The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-18
Do itifyOu Dare !

and moving, and making speeohes ION the
Blair and Seymour sde) who think that tne
people are to be scared into the reJec'lon VI
Grant and Colfax. some Of the threats wnloh
reach MS are hardly of q nature to awaken the
intensest public apprehensiOn--that, for in
stance of Wade Hampton who vows and de-
olares that il Grant is elected, the places
which now know Hampton shall know him no
more forever We are not to vote for the
man Of our choice, because II we do Hampton
will leave the country'--elope, evade,
evacuate Perhaps there may be here and
there a patriot who would not regard this
slight diminution of our population as tre-
mendous and insuperable calamity; but the
minatory hint is thrown out as II the volun-
tary exile of Wade Hampton would break all
our hearts. Yet this is only one of large
collection of misfortunes with which we are
menaced, and from which only the
election Of Frank Blair to the Vice
Presidency can save us. Albert Pike roars
dreadful predictions at one end OF the land
and Mr.. Pendleton bleats plaintive responses
at the other. We are told, although the
Rebel banner is buried that great numbers of
ardent spirits know well the place of its
sepulchre, and upon the slightest provocation
are ready to rally to its resurrection. We are
to be shaken to our inmost souls by the pros
pect of some dim but dreadful catastrophe
following hard upon a Republican victory.
We are to be shocked into surrender. We
are to succumb to the bugbear of another and
q bloodier rebellion. Here, for instance, is
the Louisville Journal asking, 'if the radicals
should triumph in November, il the White
people of the South would quietly submit"
and giving it as it's opinion that they most
certainly would not. 'Tbe thought" says
this fiery sheet, sis preposterous. 1t is
impious. 1t is monstrous." "A radical
victory" it wildly cries, sis war; 1t is
war to whose ravages and terrors imagina-
nd
son, SO lucidly, or rather 80 luridly, set forth
by this Blair-and. Seymour editor, plain,
honest man in New York or New England,
who has deliberately made up his mind that
duty requires him to vote for Grant; who,
apart from these threats, thinks Republican
administration demanded by the exigencies OF
the Union; whose conscience and intellect
upon this point coincide, is to revise his deoi-
sion, and abdicate his manhood, and surrender
his right of private judgment and, crawling
trembling craven to the polls, is to beg that
his voice and vote may be registered for one
man whose political integrity he doubts, and
for another man whose personal character he
despises If Mr.. Pepdleton, who has lately
been experimenting upon the terrors of the
East, fancies that the Republicans of Maine
and Connecticut are such white-livered animals
as this, he thinks more uDjustly of them than
they think justly and Indignantly of him.
This Chinese warfare-the horrible mask and
the resounding howl-makes the back-stab-
bipgs and the midnight burnings of the Ku-
Klux Klan appear mildly respectable and COM
paratively manly.
Two things the missionary from the West
to the East is certain will follow the election
of Grant-universal bloodsbed and general
bankruptcy. We pass over for the present
his financial forebodings; but did Mr.. Pendle
ton think to scare the stout hearts of the
Maine backwoodsmen, who know the rotten
lumber of a platform when they see it, by
crying out that Republican victory would be
the destruction and desolation of the land ?
Did he so under estimate the shrewd common
sense of the Connecticut Republicans, as to
dream that they could be turned from their
purpose by his prophetic and vociferous elocu-
tion by his rhetoric of ruin and his dsclama-
tion of despairi "Do you believe" cried Mr..
Pendletop, "that it is possible to maintain
peace and Union if you subjugats in these ten
States this Caucasian race of ours to be ruled
by these british slavesY' Now, in the first
place, these voting bugbears of Mr.. Pendleton
are not "slaves," but are free as he is
himself; and in the second place,
South are solemnly and passionately in
voking these "brutish slaves" to vote
for the candidates of the New York Conven-
tion, and declaring that the votes OF the freed
men will be and should be so cast. If these
confident predictions are fulfilled, we suppose
that Mr.. Pendet0n's beasts Will all be changed
into perfect beauties This thought probably
and providentially occurred to most of the
gentleman's Hartford auditors, and prevented
them from swooning with apprehensions upon
the spot, without waiting for the veridcaton
of the wizards awful words. So he went at
them again with something little more NOV
ing and melancholy still. "The Southern
men," he said, 'are selfpossessed, self
reliant, and a brave people. Tread upon
them, and they will watch their opportunity
and strike you" Now, threading upon them, -
in this speech, cannot possibly mean anything
except vOting for Grant and Colfax. The
figure suggests the rattlesnake, and it also
suggests the Copperhead. Walk lightly, men
of Connecticut Step gingerly, or the rep
tile of secession will have you in his veno-
nous coil Vote fer Blair and Seymour, OF
rebellion will return with seventy times seven
thousand devils to drink the lite-blood and to
increase the taxes of Connecticut Perhaps
there were those who heard the walls of this
Western jeremiah who remembered the blood
of Connecticut already spilled, and the taxes
already levied which Connecticut has paid OIL
is sill paying. They might have laughed al
Mr.. Pendleton's depression of spirits; aud at
any rate they would be pretty sure to laugh
at the texts of Scripture and the theological
illustrations with which the pious gentleman
thought it necessary to garnish speech made
to Connecticut Puritans, the despised o
Southern chivalry They might hav'
answered:-'If the ell ":ion of Grant and Col
fax is to bring a new rebellion, let it come =
France and the Peace OF Europe.
From the ~ Y. Herald.
Day after day our cable and mail new
renders ii more and more difficult to be ieve il