Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-09-10
The Two Parties-Extract frem a Speech
by senator Wilson.


dressed one OF the largest meetings eve
known in that State. His theme wa
9 the 1.-Two Parties, and he spoke witt
i tremendous effect his speech being on
y of the most complete efforts of his life
!, We make the following quotations
ri In November there is to be anothe
:. struggle between thes two parties 10
et the control OF the National Admins
e tration. The Republican party met a
/ Chicago, reattirmed its policy OF recon
/ struction, pronounced against ali forms
|. of reputation, for the reduction anC
l equalization of taxation, for the equa
protection of American citizens, for thu
recognized obligations 10 our soldier
ana 10 the widows and orphans OF The
gallant dead, and for the removal of re
strictions imposed upon rebels as rapidly
as the safety of the loyal people will
admit. The convention then presented
the name of General Grant, the great
captain, who has so often marshalleC
f our armies to victory; and Schuyler
r Colfax, statesman of pure life, stain,
t less honor, and commanding influence
/ The Democratic party assembled in
; national convention in New York
Horatio Seymour again presided. That
selection of its presiding officer was a
motion TO the country that this conyen-
ton would be no more patriotic or wise
9han was the Democratic Convention o1
} 1864, There assembled the self-same
leaders, or their compeers, that pronoun-
ced, in 1864, the war TO preserve the
nations life "a failure, u and demanded
Cessation of hostilities, u which would
have made inevitable dismemberment
of the Republic and the death of the
nation To that convention came also
a few disappointed, sour, and fallen
spirits, who once were enlisted with, the
legions of Liberty, but who were never
imbued with the generous and ennob-
ling impulses Human Equality. There
came, too, the eXponents and represen-
tatives of the ''lost cause. 4" -...
i There was Wade Hampton of South
Carolina, who, on his way to the Con-
vention, said to the students OF
!; General Lees College, 1.-The cause for
which Stonewall Jackson fell cannot be
in vain, but in some form will yet tri-
umph." There was Governor Vance,
of North Carolina, who told rebel troops
during the war to ''pile hell SO full of
of Yankees that their feet will stick
out of the windows. There was Buck
ner, of Kentucky, who came to WASH
ington at the opening of the war to pro-
cure arms for his State and commits
sion for himself; but who went back to
Kentucky, betrayed his State and coun-
try, Joined the rebel ranks, and was af-
terward surrendered unconditionally'i
to General Grant. There was Preston,
also, of Kentucky, who abandoned his
State, Became a rebel General-a Com
missioner and canspiratOr in Europe
against his country. There was Basil
Duke, one ef John Morgan slieutenants
in hiS thiauinor
raids through Ohio ana Indiana. There
was Robert Ould, of Virginia, r a rebel
General and Commissioner, and familiar
with the horrors of Belle Isle and Libby
Prison. There was Forrest, of Fort
Pillow iDfamy, concerning whose fiend-
lsh conduct Congressional committe
thus reports: "Of the men, from three
hundred to four hundred are known to
have been killed at Fort Pillow, of whom
at least three hundred acre murdered in
cold blood after the post aOds in possession
OF the rebels, and our men had throUn
dOlO7a their arms and ceased to offer re-
siStance." Of one hundred and eighty
two members of the Convention from
the rebel States, there was not one
Union man of well known and approv-
ed loyalty. There We're more rebel SOL
diers than soldiers of the Union army
more members of JEFF Davis's Congress
than of the Congress of the United
States. Is there any wonder then that
one who had heard the rebel battle veil
in the land of the rebellion should have
| acknowledgements ''the rebel veil. -
as he heard the shout that arose atsSthe
words of Wade Hampton's resolution
declaring the reconstruction acts .irevol-
utionary, unconstitutional and void ?u
| Henry A. Wise proclaims that "seces-
sion is more alive than ever, +" and he
supports Seymour and Blair because
they will assume military power" for
the overthrow of the reconstructed gov
ernments of the South. Vance beasted
to the people of Richmond, on his wayI
home from the Now York Convention,
that ''the South would gain by the elec-
ton of Seymour and Blair all it fought
for in the rebellion. Admiral Semmes,
who commanded the Alabama when
the Kearsarge, in the the face ofEurope,
sent her to the bottom of the seas, and
who revenged himself by destroying
unarmed Yankee whalers after the re-
bellion had been, subdued, said, in al
ratification speech at Mobile: II have
been Democrat all my life, before the
war, during the war, and since the war
and fought the war on the principles of
the Democracy y the
grand old Democratic party has risen
from its long slumber-and the election
of Seymour and Blair will reduce the
negro to subordinate position as an
inferior race" Perry Walker told the
same Mobile assemblage that this is the
first time, since: Lee rendered to the
enemy that sword which FLASHED VIC
toriously over so many battlefields, that
L have seen a light. on the clouds
hanging over thelSouth +" for sthe great
Democratic party has taken up our
cause. " Robert Toombs, who went in
to the rebellionfor the right to call the
roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill, and
came out of the rebellion without the
right to call that roll ON hisown planta-
ton, vauntingly proclaimed to the
Democracy of Georgia, in mass conven-
ton at Atlanta that, "as the late war
was produced by the defeated ~Democ-
cratic party in 1850, we shall neveEhavel
peace until it is restored in 1868. " He
divines the mission of the party, for he |
tells the delighted Georgians that 1.-The
grinning skeletonslwhich have been set |
up in our midst as Legislators shall be |
ousted by Frank Blair, whom the DEM
cratic party has expressly appointed for
that purpose. All these things shall be |
swepr frsm the bosom of the country. u
Howell Cobb, denouncing Governor
Brown, the loyal white men of Georgia,
and repentant rebels and loyal men. who
are honestly striving to secure peace,
order and law, as traitors to thecountry,
thus eharacterizes and counsels concern
ing them: "You owe it to the living,
you owe it to your children and to their
children. Write down in their memories
this day, and all days, and for all; time |
to come, the feeling and spirit OF o6hor-
renee a0ith which you regard and esti-
M ate these men. o, Heaven! for some /
blisteriug words that may write, in I
fanny upon the forehead of these men
that they may travel through the earth |
despised of all men, and rejected of
heaven, scorned by the devil himself
They may seek their final congenial
resting place under the mudsills of that