Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-02
Shall the Lost Cause be RegaIned 2

1t is sometimes alleged that the Repub
lican orators and papers dwell too much
upon old issues in this campaign, while
the election is to be decided upon new
ones. But what Is the paramount issue of
the canvass, and who raised itP IL Is
whether the cause lost in the field shall be
regained at the polls. And this question
Is forced upon the country by the Demo-
cratic party, under the control of those
who frankly declare that the cause of the
| rebellion is not lost. Inevitably, there
fore, the characters and careers of those
who hope to obtain possession of the Gov
| ernment become the important subjects of
consideration.
If the Democratic party had said that,
acquiescing in the results of the war, and
accepting the reconstruction of the Union
| by Congress as settled fact, 1t would
| make the best of It, and had asked power
upon the promise of greater economy,
and of taking no step except in the most
peaceful manner, and had then nominated
men whose names and words were vim
dication of its sincerity, the canvass would
necessarily have been conducted very diff
| ferently.
But what are the faotsY The strongest
| candidate in the Convention was MIR. Pen
| dleton, an original secessionist and repu-
diator. Mr.. Vallandigham, his lieutenant,
one of the most notoriously disloyal men
| In the country, put Mr. Pendleton's
scheme of public dishonor into the rcso-
lutions He and his chief opposed the
war, and hoped the rebellion would sue
ced But IL failed, and the next service
they could do for the late rebels was to re-
fuse TO pay the cost of subduing them.
This is the financial policy of the party
Should 1t prevail the country is disgraced
by those who tried in vain to destroy It,
And of the effort at destruction Pendleton
and Vallandigham are rs guilty as For
rest and Howell Cobb-each having
worked in his own way,
What neXtY Wade Hampton one of
the bitterest of the late rebels stops at
General Lees college ON his way TO the
| Convention and says that the cause Is not
lost. He comes into the Convention; Is
appointed upon the Committee of Resolu
tions introduces adeclaration that the re
construction laws are unconstitutional, rev
olutionary, and void and the other mem
bers pledge themselves TO support the dec
laration TO the end. The Convention thel
nominates for President an opponent O
the war, who said that the success of tn
Government would be as revolutionary a
that of the rebellion and for Vice-Presl
dent an ex. Union soldier, not because O
that fact, but because he had just vehe
mently demanded that the Executive, with
out even consulting Congress or the Su
preme Court, should by force overthrow
the reconstructed governments in tn
Southern States. The Convention thu
absolutely controlled by the most resolut
rebels and the most reckless repudiator
, adjourns The Southern States are In
stantly afame with the speeches OF tn
} most violent rebel chiefs, who cannot n
{ strain the expression of their intense hs
+. tired for the political organization of loys
p men that conducted the war To a successtt
end, and which has founded Reconstructed
upon equal rights They exultingly atfirI
a that the election of Seymour and Blai
: will give them the success which the
!. | missed in the field. Raphael Semme
. Forrest, John Forsyth, Albert Pike-th
most malignant enemies OF the Union an
y of equal rights assert that they still hat
!. the Uni3n or that the rebellion was a d,
q fense of the Constitution. Nallandighal
y is nominated for Congress, Pendleton
:, the chosen hero of the canvass Th
. party papers that yentured to hope befoI
. the Convention met that the party ha
: learned something are kicked into obed
r ence, and pour upon Gen. Grant a torreI
n of indecent personal abuse; and graV
!. orators, like Mr.. Pugh, denounoe reeol
= struction as an Outrage TO be upset
>. by the Democrats, and If II means wa
n let 1t come"
h Now, in view Of an issue of violel
IS overthrow of the laws by an Executiy
h elected by those who were lately in ope
5 rebellion, and who still glory in IT, wh'
y can any sane citizen do but address hin
o selfdlrect.y 10 the factsS His first duty
O. TO show that this issue Is the rebellio
2, under a new face; that the Democrat
Is talk about taxation Is merely an appeal
of one of the most sensitive public feeling
x as a means of obtaining power, not for Il
ir purpose Of diminishing taxes by inorea
bt ing production, and so making .paymei
O. easy, but by repudiatng them altogeth,
bt and running the national credit II
re duty Is 10 show, further, that this power
ut sought not TO paoify the country, but
ID restore the late rebels TO the control OF q
SIX Southern States, and TO disable the 10y
w population there, In q word, il is h
he most urgent duty IN show that the who
~ Democratic policy 10 10 undo, as far !
ef possible, every thing the war h,
nd done, and 10 restore the intOlerable situl
10 ton Of affairs before the war was hegun.
re And this Is what the Republican party
ral by its orators and papeTs, rs eyerywhel