Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-10-10
Who are the Democrats

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speech delivered in Bangor, Me-, on the
27th uIt. by Hon. Henry Wilson, OF
Massachusetts. 1t gives faithful pic
ture of the men who made up and man,
aged the New York Convention. Read
it. 'sThere was Wade Hampton, OF ,.
Carolina, who on his way to the Conven-
ton. said to the students of Gen. Lees
college "the cause for which Stonewall
Jackson fell, cannot be in VAN, but IN
some form will yet triumph. There
was Gov. Vance, OF North Carolina, who
told rebel troops during the war to "pile
hell so full of Yankees that their feet
would stick oat of the windows" There
was Buckner, of kentucky, who came to
Washington at the opening of the war,
to procure arms for his State, and coun-
try, joined the rebel ranks and was af-
terwards forced to surrender uncondi-
tionally to Gen. Grant. There was Pres
ton, also of Kentucky, who abandoned
his State, because a rebel General
commissioner and conspirator In Europe
against his country. There was Basil
Duke, one of John Morgan's lieutenants,
in his thieving robbing and murderous
raid through Ohio and Indiana. There
was Robort Ould, of Virginia, rebel
General and commissioner, and familiar
with the horrors of Belle Isle and Libby
Prison. There was Forrest, of Fort Pll-
low infamy concerning whose fendlsh
conduct a Congressional committee thus
report, 'of the men, from 800 to 4oo are
known to have been killed at Fort III
low, of whom at least three hundred
were murdered in cool blood after the
post was in possession of the rebels, and
our men had thrown down their arms
and ceased to offer resistance" vi 1o2
members of the convention from the
rebel States, there was not one Union
man of wellknown and approved loyal
ty. There were more rebel soldiers than
soldiers of the Union army-more mem-
bers of the jeff Davis Congress than
the Congress OF this United States.
"Henry A.Wise proclaims that "seces-
sion is more alive than ever and he
supports Seymoer and Blair because they
will assure military power for the over
throw OF the reconstruction government
mept of the South. Vance boasted to
the people of Richmond, on his way
home from the n. Y. Convention, that
the south would gain by the election of
Seymour and BLAIR all it had fought for
in the rebellion Admiral Semmes, who
commanded the Alabama when the Kear-
sage, in the face of Europe, sent her to
the bottom of the sea, and who reveng-
ed himself by destroying unarmed Yankee
whalers after the rebellion had beeu SUBJ
dued, said, in ratification speech at
Mobile: 81 have been Democrat all
my life, before the war, during the war,
and fought the war on the principles of
the Democracy Percy Walker told
the same Mobile asscmblage that this is
the first time since Lee rendered to the
enemy that sword which flashed victo-
ously over so many battle fields, that L
have seen light Oh the Clouds hanging
over the South; for the great Democrat
ic party has taken up our cause Rob
ert Toombs, who went into the rebellion
for 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 his platform, yauntingly pro-
claimed to the Democracy OF Georgia,
in mass convention at Atlanta, as the
late war was produced by the defeated
ed Democratic party in 1860, we shall
never have peace till it is restored IN
1862 He defines the mission of the
party, for he tells the delighted Geor-
gians that the skeletons which have
been set up in our midst as legislators
shall be ousted by Frank Blair, whom
the Democratic party have appointed
for that purpose. All these things shall
be swept from the bosom of the coun-
try Howell Cobb, denouncing Gov.
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 the coun-
try, thus characterizes and counsles con-
cerning them: You owe it the living,
you owe it to your children, and to their
children. Write down in their memo
ries this day, and all days, and for all
time to come, the feelings and spirit of
adherence with hich you regard and
estimate these men. o! Heaven! for
some blistering words that l may write
infamy upon the foreheads of those men;
that they may travel through earth des-
pissed of all men, and rejected of heaven,
scorned by the devil himself. They may
seek their fual congenial resting place un-
ker the mudsills of that ancient institution.
This reconstructed Democrat is the same
Howell Cobb, of whom Andrew johnson
said: Cobb remained in the Cabinet I'M
til the Treasury was bankrupt, and the
national credit disgraced at home and
abroad, and then he conscienciously Sc
ceded.
"Wade Hampton called on bis Demo-
cratic associates in New York, to regis
ter an oath that they would place Sey-
mour and Blair in the White House, if
they received the majority of the white
votes, in spite of all the bayonets that
can be brought to bear on them. This
rebel trooper and Democratic leader
tells the people of the South, not to
employ any one, white or black, who
gives aid to the Republican party"
''The speaker concluded as follows:
Consider well, | pray you, the histories,
the platforms, and candidates of these
parties now asking your suffrages. Re.
member that by its fruit the tree is
known, and by his deeds man is Judged.