Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-07-23
Political Notes.

"A distinguished savant, abiding to
Gov. Seymours birthplace, Pompey, y
Y, remarked that he was a former rosi-
dent Of Pompeii, and had besn recently
exhumed by party of American anti
quarians.
The Providence Herald is not crate
full TO Mr.. johnson for declaring general
amnesty to its political friends. 1t says
he has a remarkable faculty Of doing the
right thing in the wrong time; and that
he ought to have pardoned every rebel
two years ago.
Gen. Rosecrans is in Chicago, and
washes his hands of the Democratic con-
vention.
The New York Tribune says of sey-
mour Sympathy with drpravity
amounts, in him, to a religious passion
meanness, with him, rises to the hight Of
u holy fervor."
The Columbus Ohio Journal gives
Pendleton and his friends this parting
rhyme:
Not yell was heard, not vrcenbacb note,
As the escort from Iammauy hurried
Not hummer discharged ms farewell shout
The Springfield Republican says the
Democratic platform is "a union of Pen
dleton on redemption, Frank Blair on
reconstruction, and Brick Pomeroy gem
orally"
With Seymour's friends burning ne
arc orphan asylumns, and Blair's frieuds
dispensing the Estate governments" of
the South, we are promised lively times in
the event of the election Of the Democrat
ic candidates.
| Tee Pendleton men received no mer-
cy at the hands of the New York mana
gers of the National convention. Not
satisfied with defeating Pendleton and
nominating over him Mr.. Seymour, the
first prominent Democrat who prominent
ly denounced his greenback project, they
foisted his willy enemy, Augustus Bel
mont, once more into the National Com
mittee and again made him its chair
man.
--Horatio Seymour has been three
times defeated as gubernational candi-
date.
Gen. Grant hopes for peace and pros
perity. Gen. Blair desires war and dis
cord.
-Pendleton and Vallandigham wrecked
the Democratic party in 1864. They will
do the same thing in 1865.
The rulers of the Democratic party {;
THAT pestilent Blair family"
--Soliloquy of disappointed applicant
4 for tho narnpnra IN M
Ven thinks of vot am
And vot | Use to yos,
/ thinks I've thrown myself away
Without sufficient COS.
Persons who think that platforms do
not influence Presidential elections are re.
ferred to Gen. Mcclellan.
When Frank Blair delivered repub-
can speech in 1860, he stigmatized the
Democracy as shell hounds"
The Repudiators shaped the Platform
and nominated the Candidate. Seymour
saws Platform and Candidate agree in
sentiment. The Platform is Pendletonian
and so is Seymour.
1t was long stride for Horatio Sey-
mour to take, from the speech he stood on,
| 10 the Ilat1Orm naue IOr Illln W stduu
upon. But he took the fatal step. And
in reaching the Platform, he kicked over
the speech.
"A fre-eating candidate for Office
down South, was asked his opinion on
negro suffrage. "Oh, d-n the niggers ;
they should not be allowed to vote at, all. y
Yes, Colonel, but about five hundred OF
them in your district want to vote the
| Democratic ticket" "Oh, ali! Yes
yes-very well. That makes all the diff
ference in the world"
Seymour said his nomination would
be fatal. The Convention believed him,
and for some time it seemed uncertain
whether he would be nominated, but the
utter failure to unite on any one else, led
the delegates to accept him, knowing that
the nomination would be fatal, whoever
took II.