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SOUTHERN REBEL THREATS! il^hother Civil War Imminent ! Seymour and Blair Pledged to Repudiation ! czTi2ii:srs, FxtzEr^Ds of the VSTIOM', RZSAD ABr3» REFLECT ! The object of this publication is to )r'esent in a form at once convenient mo kept fully informed as to the inten- ions of the Southern wing of the Reb- '1-Democratic party, which was so re- 'ently arrayed in arms for the over- throw of the Union, (and which now controls the National policy of the Democratic party,) and whose leading spirits dictated the Tammany Hall plat- bnn and the nomination of Seymour md Blair, the sayings and threats of :,hese men are spread before you, that you may read and judge for yourselves what is your duty in the pending con- test. Friends of the Union and of Re- publican Freedom! The combat deepens! We are in the thick of a desperate struggle, but we can see through and beyond it. A few weeks more of resolute eflbrt will usher in a long biTght season of tranquility and safety. We must not be beaten. The patriot blood of Union Men, ])oured out like water on a hundred bloody fields, cries aloud to us to press on to the glorious consummation for which so much has been sacrificed. The elec- tion of Grant and Colfax secures the ascendancy of Liberty, Justice and Peace ; it is the Appomattox of our civil conflict ; it insures that ours shall be henceforth a land of Equal Rights and Equal Laws; it makes our recent history coherent and logical ; it dem- onstrates that the discomfiture of the Rebellion was no blunder and no acci- dent, but the triumph' of principle, and an added proof that God reigns. DEMOCRATIC-REBEJL THKEATS AND MUXTEBINGS. The revolutionary threats commenced by Fkank Blair, in his letter bidding for the nomination at Tammany Hall, have given courage to the Rebels North and South, and since the Convention adjourned the air has become impreg- nated with bombast and sulphur. These men now threaten violence and forcible resistance to legal authority — provided the coming election does not result favorably to Seymour and Blair — with all the coolness and impudence of Mexican revolutionists, or unwhipped slave-driving Rebels. This is in keep- ing with the conduct of the Southern Democrats, who, in 1859-60, boldly proclaimed that unless the then pend- ing Presidential election resulted in ac- cordance with their Welshes, they would set the National authority at defiance and erect a Southern Republic. Now, Northern Democrats strike hands with Southern Rebels, and alike indulge in similar menaces, threatening that if the Republicans carry the election they will repudiate the Legislative branch of the Government, tear to pieces with the bayonet the Reconstruction Acts, drive from the Capitol all JNIembers of Con- gress who are objectionable to them, and assuming the reigns of Govern- ment, conduct National affairs gener- ally in accordance with their own views and wishes. Fellow Citizens ! Are you willing to see our country again plunged into the horrors of a civil war? A war compared with which the one wliere- from we have just emerged will appear as a mere pastime ? Mothers and Sisters ! wdiose sons and brothers, slaughtered by Rebel bullets, lie mouldering in Southern graves, entreat your husbands and brothers to vote against a party whose teachings have already deprived you of those you held dear, and who now pledge unrepentant Rebels their aid in renewing the fratricidal strife. V^oters ! read ^yhat these Rebels and their abettors threaten, and then gird on your armor in support of the Republican ticket. Blair, in his letter 1 — lo fc>a to his friend Broade(ead, bidding for the Tammany Hall nomination, said : "There is but one way to restore the Gov ■ ernment and the Constitution, and that is, for the Premdent elect [Seymour] to declare the Ik'constructton Acts null and rmd, compel the Army to undo ita usurpations at the South, disperse the carpet-bag State Governments, al- low (he White people to reorganize their oun gorei-nments, and elect Senato7-s and Bepresev- tatireii. The House of Rejiresentatives will contain a majority of Democrats from the North, and they will admit the Ee])resen- tatives elected by the White people of the South ; aud, with the co-operation of the President, it will not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit. * * i repeat that this is the real aud only question that should be allowed to control us. * * * " Frank P. Blair." Blair's letter is short, sharp and de- cisive. He would haA^e the President put down by force all that has been gained by subduing the rebellion, and he would exact a pledge to pursue this course, from the candidate, as a test of fitness. Acting on this hint, his rebel friend in the Convention, Wade Hampton, says he compelled the Com- mittee on Resolutions to insert in the platform the following : " And we declare that the Reconstruction Act's of Congress are revolution-ary, unconstitutional and void." When this clause of the platform was read in the Convention it was re- ceived with vociferous cheering, and cries of " read it again ! " which was done ; and when Wade Hampton re- turned to South Carolina he made a speech in Charleston, in which he said : " Having thus pledged themselves, I feel assured that when the Democratic party come to triumph, they will show us a rem- edy for our misfortunes in their owu good time, for which I am jierfectly willing to wait." In his letter accepting the nomina- tion, Mr. Sey]mour endorses fully all that Blair has said, and all that Hampton claims. He says in that letter : " You have also given me a copy of the resolutions put forth by the Convention, showing its position upon all the great que^stious which now agitate the country. As the presiding officer of that Convention, I am familiar with their scope and import. As oue of its members, I am a party to 3 ^THEIR TERMS. ThEY ARE IN ACCORD WITH MY viEYTS, and I stand upon them in the ^^ contest upon which we are now entering, . and I 6HALI, STRIVE TO CARRY THEM OUT in future WHEREVER I MAY BE PLACED IN PO- LITICAL OR PRIVATE LIFE." > In plain words, Mr. Seymour pledges ^ liimself, if elected, to declare the meas- ures enacted by the present Congress unconstitutional, to destroy the State Governments organized under them, and to employ the military in re-estab- lishing the system which existed at the close of the war ; and with the concur- rence of a Democratic House of Rep- resentatives, he virtually promises to secure the expulsion of Members elect- ed on the reconstruction basis; the - ousting of Senators by military force, and the admission in their places of others elected under the Blair pro- gramme. So elated are the late Rebels at the prospect, that in a speech at St. Louis, (the home of Feank Blair,) Charles Gibson, one of the orators, exposed what is probably the plot. He said: "Mr. Blair, in his letter, tells us that if he be elected Fresideyit of the United States, or become Fresideyit, [A voice, 'Vice President'] — ivell, if he is elected Vice President, he may become rresident — he tells you that if he becomes President of the United States, that he ex- pects these unconstitutional governments in the South, begotten of the sword, to vanish from the halls of the nation, and he tells you that if, in the exercise of his constitutional powers, it becomes necessary, he will use the necessary measures to remove tliem out of those halls." [A voice — " He's right!" and cheers.] The Vicksburg Tunes, %vith the Sky- MOUR and Blair ticket at its head, says : " Objection is made down this way to the endorsement of the Blair letter by a few timid people, on the score of prudence, and yet it Avas this identical letter of Frank Blair to his friend. Col. Broadhead, that secured the Missoiu'i hero the nomination for Vice President. We^vant just such ammu- nition as Frank Blair uses." This is the cheerful programme to wdiich Horatio Seymour has pledged himself. It is a pledge to anarchy, to revolution; and to this, men of New York, you give your aid and counte- nance by voting any part of the Dem- ocratic ticket. Forewarned is fore- armed. Blair was an officer in the United States army during the war, but hf has exchanged his principles and his uniform, and now wears the Confeder- ate (jrai/ instead of tlie Union blue. DEITIOCRACY AND RK BELL, I ON THE SAME TMING. Soldiers who fought to save the Union, read the following from the Louisville Journal., w^hich carries th(^ Seymour and Blair flag at its edito- rial head: " The Republican party has especially commended itself to the detestation of the South, by its wholesale persecutions of Southern men, and now lias the eflrontcry to pique itself upon the fact that Thomas, Sheridan and Meade, who have grown fat off its indulgencies, are its friends; while Lee, Hampton and Forrest, whom it lins striven to destroy, are its enemies. Nwi are we embarrassed to know that Lee, Hampton and Forrest desire the election of Seymour. We rejoice to know that they are with us. We rejoice to recognize theiri as brave men, able men, honest men. We rejoice to meet them once more as our fellow citizens; and as fellowship and citizenship imply the most perfect equality, we should despise our pretentions to Democratic prin- ciples if we should ask for ourselves anglit we do not freely concede to them. What sort of republicanism is that Avhich would honor Gen'ls Sheridan, Thomas and Meade, and degrade Gen'ls Forrest and Hampton f Forrest is as good a man as Sheridan. No one will pretend to say that Hampton i.s inferior in talent, virtues or accomplisli- ments, to Thomas. When General Hamp- ton was at the head of his legion, and General Forrest was in his saddle, they levied an honest and vigorous war against the United States. They fought splendidly and skillfully. And to say that eitlu r of them might have entered the United States Senate the day after, if the people saw fit to elect them, is our sort of Democracy. Hampton, Forrest and Lee are accessions to the Democratic party. They are like mile posts along the Democratic highway. We are proud of them; and we present them with confidence to the people of the North, and we say, ' Here are our trophies.' '' Forrest, the butcher, who is thus lauded and placed above the Generals of the Union araiy, is the same For- rest who massacred the loyal soldiers who were forced to surrender at Fort Pillow, and who is now making stump speeches for SEYMOUKand Blaie, calls upon his old foUowere to be prepared for another crusade whenever he shall *' toot his liorn," — assuring them that in this ncAv crusade he would give " no quarter." It is quite probable that before the close of the campaign, this butcher will be invited North to speak for the Democratic ticket. It might be pleas- ant for the scarred and maimed veterans of New York to hear this eminent murderer " toot his horn " for Seymour and Blair. It would can-y them back to Fort Pillow, where scores of loyal men were massacred by his order, and would induce them to doubt the genu- ineness of that Democracy which has mich au advocate. By all means, let Forrest "toot his honi" hereaway. The unrepentant feeling and thirst for revenge of the Southern Rebels, can be seen by the following speech of IIowETX Cobb, of Georgia, he says: " The Reconstruction Acts are null and void, and shall not stnnd. * * * The giiu- uing skeletons which have been set up in our midst as k'gislators, shall be ousted by I"^ank Blair, whom our party has expressly appointed for that purpose. * * * Come one and all, and let us snatch the old [Con- federate] banner from the dust, give it again to the breeze, and, if needs be, to the God of battles, and strike one more honest blow for constitutional liberty. * * * * The doors are wide open — wide enough, broad enough to receive every white man in Georgia, unless you should discover him coming to you creeping and crawling under the Chicago Platform. Up- on them there should be no mercy. They have dishonored themselveS and sought to dishonor you. Anathematize them. Drive them from the pale of social and political society. Oh, heaven ! for some blistering- words, that I may write infamy upon the foreheads of these men, that they may travel through earth despised of all men, and rejected of heaven, scorned by the Devil himself. They may seek their final congenial resting place under the mudsills of the anoient institution." The Meridian (Miss.) Jlercwn/, with the Seymour and Blair colors at the head of its columns, in a flaming ar- ticle in their behalf, says : "With the skull and cross-bones of the 'lost cause' before ns, we will swear that this is a White Man's Government. We must make the negro understand that we are the men we were when we had him in abject bondage, and make him feel that when forbearance ceases to be a virtue, he has aroused a power that will control hini or destroy him." Albert Pike, of the Memphis Ap- peal, at one time a Rebel general, and who enlisted Indians for the purpose as he then proclaimed, of " scalping every d d Yankee," and who after great bluster and small performance came sneaking Northward, seeking atten- tion and in some instances receiving ovations from Northern Democrats, counsels thus: " Young men, it is for you to bring l)ack those golden days. The South is our land ; tlie North is a foreign and hostile realm. Stand at the altar of your country. Swear eternal hatred of its oppressors. Sweiir that the day shall come when the Susque- hanna and Ohio shall be like rivers of tire, as they are now rivers of blood, between your native land and that of the Northern Huns, which no man shall attempt to cross and live. * * * * Wq do not love and will not pretend to love that Union, though we have agreed to obey the laws of the conqueror. We hope to see the South in- dependent before we die ; and if Jacobin- ism is to become supreme in the North, we wish there could be