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TREASONABLE DESIGNS OF THE DEMOCRACY. 
 
 THE ISSUE BEFORE THE PEOPLE— ANOTHER CIVIL 
 ^AR— THE PROOF FROM THEIR OWN RECORD. 
 
 Published by the Union Republican Congressional Gommittee, Washington D, C 
 
 Wc propose to prove by Copperhead and 
 rebel authority — 
 
 First That the late rebellion, WHICH 
 WAS THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF 
 THE PRESENT NATIONAL DEBT and 
 its burden of taxation, teas inaugurated 
 under and by a DEMOCRATIC ADMIN- 
 ISTRATION, and carried on by the DEMO- 
 CRATIC PARTY, under Democratic lead- 
 ers. 
 
 Second. That the Copperhead leaders and 
 their rebel allies are influenced by the same 
 relentless hostility to the principles of Repub- 
 lican Liberty noiv as during the rebellion, 
 and are acting in concert, through the same 
 treasonable agencies, to regain control of 
 the Government. 
 
 Third. That their settled policy is to AN- 
 NUL all the laws of Congress inconsist- 
 ent with their interests, IGNORE THE 
 RECONSTRUCTED STATE GOVERN- 
 MENTS, and repudiate the national debt, 
 even at the expense of another CIVIL 
 WAR. 
 
 The fir<t evidence we shall produce that 
 the rebellion was begun under, and carried 
 on by, a Democratic Administration, is the 
 admission of the New York World, the lead- 
 ing organ of the party. In June, 1863, it 
 thus fastens the crime upon its own party : 
 
 " In the dark days of 1860 we had the imbecile and 
 false-hearted Bucltanan&t the head of the Government; 
 the incompetent and perfidious Cobb was running the 
 public credit ; the thief, Floyd, was transferring the 
 public arms to Southern Stntes ; that thorough-paced ras- 
 cal, Thompsf'.i, was tht active co-ad jut or of tho before- 
 mentioned worthies; tho Senate was presided over by 
 the traitor Breckinridge, and both Houses of Congress 
 i with secessionists." 
 
 WHERE THE REBELLION WAS HATCHED. 
 
 The following letter from the traitor Yu- 
 lee, of Florida, written while he was in the 
 United States Senate drawing his pay from 
 the Government, and the resolutions to 
 which he refers, is still stronger proof of the 
 same facts, and shows that for a long time 
 before the Southern traitors withdrew from 
 the Senate they had been coolly planning the 
 
 overthrow of the Government, lulee's let- 
 ter is dated : 
 
 WABHINfllON, Jiv.. 1 
 Mr Dear ^ir : On tho "other side is a copy of 
 tion.-i adopted at a consultation of (Democrat! 
 tors from tho seceding States, in which Georgia, Ala- 
 bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, anl 
 Florida were present. The idea of tho nieeti a 
 that tho States should go out at once, and pro\ i 
 tho early organization of a Confederate government, 
 not later than the loth of February next. This time is 
 allowed to enablo Louisiana and Texas to part. 
 Itseems to be tho opinion that if wo all left here forced 
 loans and volunteer bills might bo passed, which won! i 
 put Mr. Lincoln in immediate condition for hostilities. 
 Whereas, by remaining in our places until tho 4th of 
 March, it is thought we can keep tho hands of Mr. Bu- 
 chanan tied, and disable the Republicans from effecting 
 any legislation Which will Strength' a the hands of tin 
 incoming administration. * * * * 
 
 In haste, 
 
 Yours truly, 1). L. Ytfr.EE. 
 
 [As this letter fully explains the charac- 
 ter of the resolutions referred to, they are 
 omitted.] 
 
 TOOMBS CONFESSES THAT THE DEMOCRATIC 
 PARTY BEGIN THE REBELLION. 
 
 In a speech delivered at a meeting of the 
 rebels in Georgia, held at Atlanta, July 8th. 
 to ratify the nomination of Seymour and 
 Blair, a speech was delivered by ex-United 
 States Senator and ex-Confederate Secretary 
 of State, Robert. Toombs. In this speech 
 he boldly avowa that the late war was begun 
 by the Democracy. He says: 
 
 "General Grant tells you he wants peace! What 
 sort of peace? The peacoof tho tyrant of Russi i w het 
 ho sent tho poor Soles In chains to Siberia, and 
 having disposed of them in that manner, issu 
 proclamation lhat " Order reigus in Warsaw !" 
 ter and ehocrs.] That is the peace that General Grant 
 wants. I will tell you another fa t which is enough for 
 this time, that as THB late WAR WAS PRODUCED DT TH3 
 nEFr.ATKD Democratic partt in 1S60, we shall never 
 have peace until it is restored in 1SG8. If General Grant 
 wants peace, let him join the Democratic party. — 
 [Cheers.] I eay, by God, that neither despotist 
 tyranny, nor injustice, meets with peace in this world 
 or the next." 
 
 NAMES OF THE TRAITORS MR. BUCHANAN KEPT 
 IN HIS CABINET. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan's Secretary of War was the 
 thief Floyd, a life-long Democrat. While 
 
Be- 
 
 holding that position he had for months been 
 secretly furnishing the rebels with arms, as 
 proved by various official documents and 
 denied by no one. He also sent the army 
 to Texas, under the command of the traitor 
 I ie there surrendered to the rebels, 
 as it -..' 
 
 The Democratic Secretary of the Navy 
 under Buehanan was the infamous Touchy, 
 of Connecticut, who, in anticipation of the 
 rebellion, sent every Government vessel but 
 one to the farthest quarters of the Globe 
 that the Government might be left still more 
 powerless. 
 
 Cobb, another Democrat, was Secretary of 
 the Treasury, and deliberately conspired dur- 
 ing his term of office to destroy the credit of 
 the Government, in which he was wonderfully 
 successful, 
 
 Jake Thompson, afterwards Confederate 
 Agent and Secretary of {lie Interior, who be- 
 fore he abandoned his post to join the rebels 
 stole a million dollars from the Trust Fund 
 of the Indian Department, was of course a 
 dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. 
 
 The President of the Senate, too, the rebel 
 Breckinridge, was and is a Democrat, so 
 was a majority of the Senate, a plurality of 
 the House, and the Supreme Court, all of 
 whom, as well as Mr. Buchanan and his 
 Cabinet, either participated in the conspiracy 
 or were familiar with its existence and pur- 
 pose, and knew that the traitors were prepar- 
 ing for civil war. 
 
 During the whole existence of the rebel- 
 lion the Democrats in Congress had a com- 
 'pact and perfect organization in the interest 
 of the conspirators, headed by such men as 
 Long, Bright, Pendleton, Vallandigham, 
 Yoorhees, &c, whose influence was exerted 
 r& cripple the efforts of our soldiers and aid 
 in the overthrow of the Government, even 
 carrying their hatred so far as to vote against 
 the bill to subsist our troops off the rebels 
 v:hen destitute of bread. 
 
