The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-08
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
HpIToRIAL oPngIoRs OF THB LrADISo JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPIcs-ooMPuED EVERY
BAY FOB THE BvEEINe TRLEeRAPH.
The Lost Cause Regained.

Fyo1a the ". Y. Independent
The Democratic party is once again under
its old leaders. People who now vote its
ticket must stand under the banner OF Semmes
Hampton, Toombs, Vance, and Vallandgham.
The fgure-head is Seymour but the helmsman
is Jefferson Davis.
The World has been showed aside from its
position of leadership. That journal has not
sufficient audacty of opinion or courage OF
statement to please the temper of the fire.
eating Southerners, who now, as OF old, are
uppeTmost and controlling. The World either
refrains from publishing the speeches of its
Southern masters, or else, if it alludes to them
at all it so ices their fire as to incur complaint
of ill-tIeatment from their authors. Thus the
Danville Register, of Kentucky, murmurs that
the World misrepresents Wade Hampton.
champion, !" says the Register, demands that
the people of the South should all vote, whether
recognized by Congress as reconstructed through
the farce now going on, or not; and that he de-
voting seymour and Blair shall receive malo:
rity OF the white votes, they shall be installed
be brought against them
The World dares not utter such sentiments
in New York, for fear Of losing the State next
November.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, said at
Richmond:-
won by the election OF Seymour and Blair"
The World has not the pluck to repeat
these words, lest it should push respectable
Democrats into the Republican party.
Governor Wise, in his latest speech at Rich
mond, Indignantly denounced the first resolu-
tion of the Democratic platform which charao-
terizes secession as dead, and insisted that
''secession was more alive than ever" The
World lacks the nerve to say as brave thing
as that.
The Democratic journals of Louisville men,
tion that at the ratification meeting in that
city, "portraits of jeff. Davis, Lee, and Stone
wall Jackson were suspended over the plat
form, and afterward bcarried in a torchlight
procession; and that the Stars and Stripes
were nowhere to be SEEM" The World is too
much of time-server to recommend such
proceedings in New York.
Semmes said in Mobile:-
81 drew my sword against the old flag-the
old flag which no longer represe nted these
principles; it was not the flag of l776 against
which drew my sword, but the flag which had
become q Haunting lie SO called by prominent
politicians OF the North. But now, in spite of
the efforts of those politicians, who endeavored
to strangle the old Democratic party, by erect
ing in its stead a new conservative psrty-a
Sort OF conglomerated party-whch was to
the grand old Democratic party has risen from
the long slumber in which 1t has INDUCED. and
now gives signs OF new life and vitality; and
have come here to. night from the country to
ratify and rejoice with you in the nomination
OF Seymour and Blair"
The World is of too thin a blood to main
tain that the flag which conquered the Rebel
lion was not the ancient and time honored flag
OF the country.
Benjamin H. Hill, at Atlanta, proposed a
public burning of the reconstruction acts, in
dulging himself in the following strain:-
"When liberty shall return, when the law
Shall be again respected, and good men snail be
again our rulers, we must gather all the jour
mails, and constitutions, and enactments OF
every character, of the conventions and ass enn.
blies thus forced upon us by force, and fraud
and usurpation. and catching a fire from
them forever! right
here, my countrymen, | want you to under
ea ha e yoees M and
shall have it.D When the glorious day shall
come, and the free women. and the S M free men
together to fire the miserable, hideous record OF
1nfamy, let the office be mine to kindle the
1nmSs; mnssesy tremendous cheers lasting sewers"
The World knows that, if it were to print
half dozen editorials in this vein, it might
as well give up New York State without s
struggle.
Here then is one of the striking signs of the
times. The Democratic leaders are going for
ward so fast that the World cannot keep pace
with them; the Democratic policy is becoming
so revolutionary that the World trembles a
committing itself to it; and the Democratic
orators are so fiery that the World cannot
afford to print their speeches. What is the
consequence The World pouts, sacks i'll
thumb, and goes sullenly to the foot of tn,
head of the Democrats press of the country
Calamity have the Rebels captured the De-
mocratic party. The South, not the North
animated the Tammany Convention. Th
South, not the North dictated the one essen
tial feature of the platform. The author of 1T
chief plank was none other than Wade Hamp
ton. He says ..
"When the resolution offered by the Senator
from Maryland, which declared that the right:
of suffrage belonged to the political powers of
State. were being considered, begged to add
few simple words. Tney agreed; and took th
resolutions which you Will lind embodied In
the platform, and added TO them, and vi
declare that the reconstruction acts OF Congress
are unconstitutional revolutionary and void.
(Cheers That was my plank in the platform
wanted nothing else; for wnen the great De
mocratic party had pledged themselves TO thai
when they had declared that these acts wer
Unconstitutional, revolutionary and Void,'
was willing to walt IN patience until that part
would be Triumphant, and apply the remed
In their own good time"
When one of the most notorious Rebels c
the SOuth-one Of the hottest bloods OF Sout
Carolina-can come to Tammany Hall, an
with his own pen write notification upon tn
laws of the United States when a butche
like General Forrest can rise, and, amid gres
applause name the most available Of fill
busters to be the Democratic nominee fo
President; when the World is cOmpelle
to scrape its unwilling strings in a second
Hddling to Brick POmeroy; when the La Cross
Democrat is imported into New York city
be the visible and satanic head of the Nations
Democratic press-when all this can be sue
cessfully and brilliantly accomplished, it
lamentably true that ''the Lost Cause
regained," and that "what the Confederac
fought for would be won by the election
Seymour and Blair -