Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-09-03

e Democrats were among the thing
+ that were invisible in that sore hou
c of trial and calamity.
e Yet, these are the men-thos
+ who deserted that flag in the hou
Q Of adversely; the men that denoun
t ced your soldiery, the men that ira
Y duced you, that villiied your Radi
+ cal Congress these are the mel
r who impudently come before tn
! people of this country in the yea
p of grace 1868, and ask the peopl,
: to clothe them with power,
= NEW YORK CONVENTION.
These ignoble antecedents may
enlighten the public mind as to tina
b strange coalescence which recently
occurred at the New York Demo
cratic Convention. Eight years
, separation with its vicissitudes ant
trials seemed to have softened tho
asperities of their nature, as the
Convention was even more frater
nal than when they so unkindly
parted q; Charleston in 1860. There
were no expressions Of penitencC
for the misbchaviors and shortcom-
ings Of the years of civil strife, and
no concessions for any offences OF
word or decd, all were ready to adj
NIT that the separation had been
merely geographical, and that al
though "absent in body" they had
enjoyed communings in spirit It
is obvious from the absence of all
alluslons or inuendoes as to treas
on, blood, atrocity, barbarity or
any other strons ly suggestive word,
that their differences had been mere
ly apparent; and there more beau
tiful than ever before, was ilIustra-
ted the poetical idea, "distinct as
the billows, but one as the sea, -
rs the variety seemed to be in the
greater or less swell Of the waves
than in their constituent elements.
There was entire unanimity in the
sentiment that neither the rebels
nor the rebel states had been disor-
ganized by the war, and that all re-
lations moral, political and person
al, of the great Democratic amity,
remained in 'StdtU quo ante bcllWm.
What a beautiful spectacle of unity
There was Vallandighan, there
was Jewett, and there was Thurman
on the one side, and Forrest, and
Wade Hampton, and the eX-rebel
Gen. Preston and others on the
other side, and in the same assem-
bly, was Joe Williams, a colored
delegate from Tennessee. What
A "nigger" in a
Democratic camp!
| fancy see Joe Williams, that
colored delegate, embracing in the
ayms Of brotherly love Gen. For
rest, the hero Of Fort Gibson, who
had specially distinguished himself
at Fort Pillow by the massacre Of
Joe's colOred brethren, thus bring
ing to pass, not tire millcnnial peri
od Of the church, when the wolf
shall lie down with the lamb and the
leopard with the kid, but a wonder
ful, 'DOndeVI era for a Democrat
ic Convention, although an ordina-
ry one in the social arrangement
when a rebel, a Democrat and a
"nigger" shall lie down together,
laughter when they should sit in
council together in reference to the
great interests Of the country.
fancy / see Joe Williams after this
first embrace making some inquiries
of his newly formed friend, Forrest.
Says he: "Is you dat rebel dat
fought at Fort Pillow and killed de
poor nlgger-dat massacred my
bredren down dar? What kind of
a 'smbly is dis, anyhow TGreat
A voice, "Joe Williams
is dead" My friend says the poor
negro is dead. Well, twas enough
to kill any negro. Laughter. /
regret the mention of his name in
such n disrcspectrul connection. 1t
seems he has been punished sufi-
ciently in the providence of God for
being found in such company. Re
newed laurhter !
All, my fellow citizens, that mot
ley asscmblagc was but reproduc-
ton, in n changed but concentrated
form, the spirit and power of what
has been supposed to be q crushed
rebellion.
If you should sec me walking arm
IN arm with an unwashed peniten-
-iary convict on the streets of Co. I
umbus, and should hear that | was s
n daily converse and communica- '
ion with the fellow, extending to ]
him the hospitalities Of my home |
md the familiar courtesies of social t
ite, would you not brand all my c
Of honor and morality /
IS insincere; would | not be sus- @
'ected Of completely with his ras- c
and would | not, as | de. Il
erved, be scourged with the scorn ]
nd contempt Of an indignant pub Il
&c sentiment. And yet, where is a
here q feIon in the cells of our d
ris0ns, and so sunk and stepped in "
he depravity Of a great crime, as s.
nose traitors who prepared the a
ross for the crucilixion of the dear b
st hopes and privileges of Ameri- b
an froemen, tt
RECONSTRUCTION. a
And yet, those men thus debaueh- W
4, by sympathy with disloyalty and Fl
ostility to the highest and best re- +,
ults achieved by our struggles, G.
ave the etTrontery to ask the men 81
tho trampled upon the banner of n
lp ITuiOn and of fronJon, hoisto1 A