 They also opposed the bill passed by Gon- 
 gress, February 26, 1863, for drafting men, 
 known as the Enrollment act, and bitterly 
 resisted every measure to fill the depleted 
 ranks of our armies, not only by their votes 
 in Congress, but by riots and murder through- 
 out the North. They resisted to the bitter 
 end, too, the bill to enable President Lin- 
 coln to raise and equip colored troops, though 
 the rebels had for a long time employed 
 them — every one of whom would have taken 
 lace of a white man. 
 
 These facts, brief as they are, establish 
 beyond all cavil that the rebellion was begun 
 under a Democratic administration, raised 
 into life by Democrats, and carried on by 
 Democrats when begun. Our second prop- 
 osition, that the Copperhead party and their 
 
 rebel allies are influenced by the same re- 
 lentless animosity as ever, and are acting in 
 perfect harmony through the same treason- 
 able agencies to regain control of the Gov- 
 ernment, can be as briefly and overwhelm- 
 ingly sustained by proofs drawn from the 
 same source. We present this testimony, 
 showing the unity of thought and purpose 
 between these two branches of the "Demo- 
 cratic" party, in parallel columns — Copper- 
 head and Rebel — side by side : 
 
 COPPERHEAD RECORD. 
 
 CONGRESS MUST BE DEPOSED. 
 
 From the N. T. Freeman's 
 Journal, Sept., 1807. 
 
 With the North so evenly 
 divided, the South, it' re- 
 lieved from the military 
 despotism,andfreely speak- 
 ing according to its consti- 
 tutional rights could bring 
 us all the aid we need, and 
 thus put an end to the pre- 
 sent bogus Congress. If 
 Andrew Johnson was not a 
 piteous coivard, seeing the ef- 
 forts of the Rump Congress, 
 that he himself has de- 
 nounced as bogus, nE 
 
 WOULD DISPERSE THE CON- 
 GRESS WHEN IT TRIES TO 
 
 meet again. He would at 
 once summon all the voters 
 in all the States to assemble 
 and elect Representatives to 
 an extraordinnry Congress, 
 and would see that not only 
 Kentucky butall theSouth- 
 ern Stales complied with 
 his extraordinary sum- 
 mons. 
 
 [From the Old Guard.] 
 
 LINCOLN A TYRANT AND DA- 
 VIS A PATRIOT. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was, 
 without doubt, the most 
 fatal man that ever lived 
 upon the face of the earth, 
 and in five brief years did 
 nmro evil than tho worst 
 man that ever lived accom- 
 plished in a life time. The 
 cause he led was tho most 
 unnatural, impious, and 
 sinful that has ever afflicted 
 tho world; and the means 
 of its accomplishment tho 
 vilest and most dishonest 
 that ever degraded our race. 
 On the contrary, the real 
 cause, led by Jeff. Davis, is 
 the noblest, most benefi- 
 cial, true, and glorious that 
 over man battled for on 
 this earth, and the means 
 i in]. loved were tho most 
 Christian ami chivalrous 
 ever witnessed in the works 
 of history. 
 
 [From the New York Metro- 
 politan.] 
 
 TRAITORS TO BE MODELS FOR 
 SOUTHERN YOUTHS. 
 
 The example oi great 
 men, Ac, should be held up 
 
 REBEL RECORD. 
 
 WAR TO THE KNIFE AGAINST 
 THE REPUBLICANS. 
 
 [From the Memphis Ava- 
 lanche, Sept., 1807.] 
 The time, thank Heaven, 
 has at last come whenever;/ 
 true man (rebel) may hold 
 up his head in the light of 
 true reason, truth, and jus- 
 tice, and oppose with all 
 the energy of a just and 
 righteous indignation the 
 revolutionary and oppres- 
 sive course of the Republi- 
 cans. The most hopelessly 
 corrupt and utterly aban- 
 doned organization the 
 world has ever known, it 
 will be the duty ef every 
 man to detest and make 
 war upon the American 
 Radical, those assassins of 
 Liberty and enemies of 
 mankind. To hate such 
 and to labor for their over- 
 throw is to worship God. 
 
 [Extract from a speech de- 
 livered at Memphis, in 
 i^eo., 1866, by Col, Crock- 
 ett, who served in the 
 rebellion.] 
 
 REBELS BEGGING FOR COPPER- 
 HEAD AID. 
 
 If the South will stand 
 as a unit by Andy Johnson 
 with the Conservative or 
 Democratic party at the 
 North, before five years 
 elapse the South would 
 again control the Govern- 
 ment. I have fought against 
 the Government but I shalt 
 stand by Andy Johnson. 
 
 [From the Norfolk ( Va. 
 Post.] 
 
 A BETTER ALLY FOR THE 
 REBELS THAN FRANCE. 
 
 President Johnson has 
 vetoed the Freedmeu's Bu- 
 reau bill. This is the great- 
 est victory achieved during 
 the war — greater than any 
 of the feats of arms of 
 Stonewall Jackson or of 
 Robt. E. Lee. They (the 
 rebels) liave found an ally 
 in the President worth more 
 to them than the alliance of 
 France or England, and 
 now they begin to see the 
 final triumph of tho great 
 Southern cause. 
 
for imitation of Southern, 
 youth. Calhou:>, A. S. 
 Johnpon, Stonewall Jack- 
 sou, and Leonidas Polk, 
 anions; the dead, H. E. Lee, 
 and Jeff. Davis, among the 
 living, are the modelt — mar- 
 tyrs lor the land they loved 
 or conferrers in its cause. 
 
 PRESIDENT LINOOLN'S OPIN- 
 ION OF JOHNSON. 
 
 Three days before he was 
 murdered, President Lin- 
 coln said to a party of 
 friends, in reference to the 
 ingrate and apostate who 
 is now acting President — 
 " Tfuii miterable man! I 
 cannot anticipate tho trou- 
 ble he will eause me during 
 my Second term of office." 
 Mr. L. bad learned his in- 
 famous character tbag 
 early. 
 
 MORE THREATS OP CIVIL WAR. 
 
 [From the N\ Y. Metropol- 
 itan of Juhj, 1865.] 
 
 The d legates from Flor- 
 ida, Texas, Virginia, no 
 matter from what State, 
 must le admitted though 
 they /(night all through the 
 war in the Confederate 
 army, or served in a civil 
 capacity under the Confed- 
 erate government. The ad- 
 mission of such men will be 
 the tofts and true tests of 
 tho convention. Tho Demo- 
 cratic delegates must insist 
 that no invidious distinc- 
 tions shall be made of so- 
 ealUd loyfllty or disloyally. 
 Tho Northern delegates to 
 the Philadelphia (third 
 party) Convention must be 
 instructed to vote down all 
 loyalty tests." 
 
