Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-07-24

supposed TO nave employed when lie
event for" Judas Iscariot and Bcne-
dict Arnold.
The new Political Dead
Weights.
Who are they? Ask the disap-
pointed Democrats who hoped to see
nominated. that gallant repudiator
Pendleton, whose political corps now
"lies Wondering in the clay )" whilst
the half "Confed," half ''grecnback, )"
half gold" Seymour carries his
spirit at the head of the mongrel
bread and butter" niger owning,
slave driving, Union destroying De
mocracy, followed by that other man
who patiiotically counsels war for
the restoration of their party to pow
er. The Democrats invited defeat.
They cOurted it in their nomination
OF Seymour, for he declared ia the
presence of the whole Tammany
Tribe, that he could not lie nomin-
ated without putting himself and the
Democratic party in peril" He has
been nominated and the Democratic
party is in peril. not, however, be-
cause Seymour has been nominated,
but because the principals of the
party are dead weights, and will
carry down their advocates to politi-
cal perlition. A platform endorsed
by half the rebel army assembled in
the convention and in the streets of
New York, followed by the nomina-
ton of candidates who have made
themselves odious to the true and
tried men of the country, cannot
Withstand the Indignation of peo-
pie who have been robbed, murdered,
and insulted by hounds too mean for
pandemonium, and too dishonest TO
disclose their true sentiments toward
the northern copperheads that are
trying to steal into power by locking
hands with unrepentant rebels, that
despisG them i'm the bitterness of
their uncOntrite souls. The party is
II dead weight" Wade Hampton
and MCClernand joining hands in
Joy over the nomination of q north
ern soldier, on platform that brings
, the blush to every honest cheek I!
Those southern "cops" could afford
to be generous in this nomination.
They only did what they were bid
den. At home in the South they are
careful to manifest no such enthusi-
asm for the nomination of Union
soldiers for State officers. They will
allow no such unpalatable reasons to
prevail in favor of q candidate of
their own. He must be "true grey"
must have either owned or traded
in niggers, fought against the North
-lost an arm under the 'stars and
bars, land in his heart mourns with
true Southern devotion and sympa-
thy over the "lost cause" These are
the sterling qualities that honestly
recommend q candidate to Wade
Hampton, and the hostile crew who
rode with him in his marauds in
search of plumber. They carried OH
their side of the fight as long as they
could. They held out till their men
were reduced to skeletons and their
horses to carton, whilst their coadju-
tors in the North were reaping smil-
ing fields or piling up greenbacks;
the battle meanwhile waxing hot
afar off The nomination of the
Democratic dead weights,n trans
fers the battle from the field to the
Hastings. The Southern politicians
love blood, but they love plumber
more. Their decimated battalions no
longer respond to the bugle call |:
their cannon are rusting; the canker
is eating into their trenchant blades +;
their muskets have fired the burial
salute of the dead Confederacy, and
no cunning, no treason, no might of
power, no imbecility of an old hulk
of Public Functionary, can ever un-
do the deeds that are past, or restore
the lost property in niggers, or bring
back to earth the thousands who
learned by swift strokes or languish-
ing pain that treason is death. One
road only lays open to these defeated
men, and that is through the aspira-
tons and promises never to be full
filled, of the party calling itself DEM
ocratie, but in truth party of aris-
tocracy-a party of bloated purses !;
OF inherent disgust for the poor
struggling people Of the land; a
party that applauded every act of tile
hereditary aristocracy of the South
when ii struck its last but Intellectual
blow to rivet the chains Oh men long
ing to be free, The "dead weights"
are purse and family-proud aristo-
Gratis. Seymour knows no earthly
friend but his rolls of greenbacks or
his bags of gold, and the Blair family
have no decent acquaintance but the
Blairs. Republicans owe q debt of
gratitude to the Democratic party for
the nomination Of Seymour and
Blair, for never before, since the late
"en-pleasantness' began, has the
Democratic party flung out its true
ana revolving colors. Already the
cloud of disappointment shrouds the
leaders Of the motley crew.