Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ihc Pirate Scnimcs' EndOrst mcmt
Of Seymour and Blair.

Raphael Semmes was the first speaker at
the Democratic meeting in Mobile, Ala, on
Monday evening, to ratify the nomination of
Seymour and Blair. He said that he was
not prepared to make a speech The notice
of the meeting first caught his eye at his
country place, and it induced him to come
to the city and rejoice over the action of the
great and glorious Democratic Party. Sub
sequent to the war, when u great many of
the Southern Politicians were willing to
compromise their principles for their love of
office, he dcspaired of the country and kept
himself aloof from politics. lie had been a
Democrat all his life-before the war, during
the war, and since the war-and fought the
war on the principles ofDemocracy, believing
that the grand old Constitution which EN-
bodied these principles was about to be de-
stroycd. Continuing he said
There is really but one grand issue in this
! contest, and that is the restoration of these
States to their proper places in the Union
with all their rights and privileges unim
| paired. This issue will have the effect to
drive from our midst the hordcs of adven.
turcrs who have swarmed upon US like vul-
lures, to eat up the substance of the people
This issue will again reduce the negro to Il
subordinate position as the inferior race,
and restore the white man to the govern
mcnt which belongs to him. When YOU
! have settled this issue it will be time enough
| to talk about policy. 1t will be time enough
to rid ourselves of tho leprOus army which
has been battening upon the wealth of the
South. 1t will be time enough to settle
questions of currency. 1t will be time enough
to destroy the tariff anG taxation under
which the nation has been groaning. And
! now, fellow-citizens, have come here to
InIlnr hat I
| heart and soul, to the old flag, pr0Cided we
resen tative of the principles of the Constitu-
ton, which we will be able to effect by the
election OF Seymour and Blair.
HOW THE Ex-REBELs TALKED IN BALTIMORE,
General Wade Hampton, by invitation,
| addressed the Democratic Association of
| Baltimore on Thursday night. Speaking of
reasons why son of South Carolina should
make open Acknowledgements to the State
of Maryland, he said:
II remember that when l was soldier in
the glorious army of Northern Virginia, the
sons of Maryland swept across the borders
and again stood side by side with South
Carolina in great contest for liberty. Gap,
| plause) For three years / commanded a
regiment or Marylanders, and here, on their
! own soil, among their acquaintances and
friends, wish to say that among all the
! brave and true men of that immortal army,
none were truer and braver than the soldiers
of Whites battalion. (Applause) 1t be-
! longed to what was called the Laurel Bri-
| gade, and when its BIigadier. General (Ros-
| SER expected sharp and decisive work, al
ways knew it, because Whites battalion was
in front.
"He used to order Colonel White if he
met the enemy to ride over him, and it
would have to be very strong and very
! bold party indeed that White would not
| ride over. Some of those gallant men may
| be present; if not hope my voice may
reach them, that they may know that their
commander prays for their happiness and
| prosperity. AS they were brave, and true
and honorable soldiers, they must now, with
that same fidelity they displayed in time of
| war, devote themselves to the arts and the
pursuits of peace; they must, as then, devote
| themselves for the benefit of their country,
to upholding the Constitution, the Union
| and the laws, and go to work, as the most
eifectual means of SO doing, for Seymour and
| Blair. (Applause) 1t is scarcely necessary
for me to give this advice, possibly, as every
man have met in Maryland is for Seymour
and Blair"
Colonel Thomas F. Bowie was called for,
and speaking of the war, said it began with
| the purest patriotism, and though it was not
| successful it was to sustain the Constitution
of the United States. With the fall of the
| South, 10 the Constitution, and it is now
crushed under foot The miserable traitors
and conspirators, the Radical faction, had
! legisated unconstitutionally all the time
| In the course of his remarks he spoke of the
financial question, and said bondholdeTs
should be taxed, ''for they gave their money
to prosecute the most unholy war ever known
on the earth"