Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — CAMPAIGN NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

EETMr. Greeley is not in debt, and yet his lie-abilities are very great. ESTMr. Boutwell says Mr. Greeley asked him, during the past three years and a half, to do twelve things inconsistent with each other, and either of which, done in the way proposed, would be fatal to the business interests of the country. EST" Bishop Simpson, in a letter, says: ’‘l am not, and never have been, in favor of Mr. Greeley for President. If lam spaied, I expect to vote for General Grant, believing that our country needs an unchanged policy for four years longer. ’ ’ howl about reconciliation reminds a contemporary of the child who went bawling up stairs and down, “Ma! ma! Susan won’t pacify hie!” Tradition affirms that tlie mother effected complete pacification by a vigorous use of her slipper. Troy-WAu/says there will be three eclipses in November, this year, as follows: “A very small eclipse of the moon on the night of the 14th, visible; an annular eclipse of the sun on the 20th, invisible in North America; and the total and permanent eclipse of the Democratic party on the sth, visible to all men.” Greeley said in February, 1861, “If the slave States, the cotton States, or the Gulf States, only choose to form an independent nation, they have a clear and moral right to do >o.". If he, instead of Mr. Lincoln, had been in the Presidential chair, woGld not the Southern Confederacy have become an accomplished fact? EST" The report that the Democrats elected one member of the State Senate in Maine is incorrect. 6ne Republican Senator in Somerset County was “scratched,” on a local issue, but his Democratic opponent did not get the votes,-and,asall the ballets are counted, and a majority of the whole vote_ is re(|iiired to elect, both candidates failed, and there is a vacancy.

Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, writes: “I am strongly for Grant’s election as against Greeley. There are reasons why Greeley should not be elected which seem to have been little discussed.” The newspapers of to-day are not large enough to discuss all the reasons why Greeley should not be elected. The Senator should take space into consideration.— Toledo Blade. New York Tribune of a recent date says that the Philadelphia Convention was composed of Federal office-holders. The Greeleyltas all over the country persist in this misrepresentation. The fact is that there were, all told, less than twenty officeholders in that Convention. General Grant’s renomination was a foregone conclusion, simply because the great mass of the non-offlce-holding people were and are enthusiastic in his support. That tells the. whole stdry. EeFTt seems almost impossible for the New York Tribune to tell the truth nowadays. Not long since It came out with the assertion that William M. Tweed had written a letter to Justice Coulter, dissuading the latter from taking part in a Greeley meeting ; and now this, like many other yarns gotten up by the Tribune, is exposed as a falsehood.' Justice Coiilter says he never received such a letter. The Tribune’* object in manufacturing the story was, of course,to convey ah impression that Tweed was actively opposing Greeley.—/Amteb-r Democrat. ,|3?"The Greeley telegraph agent Of, Georgia informs the world that the negroes were the assailants in the election riot at Macon ; but it also transpires that the negroes and their friends were the only ones to get killed. This is a most curious and incomprehensible result. We have noticed, however, that “negro ruffianism” in the South always has the same end. “ The, negroes were thoroughly armed with guns, razors, and hatchets,” but they were killed and wounded in dozens by the innocent and unarmed rebels whom they attacked. Strange fatality!—They were “thoroughly armed,” yet. they fled from the polls and did not dare to go and - Vote in the presence of the Confederate Quakers. This is called “ intimidation by negroes.”— Chicago Bnt.