Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-08-19
Smoke too Late.

The Charleston Is. C) Mercury Of the 18th
inst, alarmed at the effect upon the North of
the hearty endorsement of the Democratic
platform and candidates by Southern rebels,
sounds the following note of caution -
oPriyao adviccs from our most strenuous friends OF
the North request that should protest against the i'm
prudent expressions that have escaped southern
speakers since the adjournment Of the National Demo
cratic Convention II Represented 10 us that great in
Jury IL accruing TO the cause nom such imprudcnce
We therefore, shall make apologies for asking the at
teuton Of our public speakers to theaot What want
Just now to win. Let keep powder for that pur
pose Too much u at stake 10 waste II now In fer Dc
jon Let Us have our pyrotochnics next March"
This warning comes too late, The rebel
shout Of triumph has gone out through all
the land, and, as the old proyerb has it, 60 the
word once spoken cannot be recalled Even
the Mercury cannot expungo its own record,
made Immediately after the Democratic Con-
vention 1t then said -
"The platform Of the Democratic party Is square up
on the letter Of Cen Blair and Gen Blars letter is the
Legitimate and actual expounding Of the platform. II
will avail little to deny 49, North South, East or West
ANY palaton Of the fact Il poryerson Of the TACT II
is morc-t Is ll-mth To the body Of the convention
II an attempted deception Of the voters ut the polls"
Here, then, was the open ayowal that the
Democratic platform means revolution. --
Blair's letter clearly says that the reconstruct.
ed governments of the Southern States should
be dispersed by the army.
Nor is the Mercury alone. Wade IIamp.
ton, who is stumping the South for Seymour
and Blair, claims that he is perfectly con
sistont now with his efforts during the war ai
general in the Confederate army. IIeai
him:
! 81 yield 10 none n devotion t. that lost cause fo
which we fought Never shall admit that tho IL
self niod and that tho principles which gave It li6
we're wrong Never shall brand the mon who uphold
It so nobly as " rebels" or traitors"
Howell Cobb, Mt Democratic ratification
meeting at Atlanta, used the following blood
thirsty language, which was enthusiastically
appaudcd
come to-day present candidates and invite ever!
good and true In Georgia 10 join with me Ia thu
good work. Come--ifyou have gone astry, come back
The doors are wide open wide enough broad enough Il
| receive every NhNt IN hNoiElaf uultHN
discover him coming to you creeping and crawling un
der the Chicago platform. Upon them there should be nj
mercy. They have dishonored themselves and sought u
dishonor you Anaihematise them. Driue them from n
pate Of sociai and political sociefy.n
In closing he thus distinctly alludes to tn,
renewal of the war
"Young men, in whose veins the rcd blood OF yout
runs so quickly let the aror your tcmpcranents tn
| mil of hpart4. all ft.
old State the State of your fnthes that holds reserv
honors innumcrahlc FOR you and for them come Com
and ALL aud let snatch the old banner from III
dust gre again to the br,ese, and needs be, to the 90
Of battles, and strike honest blow for eonsttu
tional liberty"
Robert Toombs, who has not yet " Gale
the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill, recent
ly said in a speech at Atlanta
"Thcsc socallod Governors and Legislatures whic
have been established In midst shall at once h
made vacant. The Convention Of New York appointed
Frank Blair especially to Gust them"
The Vicksburgh (Nliss.) Times, for an ex
ample says:
COLLECTION Is made down this way to the indorsemon
Of the Blair letter, by few timd people the
prudence and yet It was this identical letter Of Fnnl
Blair to his friend COL Broadhead that secured the Mis-
souri, hero the nomination for Vice President. We wan
Just such ammunition as Frank Blair uses"
The Meridian Miss Mercury, with tn,
Seymour and Blair colors at the head of it
columns in flaming article in their behalf
excaims
"Wlth the skull and cross-bonos of the lost cause
before us will that this Is white mans COVER
erumcnt W. must make ne negro understand III
when hsd him in oejeet bondage, and maxi
him feel that when iorbearance to be virtue h'
has aroused power that will control him destroy
| him"
We might fill our paper with like extracts
all tending to prove beyond question that tn
hopes of the lost cause hang entirely upo
the success Of the Democratic party in tn
present campaign; and that loyal men nigh
as well have joined the confederate host il
time of war as to aid the iorlorn hope in tim
of peace. Can any one be deceived