the laws taithiully, re- store the States to their rightful autonomy, pro- tect individual liberty by jury trial and habeas corpus, put the military in proper enbordination to the civil authority, use neither force nor frand to carry elections, keep his hands clean from. corrupting gifts, set his face like @ flint against all manner of financial dis- honesty, purify the admiuistration of justice as much as in bin Hes, matntain the publie credit by @ prompt discharge of all just obligations, economize the revenue and lighten taxation. give to capital the right wnich belongs to it, and at the #ime time see that labor is not robbed of its earn- ings. He will certainly hold his power of appoint- ment a8 a public trust, and not as a part of his per- sonal possession to be used for the support of his farally or to encourage the private liberality of his friends. He wili, #0 jaras he can without trans- gressing the limite of his legal authority, relieve the Southern States from the gangs that'are now preying npon their vitals in open partpership with the present administration. I think he will do all this; and my faith is founded on the testimony of his friends and enemies, on the known facte of his history and on the moral infu- ence which the democracy will necessarily exert upon his conduct. The errors of his past life were caused by certain evil communications from which he has clean escaped. He headsa great revolt against wickednese in high places, and I do not be- eve he wiil go back upon us and be guiity of the same wickedness himself, The contrast between the two candidates bein 80 very strong, no fair-minded democrat can doubt what he ought todo. Yet the reluctance which many Of us leel to vote for either of them is hard to overcome. Idid and do most heartily sympa- thize with that class which received Mr, Greeley's nomination in much sorrow. I am sure thie feelfag roceeded irom no unworthy passton or prejudice, Bue was the natural resnit of sober thought on the condition of the country and the fitness of things Lay a Regi In our view the controversy between the partics ‘Was not all about men and not wholly on ques- thons of mere administration. The liberal repubil- cane and some democrats think that we owe all oor suderings to the corruption or incapacity of Gen- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. — t | THE LOUISVILLE CONVENTION, words and made it a part of the fundamental Re aeeeae, sorerse Pass a of at inder, The reconstruction act of 1867 was a Dill of at- tainder more deilberately cruel and with and nalties more ‘compendiously ‘unjust than any Hrit- bil that ever was ad. But ite authors were conscious that it could not stand and they must replace it with something else, for sooner or later the courts would be sure to pronounce it void. Besides, the object being to put the Southern people under the domination of greedy adventurers the North, with unlimited Mcense to oppress not very good agents in such a nefarious business, The negroes would be instruments of tyranny much more easily managed. But an act of Congress dis- Banning the white people for offences real or im- uted, and handing over their State governments negroes, tobe run by them in the interests of carpet-baggers, would be merely another bill of attuinder, or rather a modification of the frst one, making it much worse, but equally within the reach 0: judicial correction. In ts strait they resorted to the expedient of converting the constitution it-- self into a bill of attainder, ‘The Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were frauds nape the spirit and letter of the instrument, inasmuch as they effected the worat outrage which it was made to prevent. They were carrie alnst the known will of nearly every State in the Union L' shameless deception in the North and by brutal violence in the South. “May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?” Certainly not as long as any portion of our people are compelied to bear the intolerable burden of the yoke thus fastened npon them. I need not say ‘how much they have suffered already, nor try to conjecture how much they will be calied to endare hereafter; but it is certain that any ordinary despotism would have been 4 visita- tion of mercy in comparison. When we re- fiect upon the number and rapacity of the thieves that have been upheld in_ their pillage by means of the negro goverments we can- hot help but regret the non-adoption of M! Stevens’ proposition, atrocious as it was, for ut versal confiscation. The pernicious consequences of this rule are felt in the general as well as the local governments, The legislation of Congress is largely controlled by fit representatives of the carpet-bag mterests, and the worst acts of the Executive administration are done to please the power which corrals the negroes at the meet.ng places of the leagues and drives them thence to the poils. Mr. Greeley's election will not do ali that we could wish to free us from these evils; it will not even be @ popular condemnation of the base means by which they were inflicted upon us, but it will