Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-10-19
The Mccniiory Speech Of Franz
BFUir.

As will be noticed by the following
account by telegraph of Frank Blair's
speech, made at st. Louis, on the 10th,
the notorious and vile politician il upon
the war path still. 1t is very remark
able and extraordinary speech to be
made by any one at any time but it is
the more remarkable as coming from
one of the two principal candidates of
the Democracy upon the eve of our po-
ltical elections, and the greatest signifi
cance should be attached to the Ian
guage:
General f. Blair, IT,, arrived at st.
Louis from Cincinnati on the 10th, and
addressed some 5000 people for half an
hour from the piazza of his residence.
He thanked them for the ovation eX-
tended to him by his old friends. He
came before them not dismayed or dis
couraged. Abiding to the recent Rad
zeal victories, he regarded them as pre-
cursors of the defeat of the party. The
Democracy would win. They had
everything at stake i'm this struggle, and
if they failed the Republic would fall
with them. a military dictatorship
would be established Grant would
never leave the Presidential mansion
alive! He announced that he now eX-
pected to continue to be the candidate
for Vice President, and was ready to
make any sacrifice if the people de-
manded it.
The audience checred him with enthu-
siasm.
Frank Blair, Invested of the prestige
which he enjoys as n candidate for the
Vice-Presidency of the United States
upon the Democratic ticket, would be of
little account among men. He has been
handled upon the knees of the Govern
ment so long because he is n Blair that
if a stick of candy is to be distributed in
the great American family at the pres
cnt time, he feels insutcd if he is not to
get the whole of it. He exhibits the
temper of spoiled child, and swears
that the nursery furniture shall be
smashed up generally and the life of the
head of the family shall be taken if he
can't be at the head of it himself. He
Is poor, uncomfortable, off-shoot of
stock reared at the expense of the Treas
ury of the United States.
The greatest mistake that Abraham
Lincoln made during his admnistra-
ton was in noticing or promoting this
man above the ordinary rank and file Of
the army in order to please the Blairs.
Fremont was forced to retire from the
West and the army, to give Frank a sit
uatiOn. He was Il General in the Union
army, but is there Il soldier of the rank
and file who served under him and has
Outlived the war, that has ever been
heard to speak well Of him 1t is safe
20 say that such men are fewer than
ships of the line on Fairfield Pond.
Frank Blair is an illibcral, undemo-
cratic, vain and naughty specimen of a
man, and yet his Montgomery
Blair-thinks his name should stand
first on the Democratic ticket. A mod
est man is his brother Montgomery,
very.
But the only Importance whichFra
Blair's speech is entitled to- arises from
the fact that he is the second best man
of the Democratic party of the United
States. "Alluding TO the recent Radi-
cal victories, he regarded them as the
precursors of the defeat of that party
How so? He answers by saying that,
if elected, " Grant would never leave
the Presidential mansion alive"
The hand of the assassin can't over
throw the Republicon Marty of tbo
United States. Wilkes Booth tried that,
but the blood of the martyrs proved to
be the seed of the church. If Seymour
and Blair are elected, then an army of
men are to be marched South to over
throw the State Governments, if we are
to believe Blair's letter which secured
him his nomination. In any event.
Frank Blair will have violence follow
the elections. This is the same spirit
which was manifested by the Southern
Democrats in the canvass of 1860, when
Lincoln was elected, and the same
threats were then thrown out by them.
Have we made no progress in the es-
Enlistment of consti utional liberty :?
Must we again be compelled to resort to
arms to settle the question of the right
of the majority to rule? Can Demo
cratic form of Government exist though
Frank Blair is not at the head of it =?