The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-09
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858.
Keep It Before the People.


in 1860 between the North and South is not
yet ended. Let 1t be remembered that the same
parties which for five years stood opposite to
each other on the field of battle, stand oppo-
site to each other to-day. On the one side is
the great party Of progress and of freedom.
The vast body Of the intelligent and patriotic
people of the North are now as compact in
their array as they were when the thunder Of
rebel cannon could be almost heard in our
city. No where can we see single break in
their ranks. The war Democrats who stood
side by side with us then, stand side by side
with US now. Of these General Dix is fair
type. He was above party when his country
was in danger. When peace returned he
leaned once more towards his old faith, but
to-day he is in the ranks of the opposition to
the Democracy, as firm and bitter as any life
long radical. The conservatives are with us
still. Knowing as they do that the election of
Seymour would inaugurate a type of radi-
oalism which it would be impossible for the
Republican party to meet, they now support
the Chicago nominees; while as to the great
mass of the Republican party it would be diff
foult indeed to find one waverer, one deserter.
Such are the component parts which go to
make up the loyal side Of the battle.
In opposition to US we see the old faces
which were last seen either amid the smoke
of battle or else found lurking in the dark
corners when loyal armies were needed.
There they stand united to-day in person as
they were then in heart. Fernando Wood,
Clement L. Vallandigham, Judge Woodward,
William B. Reed, and their Northern COM
peers; and Lee, Beauregard, Toombs, Cobb,
Stephens, and the Southern traitors. Shoulder
to shoulder they form an undivided rank, as
united and as distinct as the Northern
Unionists.
Between the two the people are called upon
to choose. "Under which King, Bezonia ?"
Shall the tried and loyal men of the nation
be given the control of the nation, which they
have saved, or shall it be intrusted to Rebel
hands Never was such a paradox, such a
rldicule OF common sense presented to an in
telligent people. We are asked not only to
forgive traitors who have done the ir best to
bring national destruction upon us, who have
cost us by their wicked acts half million Of
lives and over two thousand millions of dollars,
who have prostrated our energies, and but for
the boldness and steadfast loyalty of Grant
might have cost US nation. We are asked to
give to these men the power to rule the
nation they nearly ruined; to give them the
absolute charge of the treasury which they
have depleted; to give them the command of
the army which they have attempted to kill.
Not only are they to be given all this,
but they are to have it at the
expense of the men who saved the people and
defeated their reasonable schemes. The victor
of the war is to make way and be sighted in
order that peace-beggar, disunion sympa-
thizer may be given his place. This is too
much for reason Should we read in some
old timed history of such story of war, that
it seemed doubtful whether Rome would elect
Cataline or Cicero, Consul, we would esteem
the people who could hesitate in their determi-
nation as worthy of untold misery. Yet this
is what we are said to be doing to-day. If the
people will but awake to the issue and look it
calmly in the face, we will soon have the
slander that "there is doubt as to the result"
exploded.
The election Of Seymour and Blair would be
a Rebel triumph. 1t would be heralded as such
throughout all the countries of the world. All
would say that the "Lost Cause" was not lost
and that it was triumph of diplomacy which
could not be obtained by force of arms. 1t
would hold us up to the world in the light Of a
deceived credulous people, who after fighting,
and almost dying in an earnest zeal for prin-
oiple, now sell it for mess of pottage-nay
worse than this, there would not even
that poor equivalent be given US. We
should then give the reins into traitors
hands, knowingly and without a re-
ward. make Lee and his friends the ad-
visers of the President of the United States;
give the cabinet to Rebels, the army to
traitors, the treasury to notorious thieves, to
the Cobbs and Floyds ofa past administration.
Let the people remember this. Let it be i'm
pressed on them by word, by writers, and
sentence of the pen, until they realize the
issue. And the moment they do SO we cease to
fear for the result. If a majority so overwhelm-
ing will speak out, treason defeated on the
battlefield, will fly abashed at its own audacity
in supposing that they fear to make the
nation forget its fearful crimes.