begin the process of their gradnal extinction. It will ive the white people @ reasonable hope that the heritable qualities of their fathers’ bluod may some day be restored. In the meantime, if it does not reverse the attainder, it will at least insure a merciful ex- ecution of it, Democrats who disliked Mr. Greeley’s nomivation have reflected weli, and | think will support him with almost perfect unanimity. The thought that a victory will not give us everything at once may diminish in some degree ‘the rapture of the strife,” but it will not impair the efficiency ot their support, for they are impelled to their utmost exertions by a profound conviction that nothing but his election will save the country from a long period of misgovernment, and, perhapa, the total destruction of our free institdtions, { am with great respect, yours, &¢. J. 8. BLACK, York, Pa., August 3, 1872. THE GIN-MILL HOMICIDE. The Sunday Morning Death Struggle in Forty-zecond Street Between Coleman and Reagan—The Inquest Yesterday— Verdict of Justifiable Homicide. The details of the killing of Richard Coleman by Charles Reagan, proprietor of a grogshop in Weat Forty-second street, on Sunday morning last, have already appeared in the HERALD. The shooting of Coleman occurred while he and one William Jobn- son were in the premises of the liquor seller, who was violating the law by having his place open and dispensing the vile decoctions that tend to excite the most violent passions of the drinker. Coroner Young on Monday made investigations, and found that the evidence of Johnson was very necessary in rendering a verdict; hence he delayed the inquest until yesterday to enable him to secure Inhnson'e attondance, The Coroner opened the investigation at half-past ten A. M. by calling William Johnson, of 606 Weet Forty-third street, who said:—I have worked with Coleman in the Knickerbocker Ice Company; am slightly acquainted with Reagan; I and Coleman entered Reagan’s saloon about half-past two; Cole- man wanted a drink; he was drunk; I took him to his own door; he refused to go Into his house; then went to Reagan's; Reagan and he quarrelled about a prize fight; he called Re: fan filthy names; it said he had only suckers is place; Reagan told him to take drink an go home; they quarrelied some; Reagan came from behind the bar and told him to 0 out quietly; he wes growling and hallooing and struck at the bar; Reagan got hold of him; Reagan let go and ran in to wake up the barkeeper; I #at down, when I saw him make at Reagan again; when the shot waa fired Reagan and Coleman were ciinghed about each other’s necks: before the shooting Reagan said he was stabbed, but I did not see the cnt; saw something in Coleman's hand, but can’t say it was a knife; Coleman was very disorderly, and wanted to fight; I did not interfere at all in the fracas; I have no doubt but Coleman hed a knife; after the shooting Coleinan puiled open the two large doors that were locked and walked out; I did not see him after; Reagan, Coleman and I were the only ones present; Coleman struck Reagan first; Reagan did all in his power to get him out—even gave him a drink to out quietly; I saw Coleman drunk once be- fores after Coleman went out Re: went out also; after the shot was fired I saw blood on Rea- gan; saw none before. Henry McGrath, barkeeper for Reagan, testified— Inever saw Coleman until about three A. M. Sun- day after the shot was fired; deceased was then so drunk he would not know his way home; Reagan wakened me up; told me there was a man in the room going to murder him; he was then bleeding; his words were, “Harry, get up; there is a man in the store wants to murder me—come out quick; said, “You are bleeding; he replied, “Yes, I am stabbed; went out, but the shot was fired before I got out; Reay was standing near the screen in ean the middle of the store ; both of them were ciinched ; heard prisoner twice say, “Let me go;” Reagan called to me to open the door and put him out; I unlocked the door, when deceased ran out; officer Timmons passed just then aud Reagan ran ont and told him he was stabbed; have been with Reagan three months; never knew him to quarrel; he is very peaceable; I saw Johnson eae outeide the door by the railing; Timmons brought Coleman up near the door of Reagan's saloon about twenty- five minutes after; did not hear Coleman speak. Mary Keagan, sister of the prisoner, testified that about three A, Mf prisoncr called to her that he was stabbed and that there was a man going to murder him; I heard @ noise, but am not sure @ shot was fired; he was weak then; has had hem- orrhage of the lungs and has been under medical attendance some time; I did not notice yone in the store when I went out, I was #0 excited, James Timmons, the officer who arrested Reagan, testified that when he reached Reagan’s door he was bleeding and said hé had been stabbed; after hunting a yard in the rear with Reagan we found a man down near Eleventh avenue, lying in an alleyway; be said he had been shot by Reagan; I assisted him up to Reagan’s; told prisoner he must go to the station house; two