 THE TRUE SriRIT OF DEMOC- 
 RACY. 
 
 At a Copperhead meeting 
 held in Syracuso just before 
 the collapse of tho rebel- 
 lion and the murder of Lin- 
 coln, which was addressed 
 by Vallandigiiam and Fer- 
 nando Wood, the following 
 inscriptions were displayed 
 on their banners: 
 
 " No more victims for 
 slaughter-pens — NOT A 
 MAN— NOT A DOLLAR." 
 
 "Lincoln has MURDER- 
 ED THREE WHITE MEN 
 TO FREE ONE NIGGER." 
 
 "American soil scourged 
 by an UNCONSTITUTION- 
 AL DESPOT IN ABRA- 
 HAM LINCOLN." 
 
 "FREE BALLOTS OR 
 FREE BULLETS— CRUSH 
 THE TYRANT LINCOLN 
 before ho crushes yon." 
 
 (Booth took their advice.) 
 
 BRICK FOMEROY'S POLICY ADOPTED BY THE N. 
 Y. COPPERHEAD AND REBEL CONTENTION. 
 
 In December, 1867, the La Cross (Wis- 
 oopsin) Democrat, the accredited organ of 
 
 THE REBELS THREATEN AN- 
 OTHER CIVIL WAR — nLAIR 
 AND THE DEMOCRACY STEAL 
 TUEIR WATCHWORD. 
 
 Neither Mr. Blair nor 
 Andrew Johnson Was tin- 
 first to threaten another 
 civil war. They are car- 
 rying out rebel orders. 
 The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph 
 of March, 1806, declares — 
 "Wo prefer peaceable 
 moans. But those failing, 
 President Johnson should 
 issue his proclamation efe- 
 claring the Union fiiAly re- 
 stored, and that Southern 
 members of Congress should 
 enter the Capitol and take 
 their seats. If refused ad- 
 mittance A REGIMENT 
 OF SOLDIERS SHOULD 
 P.B SENT TO PUT THEM 
 IN THEIR SEATS." 
 
 GENERAL GRANT ON REBEL 
 EDITORS. 
 
 In regard to the suppres- 
 sion of the Richmond Ex- 
 aminer for treason by Gen. 
 Grant, Pollard, its editor, 
 says: 
 
 "I never few Orant but 
 once on tho subject, and 
 then he refused most em- 
 phatically TO REVOKE TIIK 
 ORI)RR FOR ITS SUPPRESSION. 
 
 It was evident I had noth- 
 ing TO HOPE FROM UIM, for 
 ho said to me expressly 
 that if he had tho authority 
 he would that day suppress 
 the New York A'ews, Cin- 
 cinnati Inquirer, and Chi- 
 cago Times, adding that 
 the Copperhead papers at 
 the North w?re doing quite 
 as much harm as the rebel 
 papers South. Deriving no 
 satisfaction from him I ap- 
 pealed to Johnson," where 
 of course ho fared better. 
 Traitors never found any 
 favor with Grant. 
 
 A REBEL COMPARISON BE- 
 TWEEN THE PATRIOT AND 
 MARTYR LINCOLN AND TUB 
 TRAITOR DAVIS. 
 
 The one was plebian by 
 nature, the other a noble- 
 man. By the power of 
 numbers the one triumphed 
 and the other fell. Tho tri- 
 umphant party is now dead. 
 He fills the grave of an un- 
 wept TYRANT, AND WILL BE 
 
 execrated the more as the 
 wheels of time roll on. How 
 stands his opponent. * 
 * * History will yot 
 vindicate tho truth, and 
 Jeff. Davis, tlie statesman, 
 scholar, and hero, will out 
 live a hundred Lincolns ! — 
 Louisville Sentinel on the 
 Border. 
 
 the national Copperhead and rebel Democ- 
 racy, having a circulation larger than any- 
 other ten Copperhead papers in the Union, 
 thus authoritatively lays down the rule of 
 action by which its party must be governed, 
 an order which it is literally obeying: 
 
 " In 1S6S clubs will bo formed in every town and city 
 in the Union. Let those clubs be composed of Demo- 
 crats as ready to fight as to vote. Let them bo drill •! 
 In the manual of arms, and be as conversant with tli» 
 science of military tactics as with Democratic princi- 
 ples. They may bereqnired to display this knowledge, 
 and t/NIGGER OR RADICAL KILLING should be in 
 order (as it is in Texas and Mississippi) they will be as 
 ready for that business as to listen to the inaugural of 
 a Democratic Prosidont on tho 4th of March, i860." 
 
 And the same paper, in a subsequent 
 issue, still more distinctly declares the policy 
 of another civiL war, as adopted by Blair 
 in his letter to Broadhead, by the National 
 Copperhead and rebel Convention in its 
 platform, by President Johnson in his veto 
 of the Electoral College bill, and by the 
 Copperhead and rebel orators and papers 
 generally. " Wc want," it says, "men for 
 President and Vice President of military 
 spirit and daring, who, if elected, includ- 
 ing your white men of the South, will march 
 to Washington; take their seats, and re-inau- 
 gurate the white man's Government in spite 
 of men or devils. If this brings blood-shed. 
 THEN LET BLOOD FLOW. Letovr can- 
 didates be pledged to this, and triumph is 
 certain.''' 
 
 THE COPPERHEAD AND REBEL DEMOCRACY JUS- 
 TIFY AND EXULT IN THE MURDER OF LINCOLN. 
 
 Immediately after the assassination of 
 Lincoln the national organ of the Copper- 
 head and rebel Democracy, the La Cross 
 Democrat, thus officially declared the exul- 
 tation and approval of its party of the great 
 crime : 
 
 " It is but a little while since the glorious ejforl.of 
 John Wilkes Booth gave fresh hope to the friends of lib- 
 erty, and canonized the name of the heroic youth in tho 
 hearts of all who believe that resistance to tyrants is 
 obedience to God." 
 
 At the State Democratic Convention, held 
 at Madison, Wisconsin, in February, 1868, 
 this infamous article was read by 
 
 a Democratic State Senator, who 
 warmly eulogized Booth and hi.s crime. Mr. 
 Clark, another State Senator and delegate, 
 enthusiastically endorsed the La Cross 
 
 Democrat 
 
 whereupon the convention elected him a 
 delegate to the New York Copperhead and 
 rebel Convention, thus attesting, in the 
 strongest possible manner, its approval of 
 the murder. And the whole Copperhead 
 and rebel Democracy of the nation coincide 
 with their Wisconsin brethren. 
 