an imjiassable wall or a gulf of lire between it and our Southern States. The day will come Avhen the South will be independent." John Forsyth, a leading Rebel — a prominent member of the Democratic National Committee, and Editor of the Mobile Advertiser — while vigorously supporting Seymour and Blair, writes thuij: "Now if civil war comes out of this con- flict of political forces, the white men of the South will not be worsted. * * * * And here we may as well say that the peo- \)l(i of the South do not intend to submit, result as the Presidential election may." The Mobile Tribune, which flies the rebel flag and supports the Seymour and Blair ticket, says : "We must Irealc uj) the loyal Imgves, and to do this it is only necessary that the ne- groes should be properly instructed. Point out to the negroes the way they should go. Tell them that the radicals in the Legisla- ture are the veriest scum thrown up by the boiling cauldron of the late revolutionary war ; that they are a gang of political vag- abonds o]i the prowl for plunder, and they -will surely aid in drivwg the unprincipled leretches from the State." There was a State Democratic Con- vention at Atlanta, Ga., on the 24th of July. It Avas composed of the iin- i-econstructed Rebels of the State, v\dth Toombs, Cobb and General Hiix as leaders. Their speeches ran over Avith treasonable threats, like the following, which is the reported speech of one Kamsey, of Columbus : '• We have aroused in our luigbt once more, under the leadership of Seymour and Blair. Georgia has passed through a fiery ordeal. Some of her children, during the war she Avas compelled to -wage, deserted her and .ioined her enemies. Let them be like Arnold, forever accursed. We have seen our soldiers fall, our cities in flames, our citi- zens toni from thoir peaceful homes. We looked ujion it unmoved and unblanehed. But we can bear it no longer. Wcicill now. at all hazards, recover our lost liberties, and restore the State. We are in the midst of a great revolution, which may end peace- fully at the ballot-box ; but if not, then the true men of the South will rally once more around their now folded banner, and twill try the issue at the cartridge-box. [Loud and enthusiastic applause.] Remember the ancestors from whom you sprung. Tho'e are men in the North who are now truli/ Kith you, and who will, iti such a conflict, if necessary, lead your battulione. We did not make the other war. It was forced upon us. We 6imj)ly stood for the rights for which our fathers bled ! And we will stand there again, come peace or war. [Loud applause.] " A Mr. Willi AMSox, of Shreveport, lia., said at a New Orleans Democratic gathering, a fcAv nights since : " I believe we will carry our candidates, as firmly as I believe there is a throne of God. But even if defeat should fall upon us, be not discouraged; the time will come when we shall redeem the country. Let no man leave his native State — let us leave our bones in Louisiana, and if these scala- wags and carpet-baggers remain, let's hunt tliemfrom the country!" Mr. Williamson speaks for his party. He has observed the proceedings of the New York Democratic Convention. He has read the platform it put forth. The Democracy have declared that the Reconstruction acts of Congress are *' revolutionary, unconstitutional and void." Their candidate for the Vice Presidency announces thut if its ticket is successful, the govemmcnts fonncvl under those laws will be disbanded by force. And General ^VADE Hamiton, author of the platfu-m, says he has a Confederate flag, laid away after tlie downfall of Columbia in 1865, whicli he proposes to unfurl in triumph after the election of the l>LAiit and Seymouij ticket, l^et the Blaiu and Seymour ticket be successful, and loyal men Avill be driven from their homes. Loyal Governments overtln-OAvn and super- seded by combinations of traitors. The debt of the Government repudiated, and that of the Confederacy revived and enforced for the behoof of credit- ors. A Avar upon property, and the A'irtual if not actual reA'ival of Slavery as a political institution. Such is the entertainment to Avhich the Democratic party iuA-ites the country — such the picture of the future, Avhich it paints for those avIio have been faithful to tlie Constitution and the LaAvs. Let such as doubt that orator Williamson spoke by the book, read again the letter of Fkank Blair to Colonel Beoadiieaj). The Pine ]?luff (Arkansas) Vhuli- cator, a staunch supporter of Sea'siour and Blair, says : " We are now in the building from wliicli fluttered the first Confederate flag in Ar- kansas. The glory of that day has departed outwardly. Changes have been wrought, but the memory of that morning when ayo unfurled the Stars and Bars, in honor of Arkansas defending her honor by seceding, will never die. Not even the ra\'ages made by the despoiler's hand can eradicate one glorious remembrance of the past. We live as of yore, and though chained and down-trodden liy fanatics, knoAv the time is fast approaching when right and justice will sing a requiem over the graA'e of Rad- ical wrong." The New Orleans Crescent, after de- A^eloping the Blair project, and con- sidering the possibility that it may not succeed, boldly rushes into the anns of the revolutionists by declaring it the duty of the South to rule or ruin. " We ought at least," says this echo of l)at- tle, " to do what Ave can to lighten our yoke by making it an equal despotism for North and South alike. One more trial for State riglits and Constitutional liberty ! " 6 Alluding to the Blair threat, in his letter to 13roadhead, the Vicksburg Herald says : "Here is the easy solntion of all these troubles. We clalui that we have these rights secured to us by every law. Then let us execute them, and if we are pre- vented, let the onus rest on those who interfere. In other words, we owe it to ourselves to demand our rights and en- deavor to exercise them, otherwise they will never he forced upon us. It is the duty of the people of Mississippi to seat themselves square upon their rights at once." After reading these and similar de- clarations, can any one doubt for a moment, that the late action of the Democratic party has virtually placed the rebellion upon its legs again, re- vived the drooping hopes of the van- quished, who will seek if successful at the polls, to recover the " lost cause " ? Clearly this is what the leaders of the Southern wing of the party, at least, understand by the adoption of the rev- olutionary platform and the nomination of Blair, who assures his confidential friends that " if elected Vice President, he shall surely succeed to the Presi- dency within a year, and that then the South will be restored to its lost rights^ Fellow Citizens ! These threats by unreconstructed Rebels mean Revolu- tion, and are endorsed by the Albany Argus, the Buffalo Courier and the New York World, clearly showing that the Democratic party is a Revolution- ary party, and that the election of Seymour and Blair would precipitate another rebellion at the South. This is the plain truth, unless current Dem- ocratic utterances both oral and written are mere wind and bluster. What, for instance, does the folloAving, from a re- cent editorial in the New York World, mean, unless it means Revolution ? It eaid : " When the Democratic party has elected the next President, it will be manifest to everybody that the uegro [present state] govenunents cannot be permanent. If the Senate and the Southern negroes shall then yield to the will of the country, we shall liave immediate tranquility. But if they choose to make a factious opposition, the Southern whitos mil probably cut the gordian knot Without waiting for a change in the Senate to have it untied. If the negro governments should suddenly collapse, a Democratic ad- ministration will not interpose to resusci- tate them, and the local authority will easily revert into the hands of the whites. If there should be a deviation from the usual forms, it will be because the Senate and the negroes refuse to comply with the will of the majovity, as expressed in the Presiden- tial election." The World with indiscreet frankness, herein admits that Fraxk Blair's rev- olutionary ideas would control Sey- mour's administration. If the De- mocracy should succeed to power, and the Senate would not recede from the Reconstruction policy which Congress has already adopted, and consent to the undoing of all that has thus far been done to restore the Rebel States to their Federal relations, " the Southern whites," to requote the language of the World, " will probably cut the gordian knot," — cut it with the sword, of course 1 If this does not mean that another Re- bellion would follow the election of Seymour, what does it mean ? The Albany Argus complains that these votaries of Democracy are mis- understood. Tliat they do not mean to threaten Revolution. Language em- ployed by them, which in other mouths would have a forcible significance, must be interpreted metaphorically. Ac- cording to the Argns, if one says that " Secession is more alive now than ever," he means secession from radi- calism. If another proclaims that " the carpet-baggers must be hunted out," it is simply a quiet reference to the withholding of ofticial pap. The as- sertion that " the South has used the bullet and can use it again," is a testi- monial of the great forbearance and prolonged endurance of that section. When Frank Blair declared that a Democratic President would disperse the "carpet-bag" Governments and recognize a Congress of Southern Reb- els and Northern Copperheads, he was only making an argument " within the well-defined limits of the Constitution." Indeed Frank himself, in his speech at Leavenworth, explained such to be his idea at the time he wrote the Broad- head letter. He said : "When, as I Lave already stated, I said in Now York, that if the Democratic Piuty isbould carry these elections; if the people should elect a Democratic President, this pretended reconstruction should be un- done ; and if these miserable carpet-bag- gers in the Senate were in the way of its l)eing done, the people will find a way to exe- tute their will : those miserable creatures who have undertaken to forestall the poji- ular will, say that any one who undertakes to execute the will of the people is a revo- lutionist. * * * * Thii idea that any one should undertake to undo what has been done by this great Congress, this Kump, this fragmentary Congress, who go into power by deceiving the people on false issues, is monstrous in their virtuous eyes." It may be that this does not mean revohition. Perhaps it draws a broad line of distinction between the popular interpretation of the letter which se- 1-ured Blair's nomination — but the dif- riculty is that the people certainly fail to see it. Nor can the popular intelli- gence, which has not been educated up to the Democratic standard, discover how threats of violence, appeals to the memories of the past, and promises to r(>store the " lost cause " of Rebellion, are compatible with the idea of faithful obedience to the laws, and peaceful submission to the expressed will of the people. » A WAKNING. A Kentucky Unionist writes to the Cincinnati Commercial, as follows: "You men of the North, Conservative and War Democrats, may believe that the threats of revolution and rebellion in the South are idle. You are mistaken. All over Kentucky, nearly, bands of Confeder- ates are organizing, holding secret night sessions, and praying that the election of Seymour may give them the opportunity of overturning the Southern State Govern- ments and driving the Union men from the country. The rebel spirit is rife in the land. Yoi7 have the deciding votes. If you cle^t Seymour, such a torrent of wild rebel- lion will be set in motion as will startle you. If you elect Seymour, hundreds of Union men who have stood by the old flag in the hour of danger, and have hazarded their lives for the Government, will be «ijiven by persecutions, by cruelty, by rebel maliguity from Kentiicky, to find a home eleswhere. We pray God that you may stand by us now. It is our only help. If Grant is elected we can prosper in peace, and live as we wish to live, for these men will not dare to produce discord Avitli his hand at the helm. Do not desert us." A PICTURE FOR PATRIOTS TO PONDKR. The Chairman of the Tammany Con- vention at the time Horatio Seymour wa^ nominated, was the rebel General Price, of Missouri, which State never pretended to secede from the Union. Ex-Governor Vance — the leader of the North Carolina delegation which cast its first ballot for Seymour, and hast- ened to follow Ohio's lead — declared during the war " that he was going to fight the Yankees until hell was frozen over, and then he would fight them on the ice." He subsequently addressed the rebel soldiers in the trenches, and urged them to "pile hell so full of Yankees that their feet would stick out of the windows." This same un- repentant rebel, who was so enthusi- astic for Seymour, halted at Richmond en route home from the Convention, and declared that, in his opinion, what the Confederacy had fought for would be secured by the election of Seymour. Henry A.Wise, another of the latter's enthusiastic supporters, declared upon the same occasion that he did not like the platfoiTu, because it said secession was dead, whereas it was more alive than ever. The nominees were hoAV- ever unobjectionable, inasmuch as they would restore the " lost cause." The gentleman who nominated Blair for the Presidency, was none other than the Rebel General Preston, of Ken- tucky ; who, if possible, deserved a sevei'er punishment than the other in- surgent leaders, inasmuch as he had not the excuse of State secession. He in conjunction with Breckinridge, seduced thousands of the young men of Kentucky into the Confederacy. Preston's nomination Avas secondec^ by Fort Pillow Forrest