The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-21


names as Wise, Toombs, Vance, Yerger
Semmes, and Hampton procaiming to that
remnant OF the Southern people which did not
fall bloody victims TO their accursed Rebellion
that, in the triumph of the Democracy there
is yet life for the 'lost cause,' and in the
election of Seymour there is hope for the de.
testable principles which, bat three short
years ago, we supposed had bsen shot into
political perdtiOn by million of American
rifles.
We have seen the fre-eater Wise proclaim
ing publicly that secession is not dead, but is
waiting for the opportunity OF its reassertion
through the revolutionary party which has
just taken the field. We have heard the fire.
eater Toombs proolaiming the doctrine of nuli-
fcation in the old fashion, utterng the same
denunciations as of old with all the former
bitterness pouring his maledctions on the
brave men who have saved the Union,
and threatening to 'resist to the death"
the laws which establish political equality
and freedom of suffrage throughout the
South. We have seen the implaJable Sece5-
sionist Vance proolaming that "what the
COnfederacy fought for would be won through
the election of Seymour" We have seen
"Chronometer" Semmes, of the Alabama, pro-
claiming at Mobile last Monday, at a Demo
cratic ratification meeting, that he chad
been Democrat al his life before the war,
during the war, and since the war-aui
cracy, believing tn lat the grand old Constitu-
tion which embodied these principles was
about to be destroyed" And then, after
this declaration that he had carried out his
constitutional ideas on the pirate decks of the
ship which the gallant Winslow sent to the
bottom of the sea, we find him announcing
on the same occasion "And now,
fellow citizens, | have come here to declare
that | have given in my allegiance
heart and SOUL to the old flag, provided we
can restore the old flag again to be the repre-
sentative of the principles of the Constitu-
ton, which we will be able to effect by the
election of Seymour and Blair" And still
again, at the same meeting, he asserted that
Democratic success will again reduce the
negro to subordinate position as the inferior
race, and restore the white man to the Govern
ment which belongs to him." We have
seen Wade Hampton, the Carolina
Rebel leader, going round among the young
men Of the Virginia colleges glorifying the
Rebel cause and reas sertng its principles;--
we find him coming North here as a Uemoora-
tic delegate to threaten renewed resistance
and another rebellion ii his upiustiiable claims
are denied by the Government; We find him in
Baltimore, on Thursday last, reminding the
Democratic Association of the time "when |
was a soldier in the glorious army of Northern
| Virginia, and the sons of Maryland swept
across the borders aud again stood side by side
| liberty" and We find him ia the same speech,
and almost in he same sentence, mngling the
| praises of the Rebel Generals with the eulOgies
| of Horatio S ymour, and the past triumphs of
the Confederacy with the expected victories Of
! the Democracy.
What has encouraged all the old secession
leaders of the South to come out and rush
around in this way at the present time 7
! What has led them to utter such language, to
| indulge in such hopes, TO proclaim such
| schemes Are they ignorant of what they
are about? Are they talking without know
ing what they say Are they planning with
out understanding tue ground they tread
upOnY
1t is well that they have spoken, so as to
warn the loyal people in time. 1t is the game
of the more adroit and unprlucipled DemOcra-
! tic lead RS and organs in the North to practise
! deception in all these matters. They are loud
in their UniOnism and demOnstrative in their
! loyalty; they speak much OF what they did to
put down the Rebellion, and swear daily that
they abhor secessionism, 1t is necessary to
do this here, for they know that the American
people have but to become aware of the ten
depey of their principles and the purposes of
their party, to crush out the one and the
other in such way as they will never again
be likely to pretend to an existence.
1t is notifying and humiliating to hear the
! language and see the pretensions and demon
strations of these old secession leaders.
Hardly have they been compelled to surrender
their arms b7fore they are again assuming
the airs Of dominant and domneering party.
Hardly have we got the work of queling the
Rebellion before we see it again preparing for
action. Hardly have We got through the san
culinary labor of crushing their cause and
principles before they are again proclaimed
as though they had never been seriously
wounded.
1t is evident that the loyal people of the
country must rally at the polls to teach the
Democratic party, and these secession leaders
who look for it to carry out their schemes, a
lesson even more severe than it got foul
years ago.