The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-10-08
AN tt-DEmOCRET ON DEMOCRACY.
SPEECH OF HON. JOHN SCOTT AT HUN
TINGDoN, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1861
THE SHAM DEMOCRACY SHOWN
UP IN THEIR TRUE COLORS.


Mr.. Scott, on rising to address the meet
ing, was for some minutes unable to pro-
ceed. owing to the enthusiastic and oft re-
peated demonstrations of applause with
which he was greeted by the audience.
He commenced by contrasting the cir
cumstances under which the issues of this
campaign are discussed, with those of the
campaign of 1864. In '64 HoratiO Sey-
mour was President of the Chicago Con-
vention, and with him were Bigler of Pa,
Vallandigham of Ohio, and others, who
declared in their platform that four years
of war had resulted in failure to restore
the Union, and that war should cease.
They further charged that the Government
had broken and violated the Constitution
in every part-in other words, the Chicago
platform, constructed by Seymour and 9TH
ers, was declaration Of war against the
Government, and of peace with the rebels
who were trying to destroy it. While
these men were engaged In forming that
platform, Wade Hampton was waving his
sword at the head of the . Hampton Legion, J"
and perhaps charging the Boys III Blue, .
! destroying as many as possible of those
who were there in defence of the Govern
] utCuO DuChISIJ luC hidII Via IHAOA iiONh
that he would move on his works at Don
elson, was also doing what he could to de-
| stroy the Government. Preston was seek
ing to secure the influence of the Courts
of Europe against us. Here we had Sey
mour. Bigler, and Valandig nam tn,
one side, and Buckner, Preston, and Wade
: Hampton on the other side, all cooperating
!, for the purpose Of dividing the party hav
ing control of the Government, and the
Government itself while Gen. Grant was
fighting the battles of the Wilderness
Hartranft, after his grand achievement Oh
the bloody field of AntiGtam, was engaged
in the trenches about Richmond, anC
Campbell was guarding the line of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to prevent the
rebels of the South from burning youl
home and mine. How in 1868 Sey
mour, Bigler, and Vallandigham were
again in Democratic Convention, as ac
tors, or as moving spirits, to engineer 1t!
nomination and platform Pendleton, i
not there, had his escort there. We saw
them going there but not coming back
The same men who were against Grant II
1864 are against him now. The sam,
men who then sent the Boys in Blue
home to be buried, Hampton and Buckner
and the men who joined hands with then
in the North, are joining hands now IL
opposition to Gen. Grant. In 1864 the
Democrats of the North said every measure
taken by the Government was unconstltu
tional, and thus sought to cripple its ener
gies while the rebels in the field were de
nying the right of the Government to ex
ert its. control over them.
When the Democratic party of thu
North, and the rebel element of the Soutl
came together, could anything else come
of it than what did One plank of the
platform attacking the finances of the Gov
ernment, and the other attacking the pow
er of the Government to govern the South
ern States; this was Wade Hampton
platform, the result of coalition Of tn
two elements North and South Sherman
Knocked the bottom out of one plank Q
the old platform, while the eletions in Vel
mont and Maine Knocked the balance int
splinters that were used to light the bon
l fires of freedom from Maine to Californi;
Shortly after the New York platform wa
; adopted, Wade Hampton made a speech a
Baltimore in which it was asserted tha
the rebels, by the success of that platform
would gain what they had lost, but by an
by came the Vermont followed by tn
Maine election, and the entire platform
pretty near in splinters now, the last col
J test of the Democratic party North, allie
: with the rebels South.
In the Chicago Convention, there wer
some rebels, such as Brown, of Georgi;
3 but the difference is that they were repent
ant rebels If the whole South, Wad
, Hampton and all, could get together in on
: great camp-meeting, and sing the first tw
: verses of that familiar hymn, sEShow pit
Lord, oh Lord forgive" we should joi
: them in such love-feast as was nevt
,. witnessed; we would kill the fatted calf
learuest, and some of us would go in for tt
music and dancing.
Tho pational debt was sDoken of ne