and Wade Hampton, who said in his address before the alumni and under-gradu- ates of Lee's College, " The cause for which Jackson ('Stonewall ') fell, can- not be in vain, but, in some form will yet triumph ; " Avho declared in his New York ratification speech, that a the disfranchised Rebels ot" the South should cast their ballots, and the bay- onet must force an entrance for them into the ballot boxes. Is it at all surprising that the nomi- nations have fallen still-born upon the Northern Democracy ? In spite of the " gasconade " of their newspapers they do not fail to see that Lee's pre- diction has been verified, and the late insurgents have recaptured the Demo- cratic party. WHY BLAIR ^VAS NOMINATED. Democi'ats and Republicans alike, all over the country, are endeavoring to account for the nomination of Blair. Some think it was because the conven- tion Avas wearied out, and took the first name that was presented for Vice President. Others attrilnited the fatal folly to a mistake, thinking that the delegates must have supposed they were voting for some one else. A variety of other explanations are given. But the true reason why he was nom- inated was because he was in harmony with the Convention. That body en- tertained all the revolutionary, disloyal opinions which he entertained. He, however, was bold and reckless enough to give expression to them in black and white, and they naturally rallied to his support as a leader. Until Blair wrote his famous Broad- head letter, no one thought of giving him a place on the Democratic ticket. But that letter came squarely up to the unexpressed purpose of the Rebel and Copperhead element in the Dem- ocratic Convention. It said what they thought, but dared not utter. The consequence was a suddenly awakened enthusiasm for the man who had the courage to openly threaten a second rebellion, the nullification of the recon- struction laws of Congress, and the forcible dispersion of the Senate, at the point of the bayonet. This treas- onable letter has become the Demo- cratic key-note of the campaign ; and the ready acquiescence in its revolu- tionary announcement, by Northern Democrats, was received as a license by the Hamptons and Fon-ests and Morgans of the South, to rally their forces for a new conflict of arms, to resusitate their "lost cause." And this is what they are now doing. Every speech which these Rebel leaders make is saturated with the spirit of this let- ter — which cannot be too often read by those who have had enough of slaugh- ter, and who wish to cast their votes so as to i)revent what Blair has so boldly threatened. THE DEI7IOCRATIC PRINCIPEE— "RUEE OR RUIN." The pirate Admiral Semmes declares that he "fought the war on the princi- ples of Democracy." This cannot be disputed. His plan was to care- fully avoid all fighting vessels, and to prey upon weak and luiarmed mer- chant ships. He used to hoist the Stars and Stripes as a decoy, and then seize, plunder and burn such vessels as were thus deluded into allowing him to ap]>roach them. This fairly resembles "the ])rinciples o]^ Democracy," it must be confessed. And when the Alabama was finally encountered and sunk by a loyal armed vessel, Semmes sneaked oft" for protection to British soil. ITiis, too, was " Democratic prin- ciple " during the war. As a Demo- crat he drew his sword against the old flag. Nobody will dispute him there. And he now hurries to " ratify and rejoice over the nomination of Sey- mour find Blair." Quite naturally. If they should be elected he would make a suitable Minister to England, to settle the Alabama claims. THE EE AOERS AVHO ARE SUPPORT- ING SEYMOUR AND BEAIR. Henry A.Wise, Thos. S. Bocock, J. Randolph Tucker, R. M. T. Hunter and John Letcher, of Virginia ; W. E. Preston and Beriah Magoffin, of Kentucky ; R. Barnwell Rheti', Wade Hampton and J. S. Preston, of South Carolina ; Rorert Toombs, Howell Cobb and A. H. Stephens, of Georgia ; T. C. Hindman, Albert Pike and Albert Rust, of Arkansas; A. O. P. Nicholson" and General For- rest, of Tennessee; B. Humphreys and W. P. Harris, of Mississippi ; B. FiTZPATRicK, John Forsyth and K. McKee, of Alabama ; G. T. Beau- REGARU and Admiral Semmes (the Pirate). These are the tyrants who forced the Southern people into war in 1861, and who, with the exception of those killed in battle, like Barksdale, of Mississippi, or those lingering out miserable lives in foreign lands, like WiGFALL, of Texas, have boldly taken tlie field from Maryland to ^lexico, and are shouting in chorus the fiercest threats against the Government they failed to destroy. They are singing in chorus for Seymour and Blair, aided by A. J. DoNELSON (who ran for Vice President on the ticket with Millard Fillmore), by Frankliist Pierce and by Fillmore. One significant fact in connection Avith the recent Democratic National Convention should be kept before the public, namely : That every delegate in that Convention from the Southern States was a secessionist. Not one of the entire number had been a loyal Union man during the war. It is also tiiie that there is not a man in the South — white or black — who was loyal to the Union during the war who will support Seymour and Blair. At all events there is not a solitary Southern rebel or NortheiTi sympthizer with the rebels, who is not for that ticket. THE STARS AND BARS. Wade Hampton delivered another speech recently to the people of Charles- ton. He did not repeat his language of 1865, when he skulked away after Johnston's surrender and declared he would be d — d if he ever submitted to the Stars and Stripes. But this is what he did say : " He told them that he had iu liis posaes- siou the Confederate flag shattered and torn, which they loved so well and under which they had fought so long and gal- lantly. He had preserved it from the gen- eral wreck ; he had cherished it. And he intended to keep it until we had a State again, to whose keeping he would commit it as one of the cherished memories of oin- unfortunate cause." Did Wade wave this strip of red and white bunting in the Tammany Committee Room, when he elicited so much enthusiasm over the presentation of /lis plank V Wade assured his hearers that they were sure to win, and closed by telling them — " Success will bring to you dolivoranco from a tyranny that galls and oppresses you everywhere and at all times. Jt will drive from your borders, and consign to the infamy they have so richly earned, the base brood of satraps who have domineered over the South." * # * « # " Organize clubs in every locality ; send speakers through all the land to aroxise the people. Try to convince the negro that wo are his real friends ; hut if lie n-ill not be cov- vinced, and is still joined to his idols, eonviver him, at livst, that he must look to those idols whom he serves as his (jods to feed and clothe him. Agree among yourselves, and act lirmly on this agreement, that you will not employ any one who votes the Radical ticket. Use all the means that are pla-oed in your hands to control this element by which the Radical party seek to degrade u.s while they secure success, and we can turn their batteries against themselves. It will not do to say that the negro has no right to vote ; for, right or wrong, he will vote in the next election, and his vote may turn the scale. Let us meet this as a practical question, and seek, out of this great evil that has been inflicted upon us, to work fT and the Union. Thus Ex-Governor Wise, in his eloquent way, reasoned that since the candidates were acceptable to the rebels, the platform was of no account at all. "He did not care for the platform. It. told a lie in its first resolution. It said secession was dead; that uas not so; secession was more alive tluin ever, lie supported the nominees, and especially Blair, because he has declared that he would assume military power." IS GUANT A SOL,I>IER ? Tlie New York World., the Albany Argus, the Bufl:alo Courier and the Democratic papers generally, are just now" in spasms of painful doubt in re- gard to General Grant. At one time they are fearfully exercised in regard to his name ; at another, distressed as to whether he is a statesman, and seem to be " enjoying a heap of trouble " because the General is no soldier. They publish column after column to demonstrate this last proposition, and declare that they always suspected as much. What makes this the more painful and humiliating is the fact thai so great a military blockhead should have been able to conquer their darling rebel friends of the South — the splen- did soldiers and strategists, whom they now regard with so much fraternal feeling. It is a matter of regret that these papers should have fallen into so dismal a way of thinking, for it must be a cause of infinite unhappiness. It is a consolation to know, however, that they might have felt very difierently if the General had only consented to have become a Democratic candidate for the Presidency. At one time they professed to feel very diflferently. For instance, on the 11th of April, 1865, the World declared editorially, and the Argus and Courier copied approv- ingly — " Gen. Grant's last brilliant campaign sets the final seal upon his reputation. Jt stamps him as the superior of his able antago- nist as well as of all the commanders who have served icith or under him in the great campaigns of the last year. It is not necessary to sac- rifice any part of their well-earned reputa- tions to his. Sherman and Sheridan de- serve all that has ever been said in their praise ; but there has never been a time 12 eince Grant was made Lieuteuaut General, when anybody but Sherman, on our side, could haVe been classed with him. Since Sherman's bold march through Georgia, and his capture of Savannah and Charles- ton, there have been many who, in their strong admiration of his great achieve- ments, inclined to rank him as the greater general of the two. iThat judgment, we take it, is now reversed hy the court of final appeal; not by dwarfing the reputation of Sherman, which suffers no just abatement, but h)i the cxpamion into grander liroportiovs of that of Gi-ant." Then these papers were not troubled with the painful doubts and perplexi- ties which now afflict them. They were evidently satisfied then with re- gard to Grant's military capacity, and even went further, and conceded that lie possessed other qualities which go to make up the statesman. In the same article already quoted, the World said : " Gen. Grant's history should teach us to discriminate better than we Americans are apt to do between glitter and solid worth. Our pronenoss to run after demagogues and spouieis may tind a wholesome corrective in the study of such a character as his. The qnalitiea bij whwh great things are accom^ plvihed are here seen to have no neeessarg con- ^tection icith showy and superficial accomplish- ments. When the mass of men look upon such a character they may learn a truer re- spect for themselves and each other; they are taught by it that high qualities and great abilities are consistent with the sim- })licity of taste, contempt for parade, and I)lainno8S of manners with which direct and earnest men have a strong natural sympathy. Ulysses Grant, the tanner, Ulysses Grant, the unsuccessful applicant for the post of City Surveyor of St. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the driver into that city of a two-horse team with a load of wood to sell, had within him every manly quality which will cause the name of Lieut-Gen- eral Grant to live forever in history. His career is a lesson in practical democracy ; it is a quiet satire on the dandyism, the puppyism and the shallow affectation of our I'ashionable exquisites a-s well as upon the swagger of our plausible, glib-tongued ■demagogTies." WHAT IS THE REASON ? The Democrats growl because it is necessary to spend ten millions a month upon tlie army, in order to maintain a display of power sufficient to overcome the effect of their disloyal teachings at the South. It was the Democratic party which encouraged and stimulated war. It was the Democratic party which led the Rebels to hope that their desperate fortunes would be redeemed, by insti- tuting riotous and turbulent move- ments in Northern States. It was the Democratic party wliich prompted the New Orleans riot and all the kindi*ed outrages and crimes Avhich have fol- lowed the downfall of the Confederacy. And it is the Democratic party which now leads the traitors to look for an- other Ilevolution, when Congress shall be disbanded by force, when the loyal State Governments shall be overthrown, and ^^'hen Wade Hampton can unfurl in triumph the flag of stars and bars, which he reverently laid away upon the capture of Columbia. That an army must be kept at the South to maintain the laws, protect loyal white and black men, and ensure respect to the Federal Constitution, is a fact due entirely to the machinations of the Democratic party ; (as Governoi- Brown, of Georgia, declared at the Chicago Convention,) but for its baleful influence, every Southern State would at once have accepted the Constitu- tional Amendment of 1866, formed a legal government under it, and se- cured ere this a representation in the Federal Congre.ss. The late order of General Grant shows that, so soon as the States con- form to the conditions of restoration, they will be relieved from military rule. It is the purpose and eftbrt of tlie Democratic party to prevent this. As -was declared by Governor Perry of South Carolina, they prefer eternal subjugation to reconstruction on temis of loyalty. The Democratic party want to have the anny disbanded in order that the Rebels of the South may initiate the revolution which Frank Blair has threatened, and overthrow " the car- pet-bag Governments." But loyal men do not propose to withdraw the senti- nels while robbers are at the cfates. 