Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1872 — CAMPAIGN NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

slander heaped upon the President by the twin Tribunes this year, is fully refuted by the columns of the twin Tribunes of a year ago. —Chicago Tost. Eg’The Worcester Gazette says: ‘‘For a good, round, fully-developed ‘straw,’ commend us to the vote taken at the reunion of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment: Grant, 225; Greeley, 2.” £spMinnesota is one of the States claimed for Greeley. A gentleman of St. Paul, writing to a friend, says: “If you have any Greeley men to spare, send us one; we have but one, and he is lonesome.” Jsg?“The Albany Argus said the other day that the Democracy have resolved to turn over a new leaf. We are inclined to think it will be “the sear and yellow leaf,” says the Whiff.' “ — _ ■ The Hartford (Ct.) Courant says: “Some of the leading business men in Bridgeport who are Democrats will not vote for Mr. Greeley. They are satisfied that his election would demoralize the business interests of the country.” JSfJudge Stephen J. Field, of the United States Supreme Court, has declared that he cannot support Greeley and Brown. He is one of the leading Democrats of the country, and has much influence, especially in California. Bingham, of New Hampshire, Justifies his support for Greeley by saying: “ Horace Greeley is pledged to do, and will do, if elected, just what the Democracy would require one of their old and tried leaders to do were he elected.” «™~, —.

cannot conceive how any one who periled his lifejor the preservation of-the Union under General Grant and our gallant military and naval commanders can give his support to Mr. Greeley, who was willing to see it dissolved without striking a blow to save it.”— John A. Dir. reF'Extract from Mr. Greeley’s Pittsburgh speech, September 19, 1872, as reported in Associated Press dispatch: “I demand that there shall brropett, free fi tseussion - before the Southern people. If, after an honest, nnterriiied and unconstrained vote they prove that the people of the South say they want disunion, Twill consent to it.” igyjudge Stallo, of Cincinnati, says of Greeley’s logic* i‘ He has a form of syllogistie reasoning entirely his own, his syllogism consisting of a broad assertion of the thing to be proved as the major premise, a ringing .imprecation as tho minor, and a bold charge of venality-or idiocy against his antagonist as the conclusion.” Springfield (Mass.) Republican, though a Greeley organ, is constrained to reject the Credit * Mobilier slanders. It says : “No sane man supposes that Colfax, or Kelly, or Patterson, ’oy,. Boutwell, haa stained his hands with a bribe. No sane man supposed anything of the sort of Dawes, Wilson, or Garfield.” jgyThe .Maryland DemjMftts are vigorously carrying out the doctrine of forgetfniness of the away to rot in an old the bulletriven battle-flags of regiments which the loyal people. Maryland ” sent into the field. and' this sort of “ forgetfulness^^ will become chronic. jgpWhat would be the effect of Mr. Greeley’s election? Manifestly the ..South would at once be Instigated by bis sentiments to agitate the question of compensation for their slaves, their debt, and their pensions, and with the fiery elements thus fanned into a flame, the agitation would naturally end in our being obliged to recall Grant and the army to put down another Insurrection.— John P. Hale. i

py S.W. Street, of . Salem, Ohio, certifies that he met the “Rev.” libeler Dennison on the 26th of last June, and the latter said: “We must make a strong point on Grant’s drinking.” The inquiry was made: “Can we substantiate the charge?” He said: “It will, be an exciting campaign; the people grab easily ; wind sometimes works better than facts.” On the same subject he said: “Though I live in Washington, and frequently see the President, and sometimes call on him, I must say I never saw him drink or drunk; but bis den muit be broken; toe must jAay policy alien toe can.’’ fJT The Baltimore Grceleyites, having succeeded to the rowdyism with which that city is plentifully endowed, employed one of their peculiar political arguments on Sunday evening. A delegation of three hundred soldiers and sailors, who were en route from Washington to the JPlttsburgh Contention, in passing from depot to depot, were assailed by the roughs with stones, brickbats, and other projectiles. No one was killed, but several were more or less injured. When the soldiers turned On the roughs, the latter fled incontinently. There is something in this Baltimore disgrace which is typical of the general political contest this fail. The Greeley papers have been throwing figurative mud at Republicans, just as the Greeleyite rowdies threw brickbats at the soldiers ; but when the soldiers turned on their assailants they disappeared. Just as the Greeleyites will disappear in the coming elections undef the , steady fire of Republican votes.— lnter- Ocean. XW A “Dying Democrat” wails touching- ; ly in the following stanzas: I am dying, Horace, dying, I could not stand the dose; My condition at this moment. Pale but comatose. I'v swallowed many nostrums, ; . My aching frame to All, But' you, my hoary Ureeley, Were by far the bitterest pill. Prince of the rich guano. King of the cabbage green, . .- .. Lord of the flowering turnip, «. And Duke of Betts, I ween, Uh, why forsake thy solitude ’Mid groves end sunny hallow, And grow a pill political . For Democrats to aw allow. -Olvo me the monstrous boa, '■ Q’va me the spotted snake; Give me the striped tiger, • Tnstlurks «itnin the brake: Give me the tawny llgard— I'll take them all quite freely; '.j «. > But for our anclsnt glory’s sake. Ucn't glvi me Horses Utssley I