The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-06
POLITICAL.

in alludiug to the ex-Confederate Generals in
his Dayton, Ohio, speech last week, Vallandig-
ham said:-"We know these men only as our
friends, fellow-citzens. and brothers; the de.
scendants OF the Washingtons, the Lees, the
Hamptons the Sumters, the Marions the
PrestoDs, the Haynes, the Laurens, and others,
who, side by side, stood with the Hancocks, the
Adamses, the Starks, the Putnams, the Gates,
and the Waynes Of the North in the heroic
Revolutionary struggle of 76, or with their sons
and gtandsons in the later conflict OF 1872, or
the Mexican war of 1846-Americans all, whose
fame Is the patrimony of the whole country"
"A Nashville letter TO the Cincinnati Gazette
has this:--It Ia not too much TO say that the
Rebel Democracy believed the Klan sufficiently.
powerful TO enable them to carry tho Presi-
dental election, to oyerturn the present State
government of Tennessee, and fully to recover
power. The leading ex-hebels OF the state, had
until recently, held alOOf from politics; but the
appearance of N. b. Forrest and large mum.
Der of persons of that class, IN the Democratic
State Convention, held here last month, was
ominous OF evil. Ever since that Convention
the depredatons OF the Ku.Hlux have been
more frequent and intolerable
The platform adopted by the Democratic
Nntioral Convention reads that Eve declare
that the reconstruction acts of Congress are
unconstitutional revolutionary, and void.n
''That' says Wade Hampton, twas my plank in
the platform. ! yield to no one in devotion to
our lost cause"
that the Democratic Executive Committee Of
Ohio have assessed n contribution of ten Ceuts
head on each Democratic voter in the State to
carry on the campaign. The County Commit
tees are to collect II through the agency of the
subcommittee.
The Atlanta (Ga. Era says:-"Hon. Joshua
Hill, Senator elect, is one of the most stauuCh
and reliable Republicans in the United States,
warm aud devoted friend OF General Grant,
and enjoys the unbounded confidence of that
illustriOus soldier"
Judge Aldrich, who had the honor Of
Demoorsuc reception in Charleston, few days
ago, said:-"This is grand contest in which we
are engaged; contest for constitutional liberty,
and it was the contest in which we have been
engaged sipce 1861"
The Irjsh Republic says:-"Irshmen in
American politics must work from the American
standpoint. and remember that it is their Cti-
zenship that entities them to vote and shout,
and not the fact Of their being born in Ireandn
1T has been determined by the Indiana Re-
publican state Central Committee to hold
monster state Republican mass meeting at In
dianaDohs on or about the 18th of August.
Where is Seymours promised letter of ac-
acceptance? We have heard from the Blair
family. They joyfully accept. What is the
matter with Horatio?
-Thele IS only one difference between Sey-
mour and Blair. Seymour favored the last re-
belllon, while Blair favors the next rebellion.
"A South Carolina paper compares Blair to
John Of Gaunt. He can make demi-John look
Gaunt in Il very short time.
The Illinois state Register is informed that
Hon. George H. Pendleton will make five or six
speeches in Illinois during the month of August.