13 REPUDIATION. The Democratic party in its platfonn adopted at Tammany Hall, and on which Horatio Seymour has placed himself, declared in favor of paying the bonds of the Government in a de- preciated currency instead of in gold, as promised. Should this Democratic scheme of Repudiation find endorse- ment at the polls, by the election of Skymour, every Savings Bank in the land would suiFer. If the depositors in these institutions wish to bring about such a result, they will vote the Dem- eratic ticket. National Repudiation would be National dishonor and uni- versal bankruptcy. The orators of the Convention, the papers of the party, and their stump speakers, constantly ring the changes on the "Bloated Bond-holders." Let us see who com- pose the " Bloated Bond-holders " against whom these men are attempt- ing to excite mob passion, by creating the impression that the holders of these Government bonds form a privi- legeus])ir;icy which ever deaeoratcd earth found devel- opment in au assault upon our national iiaj; at Sumter, and in efforts to massacro a half-starved garrison, placed there in a time of profound peace, according to uni- form usuage, for no otlun- otleiise thau as- serting the supremacy of their country's Constitution, and giving to the breeze, as emblematical thereof, the glorious Stars and Stripes of their fathers — when the brave volunteers who were hurrying to the defense of our nation's capital, to save it from mob rule and rebellion and oon- liagratioji, were bleeding by traitorous hands ; when strong men trembled, when women wept, and children instinctively clung closer to the maternal bosom; when all communication between the loyal States and tlio capital wer<; cut off by rebellious forces ; when the President elect of tin-. United States had then lecently reached the seat of government, where duty called liim, by a circuitous and nnusual route, and in disguise, to escape the dagger of the assassin, and when our land was filled Avith excitement, and consternation and alarm; when "shrieked the timid and stood still the brave," and the confiding masses Itioked about to see who were the men for the crisis, among the citizens of the Empire State, who had borne a part in public affairs, and were naturally looked up to as exemplars in such a crisis, Horatio Seymour hied himself away upon the double, quick in the opposite direction, and fur nearly half a year hid himself among the lakes and rivers and romantic woodlands and inland towns of AVisconsin; and his tongue was as silent on the subject of de- nouncing the Rebellion as those of the murdered volunteers, whose ' ghosts walked unrevenged among tis.' There we may sup- pose he basked and balanced, and watched and waited, turned and twisted, until au- tumn, when a small knot of defunct, de- feated, desperate and despicable politicians, who had for years hung upon the subsist- ence department of the Democratic party in this State, came to his relief by entering the field. They borrowed, without leave, the honored name of Democracy, under which to perpetrate their covert treason, as the hypocrite " Stole the livery of the court of Heaveu To serve the devil in." "Their disgraceful and disloyal record stands out as the doings of men too stolid ,^ in political depravity to be gifted with or- dinary instincts, and too regardless of the popular will to be mindful of shame ; and the defeat they experienced at the hands of the people should serve as a warning to 16 trimmers and traitors, and parricides, and ingrates, through all future time. "This movement drew the secluded one from his hiding place, and he came forth with all the courage of him who, in a con- flict with his wife, being driven under the bed, while remaining thus ensconsed, de- claretl, whether she consented or not, he would look out through a knot-hole in the clap-boards so long as he had the spirit of a man. " He entered the political canvass, and on the 28th of October, 1861, a few days be- fore the election, made a speech, the bur- den of which was an ajjology for the re- bellion, and a condemnation of the admin- istration for having meted out the rigor of martial law to those in arms against the Government. Though abounding with flimsy disguises and sophistical generali- ties, it contained one point worthy of not only notice, but of the severest reprehen- sion, and here it is : " 'If it is true that Slavery must be abolished to save thLs Union, then the people of the South should be allowed to withdraw themselves from that Gov- ernmeut which cannot give them the protection guaranteed by its terms.' " "What! Place this glorious Union — this heritage of human hope — this asylum for the world's weary pilgrim — this refuge for the oppressed of earth, in the scale of being beneath the black and bloated and bloody — the corrupt and corrupting — the stultitied .and stultifying institution of Slavery ! No ! Sooner than see this Union severed, let not only the institution perish whenever and wherever it can be found, but let the habitations that have known ib perish with it, and bo known no more for- ever. And yet this retui'uing fugitive from patriotism proclaims as his creed, in eflect if not in terms, that if either Slavery or the Union must be destroj^ed, it should be the Union. And the name of this man is Horatio Seymour-." THE FOURTEENTH CONSTITU- TION At, AMENDMENT. The following is the P^'ourteenth Amendment, which having been rati- fied by niore than three-fourths of the States, is now a part of the Constitu- tion of the United States. Article XIV. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liber- ty, or propertj', without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its juris- diction the equal protection of the laws. Sec. 2. Representatives shall be ajipor- tioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President of the United States, representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male in- habitants of such State, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participa- tion in rebellion or other crime, the basis of re^jresentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall be as to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such State. Sec. 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as a member of any State Leg- islature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Consti- tution of the United States, shall have o:- gaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability. Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in sup- pressing insurrection and rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States or any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of in- surrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emanci- pation of any slave; but all such d<;bts, obligations or claims, shall be held illegid and void. Sec. 5. Congress shall have jjower to enforce, by ai)propriate legislation, the provisions of this article. THE IMPENDING CEISIS. I^T•U■IvrBE:Ei T'WrO. Seymour and Blair Pledged to and Repudiation! ^%^ Another Civil War Threatened ! Grant and Colfax in'favor of Peace and Prosperity ! Organization and Work necessary to Success ! ! ! or TMB GT, AMD Fellow Citizens ! Your attention is called to the contents of this num- ber of the Crisis, as containing fur- ther proofs of the determination of the Southern Rebels to rule and ruin our beloved country, and of the willingness of the Seymour and Blair Democracy to give them " aid and comfort " in tlieir unholy purpose to plunge us again into the horrors of civil war ! Southern rebel orators are cheered on by Northern Democratic newspapers in their efforts to inflame the bad pas- sions of white and black alike to pro- duce a revolution ; Blair promises that if elected he will give all his efforts toward a forcible nullification / of the laws of the Nation, and Hora- tio Setmour responds approvingly to this declaration. The day draws near when we are to decide the momentous issues forced upon us by the men who would gladly destroy the Government to gratify a base ambition ! As your votes are cast on the .third day of No- vember, so will be the future of our beloved country ! With Grant and Colfax you may enjoy many years of peace, prosperity and happiness — with Blair and Seymour you cannot hope to escape anarchy, desolation, and endless years of strife and misery ! Choose ye, between these positions ! "THE ETERNAIi FITNESS OF THINGS." MuGh wa§ done in the Democratic National Convention that was emi- nently befitting. It was befitting that Vallandig- HAM, the chief of the Copperheads, should be the first to nominate Horatio Seymour, and eulogize him in a speech. It was befitting that a Rebel Gen- eral should be the first to nominate Frank Blair ; tliat another rebel Gen- eral should second the nomination ; and that the rebel General Forrest, the butcher of Illinois soldiers, should sup- port Blair in a speech. It was befitting that the Southern Rebel delegations should be lionized by the Convention, and taken lovingly to the bosoms of the Northern Copper- heads. It was befitting that the nominee for President should be taken from among the leaders of that section of the Demo- cratic party which gave nothing but aid and comfort to the rebels during the war, and amused itself by firing in the rear of the Union army. It was befitting that the nominee for V^ice President should be taken from among that class of Generals who, du- ring the war, were compelled by Gen- eral Grant to leave the service on ac- count of cowardice, corrupt practices, or gross incompetency, and who there- upon joined the party of the Copper- heads and Rebels, and began assailing Generals of the Union army who had been disgraced by contact with them. UNION SOLDIERS READ THIS. A few words to the soldiers who "v^ent forth to save the Union. While you were in the field and Grant was leading you on to victory, Horatio Seymour was making speeches, declar- ing tlie war a failure, and extending the hand of sympathy to Ms "friends" in New York, who were showing their zeal for the rebel cause by burning Orphan Asylums and shooting down defenceless women and childx'en. And now eighty-one of those same rebels who strove for over four years to destroy the Government, headed by Wade Hampton and the Fort Pillow Butcher, Napoleon Bonaparte For- rest, come to the city of New York and join hands with their Northern Democratic allies in nominating for President this same Horatio Sey- mour ! Soldiers ! Let these eiglity- one butchers of loyal men come to the front and march in review. The one- armed patriot will raise the stump of his lost arm and say to them : " Which of )-e did this while I was battling for my country ? " And the one-legged man on his crutches, will say to Ho- ratio Seymour: "Which of these butchers of yours shot my leg off during the war?" Let the widow pass, draped in her robes of mourning, and she will turn with tearful eyes and ask of Horatio Seymour, " Where, among your " friends " is the murderer of my poor husband, who lies cold in death ? " The children, too, will ask tor tlieir lost fathers, and let Seymour and hx'ji, friends answer these questions if tl)ey can. His " friends " are the rebel generals, the rebel warriors, the rebel sympathizers, and if they would answer truly, they would have to con- fess they were responsible for all this. Look on this picture and you will see the great National claim of Horatio Seymour to the Presidency. But let us pass in like review the Republican Convention at Chicago. As the six hundred and thirty delegates who vot- ed for Grant and Colfax pass by the widows and orphans, and the maimed and wounded soldiers, each of them would utter words of gratitude that their great captain had received the nomination he so well had earned. Soldiers ! Let the record that you made during the war live in peace, and let that which was written of you, on account of the deeds that you per- formed for your country, live and grow brighter as long as time shall last. Do no act as citizens which will dim the lustre of the bright page that is writ- ten about your deeds performed during the war. You have a future before you and you must preserve the reputa- tion that you have made for your- ^^elves. You must not intrust the Gov- ei'nment to those who will betray you. ~i You have trusted Grant in the past, '^' and you can certainly trust him now. '^t Do you ask who was the master- yj mind of the Democratic Party during the War? Whose oily tongue, false logic, dissembling pretences and hy- pocrisy, raised the Democratic Party from a contemptible Peace faction into a poAverful disorganizer of the Government? It was not Vallan- DiGHAM, nor pEJfDLETOiS", nor any of the ultra Copperheads. It was the man who knew how to throw oiit pre- tentious phrases to catch gudgeons and shape a policy the most dangerous, because the most concealed and plaus- ible, and that man was Hoeatio Sey- mour. Had Horatio Seyhour said to the South, " You must look for no encouragement from the Democratic Party of the North," and used his in- fluence to prevent that Party from taking a course to break the front pre- sented by the Kation, no hope of profit from Northern dissension would ever have arisen in Southern hearts. No other Democrat in the whole North had the power to frame a policy and put a party on it. The sagacious men of tlie party joined the Union phalanx when the fii-st gun of the war sum- moned the Nation to civil strife. But one man able to do what Horatio Seymour did was left. Had he been patriotic enough to have pursued another coui-se, millions of dollars would have been saved, thousands of graves unfilled, and much Southern ■desolation and Northern bereavement prevented. • The conclusion is irresistible. It can only be reversed by showing the South to have been right and the N orth wrong in the war. Seymour so thought, so said and so acted. And the result was a prolonged war, Avith all its horrors and desolations. And