The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-07

Echoes from the New York Convention,
Probably the Copperheads at New York.
though full of covert treason and secret revo-
lutionary purposes, did not suppose that their
acts and words would be answered so PROMPTLY
by the rebel yell. Neither did the curious sail
ors who united the bag in which Holus had
packed away collection of adverse winds for
the benefit OF Ulysses imagine that they were
raising storm that would wreck them. But
the foolish act is done and the consequences
have come. A storm has come that hopelesslv
sent to the bottom the whole Democratic party
while our Ulysses, favorite of the gods, sails
triumphantly into port.
Echo number one comes from Richmond.
from the mouths of Henry A. Wise and Ex-
Governor Vance of North Carolina, the one de-
claring that "sldoery and secession are not dead"
and the other that all that was lost in rebellion
will be regained by the election of Seymour
and Blair"
Then the echoes came thick and fast; hear
the Louisville Journal:
What kind of Republicanism is that
which would honor Generals Thomas
Sheridan Sheridan D and Meade, and degrade
is as good a man as Sheridan and BET
ter caUdtrynaan. No radical aoiH pretend to sam
that Hampton is inferior IN talent, uirtues or ac
conptistments to Thomas They are north all
me bureaus, and cdrpet-bogs, and negro militia,
ana tdc-couectorS and pesty military tyrdnts.
greasy contractors, and fat bondtolders that a
corrupt Congress can MANUFACTURE betaoeen this
and doomsday.
Here is one that the Democratic papers will
not publish though repeatedly solicited to do
so. 1t is from Wade Hampton's account of the
manner in which the Democratic platform was
formed:
The Democrats expressed their willingness
to give us (the Rebels) everything we could
desire, but they begged us to remember that
they had great fight to make at the North.
and they therefore besought us not to load the
platform with a weight that they could not
carry against the preiudces which they had to
encounter. Help them once to gain tEe po,oer
and then they mould do their utmost to relieye
the Southern States, and restore to us the I'm
aon and the Constitution as ithad egisted before
the aodr. 1t is policy that suits us, when the
great democratic party is pledged to the declara-
ton that the Reconstruction acts are anconstitu-
tSondt, revolutionary, and Uoid Especidly ,c1ae,a
every member Of the party, and the Darnaest are
from the North, is ready to take 1t up and carry
it out
Toombs of Georgia is responsible for this:
That all these reconstruction acts as thew
"i1 ""'iou, tucSe ScueEeS OF ueluS10n, OF VII
ialny, ana or tyranny, shall no longer curse
the statute book nor Cypress the free people of
the country.-Speech IN Atlanta, July %.
Here is declaration from Howell Cobb
who is still remembered as a fire-eatine seces-
sionist:
The doors are wide open, wide enouob
broad enough to receive every white man in
Georgia, unless you should discover him com
ing ing to you creeping and crawling under the
Chcago platform. Upon them there should
be no mercy. They have dshonored them
selves, and sought to dishoner you. Anatbe-
Matte them. Drive them from the pale of
social and political society. Leave them to
wallow in their own mire and filth. Nobody
will envy them, and if they are never taken
out of the gully until 1 reach forth nv hand
to take them up, they will die in their natural
element.
Thefollowing is a delicious NOR ceau from
the Jefferson (Texas) Ku-Klux:
We well know that if our standard bearers
shall be made to trail our proud banner in the
dust, that then the expiring shrek of cherish
ed freedom will be heard, and night of eter-
nal slavery will be ours. How shall we obvi-
ate a war iof races? There is no way under
the broad canopy of heaven without it is driy-
W X from our midst these looo mean, aohite men.
WIN Inem out of the country, the negroes
ana wnlte people could get along peaceably
anu qulety, put If they are allowed to remain
a war OF races, and eohen there is one drop of
blood Spatt, aoe predict that IL aciH f0o as freeZy
as does the Mississippi
The Mobile Register, speaking of an antici-
pated attempt on the part of Congress- IN inn
peach and remove the President when if a.
sembies in September, says: "He ought to re-
Iuse 10 give up the reins, and if the Radical
Iaction elects to use force, let them shoulder
the responsibility and the consequences"
Another echo comes from the Petersburg
(Va.) Index which says that should deliveranco
from Radical rule fail to come, there are mil
lions in the South to whom life will become 60
worthless, that they will gladly throw it awav
to be avenged on the adversary.
The Vickshurg Times says:
Objection is made down this way to the in
dorsement of the Blair letter, by few timid
people on the score of prudence, and yet is
was this identical letter of Frank Blair to hi
friend Col. Broadhead that secured the Mist
sUufl nero the nomination for Vice President.
we want just such ammunition as Frank Blair
uses.
The Meriden Mercury is very emphatic:
With the skull and cross bones of the sslost
cause" before u.s. we will swear that this 10 a
white mrn's Cover nment We must ,onIo Tho
zoe held him in AFFECT bondage, and make him
feel that when fOrbearance ceases to be a vir-
Tue, he has aroused power that will control
him or destroy him.
ouch extracts might be multiplied indefi-
ni'eiy' Ihey speak most eloquently to every
nopuphcan OF his duty in this new and dan !
gerous crisis.
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