The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-08-06
Revival of the Rebel Spirit in
the South.

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Revival of the Rebel Spirit in
the South.
The action ofthe so called Dom
ocratic National Convention has
had an almost magical effect in re-
storing vitality to the seemingly
torpid treason of the South. Many
Of tho most pronounced rebels Of
the war, Confederate Generals,
Governors and Legislators, were
prominent and active members of
that Convention. General Wade
Hampton, to this day an avowcd
and unsubducd rebel. boasted, in
in his speech at the Charleston Sey.I
mour and Blair ratification mect-
ing, that he himself, as member
of tho Committee on Resolutions,
procured the insertion Of the clause
declaring the reconstruction acts TO
be " usurpation and unconstitu-
tional, revolutionary and void"
The same shameless traitor, who is
living but by the clemency of the
Government at whose life no has
been constantly stabbing for seven.
years, declared, in effect, at q
similar meeting in New York just
after tho close Of the Convention,
that his party must scize tho polls
in the South, and make sure Of a
prepondorance Of white rebel votes,
and he further said:
VI want you all 10 register an
oath that when they do vote their
vote shall be counted, and if there is
a majority Of white votes, that you
will place Seymour and Blair in
the White House in spile Of all the
bayonets that shall bo brought
against them"
Frank Blair had previously said,
in the letter which he wrote for
the Convention, and which procu-
red for him It's nomination for Vice
Prefident:
"Wo must have q President who
will execute the will OF tho people
by trahpling into dust the usurp-
ations Of Congress, known as tho
reconstruction acts"
By the nomination Of Blair the
Democratic Convention fully on
dorsed the idea Of overturning by
violence everything that Congress
has accomplished in the way OF re-.
construction--and this it is which
hrs fred anew the Southern heart,
and made the country familiar once
more with the old language of ar.
rogant treason 80 rifo in tho Pres
idential campaign Of 1860. Those
who led in the rebellion have bold =.
~ thrown off their pretenco that
that they had accepted tho situ.
alton; that they gave up their
cause as ''lost cause" the sword
having decided it against them,
and that they were going to sub
nit, as peaceable citizens, to the de-
cree by which loyalty had been
elevated over treason. They now
hope for the restoration OF things
TO their identical position before
the rebellion, in the triumph Of the
Democratic party. They think
they SEQ in the near future South
ern domination in tho national
councils renewed, the secession
principle acknowledged and slave.
holding aristccracy again in the
full swing of unmolosted dominion
in their States. The evidence that
they are after the re-.establishment
Of slavery is too palpable to be ig-
norcd by any sane man.
Ex. rebel Governor Vance, of N,
Carolina, n delegate to the New
York Convention, in speech made
at Richmond while on his way
homo, declared himself still ga
rcbol," and argued at length that
"ghd the COnfederdey fought for
could be pon by the election Of Sey.
mOr and Blair
Ex-Governor Wisc, of Virginia,
too, another hoary traitor and OK
rcbel General, said in a speech at
the same place after his return from
tho Convention:
He did not caro- for tho plat
form, 1t told lio in its first resolu
ton, II said secession wdS dead
that mdS not so; secession pdS more
dliue than euer. Io supported the
nominees, and especially Blair, be.
cause he had declared that he
would assume military power"
Tho meaning of this is that tho
candidates being acceptable to the
rebels, tho platform was Of no &C
count at all.
Tho rebels also had ratification