on him rests the responsibility, and on him should be visited the risrhteous retribution. SEYMOUR AND BL.AIR IN TEXAS. The Democracy of Bowie county, Texas, had a gathering a few days since to ratify the Tammany no)nina- tions. The usual resolutions were passed, and an attempt was made to get the fire-eaters in good Innnor by " music on the guitar a'lid violin." The pent up feelings of the rebel Democrats could not be restrained, and they re- solved : " That we will lienccfortli give no employ- ment to any freoilnmii who 7m,v not a certifi- cate that he helonf/s to the Democratic or con- servative party,"nor to any wliite man who sustains or advocates thepriiu-iph's of the radical party ; and that we will discharge and get rid of any we may have in our em- ployment so soon as their places can he tilled by good white or black conserva- tives. " That we earnestly recommend the pat- ronage of the Democratic press of this State, and such journals as the New York Day Book, Metropolitan Eecord cf Vindicator, La Cvosse Democrat and Louisville Journal." With such mental pabulum there is very little hope of a " change of heart" in our Texan brethern. The rebel spirit still lives, ready for renewed ra- pine and murder. "CUIiTIVATING THE ARTS OF PEACE." Mr. Seymour says his friends at the South are "submitting to the issues of the war and cultivating the arts of peace." The other day General N. B. Forrest made a speech in Tennessee, in which, after alluding"to the probable trouble in that State, he said : " He liked peace, but if any of them were shot down, as he expected they would be, he would toot his horn. He knew that his old troops would answer as they had always done. He bade them arm them- selves and be ready. They were already drilled, and needed no drilling. If the fight opened it would not be troops in line of battle confronting each other, but citi- zen against citizen. He should be in favor of giving no quarter." Fellow Citizens, when we remem- ber Fort Pillow, we can understand what " no quarter " means in the voca- bulary of this man, who was received with so much friendship by the New York Democrats in July. Now he talks of "no quarter" in a conflict be- tween fellow-citizens of the same State. His speech is as brutal and blood-thirs- ty as it is possible to make it. It looks to another civil war, and that of the most fearful character. He does not exhort his followers to go hack to their shops and resume the tillage of their farms. He calls upon them to arm, in a time of peace; to prepare for slaughter, when strife can come only through their own violations of the law. He even boasts of his past Trea- son, and calls attention to the fact that his bold murderers and maraudei-5 will be ready to assemble again at "the toot of his horn." And when he adds that he would be for "giving no quar- ter,"' the tenible story of Fort Pillow is a sufficient commentary upon his language. Did loyal men, three years ago, expect to see the day when the beaten Traitors would dare to hold forth such language as this ? The atrocious policy of the Democratic par- ty has given Rebellion a njw lease of life, and Forkest undoubtedly hopes to repeat his Fort Pillow murder which is so vividly portrayed by the Con- gressional committee which investi- gated it, and reported thus — '■Then followed a scene of cmelty and murder witliout a parallel in civilized war- fare, which needed Imt the tomahawk and scalping knife to exceed the worst atroci- ties ever committed by savages. The reb- els commenced an indiscriminate slanghter, sparing neither age nor sex, white nor black, soldier or'civilian. The officers and men seemed to vie with each other in the devilish work ; men, women, and even children, wherever found, were deliberate- ly shot down, beaten, and hacked with sabres ; some of the children not more than ten years old were forced to stand up and face the murderers while being shot : the sick and the wounded were butchered with- out mercy, the rebels even entering the hospital building and dragging them out to be shot, or killing theni as they lay there unable to otter the least resistance. All over the hillside the work of miuder was going on: numbers of our men were col- lected together in lines or groups and de- liberately shot : some were shot while in the river, while others on the bank were shot and their bodies kicked into the water, many of them still living, but unable to make any exertions to save themselves from drowning."' Xovr mark, all honest Democrats I 77i>s is the man who says he was re- ceived with open arms by the Demo- ocratic leaders in Xew York I How do you like your great Southern Demo- cratic leader ? It seems almost incredi- ble that one who so grossly outraged the civilization of the age in which he lived should dare to raise his voice among men, and it is stranger still that the people should toler.ate him for a moment. He would not be tolerated anywhere else than in the Democratic Party. But with Gra>"t as President, sustained by a loyal Congress, these demagogues will soon learn that they cannot safely preach sedition and fo- ment civil war. But should Hoeatio ' Setmoue be elected, and the Traitor ; chiefs brought back to power, God pity the loyal men of the South, who ; will then be given over to the tender mercies of the Forrests and Hamptons, "without quarter."' AXOTHEK WAR THKEATENE3>. T\'e have just emerged from one bloody war and we are threatened with another — by the same men and for the same reason. In '60, with others, the eighty-one rebels who represented the Southern States in the recent Demo- , cratic National Convention, proclaim- ■ ed war in the event of Lincoln"s elec- tion. And war came, because the I Democratic Administration then in I power connived with those who inaugu- rated the strife. In '6S, the same men, fresh from the ; slaughter of half a million of loyal ' men, again threaten war, if Grant is 1 elected ; and the nullification of the I Constitution and the laws — which will ■ render a ci^il war ine\"itable — if he j is beaten. But circumstances are not now what i they then were. Congress nas taken I care that there shall be no such plun- dering of arsenals, dispersion of armies and scattering of navies as in 1S60. Rebels wiU not be armed by the Gov- ernment now as then; for GEA>~r knows how to deal with traitors, and he ^\-ill take care that no second rebeUion is hatched either in Xew York or in Richmond- But the threat remains, and the Democratic party approves and endorses it. "SOLBIERLiT FEELrXG." General Forrest, the butcher of Fort Pillow, and a leading member of the Democratic National Convention, enthusiastically supported the nomina- tion of Fraxk Blair for Vice Presi- dent, on the ground that he was a hero, and that his candidacy would appeal to every "soldierly feeling." The " soldierly feelings " of a wretch who could order the deliberate slaugh- ter of a helpless garrison, surrendered to his Superior force ; who delighted in hanging unanned men from their own doorposts, in burning the houses of his fellow citizens and driving women and children to the woods, are probably about as refined as those of the Feejee Islander, who politely shakes hands with the fallen foe whom he proposes to roast and eat. The " soldierly feeling " appealed to by Blair in his letter is that which suggests revolution, anarchy and ruin ; which would set aside all the ordinaiy forms of government and constitu- tional law; which proposes to disband Congress, undo the work of Recon- straction, establish Slavery again upon the ruins of the Republic, and accom- plish by another fonn of treasonable conspiracy the purpose which failed in outright war. Such a programme as this abounds in features that cannot fail to excite the hearty and zealous enthusiasm of men who fought four years to destroy the Union, and who would now welcome its dissolution as the " grandest event in history." Already the " soldierly feeling " which General Forrest alluded to is taking the form of action. That noble hero is rallying his clans of murderers, cut-throats and incendiaries in prepa- ration for an effective interpretation of Blair's policy. A secret organiza- tion in the State of Tennessee, com- posed of men sworn to every form of outrage and ciime, and familiar with the methods of carrying out their vile purposes, already threaten the peace and order of that Commonwealth. The Democratic Party, by nominating Blair upon his letter, has giving its sanction to a new programme of ci^•il war. Forrest and his colleagues, ani- mated by the same spirit which control- led them during the Rebellion, are pre- paring to carry it out. "When Senator Davis imperiously declares that those with whom he acts " will not submit " if the verdict at the polls should be against them, and when the Xew York JS^orld arrogantly announces that the Democrats will resist by force any at- tempt to carry out the Reconstniction laws, their is indication of greater dan- ger to our institutions than unthinking obseiwers can dream of The " soldier- ly feeling" of the ex-rebels has been appealed to, and is manifesting itself in Ku-Klux-Klans and kindred organi- zations. Let the A*igilant watch of a loyal people be for a moment suspen- ded, and patriots may well tremble for the future. VAEtAXDIGHAM'S I.OVE FOR SOLSIEKS. There were a great many Rebel Gen- erals in the Democratic National Con- vention, and the highest possible hon- ors were awarded them. No man was more profuse in his gratitude to or in the manifestation of his affection for them than Vallaxdigham:. This was naturaL They treated him courteous- ly when he was banished for his trea- sonable speech and actions during the war. Well, YALLAXDiGHAir, fresh from his loving embrace of Forrest the butch- er and MoRG-AX the guerrilla, went home from the Tammany Convention, to his district and asked the people thereof to nominate him for Congress. To be sure, a gallant Union General and War Democrat, Burdex Ward, who had received, not a loving em- brace but a leaden bullet from the Rebels, was soliciting the jiomination. He was put up two years ago, and made a good ran, and he supposed no one would object to his tr\-ing again. But Yallaxdigham did object. His love for Generals Forrest and Mob- GAX did not extend to General Ward, ^e had the misfortune to have been a General in the Union aimy, and so Yallaxtjigham not onlv had no affec- tion and no embraces for him, but a great deal of malicious disrelish. He therefore determined, if possible, to punish him for having fought for, in- stead of cu/ainst, his country; and he succeeded in so manipulating the Con- vention that General Ward was thrown overboard and himself nominated. • Oh ! there is no doubt that Valla?^- DiGHAM and other kindred Democratic leaders love and are ready to embrace brave soldiers — if they have fought on the side of treason y but not otherwise. If you doubt it, ask General Burden Ward, of Ohio. When the Government was taking- means to suppress the Rebellion, which had already progressed so far as to in- volve the formal secession of States, the organization of a rival Confeder- acy, the stealing of Federal forts and arsenals, and an armed attack upon the National flag, Clement L.Vallan- DiGiiAM made a speech in Congress, in which he said : " Then, sir, I am not a Soutlicrn man either — althongli in this most unholy and. unconstitutional crusade against the South, in the midst of tlie insurrection and nuir- der to which she has been subject, and with wliich she is still threatened — with the torch of the incendiary and the dagger of the assassin suspended over her — my most cordial sympathies are wholly with her." Afterward, and during the progress of the conflict, this model representa- tive Democrat distinguished himself by eiforts to give his sympathy practi- cal effect. Pie organized secret disloy- al conspiracies. He openly assailed and denounced the officers and soldiers of the Union. He plotted for a coun- ter military movement in the North- west, which would aid the attempts of the Confederates to enter that sec- tion. So flagitious were his crimes that General Burnside found it neces- sary to arrest him, and by sentence of court-martial, he was banished to Can- ada. But a disloyalty that rendered this wretch so odious to every true Union man, commended him to the highest consideration of the Democratic Party. While he was yet in exile, this party nominated the Traitor for Governor of Ohio. He was defeated by a majority never before paralleled. This did not lessen him in the estimation of his Party, however. He was made its lea- der upon the stump. He became a prominent candidate for United States Senator. He was by special arrange- ment made delegate at large to the New York Convention. He took promi- nent part in that body, and arrogates to hijnself much credit for the nominatiou of Horatio Seymour for President. WADE HAOTPTON, AGAIN ! This author of the Democratic jilat- form has made another speech to his fellow-citizens in South Carolina, in which he said : " I'esteem it a high and exalted privilege to be asked to participate with you in this celebration. Language cannot convey the profound depths of my feelings. Believe me when I say that no earthly reward is more desirable or acceptable than to re- ceive the approval of the people of South Carolina. If any one man has been doubly paid for his efforts to achieve the inde- pendence of the State, I am he. Wherever I have been my old comrades in arms and fellow citizens have extended a hearty welcome. * * * * Instead of a blood- red banner I now hold in my hand the snow white banner of peace, with the names of worthy standard-bearers inscribed thereon — Seymour and Blair. Will not my old comrades follow me under this banner with the same devotion, patriotism and gallantry that they did in days gone by [when we were fighting to overthrow] the old Government, which was