Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-16

handed out n select head-circles (ard tru-
" too that if Seymour and Blair are eiec-
ted their mode Of reverse-reconstructio Of
the Southern States viii SECURE such a
representation IN Congress as, with the
comprehend force north, will control legis-
lative action and, that among tho earlier
and most important measures viii be one
for the honor and payment, with interest,
of ali the ConEed crate securities held
by subjects of neutral Governments. Such
measures, as matter of course, will en-
brace what is calIsd the Confederate War
debt as that class of securities not held
abroad would, at once, be transferred thith-
err. 1t is believed that this class of Confed-
crate securities held, or to be thrown
abroad, Twill amount to not less than sS,oUV,-
10000. To secure the payment OF which,
the parties corruptly at interest in Europe
and America can well afford to expend
during the canvass, in the interest OF Sey-
moor and Blair, $1,000, 100000; and, we
now tell not only Tennesseeans but Amerl-
cans generally that this reasonable and
more than hellishly bribing fund is now at
work and being expended within the United
States. Even Brick Pomeroy, not fro IN
honesty but by malicious accident, almost
directly alluded to its influence in the New
York Convention. As further contrma-
ton Of the truth Of our assertion, our
readers may now, and hereafter, note the
wholesale extravagant expenditure OF
means in the way of public campaign de-
monstrations by those communities which
profess to have been rendered beggared by
losses of the war and taxation. Speakers,
without stint of numbers, will devote their
whole time at home and abroad professedly
for Seymour, Blair and civil and constitu-
tional liberty but, really, for the promo
ton of the old elements of oppressive
slave aristocracy, goaded with fendish
pleasure forward by the impetus of liberal
applications of British and French Gold.
Let the Republican party take fall note,
that in the advocacy of a sacred cause with
gallant noble and trusty leaders, we have
subtle and treacherous foe to contend with,
who will be aided by the briber's corrupt
gold yet, we can and must win the battle.
All that is necessary is, for the American
heart to be taught that there is danger
prowling with hyena grimaces at the door,
and the scenes of patriotic action which
followed the firing on Fort Sumter, will be
more than reproduced.
We repeat the assertion, that the sub
stantial issues of 1923 and are to be
re-fought in 1868 Those who were van
pushed on the open field and compelled to
surrender to the chieftain Ulysses S. Grant,
now prompted by treachery and infamy at
home and bribery from abroad have sought
and procured Frank p Blair, under the
form of legal parliamentary usage, TO moue
a reconsideration, Che having voted with the
majority and he has nsoUed by tsCo letters
one bidding for, and the other accepting the
nomidation.
So the question now before American
freemen is, shall the friends of progressive
American liberty maintain the morale of
their former victories by another glorious
triumph or shall the enemies of progress
sive free government-based on equal rights
and manhood suffrage triumph, with the
banner of revolution and rebellion in the
hands of Blair, their leader2 In other
words, shall our national cemeteries which
guard the sacred dust of our fallen martyrs
to liberty and truth on six hundred battle
fields, be trodden down by the feet Of traitor
GUS scorn2 And shall the loyal American
people permit the acknowledgment that all
the patriotic blood and treasure Of the past
has been shed and expended in vain p
These are questions to be answered by the
people at the polls in November next.