New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-07
DOTS roe pEMooRATs.

Blair 8 letter epitomized: Grant wants
peace. D-n 2eacew ... -. D. .-.
A st. Louis correspondent predicts that
Grant will poll much larger vote in Mis-
souri, than did Lincoln.
The revolutionary mutterings of the ex-
rebels at the South are doing much to swell
the army Of General Grant in the North
and West. s.-.
Every man in the South whose words
betray the fact that he il yet a rebel at
heart is for Seymour and Blair. Remem-
Der this, comradesi ..F -..
At raising in Porter township, Hunting
don county, Pennsylvania, lately vote
was taken on the Presidential question.
The vote stood: Grant and Colfax, IS; op-
posed, s.
The st. Joseph Findicdt0r (Democrat)
pronounces Mr.. Seymour the most magnifi-
cent of all humbugs," and this since the
nomination.
Pendleton's father-in-law wrote the "Star
SpaDgled Banner" Pendleton did his best
to reduce the number OF stars.
When Frank Blair proposes to resist the
accession of a Republican candidate to the
Presidency by violent means, be probably
forgets that a MAJ o..ity of his supporters
are under parole not to bear arms against
General Grant.
A vete was taken on the steamer J. B.
Schuyler ON the trip to Bridgeport on Satur-
day with the following result: For Grant
and COlfax, rs; for Seymour and Blair, 81.
Majority for Grant and Colfax, IL.
The Cincinnati Chronicle says that Will
liams, the colored delegate to the National
Democratic Convention, Indignantly de-
MES having associated intimately with the
white delegates. .. ~ .l,- !
The Democrats are very fluent about
'carpet~baggers." They need not carp at
baggers. They will be bagged themselves
in November.
The World declares that " truth is the
expression of selfrespect and of courage
The want OF veracity in that sheet is thus
readily accounted fer.
An Indiana letter asserts that the Democ-
racy of that State is afraid of General
Blair, and, although he has solicited per-
mission to take the stump, the request has
been disreg III
1t is said that when Seymour made
speeches in Pennsylvania in 1860, he was
twice challenged by the eloquent Daniel
D)ugherty, of Philadelphia, to a public
discussion, but discretion proved the better
part of his Valor, and he evaded the invita-
ton.
A little girl in Westield, Massachusetts,
writing to one of her old teachers IN this
city, says: "The Republicans have beau
tful Grant and Colfax flag strung across
the street, but the Democrats nave an old
patched up thing just like Seymour and
Blair, and the party they represent"
The Iowa Democrats are running a
cashered Captain for Congress. Frank
Blair used to shoot deserters. Can he take
this man by the hand without flnching?
Had the rebellion succeeded the enemies
OF the government would have secured
nearly one-halt of the public domain. If
the Democratic party succeeds in Novem-
Der, the same party will secure control of
the whole country.
A correspondent of the Scientific Au1eyi-
can commends onions as a specific against
epidemcs-not as an esculeni, but Sliced.
and kept in sick room, where they Will
absorb any atmospheric poison. Thew
should be replaced by fresh ones every
hour. 1t is noticed that in the room of a
smallpox patient they blister and decom-
pose with great rapidity, but will prevent
the spread of the disease.
The New York Times says: "The Demo
Gratis must not be too sure of Mr.. Seward
being one of Seymour's friends and sup
porters. We trust that at the proper time
the voice of the eminent statesman OF New
York will be heard in regard to public
questions, and the necessity Of the election
of General Grant" ... '-.- -
The enthusiasm that awaits General
Grant as he passes from town to town in
the West continues undated. His march
is as triumphal in peace as it was trium-
plant in war, VIZ