 A SECOND REBELLION LONG FORESHADOWED. 
 
 These solemn declarations, that if need be 
 another civil war will be commenced to undo 
 
all that our army did during the rebellion 
 and Congress has done since, to secure to 
 the loyal people of the country justice, lib- 
 eral and equal rights, were long since fore- 
 shadowed by leading rebels. In Johnson's 
 rebel South Carolina Convention, held in 
 pursuance of his " policy " to bring all the 
 rebel States back into the Union precisely as 
 they were before they rebelled, Jas. R. Camp- 
 bell, an unreconstructed rebel, declared: 
 
 I I i lieve that when our votes are admitted in Con- 
 we are tolerably wise'we will have our own 
 way, i; we are true to ourselves. I believe, oa surely 
 aa we are a people, by the beginning of the next Pres- 
 idential election * * we may bold the balance of 
 ; i w< -." 
 
 But to do this they must destroy the present 
 Southern State governments, and act under 
 tlwse illegally organized by Johnson. And 
 this is what the Democratic party have 
 openly and treasonably threatened to do. 
 Robert Ould, late rebel Commissioner of 
 Exchange, said in July, 1866, that the South 
 nit send nobody to the Philadelphia (third 
 party) Convention who had not taken part 
 in the rebellion. The South will soon resume 
 control of the country as before the war. 
 
 THE REBEL CAUSE NOT LOST. 
 
 At a meeting of leading rebels, headed by 
 Beverly Tucker, held in New York in Au- 
 gust, 1865, they declared, among other 
 things : 
 
 " We regard the failure of the rebellion as but tem- 
 porary The spirit that originated still lives, and by the 
 assistance of our friends in the North can be successful in 
 another way." 
 
 That ' ' other way' ' has been pointed out by 
 Frank Blair, adopted by the Copperhead 
 and rebel Convention which nominated Sey- 
 mour, by the President, and is receiving the 
 " assistance " of the united Copperhead and 
 rebel' Democracy. 
 
 But we have furnished sufficient oroof 
 that the Copperhead Democracy North 
 and the rebel Democracy South are influ- 
 enced by the same principles, governed by 
 the same motives, and striving for the same 
 obj< i. In the evidence we have produced to 
 in this proposition there is necessarily 
 much which bears upon our third; which is, 
 that our corrupt and wicked opponents are 
 co-operating together for the overthrow of 
 all the reconstruction laws of Congress, and 
 the utter annihilation of all therei 
 governments of the Southern State;-. 
 
 11 now proceed to furnish the official 
 proof of this treasonable conspiracy to inau- 
 ber civil war on the part of the 
 Democratic leaders. 
 
 PROCLAIMS ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC RE- 
 BELLION'. 
 
 The deliberate and very explicit declara- 
 tion of Gen. Blair, the Copperhead and rebel 
 
 candidate for Vice President, leaves no room 
 to doubt what their purpose is. It consists 
 of his letter to a member of the New York 
 convention putting in his bid for the nomina- 
 tion which he holds. It was, the lowest bid 
 and therefore secured his nomination. But 
 the convention did not rest satisfied with 
 this approval of his revolutionary sentiments. 
 In this letter, under date of Washington, June 
 30, he thus lays down the creed and pro- 
 claims the purpose ef the Copperhead and 
 rebel Democracy: 
 
 "Wo cannot undo the Radical plan of Reconstruction 
 by Congressional action; the Senate will continue a bai 
 to its repeal. Must we submit to it? How can it bo 
 overthrown? It can only bo overthrown by the author- 
 ity of tho Executive, who is sworn to maintain theCon- 
 stitution, and who will fail to do bis duty it' he allows 
 tho Constitution to perish under a series of Congres- 
 sional enactments which are in palpable violation of its 
 fundamental principles. 
 
 "If the President elected by the Democracy enforces 
 or permits others to enforco these Reconstruction acts, 
 tho Radicals, by the accession of 20 spurious Senators 
 and £0 Representatives, will control both branches of 
 Congress, and his administration will bo as powerless as 
 the present ono of Mr. Johnson. 
 
 "There is but one way to restore the Government and 
 the Constitution, and that is for Me President-elect to dfi- 
 i hire, these acts null and void, compel the army to undo 
 its usurpations at the South, disperse the carpet-bag State 
 governments, allow the white people to reorganize their 
 own governments, and elect Senators and Representatives. 
 The House of Representatives will contain a majority 
 of Democrats from the North, and they will admit the 
 Representatives" elected by tho whito people of the 
 South, and, with the co-operation of the President, it 
 will not bo difficult to compel the Senate to submitonce 
 more to the obligations of the Constitution. It will not 
 be able to withstand the public judgment, if distinctly 
 invoked and clearly expressed, on this fundamental is- 
 sue, and it is tho euro way to avoid all future strife to 
 put this issue plainly to tho country. 
 
 "Wo must restore the Constitution before we can re- 
 store the finances, and to do this wo piust have a Presi- 
 dent who will execute the will of the people by tramp- 
 ling into dust the usurpations of Congress, known as tl<e 
 Reconstruction acts. I wish to stand before the conven- 
 tion upon this issue, but it is one which embraces every 
 thing else that is of value in its large and comprehen- 
 sive results. It is the one thing that includes all that is 
 • worth a contest, and without it there is nothing that 
 gives digDity, honor, or value to the stru 
 
 Americans! if you want another civil war 
 inaugurated, vote the Blair ticket ! He tells 
 you just how he will set it going. 'Mark him ! 
 
 mr. johnson ; s revolutionary programme. 
 
 ' This incendiary and revolutionary letter is 
 a portion of the Democratic platform, and 
 upon it Mr. Seymour has squarely placed 
 himself. It will be seen that Mr. Blair also 
 lays down the policy which President John- 
 sun must pursue in case of a Democratic 
 triumph. He informs him that hi that .event 
 
 t annul all the lates of the land which 
 copperheads think unconstitutional, use the 
 army to SUPPRESS THE NEW STATE 
 GOVERNMENTS, put theit mcUon 
 
 into the hands of WHITE REjBIJLS, and 
 compel the Senate by force of anr,s, if need 
 be, to assent to his policy. The- President 
 
 ■mptly avowed his purpose to act upon 
 
Blair's advice, and even to commence the 
 war in advance of the election. In his veto 
 message of the Electoral College bill, trans- 
 mitted to Congress July 20, he declares his 
 revolutionary purpose in the following un- 
 mistakable terms: 
 