honored at home and respected abroad ; when taxation was light, and plenty blessed the land. You have established a noble and enviable move in the history of the world, ami will sustain that reputation so long as life lasts. Carolinians, you must exercise the same devotion, zeal, and ])atriotism toward the Democratic party that you did to the lost cause. Nothing on earth but the success of that party can save us. The Northern Democracy have sworn that the rights of the States shall not be infringed or de- stroyed. They, and they alone, can rescue the Government. Our fortune is embarked and launched with theirs. Those soldiers of the great armies of the United States who talk flippantly of war never faced the cannon's roar and rattle of nnisketry, but always sought safety in ignominious flight, avoiding every peril and danger. The party in power charge lis with revolution. This we flatly deny and denounce as a base falsehood. We claim that we are the neralds of peace; that we have exerted every legal and consistent etfort. and are still exerting them to re-establish Govern- ment upon a peaceful and lasting basis. Carolina must be ruled by Carolinians. We swear this by the Eternal God, by all the hopes of the future, by the memories of the past, and by our children. The scalawags and traitors among us should be branded with infamy and eternally stigmatized. They have dishonored the State and heaped everlasting shame upon themselves and their families. There are no words in the English language to ex- press the utter contempt entertained by me for these renegades and traitors. They and the carpet-baggers are like the base vul- ture that comes to fatteu on the living re- mains of its victim. The word scalawag is used by drovers to describe the mean, lousy, and filthy kiue that are uot lit for butchers or dogs, with their hair growing the wrong way. They are like the wild Irishman — when turned loose cannot be caught; when caught are uot worth a d d red cent. Don't listen to them. Fair daughters of Carolina, a great deal can be done by you. Frown down everything that tends to in- jure our glorious party. Use your influence now as you displayed devotion to the lost cause; scoru any man who will not come boldly up to the rescue of his country." After this patriotic out-burst, the last heard from Carolina, whose sons fought so valiantly to destroy the Union, Wade was still living. MEMOCRATIC CANT. When a Seyniourner whines to you about the immense volume of the Na- tional Debt, ask him how much of it would load down the Treasury, if De- mocracy had not rebelled. When a B lair-guard blusters about the awful burden of taxation, ask him how heavy it will be after the close of the new Democratic Revolution, which Blair proposes to inaugurate. When a Forrester talks about the cost of the Freedmen's Bureau, ask him how much of it would have been saved to the Nation, and imposed on the South, if Rebeldom had taken care of its own poor with the same generosity the North does. When a Hamptouite complains of the rigors of military rule, ask him how much of it Avould be felt if resist- ance to rightful autliority and just re- quirements had ceased with the war. And ask him, too, Avhere is his rigorotiB rule now. Wlien a Pendletonian talks about the bloated bondholders, ask him Avhon it became so odious a crime to loau money to the Government in aid of its life, that it must be punished with " wholesale repudiation." When a Vallandighamer cants about personal liberty, ask him why he de- nies liberty to millions of loyal Soutl> erners. WHO ARE AM> WHO ARE NOT REBELS. Not all Democrats were Rebels ; but all Rebels were Democrats. So, not all Union men were Republicans; but all Republicans Avere Union men. Eve- ry slaughtered defender of the old Flag received his death-wound from Democratic hands, while no Republi- can ever raised his arm against a loyal soldier. The surviving murderer of every "boy in blue," who is permitted to vote, will vote the Democratic tick- et ; and every Rebel officer, who still lives to boast of his leadership in the Confederate army, will lead his follow- ers to the support of Seymour and Blair, Traitors take to the Demo- cratic Party as naturally as vultures take to carrion. The pure principles of the Republican Party are as offen- sive to them now, as the stars and stripes were during the war; and they are as anxious to defeat Grant at the polls as they were to whip him in battle. If the homely old maxim be true, that " birds of a feather flock together," we may judge of the character of Democratic principles by the character of the men who support them, Hamp- ton and Forrest would "■ not cuddle under the same dirty bed-clothes " with Seymour and Blair, if they did not believe that those gentlemen are in earnest when they declare it to be their purpose to give to them, by the exercise of Executive power, all that they lost on the iield of battle. The war will have been fought in vain if Seymouk shall be elected President. A NORTH CAKOLIXA ''CONSEKVA- TIVE." Chief Justice Peaesox, of North Carolina, has issued an address to his fellow<*onservatives, in which he ad- vises them to vote the Republican ticket for President and Vice-Presi- dent. He sars: •■ In mj" opinion 'yrav clouds' are as dark now as in the winter of 1S60-61. We were then promised 'peaceable secession:' we i are now to have ' peaceable nullification.' | Is it not the part of wisdom and patriotism i to accept ' the situation,' and try to make , the most of a bad bargain, rather thau ; make bad worse ? I cannot, as others seem ; to be able to do, exclude from my mind the fact that the South attem^jted a revolution and was subjugated, and our condition is one of the bitter fruits of rebellion. Let me ask. why did General Lee surrender ? Because he could not help it. For the same reason we must submit now. It is inevitable that the Conservatives must split into two parties — the peace Conser- vatives and the war Conservatives, or. to avoid inconsistency, the Xullihers. The difference is so vital that they cannot act together as one party. The Xulliliers act with the Democrats. There can be no reason why the Conservatives, without identifying themselves with the Eepubli- cans may not act with the Bepublican paity. and vote for Grant as the man for the occasion, who. like Jackson, will put a stop to nullification in the new shape in which it now raises its hydra head." Judge Peakso^c reaches the conclu- sion that peace and reform can only be secured by voting for Gea^tt and Col- fax, and he remarks that with their election " the freedmen will become satisfied that it is for theii- good in- terest to allow us to have the guidance of- public aflairs, and the ianate power and vigor of the white man will con- vince the world that we are able to still work out our destiny as the grand- est republic that has ever been known auionsc the nations." nation, and in his speech acceptiBg it, threatens "War and Revolution. TTiat all may compare the spirit of both, ex- tracts from each are placed side by side. From General Granfg letter of acceptance : '• K elected to the office of President of the L'nited States, it trill be my endeavor to administer all the Laws in good faith. with economy, and icifh iJie riev of giring PE-4CE. QCIET A X D PP.OT.^lCnOX EVEEY- WHERE. In times like the present, it is impossilde. or at least eminently improper, to lay down a policy to be adhered to, right or ■wrong, through an adminis- tration of four years. Xew political issues, not foreseen, are con- stantly arising; the views- of the pnblic on old ones are con- st autly ' . _'. and a pu tratire 0^.'- . - ways he left free to EXECCTE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. / ahcays hare respected thai irill and ahcay* shall. Peace and UXIVKJISAL PROSPER- ITY — its sequence — trith ixvHomy of admin- istration, will lighten the bunlen of taxa- tion, while it con- stantly retlnces the National debt. LET US HAVE peace:: U. S. GR-orr." GRANT AND PEACE, OR BLAIR AND WAR. In General Gkaxt's letter, accept- ing the Union Republican uominatiou. the country has an assurance that Law, Order and Peac« shall bo sustained; and he has never been known to vio- late a pledge once given. General Blvir in his letter sookino- the nomi- '. From General Blair g t letter aeeling the KOfA- [ ination : "There is but one ' way to restore the GJovemment and the Constitution : and that is for the Presi- dent elect to declare the reconstruction acts nmll ' and void, compel the ' army to undo its usurpations at the South. DISPERSE THK CARPET-BAG STATE I GO^-ERXMEXTS. allOW I the white people to I reorganize their own Governments, and ' elect Senators and ' Kepresentatives. The ' Hou,se of Represen- tatives will contain I: a majority of Demo- I' crats from the North, and thev will admit the E.f Tos elected :•.- people c: _ ^ . -'^', and. with the co- operation of the Prea ident. it will not be difficult to COMPEL THE SeX.\TE to SCB- MiT once more to the obligittions of the Constitution. * * We must have a Pres- I ident who will exe- j cute the will of the ' people, hif trampling : into dnst ike msmrpa- , iioHs of CoHgregs, < tnoirn as the recon- [ strHction acts. I Fraxk p. Blaik." Here is as striking a contnist as was ever presented between two candidates fur the highest offices in the giii of the people. General Grant promises to " admin- ister all tlie laws in good taith, with economy, and with the view of giving peace, qtiiet and protection every- where."' General Bulie promises to " declare the Roooustruotion laws null and void,'' and to compel the army to "tlisperse the Southern State Govermnents»" General Gkaxt declares that he ■will " execute the will of the people." General Blair declares that he will "compel the Senate (the representa- tives of the people) to submit." General Gra>-t promises " peace and univei-sal prosperity," through the quiet enforcement of law. General Blair promises anarchy, war and desolation, by "trampling into dust " the laws of Congress. General Gea^s't fervently and hon- estly says, " Let iis have peace." General Blair declares that he means to have another civil war. General Grant says he has always respected the wUl of the people, and always will respect it. General Blair declares that he means to be a dictator, to destroy State Governments, trample the Na- tional laws and State Constitutions into the dust, and compel Congress to submit. Let the voters of the land choose be- tween the two. Let them choose be- tween peace and war; between econo- my and fresh expense; between pros- perity and ruin ; between honesty and ambition ; between law and anarchy. NFRTURIXG TKEASOX. In parting Avith the proprietorship of the Richmond W/iig, the late own- ers, in their valedictory, say : " The rising generation Trill soon sncceed the present on the stage of active life, and on them will devolve the responsibility ot perpetuating the just renown of the jya^t. which has been maintained thus far intact bi/ the Lees, the Jacksons. the Johnstons, the Stnarts, the Hills, and their heroic com- peers. Sallust likens the fame of illustri- ous ancestors to a great light shining upon all the actions, good and bad, of all tlieir descendants. Let this thotight, in connec- tion with the truly great men to whom Virginia has given birth, be ever present to the mind of the youthful Virginian. It will constitute, at one and the same time, a goad and a goal." It will be noticed that no reference is made to the names of George Washixgtox, Thomas Jeffersox, J.vMES Madisox, Hexry Clay, and other distinguished Virginians who were staunch friends of the f nion. On the contrary, IJouert E. Lee, who resigned his commission in the United States Army and went over to treason against the Government which had edu- cated and nourislicd him to position, and Jacksox, Stuart, Hill and Johxstox, who followed in his wake, and who were equally debtoi-s to the Govern- ment, are held up to view as tlie men who are to "perpetuate the just re- nown of the iiast." It is not surpris- ing that the Whig and its Rebel friends should ignore the names of AVashixg- tox, Jeffeesox, Madisox and Clay, and fall back on the traitors, Lee, Johxstox, Stuart, Hill and Jacksox. The well known principles of the for- mer are directly antagonistic to those of the latter class of Virginia warriors and statesmen. These latter, for the perpetuation of slaA'ery, were Avilling to destroy the noble fabric of unity con- structed by the " Father of his Coun- try," his compeers and his successors. Their aim was to rend the nation in twain and set up in the South an aristo- cracv which should not only hold the colored, but the poor white man in bondage. When they made the issue in 1861, these Lees, Johxstoxs, Stuarts, Hills and Beauregards, who had received their military knowledge at the expense of the United States, without any re- luctance or qualms of conscience, Avent over body and soul to treason and, although vanquished and brought to terms by Grant and our heroic soldiers, they are to-day in the ranks of the Democratic party using every eflort to secure what they could not attain by arms, the control of the government by the election of the Sey:viour and Blair ticket, which icill assuredly give them the poicer they strove for during the rebellion. All Union men; all who wish to see our fi-ee institutions preserv- ed; all who have any interest in the welfare and progress of our glorious country, should mark these expressions of the' rebel leaders. They mean no o-ood. Thev portend fiuther ill to the Republic. AVhen Lee and his com- rades in rebellion are held up as pat- terns and exemplars in the South, we 10 should note the fact that their acts are apiDroved there, and realize that if their party should prove successful North and South at the November election the loyal men of the nation will be placed at their mercy. Treason is not