men came along; Reagan asked them to help me, and he waiked to the station house, while we carried de- ceased; in the station house he identified Re searched both men and found no weapon on either of them; have known Reagan five years, and he has tne reputation of being a peaceable and quiet man, Reagan, the prisoner, on being sworn, said—I re- side at 551 West Forty-second street, where I keep a saloon; Coleman and Johnson came in, asked for drinks, used vile language, calling me vile Dames, &c,; Lasked Coleman to go out; he refused ; then offered him a drink to go out; as 1 was goin round the bar to put him out he said_he would kil me, and stabbed me; I then ran in and told my sis ter and barkeeper; when I came out again, he Sate attacked me, when I fread with no intention of killing him; it was to save my own life; I was Stabbed in the head; | was trying to get away from him when I fired the shot; he then had me around the neck; fired the shot to frighten him, intend- ing that the ball would go aside, but he moved around and the ball entered his body. Tins closed the evidence in the case, when the Coroner briefly charged the jury, who with ut leav- ing the box returned a verdict of justifiabe hom- icide, and wore discharged, On motion of Mr. Hummel, the Coroner at once discharged the accused, much to the delight of a large number of who were in attendance, CARRYING OONCEALED WEAPONS. John Straubinger,.a blackamith, residing in ‘Dwenty-ninth street, was arrested by Officer Smith, of the Twentieth precinct, on Wednesday night, who charges he found secretly concealed on his Person a large spring dirk knife, and was of the opinion he had it for the purpose of ie it on some person, The prisoner, upon being artaigned petore Janoe err a, J peste aot olice Court, yes 4 it know tt wan'eg inet the law to Ne was committed In default of $500 trial at the Spectat Reseions, * | THE COURTS. Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts. Action on a Bond—Peremptory Writs in Mas Camus Cases—The New Law of Asecement. UNITED STATES DISTRICT CounT. Swit Against a United States Pa; Interesting Case. Before Judge Blatchford. ’ The United States vs. Benjamin J. Cahoon.—thy defendant has been © paymaster m the navy of the United States since 1840, having been appointed to that ofice during the administration of Preside; Andrew Jackson. The bond which he had into for the due and faithful performance of his, duty was tor $25,000, In 1864 Mr, Cahoon was im arrears some $4,000 or $5,000, but notwithst thts deficiency the government, on account of hig. ity of character and long and faithful service, ot sue him, and the bond was renewed. Im 1856 Paymaster Cahoon was on service in China, and while there became atficted with Chinese fever, On bis return hoie he was in a poor state of health, and medical men gave it ae their that he was suffering from soitness of the In the fall of last year pi on behalf of his wile were taken against Paymaster Cahoon im the Supreme Court of the State, and he was there~ upon declared @- lunatic, Algernon 8. Sullivan, being appointed his guardian, A suit was, how-’ ever, commenced two or three years against Mr. Cahoon and his sureties to recover the amount of his bond, he having pald some $8,000 which he was enabled to raise by 2 mortgage on his property, The case now came before the Court on motion by counsel for defendant to overrule the demurrer, of the government to tie second and third connta of the defendant's pica that he was imbecile at the. time of the execution of the bond and during the period of the alleged defalcation, ‘4 The papers in the case having been submitted, udge slatchford rendered hia decision, ove: 4 the demurrer, with leave to the government to plead cr take issue within twenty days, as they may advised. SUPREME CO!RT—CHAMBERS, Peremptory Writs Issued in Mandamus Cases. Before Judge Barrett, ‘The case of Robert M. Grant vs. The Board of Apportionment and Audit came up to-day. It will be remembered that in the opinion of Judge Prattim this case, rendered last Monday, in which all the employés of the city are so much interested, he then decided the powers of the Board as to salaries and wages of the employés of the city and county, and held that where the price was fixed by lawand contract and they had performed their duty that the Board of Apportionment and Audit had no dis- cretion, but should audit and allow the claims at theirfuli amount. By that decision several other cases of the same kind were decided a3 agreed by eounsel, the papers having been submitted with the rs in Grant's cuse. In that decision jodes t said that the Board might have until the sth inst. eee day) to the Mle another return, on failure of which the Lapeiiage | writs were to issue, On the case being called Mr. Frederick H. Kellogg, on bebali of Mr. Grant, inslated that, further return not having been made, the peremptor writ should issue in accordance with Pratt's de- cision. Judge Barrett directed that on proof oy aMdavit of such failure the writ should issue. like decision was subsequently given in three other cages. The New Asecssment Law. ) The first motion to vacate an assessment for street pavement, under section seven of the new Assessment Law, was argued yesterday before Judge Barrett, at Chambers. In the matter of the petition of Norwood in the Fourteenth street a the Judge decided that under that section, whe! the Property, in Ce aii! ~~ io assessment for a former rel irregularities had occurred, the asscasment must be vacated, Deols! fons. . In the matter of the peice of Elizabeth Flyns to vacate assessment for paving avenue B, &£0.