A Birney For Greeley

Tho folltnvins; letter defines tho position of Gen. Wm. BntNEY, sou of James G. BlKXEY, first abolition candidato for President, and brother of Judge BlKXEY, of' Bay City. What ho says of the condition of the South, and of tho responsibility of tho Administrution, should bo weighed by all who love thoir country more than party : ♦It is with pain I tako this stop. I have boon an active membei of tho Republican party sincc its organization, as I was of its predooessor, tho Liberal party. I bore irras five ycars to support its policy; I glory in its proud record of gallant service to the human race ; I entertain a high respect for G;n. Grant as il military man, and a warm personal fricadship for Senator Wilson. Bat tho duty of the hour I conccive to bo to support the old tiine Itepublium Ilorace Greeley. Tho fo;ir years rulo in Florida of raOTi onlling themselvea Republicana hat int the State on the rond fortuin, ntoally, icially, and most of thfl e vil bas been done by a confeder band of United Statos offioials who havi nsed their leisure to devote themselvcs to the trickory of State politics, seize on the party manliinery, cumúlate State offices in thcir own hands and in thoso of thcir degraded parasites, and form a legislative ring to aid their private speeul itions. - Superficial as they are corrupt, they havi got the State iinances into a hopeless tangle ; taxes are uncqual, eteryioht re opresxive, and in somc cóuntit equ il to the annual rental of property; delinquent tax collectors are not brought to justice -in the only honest offort to prosoeuto au indictment against a number of the ring, a revonuo collector, for the embezzloment of county fonds, tho State Attorney hiinself was removed to prevent his trying tha causo. "Sound Bepublü m$ ham again and again brotight tki state of things to the notire of the President, who, iï I ain eorrectly informed, has always sheltered himself under the rights of patronage concoded by political usages to United States Senators, ïhero would1 be' forcé in this view if tho President had enforoed the rulo of tho Troasury Daparoment forbidding its subordinatcs to hold State offices; the suspension of this -rule to enable treasury officers in Florida to hold seats in tho Legislature is eauivalent to iutprvention in our Senatorial elections by the President. The onl'j hope of a restored prosperity and morality to Florida, it is clear, lie in thé defeat by tfiepeopló of the Prenident's spgcialfriends : and the onh way to effect this is the cordial imion nf all tnie men under the Liberal Republ tan banner. "Yours, etc, WiLi.iAir Birney."