Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-10-21

to light the Yankees until hell .ti,os
o0er = and to "pile hell so fit of Yan
ices that their feet pouzd stick ont of til
aeindoacS," ," with others who were the mas
ter spirits of the Convention. IF thes
men had an honest inteuton to submit il
good 1alth to the laws of the land, the,
might be forgiven. But their intentions
oozed out through the platform forced OF
the Convention, through the character O.
the men they nominated, and through
fhelr declarations since the adjournment
OF the Convention. Wade Hampton
claims the credit of inserting in the plat
form the revolutionary doctrine that the
acts of Congress since the war, are "qsn.
constitutional, revolutionary, ns21, ana
vosd." Having secured the platform in
favor OF a reinstatement of the rebel gov.
ernments Of the rebel States, in defiance
OF Congress and the Supreme Court, they
proceeded to defeat the nomination OF
liberal minded men, like Chase, Hancock.
Ewell, and others, for the Presidency and
| Vice Presidency, and nominated a man
for President who said in 1861: "".3.
.'lf it is true that slavery must be abol-
lshed to save this Union, then the people
of the South should be allowed to with
draw themselves from that government
which cannot give them the protection
guaranteed by its terms" a".
They nominated man who said, I" Let
us see IT successful coercion by the North
is less revolutionary than successful seces-
sion by the South" Who counselled
the mob in these words: Remember
this, that the bloody; reasonable, and
revolutionary doctrine Of public necessity
can be proclaimed by mob as we'll as by
a government; - who addressed mob as
My friends" and informed them that he
had sent his Adjutant Gen eral to Wash
lngton, not TO tender assistance to tie
government, but g to haze this draft sus-
pended and stopped;;" who, when he for
warded troops who we're bound to 60, did
so under q constant protest against the
war, and who, instead of suppressing riots
in his own State, compelled the govern
ment to send forty-four of its best regi-
ments to New York city to preserve the
peace. 1t was this record that gave the
nomination to Horatio Seymour
But the greatest victory of the rebel
element was achieved by the nomination
of Frank Blair. His letter to Colonel
Brodhead was the keynote of the plat
form, and upon it he was enthusiastically
by the rebel clement. This
platform, in his words, is:
"There is but one way to restore the
government and the Constitution, and
that is for the President elect to declare
these acts null and void, compel the army
to undo its usurpations, at the South, dis
perse the carpet bag State Governments,
allow the white people to reorga nize their
own governments, and elect Senators and
We must restore the
Constitution before we can restore the
faances, and to do this ace mast hare a
President aCho wW execute the ac5H of the
people by trampling INTO dust the a45upa-
tioaS Of Congress knowm as the Recon-
st1uction acts. I Irish to stand before the
Conventton upon this issue, but it is one
which embraces everything else that is OF
value in its large and comprehensive re-
suits" .tr
Fellow comrades, this means another
war and can mean nothing else. And
you are asked to assist In getting it up.
You are asked by these Southern war
Democrats and Northern pesce Democrats
10 throw the country once more into con-
gulsions, in order that the men who made
he last war, and were soundly whipped,
nay reap the fruits of our victories.
But LET us ask you, what is to be gained
~ voting with aud for our late enemies
Let them answer for themselves. Gov
yrnor Vance, of North Carolina, dele
gate, says g that achat the Confederacy
onqht for 1Uould be ron by the election Of
Senour and Blair" Pollard, the South
'rn historian, says, Men of the South
hould realize that the Confederate cause
S as much to-day a iicmg, actual one as
when the battle of Manassas was fought.
t is an maconcZudcd, huing cause" Gen.
1awton, of South Carolina, says of the
Democratic platform, "there acas nothing
hat the South acanted that 1cas not there" I
Ex-senator Pugh, of Ohio, said recently,
hat the 18th amendment was not adopt
d, and added: " 1t is not part of the
Constitution, and never will be. 1t is a
ase fraud, and [ say, as Frank Blair
aid, these carpet-bag governments must
e oyerthrouno In another part of his
peech he says, " i dtis means acar, let 1t
ONE" These are not an hundredth part
f expressions of the same character found
n the speeches of Democratic orators
Jorth and South, but they make the issue
efore us clear. ~.s.
The issue is, then, shall what ,ce fought
Or be successful in the present canvass,
r shall the "lust cause with its train Of
ar and suferings, and crimes, be reViv
d? Shall the day of strife again dawn
y the triumph Of these malcontents and
ebels ? Shall the bloody hand of war be
gain extended over our fair fields for the
urpose of undoing all that has been done
the sacrifice of half million of lives
nd untold treasure Shall we be fright
ned from our duty by the cry Of taxation
hlch has been forced upon lis by the men
ho organized aad encouraged the rebel
on? Shall we stand by the men whose
alor saved the nation, and who are the
My true friends and guarantee of a per-
lament peace based upon equal laws and
xact justice to all men who live under
ne flag? Can any soldier hesitate in his
hoice between the principles of Grant,
herman, Sheridan, Thomas, Meade,
iegel, Schofeld and Dix, and those of
hampton, Beauregard, Forest, Toombs,