dead. It is in the course of nurture. Notwithstanding its defeat and pro- fessed surrender at ApjDornattox Court House, it is still striving in another way to gain the mastery. At Tam- many Hall it secured its vantage ground, and the Democracy of the North there yielded to its terms, tak- ing Hampton^, Forrest and other rebel leaders to its embrace. " Any- thing for power now," exclaims Trea- son. "Anything for spoils," clamors Democracy. These are the enemy's battle cries. THE TWO UUESTIONS. Two practical questions are pre- sented to the American people in the present canvass, and these are based on two facts. The first fact is this : Reconstruction is substantially accomplished. Now, you are not asked whether you ap- j^rove of all that has been done during the i:)rogress of the work, nor whether you are satisfied altogether with its conclusion. The question is this : Is your disapproval of the method so de- cided that you wish to prolong this controversy another series of years ? Is your dissatisfaction with the result so decided that you wish to convulse the country another series of years to overthrow it ? Do you prefer Peace with Reconstruction as accomplished, or Discord with the question still un- settled ? It must be remembered that a Republican Senate, at least for the next four years, will resist any legal reversal of the work. That restricts the method of overturning to the Revo- lutionary one announced by Blair, and that means War. So the question is this : Will you have Peace, Prosperity and Grant; or Dissension, Disaster and Seymour, with the imminent haz- ard of War ? The other fact is this : It cost money to put down the Democratic Rebellion, and the Government entered into ob- ligations in order to raise the funds. The question is, will you join the De- mocracy in i-epudiating the obligations of the Government assumed in compel- ling it to obey the laws ? Will you maintain the honor of your country, or will you degrade it at home and abroad by repudiation ? These are the issues. The Republi- can Party will maintain Peace and the Public Honor. The Democratic Party will foment War and Dis- honor to the Nation. Choose between them. THE LIKENESS OF 1860 AND OF 1868. The Democratic Party of the South is taking very similar grounds to those held by them in 1860. Dur- ing the campaign of that year they threatened revolution if Llxcolx was elected, and the period between his election and his inauguration was em- ployed in maturing their plans of revo- lution, and in preparing for Avar against the Government. On the 6th of No- vember LiNCOLX w^as elected. On the 7th the United States oflicials in Charleston resigned. On the 10th Hammond and Chesnut resigned their places in the United States Senate. On the 20th of December, South Car- olina adopted the Ordinance of Disso- lution. State after State " went out," iintil by May, 1861, the whole South was "free and independent' — a con- dition from which they were rather violently shaken, some few years after, by one Ulysses Grajstt. During the canvass of 1860 it will be remembered that Southern orators and presses made the threats which they subsequently endeavored to make good. The exact point then made was that Mr. Buchanan was to be relied upon to " let the Union slide," and the doctrine of his message that the power to coerce a State had not been dele- gated to Congress, or to any other de- partment of the Federal Government, was anticipated. In October, 1860, 11 the Charleston Mercury used the fol- lowing language: " Mr. Lincoln will not be installed in office before the 5th of March next. Long- before this time the Southern States will have determined their course ; and if this course shall be a secession from the Union by one or more Southern States, Mr. Bu- chanan will have to guide the course of the General Government to meet it. If he thinks that a State has a right to secede from the Union, of course he cannot order any portion of the United States army or navy against the seceding State. If he at- tempts coercion, every Southern man in his Cabinet, and in the army and navy, will doubtless leave them. Congress has no power to control the President's views of the Constitution, and the duty it in- volves. * * * " Before Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin can be installed in Washington as President and Vice-President of the United States the Southern States can dissolve peaceably (we know what we say) their union with the North. Mr. Lincoln and his abolition cohorts will have no South to reign over. Their game would be blocked. The foun- dation of their organization wonld be taken away, and left to the tender mercies of a baffled, furious and troubled North, they would be cursed and crushed as the flagi- tious cause of the disasters around them. But if we submit, and do not dissolve our union with the North, we make the tri- umph of our abolition enemies complete, and enable them to consolidate and Avield the power of the North for oiu" destruc- tion." This exposes the general outline of the plan, and how well it was carried out. We are now warned by the Democratic party itself, that its tri- unijjh means war ; that it intends that Blair and Seymouk shall establish the principles of the Confederacy, That warning it would be criminal folly to despise. It is Grant who represents in this contest the great cause which he represented in the war, and only by his election can peace and order be preserved and permanently established. In 1860 the country was warned that Rebellion wotild follow the election of a Reptxblican President. In 1868 Re- bellion is promised in case of a Repub- lican defeat. The election of Sey- mour and Blair is to be the signal of another war. The Rebels of the South have made it unmistakably clear that they intend that a Democratic victory shall pay them for what they lost at Vicksburg, at Gettysburg, and llich- mond. The Lost Cause of tlie South is found again, and lives in the Dem- ocratic party. The Rebellion declares that Grant did not subdue it, and that it is ready to fight again. THE Or,l> LEAVEN AT WORK. The Atlanta (Ga.) New Era, speak- ing of an address made by Ben.iamin H. Hill at a Conservative demonstra- tion in that city, says : " He was remarkably open in his denim- ciation of the reconstruction acts of Con- gress, declaring that they were only au- thorized by the bayonet and scoundrels ; and designating as rogues, renegades, and villains, all who saw fit to acquiesce in their requirements. Boldly he declared that, in the event of the success of the Sey- mour and Blair ticket, an entire uullilica- tion of all these laws would follow, and the constitutions framed under them would be nullified and set aside, and one immense bonfire made of the records. It was a wo- ful speech for the Democratic party and the Democratic cause. ' If this be what our party is working for,' said one staunch old line Democrat, 'I can have nothing to do with it. It is dangerous.' And he left the ground." Mark how bold the Rebels have be- come under the inspiration of Demo- cratic encouragement. Two years ago Hill declared that the ordinance abol- ishing Slavery in Georgia w^as uncon- stitutional, and the statute repudia- ting the Confederate debt, invalid. He prophesied that he would live to see the " patriarchal institution " re-estab- lished, and Confederate bonds worth more at the South than Federal green- backs. Now, animated by the Plat- form of the New York Convention, he seems to see a realization of his hopes, and goes a step further. Not only are the loyal Governments to be over- thrown and slavery restored, but those who have become possessed of property under Congressional law must give it up ! There is to be a Avar of retaliation, of reprisal, of vengeance, led by Blair and joined in by every unrepentant Rebel. The Democratic policy is bear- ing its natural fruits. A. H. Stephens, who was Vice-President of the Rebel 12 Confederacy, and who in a recent con- versation made for the press, declared that our Republican Government can- not continue to exist, receives the highest vote in the Georgia House for United States Senator. Benjamin" H. Hjll, a bitter and unrepentant Rebel, is at the head of the State Democracy, and Robert Toombs emerges from his inglorious oblivion to take the leading part in a campaign the avowed object of which is revolution ! How like these movements to those of 1860, and how suggestive the names connected with them. NUIiLIFICATION Xfilt UEIttOCRACY. Blair has said, and Seymour agrees to it, that if the Democratic ticket is elected, every Reconstruction law shall be repealed, if needs be, at the point of the bayonet. This is nullification, and nullification is treason. Thirty years ago. General Jackson was ready to hang John C. Calhoun for a less crime. And to- day, those who once worshipped the Old Hero, threaten to do what, if liv- ing, he would hang them for under- taking. What old Jackson man does not scout such miserable degeneracy ? Every word uttered, and every vote cast for Seymour, Blair and Nullifi- cation, will be an insult to the memory of this great Apostle of Democracy. But what do the present race of Dem- ocrats care ? There is not as much of the spirit of Democracy in the whole tribe as you could extract from tlie granite tomb-stone which covers the Old Hero's ofrave. WHAT THEY DID ANB WHAT THEY PROMISE TO DO. When the Democratic party, in 1861, went out of power, its only bequest to its successors was a civil war, an empty treasury, a skeleton army and a scat- tered navy. Its only tangible pledge, in the event of restoration to power, is another civil war, nullify the laws, re-establish slavery, and make Cabinet Ministers, Governors and Senators of the rebels who devoted four years to robbery, rapine and murder. WHO IS RESPONSIBEE. It has become fashionable with the Democracy to charge the Republican Party with having inaugurated the war. There are a few substantial historical facts which conclusively set- tle this question, and it would be as well to keep them before the people. After South Carolina, Georgia, Missis- sippi, Alabama, and other Southern States seceded, the Democrats of New York held a Convention at Tweddle Hall, Albany. Horatio SEYiiouR was the master spirit of that assem- blage. The worst revolutionary sen- timents were uttered. Threats were made that if Black Republicans inter- posed to coerce the South, ci^il war would be inaugurated in Northern streets. Such treasonable sentiments were applauded to the echo. Now, observe the following record, and make a note of the dates : December 20, 1800.— Capture of Ft. Moiil trie and Castle Pinckney by tlie South Ca- rolina troops. January :i, 1861. — Capture of Fort Pulas- * ki by the Savannah troops. January 3, 1861 . — The United States Arse nal at Mount Vernon, Alabama, with two hundred thousand stand of arms, seized by the Alabama troops. January 4. — Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay, taken by Alabama troops. January 9. — The United States steamer Star of iJie West, was fired into and driven oti' by the rebel batteries on Morris Island, when attempting to furnish Fort Sumter with supplies. January 10.— Fort Jackson, Fort St. Phil- ip and Fort Pike, near New Orleans, cap- tured by the Louisiana troops. January 14. — Capture of Pensacola Navy Yard and Fort MoRae, by Alabama troops. January J8/ — Surrender of Baton Eouge Arsenal to Louisiana troops. January 20. — New Orleans Mint and Cus- tom House taken. February 2.— Seizure of Little Rock Arse- nal by Arkansas troops. February 4. — Surrender of the revenue cutter Castle to the Alabama authorities. February 17. — Twiggs transferred the United States proiierty in Texas to the rebels. March 2. — The United States revenue cut- ter seized by the rebels iu Texas. As Abraham Lincoln was not in. 13 lugurated President of the United States until a period subsequent to all :hese acts of war, it is hardly fair play ;o hold the Republican party respon- sible for the legacy of war which it nherited from the Democratic admin- stration of the departed dirt-eater, Fames Buciiaxan. But while tlie war was, thus being prosecuted on the one iide, what was the Democratic party ioing ? Nothing, except encouraging •ebeilion. Tlie attitude of Governor §EYM0UR was the attitude of the Demo- ;ratic party. And he, while all this rVasin progress, contented himself with ,his position : "iei! tis also see if suc- cessful coercion by the North is less 'evolutionary than successful secession '}y the South. ^^ We need not multiply he evidence on this point. The posi- ion taken by the Democratic party lien was steadily maintained through- )ut the wai'. Energetic action in the ncipient stages of the rebellion would lave crushed it at once. Had Jack- lOiN", instead of BucHAiNAisr, filled the ?