New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-01
yocR4CY MEANS REvoLUTIoY'


does il mean All efforts to cloud the canvass
by introducing new issues have failed The
lines of demarcation are drawn with wonderful
distinctness. Financial questions, taxation ana
tariffs, foreign and domestic economy, are SUD-
sidiary. There will he no serious trouble about
having the debt, when the time comes to pay
il. We can trust the common sense OF the
for that. Tariffs and taxation Will
right themselves in obedience to the immutabe
laws of supply and demand. The issue that
transcends and absorbs all these is simply this:
Shall iCe hare a Revolution certain policy
has been adopted. Whatever may be said about
Reconstruction; whatever may be its merits or
dement's, it is now the supreme law OF the land.
The Fourteenth Article places the whole ques-
ton of Reconstruction above the reach OF any
political party. Even give the Democracy the
fullest triumph Suppose it elects Mr.. Seymour
and majority of the House, the Senate Is
Radical, and strong enough to veto any attempt
TO amend or destroy the work of Congress.
The whole power of the Democratic party
could not take the bar from single Rebel, or
place a bar upon single negro. Nay, even IN
the small matter of the dispensation OF Office,
a Democratic President would be powerless.
He could not touch Radical postmaster with
ont the consent of a Radical Senate. lie
would be merely the minister of laws which he
disapproyed, and the servant of n Senate that
did not trust him. How then could the election
of Seymour conduce to the advantage of the
Democratic partyf How could the new Admin
istraton carry out the wishes OF Its conStltu-
entsi Simply by Reroluion.
Tho Democratic party understands this, and
to gain power is prepared 10 take the RESPONSE
biIity of revolution, even unto war. Remem-
Der the defiance of Frank Blair which gave
him the unanimous vote Of the Democratic
convention. lie knew the spirit to which he
appealed. As Union soldier, and renegade
from the Union party, he could speak with
more frankness and energy than Copperhead
like Yalandigham, or SecessOnst like Hamp-
ton. Gentlemen he said. al know what you
"want. know the spirit that moves you.
"You purpose revolution. You would like to
see every carpet-bagger driven out of the
"SOuth-eveTy negro remanded to Slavery
"every traitor to the South banished from
"hs home. Make me Vice-President and if it
Should please God to put me in the Presi-
"dency | will execute your work AS COM
mander- in chief of the army and navy, you
"can rely upon my fidelity and courage. /
Twill issue proclamation sustaining the Con-
"stitution and ordering the carpet-bag Gov
"ernments to dispense. In sixty days War
moth and Bullock and Reed would be seek
cling shelter in Canada and the Niger legisla-
tors would return TO the shovel and the hoe
This is the bid which Gen. Blair made. The
II al ho rafif,ai tho
ceptance by an additional letter, in which he
repeated his promise.
This is the pledge OF Gen. Blair; let us see
what his followers think The cowardly World
gives due prominence to the eloquence of Isaiah
Rynders and Richard O'GOrman, but it is silent
about Toombs and Cobb and Hill and IIamp-
ton. 1t is not for us to dwell upon this con-
spicuOus dishonesty in journalism, this ignoring
of the ablest and most hOnOred leaders of the
Democratic party. Gen. Hampton was better
treated here during the Convention Then he
was an oracle. He was met, he says, with
cordially and good will" The leaders, how
ever, declared, according to Gen. Hampton,
"their willingness to give us (tbe Rebels ev-
"erything we could desire, but they begged as 10
"remember that they had great fight to make
"at the North, and they therefore besought us
not to load the platform with weight that they
could not carry against the prejudices which
"they had to encounter. Help them once 10
"gain the po,Cer and then they wOuId do their ut
"most TO relieue the Southern States, and restore
"to as the Union and the Constitution as ii had
"eyisted before the War;" This is the promise
which Mr.. Hampton received, and no added,
amid the cheers of a mob of Charleston Rebels,
that it ais policy that suits us, when The great
" Democratic party is pledged TO the declaration
" that the Reconstruction acts are uncOnStitu
iOndl revolutionary, and rOid. Especially
",cheR eUery member Of the party, and the Uarm-
"est are from the North, is ready TO take IL up
"and carry il out" Here, then, is evidence
that the scheme of Gen. Blair. the revolution
airy scheme 10 destroy the carpet bag" govern
ments. even by military force, was planned
between the Democratic leaders aud the Sc
ceSsiOn generals. Gen. Hampton tells lis there
was no dissent. He found every member of
the party pledged to it (Mr. Seymour and ALL,
the "warmestr being "from the North" and
that they only wanted success in November TO
enable then "tO take ii up and carry il OUT
Thus, then, we have the whole Democratic
party solemnly committed to revolution-at a
secret convention held in New York, at which
Rebel generals attended. We call it a" conven-
ton" but it was rather capitulation-a sur
render-and what is worse the surrender of
traitors. If they had surrendered openly-in
broad day-with frank avOwal of their purpose.
no one would have complained. They deliber-
ately proposed to cheat the country. Help
" them once TO gain The poeer' aud all will 90