 "The joint resolution under consideration, however, 
 seems to assume that by the insurrectionary acts of 
 then re ipecl ive inhabitants thoso States forfeited their 
 rights as such, and can never again exerciso them ex- 
 cept upon reiulmission into the Union on the terms pre- 
 scribed by Congress. If this position be correct, it fol- 
 lows that they were taken out of tho Union by virtue 
 of their acts of secession ; and hence that the h 
 upon them was illegal and unconstitutional. We would 
 thus be placed in this inc insistent attitude — that while 
 the war was commenced and carried on upon the dis- 
 tinct ground that tho Southern States, being component 
 parts of the Union, were in rebellion against the law- 
 ful authority of the United States, upon its termination 
 we resort to a policy of reconstruction which assumes 
 that it was not in fact a rebellion, but that the war was 
 waged for tho conquest of territories assumed to beout- 
 tlio constitutional Union. 
 * * * * * * * 
 
 " It is worthy of remark that if the States whose in- 
 habitants were recently in rebellion were legally and 
 constitutionally organized and restored to their rights 
 prior to the 4th of March, 1S67, as I am satisfied they 
 were, the only legitimate authority under which the 
 election for President and Vice President can be held 
 therein must be derived from the governments instituted 
 before that period. It clearly follows that the State 
 governments organized in those States, under act <*f 
 Congress fjr that purpose, as nndor military control, 
 ore illegitimate and of no validity whatever; and, in 
 that view, the votes cast int?iose States for President and 
 Vice President, in pursuance of acts passed since the 4th 
 of March, 1867, and in obedience, to the so-called acts of 
 Congress, CetntlOt belegaUy received and counted; while 
 
 votes in those Statesthatcan.be legally cast and 
 • will be those cast in pursuance, of the laws in 
 force in the several States prior to the'legi.-:- 
 Congress upon, the subject f reconstruction," 
 
 THK COPPERHEAD LEADERS APPROVE THE WAR 
 — HOW IT IS TO BE DOXE. 
 
 This is treason in its naked form, avowed 
 first by the Democratic candidate for Vice 
 President, then by the Democratic National 
 Convention, and finally by the President of 
 the United States. But it is not confined to 
 these exponents of Democratic principles 
 and purposes. General Wade Hampton, 
 one of the most ferocious of the rebel gen- 
 erals, and the man who nominated Blair oil 
 behalf of the South Carolina rebels, declared 
 at a recent speech at a dinner of the Alumni 
 of General Lee's College that the rebel cause 
 will triumph in the SUCCESS OF THE 
 DEMOCRATIC TICKET; and at a 
 ing of Baltimore rebels, on the evening of 
 July 20, he declared with equal emphasis 
 that the rebel cause HAD BEEN MADE 
 - AIT, IN TftB NOMINATION^/ ,%mo*r 
 arid Blair. 
 
 Every rebel in the land concurs with 
 Hampton, as 'well as every rebel paper. 
 The Charleston Mercury, which probably 
 did more than any other Southern journal 
 to bring about the late war. and which is 
 now a stanch supporter of Seymour and 
 Blair, thus shows that another war will be ' 
 
 commenced if its favorites are elected. 
 Here is what it says : 
 
 " Suppose, now, that the' Democratic party carries 
 the next Presidential election, and installs its Presi- 
 dent in the White House. Must they not, forthwith, 
 proceed to undo tho wrong, and rostore the Constitu- 
 tion? Is this impossible? Why is it so? Tho Uov- 
 erument of tho United States used tho array of tho 
 United States to elevate tho negro to supremacy over 
 the white man, in violation of the Constituti-m. What 
 is there to prevent its being used to put the Scuthern States 
 back to their original condition, of the supremacy o\ the 
 white man over tho negro, in vindication pi the i'eii.«ti 
 tntion? 
 
 " lint it is said that the negro State governments can 
 prohibit tho white population from taking any steps to 
 vindicate their supremacy or the supremacy oftho Con- 
 stitution. They can call on the President of the United 
 States for assistance to enforce their unconstitutional 
 rule, and the President is bound to obey under that 
 clause of the Constitution which says: 'Tho United 
 States shall, on .application of the Legislature or of the 
 Executive, (when the Legislature cannot bo convened,) 
 protect each State against domestic violence.' 
 
 " ' Domestic violence !' But the whito population do 
 not mean to institute 'domestic violence.' They intend 
 to assail no one, pretending or not pretending to au- 
 thority in the Southern States. They mean peaceably 
 to meet in convention, probably recommended by the 
 legislators of their former legitimate Stato govern- 
 ments, and In such convention form a constitution for 
 the government of these States. 
 
 "Dirt it may bo said that the negro governments in 
 the Southern States will not permit tho whito popula- 
 tion to assemble. They will assail them withvioli nee. 
 Suppose that this is done, does it afford any ground for 
 their support by the military authority of tho United 
 States? Clearly not. A Democratic President would 
 most probably /mewer to any application to him by the 
 negro governments for assistance: 'In my opinion your 
 government, in the first place, is unconstitutional and 
 revolutionary, and therefore I decline to recognize your 
 application ; and, in tho second place, you violate tho 
 Constitution of tho United States ; n endeavoring by 
 force to prevent peaceable assemblies by tho people. 
 Such an answer, in our judgment, would secure a peace- 
 ful progress of events. 
 
 '•This can be done by the 4th of March next. Upon 
 each branch of Congress then will devolve the respon- 
 sibility of determining which are tho legitimate gov- 
 ernments of the Southern States, the negro government 
 or tho white man's government. This determination 
 can bo sought and be obtained before any contest is 
 made in the Southern States at all as to these govern- 
 ments. We know how it will be determined in Con- 
 gress. The late protest by tho Democratic members of 
 Congress in the House of Representatives against tho 
 :i of the carpet-baggers from Arkansas, clearly 
 indicates the course oftho House of Representatives 
 under Democratic control." The white men's represent- 
 atives will beadmiited. In the Senate it will bo differ- 
 ent; but a Democratic Execnthe will certainly regard 
 the action oftho House of Representatives as tho con. 
 uthority to determii i his dutj ." 
 
 WHAT THE REBEL GENERALS WHO NO M INATKD 
 SEYMOUR AXD BLAIR UI-i'iA 
 
 There is still further proof, however, ot 
 the treasonable designs of the relv.ls fend 
 copperheads in the speeches of Hi ! r«*bel 
 Governor Vance of North Carolina, tho 
 rebel Governor Perry of South Carolina, tho 
 rebel Colonel Call of Florida, and tho rebel 
 General Wade Hampton of South Carolina, 
 at the late copperhead ratification meeting 
 in New York. They were all in the same 
 treasonable strain, and we will only quote a 
 paragraph from Hampton as a specimen ot 
 the whole. It will be remembered that tho 
 
[rebel General Preston, of Kentucky, nom- 
 inated Blair for Vice President, and that the 
 rebel Generals Wade Hampton and Forrest 
 made haste to second his nomination. In 
 the course of his remarks Wade Hampton 
 Baid, according to the World's report: 
 
 " Wo can have no relief unless the Democratic party 
 willromo out and plodgo itsell that we shall have a 
 fair electioa ; that the, white peoplo of the South shall 
 vole. 1 want \<.\i all to register an oath that when they 
 do vote that their votes shall be counted, and if there 
 is a mnjorih/ of white voles that you ivill place Seymour 
 and lihtir in the While House in spite of all the bayo- 
 nets that shall be brought against them:' 
 
 REUEL ENDORSEMENT OF SEYMOUR AND BLAIR. 
 
