Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-10-03
EseIsSl Democracy.

The entire rebel population of the
South is with the Democratic party The
rebels are at least ninetenth CT the entire
white population. These rebels make up
about one.third of the entire Democratic
party. They were represented at New York
by the same men who led them in the field.
They were received with respect and consi-
dcratlon, and even deferred to by their
Northern friends. There was entire unani-
nifty between them and the other delegates,
and they even dictated the platform in some
particulars.
Governor Perry, of South Carolina, SAYS :
There was no difference of opinion on any
subject between the northern and southern
delegates
They are united as band of patriots"
"The southern delegates determined to be
retlcent in the Convention, and take no
prominent part in the proceedings; while
northern delegates said to tllem on the sub
Ject cf your peculiar grierance and expressions,
draD your o1cn platform. and make IL as strong
as yoU please, and ace uW endorse it,"
General Thomas f. Bowie. the leading
Democrat in Maryland, said in his Baltim ore
speech:
''If there be any class Of men would Soon
er tax, it would be those men who furnished
the means to carry on the most unholy
wicked and cruel war in history. would
not tax them rs property. but would because
can read upon the face Of these bonds n con-
triduti0n to an uahoIy and nicSea purpose"
The Mobile Tribune, in urging its readers
to ratify the New York nominations, said
Friends Fellow citizens of Mobile
Comrades of the Queen City of the Gulf
Let us make one more effort in behalf of our
rights and Liberties. II ,ee are successtW IL,
tile approaching contest, zee shall regain all that
ace lost in the Lest Cause Once more to the
| breach thcn--yet, once more And when
the cloud shall have cleared away from the
/ flaming field, our flag the grand old Demo
cratic hag-will be seen in all its glory, and
streaming like the thunder cloud agains,
the wind. Let us then rally once more
around the dear old flag, which we have
! followed so often to honor and victory. Let
us plant our standard in the midst of the
| field, and let us once more raise the ,car cry
he who doubts is damned he who dallies
! is bastard"
At Little Rock, Arkansas, Mr.. C. S. Cam
eron, delegate to the New York Conven
I ton, declared;
"In sixty DAYS from the adjournment o
the Convention five hundred thousand sol
diers would he organized into companies
regiments, brigades, and army corps, ready
if need be. to march to Washington. We
send three votes into the Electoral College
and thrce Representatives to Congress, dnC
If Ben. Wade does not count our TOte, thcl
comes the military organization, with Gen
Socum atits head, all armed and equipped
The Pine Bluff (Ark.) VindicatOr ex
claims:
THE SPIRIT OF WILKES BooTH STILL
LIVES, thank God Therefore, take courage
~ 4
THE GREAT CAUSE is the motto of every tru,
mani"
The Mobile Tribune asserts:
"The great Democratic party will rise il
its might and majesty and pulverize ant
purge the Congress, Just as Cromwell purg
ed the long Parliament The signs of th
times are pregnant with resistance to Radi
cal tyranny, and the dagger Of Brutus may
aid in accomplishing our redemption from
Radical rule, ruin and usurpation."
At meeting in Richmond, Mr.. Henry A
Wise said:
"He did not care for the platform. l
told a lie in its first resolution. 1t said sece
sion was dead; that was not so ; secession ,oa
more alice than ocer He supported the nom
inees, aud especially Blair, because he hat
declared that he wOuld assume military Poscer.
Said the Georgia rebel, Toombs, in
speech ratifying the nominations, at Atlanta
the other day:
II will tell you another fact, which i
enough for this time, that as the late ,ca
lcdS produced By tie defeated Democratic part
in 1860, we shall never have peace until
is restored in 1861
Admiral Semmes, commander OF the rebe
privateer Alabama, in a speech at Demo
cratic meeting at Mobile, said:
"He had always been Democrats he ha
fought in the war as Democrat; that H.
had once despaired of republican govern
ment in this country, but now there was
light in the East which bid them hope. H
had drawn his sword against the old fla
because he was Democrat and it had cease
to wave over free and constitutional cour
try"
"He concluded with the remark that n
here renewed his adhesion to that nag, Prt
ciaed it could wave over a government pre-
sided over by such constitutional Democrat
as Horatio Seymour and Frank Z. Blair
AN indignant Irisbman of Cleveland, Nj
David Barry, publishes a card in the Ledde
) of which we annex the closing paragraph
"But drunk or sober, joking or in earnes
Mr.. Frank Blair will find out to his cos
that the St. Louis "Fnnegan" speech wi
prove the sorest thorn in his side when tn
inal returns come to be footed up As a
Irshman | here declare that l would q
soon vote for that arch traitor JEFF. Davis
or Benjamin Disraeli of England, as for
man who could 50 heartlessly trit1e with tb
most cherished feelings of our race; an
gentlemen, | will 60 still further, and sa
7 that the lrishman who can tamely swaiio'
, down such an insult to his country and he
) heroic efforts to be free, without resentin
il at the ballot box next November, is dest
tute Of all public spirit, dead to'the claim