The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-08-12
DEMOCRACY Ms,ys REVOLUTION,


IfDemocracy does not mean Hevo-
luton, what does it mean q? All efforts
to cloud the canvass by introducing
new issues have failed. The lines of
demal cation are drawn with wonderful
distinctness. Financial questions, tax
alton and tariffs foreign and domestic
economy, are subsidiary. There will
be no serious trouble about paying the
debt, when the time comes to pay it.
We can trust the common sense of the
country for that. Tariffs and taxation
will right themselves in obedience to
the immutahle laws of supply and de-
mand. The issue that transcends and
absorbs all these is sinply this Shall
,cc hare Recoiutioa' A certain poll
icy has been adopted. Whatever may
be said about reconstruction whatev-
er may he lis merits or dement's, it is
now the supreme law OF the land.
The FourtecnIh Article places the
whole question OF Reconstruction above
tire reach OF any political party.
Even give the Democracy their full
est triumph. Suppose it elects MIR.
Seymour and a majority Of the House,
the Senate is Radical, and strong
enough to veto any attempt 10 amend
or destroy the work Of Congress. The
whole power of the Democratic party
could not take the bar lrom single
Rebel, or place bar upon n single
negro. Nay, even in the small mat
ter Of the disprnsation OF oliicl, n
Democratic President woujl b. pow
erless. lie could not touch a Radical
postmaster without the consent Of
Radical Senate. lie would be merely
the minister of laws which he disap
proved. and the Servant of II Seuate
that did not trust him. How then
could the election of seymour conduce
to the advantage Of the Democratic
party? How could the New Admin
istration carry out the wishes of its
constituents? Simply By Rcroiution.
The Democratic party understands
this, and to gain power is prepare to
take the responsibility of revolution,
even unto war. Remembcr the deli
ance of Frank Blair, which gave him
the unanimous vote of the Democrat.
ic Convention. He knew the spirit
to which he appealed. As Il Union
sol,llcr and a renegade from the Union
party, he could speak with more
irankness and energy than Il Copper
head like ValMndigham, or Il seces-
sionist like Hampton. "Gentleman,"
he said, 81 know what you want. |
know the spirit that moves you. You
purpose revolution. You would like
to see every carpet bagser driven out
Of the SouAh--cvery negro remanled
to Slavery, every traitor to the South
banishcd from his home. Make me
Vice President, and ifit should please
God to put me in the Presidency |
will cuteyourwork. Ascommand-
der-in-chicf Of the army and navy,
you can rely upon my fidelity and
courage. | will issue proclamation
sustaining the Constitution and order
ing the carpet bag Government to dis
perse. In sixty days Warmoth, Bull
lock and Reed would be seeking shell
ter in Canada, and the nigger legsla-
tors would return TO the shovel and
the hoe" This is the bid which Gen.
Blair made. The Democracy accept
ed it, and he ratified the acceptance
by an additional letter, in which he
repeated his promise.
This is the pledge of Gen. Blair ;
let us see what his followers think.
The cowarlly World gives due promi-
nence to the eloluence of Isaiah Ryn-
/. ,lers and Richard OGorman, but it is
silent about Toombs and Cobb and
Hill and Hampton. 1t is not for Us
dwell upon this conspicuous dishones-
, ty in journalism, this ignoring Of the
ablcst and most honored leaders of the
Democratic party. Gen. Hampton
was better treated here during the
Convention. Then he was an oracle.
lie was met, he says, with "cnr,liality
and good will" The leaders, howev-
er, declared, according to Gen. llamp-
ton, "their willingness to give US (the
Rebels) everything we coull desire,
bat they begged us 10 remember that
they had a great fight to make at the
North, and they therefore besonsht
us not to load the platform with a
weigh that they could not carry
against the prcdjudices which they
had to encounter. Help them once to
gain the po@er and then they 'coutd do
their utmost 10 relieve the Southern States
and restore to US The Union and the
Constitution as il had existed before the
Var" This is the promise which
Mr.. Hampton received, and he added
amid the cheers of mob of Charles
ton Rebels TINT it, sis policy that
suits us, when the great Democratic
party is picdged to the declaration that
The Reconstruction acts are uncoasttu-
tional, revolutionary, and uoid. Espec-
tally vhen erery member Of the party,
and The aonmest are from the North, is
ready to take IL up and carry ii out" I"
Here, then, is EVIDENCE that the scheme
of Gen. Blair, the revolutionary
scheme to destroy the "carpet-bay gov
, ernmen's, even by military force was
planned by Democratic leaders and the
secession Generals. General Hamp-
ton tells us there was no dissent. He
found every member of the party
pledged to it, (Mr. Seymour and ally,
the "warmcst" being from the North, 2