 The Mobile Daily Register raises the Sey- 
 mour-Blair ticket to its head with a shout of 
 exultation, and quotes from both candidates 
 to 6hov7 that they are all that any reasonable 
 rebel could desire. Of Seymour, its editor, 
 John W. Forsyth, says: 
 
 "Upon tho questions of the day, and more particularly 
 tho oue which with the South is all overshadowing, Uis 
 position is sufficiently pronounced to bo unmistakablo 
 and unobjectionable. lie has declared emphatically his 
 agreement with tha decision of tho Supremo Court 
 which adjudged tho Reconstruction Acts of Congress 
 'outside of the Constitution and without validity,' is in 
 i,*ror of overthrowing the Reconstruction measures, with 
 tbeir mongrel and illegal governments in the Southern 
 States, by promulgating that decision, which would leave 
 them, without foundation i7i law, and without the moral 
 support of any except the promoters of anarchy and tho 
 'architects of anarchy.' " 
 
 Concerning Frank P. Blair, this Confed- 
 erate article is even more enthusiastic, say- 
 ing: 
 
 "Of the selection of Gen. Frank P. Blair for Vice 
 President nothing need bo said at present. Below, we 
 print a letter defining his position in tho most emphatic 
 laagnagi — a position to which the South can have nopos- 
 sible objection, as it makes the overthrowing of the Re- 
 construction Acts and the restoration of the Southern 
 States to their constitutional rights, the real and only is- 
 sue in this contest." 
 
 WHY THE REBELS ARE FOR SEYMOUR AND BLAIR. 
 
 There is the best possible reason why the 
 r< ;>els should exult over the nomination of 
 Seymour, lie used his whole influence to 
 
 Ol'l'OSE THE WAR SO FAR AS HE COULD SAFELY 
 DO SO. HE DISCOURAGED THE DRAFTING OF 
 
 MEN, wrote to tho President to abandon that 
 policy and leave our soldiers already in the 
 field to be sacrificed, and encouraged the 
 New York, draft riots of July, 1863. The 
 first of that month was the darkest day of 
 our Union. Grant stood before the still do- 
 iiantintrenchments of Vicksburg; Banks was 
 likewise obstructed by the earthworks of 
 Port Hudson. Each of these Generals, in 
 the midst of a hostile region, was then prob- 
 ably confronted by foes on either side nearly 
 if not quite as numerous as his own effective 
 force. Our national resources and credit 
 were at lowest point. On the 4th of July 
 before Seymour had heard of, or would be- 
 lieve, our victories at Gettysburg aud Vicks- 
 
 burg, on that day he appeared before a New 
 York anti-draft mob of his "friends," and 
 indulged in a systematic and malignant at- 
 tack upon the Government. Having grossly 
 misrepresented and defamed those who were 
 trying to save the Union from conspirators 
 in the Free States, who secretly cloaked their 
 treason and did not disguise their sympathy 
 with the rebel cause, Gov. Seymour turned 
 upon the Republicans and thus addressed 
 them: 
 
 " We only ask that you shall give to us that which 
 you claim for yourselves, and that which every free- 
 man, and every man who respects himself, will have, 
 freedom of speech, tho right to exercise all the right* 
 conferred by tho Constitution upon American citizens 
 [Great applause.] Can you safely deny us these? Will 
 you n>t trample upon your own rights if you refuse to 
 listen? Do you not create revolution when you say 
 that your persons may be rightfully seized, your prop- 
 erty confiscated, your homes entered? Are you not ex- 
 posing yourselves, your own interests, to as great a peril 
 as that with which you threaten us? Remember this : 
 that the bloody, and treasonable, and revolutionary doc- 
 trine of public necessity can be proclaimed by a mob ai 
 v>ell as by a government. [Applause.] * 
 
 "When men accept despotism, they may have a choice 
 as to who that despot shall be. The strugglo then will 
 not be, shall we have Constitutional liberty ? But, 
 having accepted tho doctrine that tho Constitution has 
 lost its force, every instinct of personal ambition, every 
 instinct of personal security, will lead men to put them- 
 selves under the protection of thatpowcr which they sup- 
 pose most competent to guard their persons." 
 
 SEYMOUR ASSURES THE MOB OF HIS EFFORTS 
 TO STOP THE DRAFT-. 
 
 Having done in this way all he could to 
 encourage and justify the mob, he told the 
 rioters how earnestly he desired the draft to 
 be stopped, and what measures he had taken 
 to secure that object. He said : 
 
 " Let me assure you that I am your friend. [Uproar- 
 ious cheering.] You have been my friends. [Cries of 
 'Yes, yes,' 'That's so,' 'We are and will bo again.'] Ani 
 now I assure you, my fellow-citizeus, that I am hero to 
 show you a test of my friendship. [Cheers.] I wish to 
 inform you that I have sent tny Adjutant General fo 
 Washington to confer with the authorities there, and 
 to have this draft suspended and stopped. [Vociferous 
 cheers.]' * *'* * I ask you to leave all to me now. 
 and I will see to yonr rights. Wait until my Adjutant 
 roturns from Washington, and you shall be satisfied" 
 
 The "uproarious" and "vociferous" 
 cheers, and the other garnishings of the 
 mob carry their own comment. What could 
 more plainly show that they were the very 
 words the rioters liked to hear ! And all 
 who passed through the streets with their 
 " eyes and ears open" on that dreadful af- 
 ternoon know the interpretation which was 
 placed on that speech. The exultant tone3 
 of the mob and their sympathizers as the? 
 exclaimed : ' ; The Governor is on our side '.' ' 
 "We've got the Governor with us!" "Hur- 
 rah for Seymour!" &c, told their own story. 
 The mob immediately went to work with re- 
 newed confidence and fury. The pastime of 
 negro-killing was pursued with the zest of 
 bloodhounds. Anarchy reigned supreme: 
 
SEYMOUR CONSPIRING WITH ENGLAND FOR IN- 
 TERVENTION. 
 
 Nor was Governor Seymour content to do 
 what he could to destroy the credit of the 
 Government by such speeches as this, and 
 to prevent our depicted ranks from being 
 filled up by draft. lie and his friends were 
 conspiring, in the meantime, to secure the 
 intervention of England and her rea . 
 of the Confederacy ! The history of the 
 times proves this. But here is 2)0sil : 
 dence of his agency in this infamous scheme. 
 The English Blue Book contains a letter 
 from Lord Lyons, in which the latter gives 
 some details of interviews with the Demo- 
 cratic leaders at New York in November, 
 1802. He says he found them " exulting in 
 the crowning success achieved by them in 
 the election of Mr. Seymour as Governor," 
 but within a clay or two they were seriously 
 disheartened at the dismissal of General 
 McClellan. He then speaks as follows of 
 the real purposes of these men, whose chief 
 representative in the nation was Horatio 
 Seymour: 
 
 " Several of the leaders of the Di^nocratic party sought 
 interviews with mo both before and after the arrival of 
 the intelligence of General McClellan's dismissal. The 
 subject uppermost in their minds, vchilo they we're 
 speaking to me, was naturally that of foreign mediation 
 between the North and tha South. Many of them 
 must seem to think that this mediation must come at 
 laBt; but they appeared to be very much afraid of its 
 coming too soon. It was evident that they apprehend* 
 ed that a premature proposal of foreign intervention 
 would afford the Radical party a means of reviving the 
 violent war sjririt, and of thus defeating the peaceful 
 plans of the Conservatives. They appeared to regard 
 the present moment as peculiarly unfavorable for such 
 an offer, and indeed, to hold that it would bo 
 to tho success of any proposal from abroad that it 
 should be deferred until the control of the Executive 
 Government should bo in tho hands of tho Conserva- 
 tive party. 
 
 "I gave no opinion on tho subject. I did not say 
 whether or no I myself thought foreign intervention 
 probablo or advisable; but I listened with attention to 
 tho accounts given me of tho plans anil hopes of the 
 Conservative party. At the bottom I thought 1 perceived 
 a desire to put an end to the war, even at (he 
 losing the Southern States altogether ; hut it was plain 
 that itwas not thought prudent to avow this detire. In- 
 deed, some hints of it, dropped before Vie elections, were 
 so ill received that a strong declaration in the contrary 
 anse uius deemed necessary by the Democratic feai 
 
 SEYMOUR AN ORIGINAL SECESSIONIST, 
 
 There may possibly be some simple-minded 
 souls who believe that Seymour has the abil- 
 ity and disposition to control the revolution- 
 ary and treasonable spirits who are associated 
 with him. But he has neither the one nor 
 the other. He is heart and soid with them, 
 and if he even was not he has neither the cour- 
 age nor honesty to attempt to resist their 
 wicked career. But if there is any Demo- 
 crat honest enough to hope or weak enough 
 to believe any such thing, we call his atten- 
 tion to the proof we have given of his trea- 
 sonable designs. In other public speeches, 
 
 besides those from which we have quoted, 
 he has declared that itwas a question whether 
 " successful coercion " was not as revolu- 
 tionary as sugcessful secession ; and he pro- 
 nounced the war for the Union an "infamous 
 warfare.'' „ A little later, meeting Judge 
 Charles H. Buggies, ho asked the .1 
 "Judge, have you read the Confederate 
 constitution?" " I have ; ami m ts I 
 than OURS." "Then why not obviate the dif- 
 ficulty by simply adopting that [rebel] con- 
 stitution.V Seymour said that the rebel 
 constitution was better than the National 
 Constitution. He proposed to settle the 
 war by having the whole North join the Con- 
 federacy, and adopting the rebel constitu 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. W. H. Russell, the well-known cor- 
 respondent of the London Times, throws 
 some additional and still stronger light upon 
 the question of Mr. Seymour's secession 
 views in the following passage from his pub- 
 lished "Diary North and South." Mr. Rus- 
 sell is describing a dinner party in New York 
 in 18G1 : 
 
 "The occasion offered itself to Mr. Horatio Seymour 
 to give mo his views of the Constitution of tho United 
 Stat B, and by degrees tho theme spread over the table. 
 * * * There was not a man who maintained that. 
 
 eminent had any power to coerce tho peoplo ot 
 a State or to force a State to remain in tho Union or un- 
 der the action of the Federal Government. * * * * 
 Although they admitted tho Southern leaders had med- 
 itated the treason against tho Union years ago,they could 
 not bring themselves to allow their old opponents, tho 
 Republicans, now in power, to disposo of tho armed 
 force of the Union against their brother Democrats in 
 tho Southern States. * * * * Mr. Seymour is a 
 man of compromise, but Lie views go further than 
 thoso which were entertained byhja party two years 
 ago. Although secession would produce revolution, it was, 
 nevertheless, in Ids opinion, a right founded on abstract 
 principles, whieh could scarcely be abrogated with due 
 regard to the original compact." 
 
 HIS DOUBLE-DEALING ON THE GREENBACK 
 
 QUESTION. 
 
 On the 2Cth of June, only ten days before 
 the Copperhead and rebel Convention in 
 New York, he made another speech in the 
 Cooper Institute upon the wickedness and 
 folly of the greenback-Pendleton system, in 
 which he said-, 
 
 •' The amount in savings banks, in this Stato alone, is 
 1,000. This shows that there must be at least 
 $500,000,000 of money thus deposited in all the States. 
 ill a vrago of the deposits in 1867, in the State of New 
 York, was $270. The number of depositors in tho State 
 of New York is about Ave hundred thousand, (4S7,4/0,) 
 and in thecity they number more than one-third of the 
 population. This will make tho number of depositors 
 in tho Union moro than ono million tight hundred 
 thousand. In the Stato of Connecticut, in 1865, one- 
 qu liter of its population had deposits in saying B hanks. 
 it is not usual for men of small property to in/suise their 
 mber of policies given out by all tho Ufa 
 insurance companies are about four hundri d and filty 
 thousand, and the amount of insurance about ono thou- 
 sand two hundred and fifty millions. 'J ho money in 
 Tested is held as a sacred trust, as it is a fund laid aside 
 for their famili«s when tho insurers die. AH of the 
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 are not put in Government bonds, bat they hold an 
 amount wh ch would cripple or ruin them if the bonds 
 aro not paid, or if thoy are paid in debased paper. If 
 wo add the trusts for widows and orphans we find that 
 two million five hundred thousand persons are inter- 
 ested in Government bonds, who aro not capitalists and 
 who nro compulsory owners at prosont prices under the 
 operations of our laws. Thecal is a fear that this state 
 of things will make a clashing of interest between the 
 labor of the East and tho labor of the West. 
 
