Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-09-18
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HON. HORATI0 SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Gen. FRANCIS P, BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.

The cry upon which the Radicals OF the
North harp most is that the Southern people
are still s'rebellious." They would make
oil believe that we are ready to take up arms
at the slightest provocation. That, IN the
election of Seymour and Blair, the opportu-
nifty will be offered and embraced by us to
carry out our most cherished hopes. That
we will then re-inaugurate the rebellion"
and do divers things, terrible, on paper, to
Northern pacifers, Of the Grant school,
All this is for buncombe. No people or par
ty understand better than the Radicals the
state Of affairs in the South. They know
that, with the fall of the Confederacy, the
South became penniless and impoverished
land. They know that, with the loss of Ia
Dor and property, consequent diminishing
and even extensive failure of crops, total
demolition of a circulating medium and enor
NOUS burdens of taxation heaped upon her,
the South has not and will not have dollar
to spare towards another rebellion for
years to come. They know equally we'll that
our bravest and our best, our General officers
and our privates. returned home, not to stir
up strife anew, but to engage in some honest
calling whereby they might secure liveli-
hood to those dependent on them, and right
nobly have they accomplished their purpose.
They know that our people at present are
not animated with the passions Of the past,
else they would send, bowling, from our midst
such men as Wells, Underwood, Holden and
the whole host Of "scalawags" and "carpet-
baggers," whose sole business it is to hui
initiate and Cypress fallen foe. We repeat,
that not even the fear of the defamation Of
the whites of the South would prevent them
from hurting from their midst the whole
''carpet-bag" and "scalawag" tribe, were
they in the same humor as from 1861 to
1865. The very fact, therefore, that these
pests Of community are allowed to hold their
soft places in peace, and devote their ener-
gies and TIME to further Cypress and humili.
on the part Of the SOUTH T lis also The The
Radicals understand equally we'll, but they
want capital for the Presidential campaign
This they must have or they are defeated
To secure it. they will, between this time
and November, through their emissaries,
their scalawag and carpet-bag pets, endeavor
further to ALLEVIATE the white and colored peo-
pie Of the south. If they can incite strife
between them from which they can raise the
cry that the whites are beginning their OPP
preston Of the blacks it will suit their pur-
poses and they will not hesitate to do it. In
fact, they will go further, if possible, and
place few murders and riots, similar to the
one they melted in New Orleans, in the cat
alogue of complaints agains, the South, which
they must have to bolster the waning chan
ces of their candidates in the North
We therefore caution all to forbearance
in many things which will be done express
ly to stir up strife. The quiet which has
existed for SO long time is telling against
the Radicals Its continuance is esur to
defeat the election Of Grant and Colfax and
relieve the country from the burdens, now
so heavily. weighing down each and every
portion of it.
With such consummation in view, who
would not restrain the passions which viii! be
sought to be aroused from this time till the
Presidential election! Be, therefore, fore
warned and fore-armed against all the wiles
Of Radcalism, and the result will be eminent
ly satisfactory to every patriot in the land.