— ‘The proof shoula be submiit:d to the Corporation Counsel, and his consent obtained if it be @ proper case, If he declines then he sh ve notice oF the final application and present. objections. In the application for the discharge of G. W. Amesbury.—No offence or crime known to the being charged, the prisoner must be disch: ¥ Crawiord vs. Waters, Receiver.—Motion denied, ‘WIth’ $10 costs, to abide event, but without preju- dice to a motion for leave to tinue without conte. Webster vs. The Board of Supervisors of County of Monroe. —Mation ranted conditionally, See memo: andum of decision flied, Stern va. Tiernan.—Motion denied, with $10 costa, to abide the event, In the matter of Catharine Hoffman, a supposed lunatic.—-Application denied. Bates vs. Eates.—Mr. lull should have notice of the motion tor final judgment. Bowler vs. Thompson et al.—Judgment granted, Mackay et vs. Grimth.—Motion granted and cause referred to referee to hearand determine. See Code, section 2 jon et al—Bill of Sheriif of Isham et al. vs. Ds Monroe county adjusted and certificate signed, , By Judge Monell. Carroll va, Hull.—Motion granted. Bausch vs, Miller.—Sawe. Calahan vs. Doe et al.—Complaint dismissed. Russeli va. Thayer.—Motion granted. Taicott vs. Belding.—-Order granted, Burger vs, Schroeder.—Deiendant discharged from imprisonment. By Judge Freedman. The Gutta Percha ana Rubber Manufacturing gonneey v8. Andrew C. Bened.ct, Jr.—Reference ordered, Cornelius W. Hoagland et al. va. John A, Seal et al.—Motion denied, with $10 costs, to abide the event. COURT OF commen PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM, Special Notice. Chambers of the Court of Common Pleas will be held in the General Term Room at haif-past ten A, M., except Saturday. COURT OF GENFRAL SESSIONS. Notorious Pickpockets and Burglars Sent to the State Prison by Judge Bedford Larceny of a Diamond Pin. Before Judge Bedford. There was a large number of cases on the calem> dar yesterday, and District Attorney Stewart and the City Judge disposed of a large number of note Tious prisoners. The first case callgd to the attention of the Court wos an indictment against John Manley, who Pleaded guilty to stealing a diamond pin valued at $1,000, on the 24th of July, from Benjamin H. Wiltisy on the corner of Greene and Fourth streets, His Honor asked Manley how long he had been out of the State Prison. He responded that he had not been there, but was sent to the Penitentiary for what was “supposed to be a burglary.”? Judge Bedford in passing sentence said, “You are 8 notorious rough and taief; you ought to have been sent to the State Prison five years ago and I will send you there now for five years.” A House Breaker Sent to. the Prison. George Robertson, charged with burglariously entering the dwelling house of William Thompson, 146 Weat Twenty-sixth street, om the 26th of July and stealing $80 ih money, pleaded guilty tot third grade‘of that crime, ”” > opera His Honor said that through a technicality in the proof the District Attorney could not secure a con- viction for the main offence. The prisoner wag found in the house at three o'clock in the morning. “lam bound,” continued the Judge, “to protect welling houses when the inmates are absent dur- ing the hot weather. You are sent to the State Prison for five years." An Outrage Upon a Little Girt, Louis Miller, an elderiy-looking man, was indicted for committing an outrage upon Eva White on the 2d of July, a littie girl only eight years old, He Pleaded guilty to an assault with intent to commit @rape. The old sinner stated to the Court that he had never committed an offence before. Jud; Bedford remarked that he did not believe that’s man who would commit such an outrs upon an innocent little girl iad any principle. fe went him to the State Prison for the full term upon the plea, which was five years. George Couway and Jose: Carpenter pleaded lity to an attempt at ry in the third degree, the aliegation being that on the 25th of June they entered the liquor store of Eugene Keith, 67 Walker street, and stole $17 worth of cl His Honor said that a police captain informed him ater was a bad mau. He was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months; Com way, Who was a boy, but who also had been are rested before, was #ent to the penitentary for twa ears. State An Old Shoplifter Sent to Sing Sing for Five Years, Charles Schultz, an old man, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. On the 6th of July he stoic a piece CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE, YE By