 * * * -i: * * # * 
 
 " If we make our paper money good by a harsh sys- 
 tem of contraction, we shall cripple the energies of the 
 Country end make bankruptcy and ruin. If, on the 
 Other hand, we debase the currency by unwise issues, 
 wo shaM equally perplex business and destroy sober in- 
 dustry, and make all prices mere matters of gambling, 
 tricks, aad chances. Ihiswillend as it did in the South- 
 ern Confederacy. At the outset tho citizens of Richmond 
 went to in hi ket \\ 1th their money in their vest pockets 
 and brought back their dinners in their baskets; in tho 
 end (bey took their money ia their baskets and took 
 home their dinners in their vest pockets. Blake our 
 money good by an honest and wiso course, and when 
 this is done it will bo worth twenty-five por cent, more 
 than it is now, which will bo equal to an increase of one- 
 quarter in the amount of currency." 
 
 THIS REASON FOR MK. SEYMOUR'S CHANGE. 
 
 Mr. Seymour undoubtedly received some 
 light upon this subject during the Copper- 
 head rebel Convention which hastened his 
 change of views. He discovered that the 
 rebel element in the Convention, which was 
 (he most numerous and powerful portion of 
 it, had resolved that the public debt should 
 be repudiated, and the reason why. They 
 did not think it safe to make the cause for 
 repudiation a part of the platform. But a 
 persistent rebel orator of Maryland is not 
 so cautious. The Baltimore Commercial of 
 duly 17, gives credit to General Thomas F. 
 Bowie, for thus letting us into the motives 
 upon which they act: 
 
 "If there bo auy class of men I would sooner tax, it 
 would be those men who furnished tho means to carry 
 on the most unholy, wicked, and cruel war in history. 
 [Applause.] I would not tax them as property, but I 
 would because I can read vpon the face of these bonds a 
 contribution to an unholy and wicked purpose." 
 
 Seymour's character, by a master-hand — 
 a remarkable pen- picture. 
 No one who has read the foregoing choice 
 selections from the speeches of this prince of 
 demagogues, certainly no one who knows the 
 original, will doubt the wonderful fidelity to 
 nature of the following sketch. It is per- 
 fect. The sketch was drawn by a Utica cor- 
 respondent of the Hartford Post, and the art- 
 ist must have made Mr. Seymour almost a 
 life study. It is a fitting close of the slimy 
 Horatio's record ; 
 
 "Thoy call Seymour up here indifferently 'Oration 
 Seymour,' -Ixath Seymour,' 'Rachel Seymour,' and ' old 
 jellyfish.' Tho Seymour city residenco is a lead-colored 
 brick houee, with wide, double-chimnoyed gables. 
 Here, when bo wishes to catch a new fish, or spring a 
 ou}> d'etat upon anybody, Seymour acts the part of the 
 intriguing host by giving a dinner. -Attacking the 
 man's belly he forkshim in theconscieuce after awhile, 
 and the assassination is complete. Whena blacker con- 
 spiracy is to be broached the conspirators hie to Door- 
 licld, or hido themselves in Bagg's Hotel. The liquor 
 nlorost. the railroad ring, the canal people, are all rep- 
 eseulod. They make the slato and tap the rosy, and 
 
 she Democratic masses of the State never say ' Nay 
 A clammy dictator of the wills and ballots of the Dem 
 ocratic party, he has never raised his eyes from th» 
 contemplation of his own fortunes. Love, children, so- 
 ciety, women, have no joys to him. His education begin 
 and ceased when thoy put a "slato" into his hand. Iris 
 deportment, street manners, courtesy, or whatever it 
 may bo called, is no implanted amiability, but only a 
 part of his political restraint, conned like a lesson to 
 take him to the head of the class. His nature is too 
 feeble to make him eminent even in insincerity. Strong 
 men goon ami carry tho flag of conservatism, and make 
 enemies by their eaxnostnesjij but Seymour ojnly 
 In all thi3 timo of action hois at Pterfield writing i 
 speech, full of sweetened lukewarmncss, and wh n b 
 bold associates havo stu mb] d, c Si sa greed, or nerta d hi- 
 destiny, behold! from bis ambush our placid, philo- 
 sophic statesman comes to gather the sh coves of other 
 men. His speeches arc notable for their Iarjo-likr tact 
 to awaken discontent and promote public i 
 while tlioy suggest no relief, ./or the plajM rcqsoji thai 
 Mr . Seymour has lio opinion whatever, , He-is a tynid 
 lawyer, who gaVe up the profession because be hail 
 neither nimble nor profound qualities to give him abil • 
 ing place amoDg his competitors, nor moral con 
 give nerve for the fair conflicts of ieit and eclu 
 Ho quitted the bar as a sick man quits a jarring cham- 
 ber, not from any delicacy if organization, but from 
 sheer want of pluck and conscious inaptitude, lie is in- 
 tensely selfish, very selfish, earnest for poioer, reckless of 
 fame. Ho worked like a beaver for his nomination, as 
 everybody in Utica knows, and he declined it before it 
 was offered to him. As a President, he will narrow and 
 belittle the destiny of the country, truckle to the chanti- 
 cleer vanity of the. rebel chivalry, make our J\'< 
 character contemptible again, mohutjieritalise tho rebel- 
 lion, and carry us into the last ditch of dishonor. He 
 will bo bully-ragged by his advisers, give Bill jweectand 
 Pete Sweeney all tho Indian contracts, and make the 
 mighty recollection of the conquering armies uiightiei 
 by the impotence and drivel of his succession." 
 
 NOW STUDY THIS PICTURE. 
 
 To this faithless and heartless Copperhead 
 local politician; this promoter and represent- 
 ative of disorder and anarchy, the Republi- 
 can party opposes itself and presents to the 
 people as its Presidential candidate a man 
 not identified, until the rebellion was over- 
 thrown, with old political parties and issues, 
 but only with the great struggle for Union 
 and Government, in which, next to Abraham 
 Lincoln, he took the most conspicuous and 
 honorable part. It presents the General of 
 the Army, UJysscs S. Grant, who served 
 throughout the war, from captain to com- 
 mander-in-chief; who received the sword of 
 Lee : who has commanded obedience and 
 yielded subordination ; whose civic virtues 
 are no less distinguished than his military 
 genius ; who has no dear political dogmas 
 to stand in the way of a reasonable admin 
 istration of the Government, aad no politi- 
 cal hatreds on which to build up and encour- 
 age factions after he shall have .-entered 
 upon his term of office. With steadiness 
 and constancy, and without violence of 
 sion, he has maintained the cause of the 
 country, since tpe war its during the war, 
 and to him may (he people, wearied of their 
 long and expensive contest, look with confi- 
 dence for a wise administration of affairs 
 and a successful guidance out of their diffi- 
 culties and dangers. 
 
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