*residential chair, there would have )een no wai\ Not a finger was raised )y either James Buchanan or the democratic party to arrest either the vork of treason or the traitors who vere engaged in it. Men known to )e plotting the overthrow of the Gov- 'rnment were retained in ofiice to per- brm the double duty of Cabinet Min- sters and secret spies. Forts were lismantled ; arsenals were robbed ; the anny was scattered and the navy dis- )ersed, — to render the rebellion an lasy achievement. All these things were done under he eye of a Democratic President and v^ithout ]n"otest from the Democratic larty. If James Buchanan had coii- inued in office three months longer, he rebellion would have been a suc- iess ; the Union would have been di- dded; the Confederacy would have )een a recognized fact, and slavery vould have perpetually cursed the soil >f the Continent. The Republican party received this egacy of treason and war from the ])emocracy, with regret, but with a letermined purpose neither to be ap- palled nor conquered by it. Tlie eleven States wliicli, under the rule of the_ Democratic party, went out of the Union to give perpetuity to slavery, were brought back, under Repul)Uc;in rule, and consecrated to freedom. If nothing else had been achieved by that party, during its eight years of power, this alone wotdd not only save it from the charge of Inning been " a curse to the country," but entitle it to the gratitude of all comhig generations. SEYMOUK'S FRIENUS. It will not do for the supporters of Governor Seymour to attem})t disguis- ing the character of the address made by him in New York, to the ini'uriated mob of draft rioters, with whom he became identified by styling himself their '■friend,''^ and by representing that he, like them, was opposed to tlie dratt. Here is his language : " My friends, I have come down here from the quiet of the country to see "what was the difiiculty, and to learn what all tliis trouble was conceruing the draft. Let rue assure you that I am your friend. [Uproarious cheering.] You have been my friends — [cries of " Yes, yes ! " " That's so ! " " We are, and will be again !"] — and now- 1 as- sure you, my fellow citizens, that I am here to show you a test of my friendship. [Cheers.] I wish to inform you that I have sent my Adjutant General to Washington to confer with the authorities there, and have this draft suspended and stopped. [Vociferous cheers.] I ask you to wait for his return; and I assure you that I will do all that I can to see that there is no inequality and no wrong done to any one. I wish you to take good care of all property as good citi- zens, and see that every person is safe. The safe-keeping of property and persons rests with you, and I charge you to disturb nei- ther. It is your duty to maintain the good order of the city, and I know you trill do it. [Of course these men, whose hands were red with the blood of innocent women and children, were the very persons to maintain good order, and Seymour knew how they would do it.] I wish you now to separate, and you can assemble again xvherever you wish to do so. I ask yon to leave all to me now, and I will see to your rights. Wait until my Adjutant returns from W\ishington, and you will be satisfied." This was the language of the oily- tongued Governor to the infuriate de- mons who had been raging for days 14 througli the streets of N"ew York, de- stroying private dwellings, burning orphan asylums, murdering peaceable and unoffending citizens, and hanging Union soldiers from lamp-posts. These " friends " of his are the same men who are now supporting him for the Presi- dency, and who were thcn^ as now^ attempting to inaugurate an era of anarchy and civil war at the North, to aid rebellion and revolution at the South. And yet this mild-mannered and gentle Governor, who " could not without a violation of his honor" ac- cept a nomination, thrice assured this New York mob that he was their "friend," and that he had hastened from the Capital to convince them by his presence that he was ready to stand by them. This was the burden of his speech to these incendiaries, rob- bers and murderers. He did not point out to them the enormity and disgrace of their criminal proceedings — he did not appeal to their patriotism and ask them to rally to the aid of our im- perilled Government — he did not, as the Chief Magistrate of the State of New York, demand of them their in- stant return to their daily avocations, under the penalty of punishment — he did not picture to them the necessities of our soldiers in the field, who were struggling against i-ebels in arms bent on destroying the Union — no such words came from his lips ; but on the contrary, he called upon these "friends" to desist from their acts of violence, with the assurance that, as " he knew they were his friends," so he " would be their friend," and if they found him to falter they might " assemble again," wherever they wished to do so, and renew their work of rapine. The whole address was a bid to the mob, and a threat against the Administration, craven in spirit and disgraceful to the Governor. But the patriotism of the. " Boys in Blue," Avho were immediate- ly ordered to New York from their fields of victory, defeated the conspir- acy, and left to history the shameful record of a leading Northern Governor who in a trial-hour of the Union was willing to plot with bloody despe- radoes for its overthrow; and every vote now given to this man is in aid of another rebellion. WITHOUT "%VOKK ANI> ORGANIZA- TION, I3EFEAT AND DI^^ASTER! The llepublican party can lose noth- ing by full discussion. Our platform and principles will bear thorough in- vestigation. Our candidates are sound on all the pending issues, and are per- sonally above reproach. But, neither sound principles nor unexcejjtionable candidates can insure success, without organization. Every election district should be canvassed at once, where it has not already been done. Proper men should be selected to attend the registries, to see that no illegal names are placed thereon ; and fearless and intelligent voters must be appointed as challengers for election day. The great defect of most of our political work is, that it is deferred to so late a day that it is done up hastily, and therefore almost always imperfectly. It is next to impossible, in many local- ities, to make up an accurate canvass upon the eve of an election. But if this important work is taken hold of early, and continued perseveringly, it can be done correctly ; so that when the time for registration comes, the name of every legal voter can be se- cured a place on the registry, and every fraudulent name kept off. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the minds of Republicans that the Seymour Democracy intend to carry the State by fraud, for they brag loud- ly that they shall succeed, and the " tidal wave " which has commenced sweeping westward from New Eng- land gives token that by fraud only can the will of the people be defeated. There is but one way to thwart these Revolutionists in their base purpose, and this is, not by talking loudly, nor by bragging and betting, — but by con- stant work ; by finding out who are Republicans ; by seeing to it that their names are on the registry ; by adopt- ing thorough measures to secure their attendance on election day. All these pre-requisites to success can be insured 15 by a careful canvass of every election district. This is the political work to be done, and every man who enters quietly and at once upon that duty, and follows it up to the close of elec- tion, will do more to achieve success than any half dozen of the best talkers of his district. VERMONT AM> MAINK— AN EX- AMPI.E. Glorious little Verjiont has given rencAved evidence of adherence to the Union cause in the 30^000 majority rolled up at her State election, and which will be largely increased for Grant and Colfax. Maine, the " Pine Tree State," has just emerged from the bitterest politi- cal campaign she has ever fought, and sends greeting, to her sister States, 23f000 majority for the Union Cause!!! The Yankee Boys of these two States vote as they fought during the rebel- lion — to save the country — to frown down repudiatiou — to prevent another civil war — to give us enduring peace. Let us follow her good example, and when the sun shall set on the third day of November, the so-called Democratic Party will pass out of existence as a political organization. Even now its membership represents nothing but the disappointments of greedy politi- cians ; the ignorance of political Bour- bons ; the revenge and hatred of de- feated Rebellion. All that is left of that proud jjarty whose ideas came from the teeming brain of Jefferson — and whose hosts were marshaled by Jackson — are the fast dissolving frag- ments of Noi'thcrn Copperheadism, and the furtive, sneaking assassins who plot murder in the caves of the Southern States. The descendants of the leaders of this disgraced party, who in this contest are conspiring Avith Wade Hampton and Horatio Sey- mour to restore the Rebels to power, will be as anxious to forget their Oth- ers' votes as the descendants of Tories are now to forget the course of their ancestors in the Revolutionary War. However widely loyal men may differ about minor issues, there can be but one o])inion when tlie natiomil ex- istence is at stake. Tlie Republican party fights for national life and na- tional honor. In this contest we fly the legend " The Union must be pre- served." Vermont has answered with a majority as decisive as that which aided in re-electing Lincoln, and Maine responds, Amen ! While we exult over these triumphs, and draw from them presage of cer- tain victory to our cause in November; while we believe we see in these up- risings in Vermont and Maine the coming of that " tidal wave " which is to sweep every organized remnant of Rebellion out of our beloved country, Ave must learn from them a lesson of a more practical nature, and npon this lesson we must act. Vermo7it and Maine toere carried because our friends fought earnestly to carry them ! Th^iumph came from icorJc^ Our friends meant to win — and they have %oon. Every toAvnship, every county, Avas canvassed. The friends of Freedom gave np every considera- tion and necessity of business to the country. They worked as they had not worked since the days of Harrison, Fremont, and Lincoln. The issues were presented, the votes were brought out, and victoiy was Avon. Let our friends in Ncav York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and other States, iniitate these Yankee Boys in their discipline, their resolution, their harmony, their enthusiasm and their triumph Avill be as glorious and overwhelming; and the" ides of November will bring us that peace and prosperity for which the Nation has so vainly and patiently long;ed. "GOV. SEYMOUR NEVER OWNEB A GOVERNMENT BOND." GoA'. Seymour authorizes his Bank- ers to deny that he ever OAvned a dol- lar's Avortli of Government bonds, and no one has, as yet, been able to dis- cover that he ever contributed a single dollar to the Union cause. His only investment in this behalf Avas his speech 16 on the eve of election in 1862, in which he urged " a more vigorous jjrosecution of the war" — a declaration which his followers subsequently interpreted by their draft riots and hotel burnings, to mean " a moi'e vigorous prosecution of the Avar" against the Government. Of course, every man has a legal, if not a moral right, to do what he pleases with his own. But some men are under greater obligations than others to do the right thing, voluntarily, at the right time. Governor Seymour occupied a conspicuous place among the public men of the country. He had been twice placed in the Executive chair of this State, and was a recog- nized leader of one of the great Parties of the country. Gratitude as well as inclination should have made him the foremost man among the men of wealth, to open his purse in response to the call of the Government. But he re- fused to contribute a dollar to help whip the Rebels because he did not want the Rebels whipped. He recog- nized no power by which the General Government could " coerce " a State into allegiance, but insisted that it was just as Avrong to punish treason as to be a traitor, because " successful seces- sion by the South was no more revolu- tionary than successful coercion by the North." His conscience would not permit him to be patriotic. He was able to hear, with complacency, the cries for bread of the wIats and child- ren and mothers and orphans of our brave soldiers, because of the inability of the Government to procure money to pay " Lincoln's hirelings " their wages. The war, in his opinion, was wrong, and therefore, they who were fighting its battles, and those Avho were dependent upon them for support, ought to suffer. He made his opinions and his acts harmonise. His sympa- thies being Avith the enemy, he Avould do nothing to help the Government. INDICTMENT OF SEYIttOUK—GUIIiT CONFESSED. Horatio Seymour stands indicted before the people for 1. Incitins: to riot. 2. Yielding to Rioters their demands on the Government, at the Peril of the Nation. 3. Threatening the President of the United States with the disorderly vio- lence of " the People," if he proceeded in efforts A'itally necessary to the sal- vation of the Union. Horatio Seymour is confessedly, therefore, a Fomentor of Sedition, "a Champion of Rioters, a Menacer of Government. A Fomenter of Sedition, in that he told the turbulent masses of New York City, his " friends," that a Mob had an equal right with the Government to proclaim the law of public necessity. A Champion of Rioters, in that he espoused their cause, said that they should be made satisfied, and demand- ed of the Government tliat the draft should be suspended and stopped, at their violent behest. A Menacer of Government, in that he warned it of the " temper of the people," if it did not yield to him and his riotous " friends." And all this in criminal disregard of the imminent peril in which his coun- try and its defenders were placed at the time. These are the counts and the evi- dence in this grave indictment. The supporters of Horatio Seymour have been repeatedly called upon to defend him, but they persistently refuse to do so. They therefore confess that he is guilty, as charged in the indictment. AVhat friend of law and order will say that such a man should be made Pres- ident of the United States ? TVAB AND KEPUDIATION. If there Avere no more, there are two facts which will prove fatal to the De- mocracy. First, their threat to nullify the laws of Cougres at the point of the bayonet ; and secondly, their open avoAval of practical Repudiation. The people do not covet a second civil Avar. They have had enough of slaughter. They will take care, therefore, not to give Blair and his folloAvers an oppor- tunity to gratify their thirst for blood. Number Three will be ready in a few days. EC Cc^COc CIC. c. C Ct? cc cc c "CC CCC _ €: