The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-07-24
FOR PRESIDENT;
ULYSSES s. GRANT,
OF ILLINOIS.
ARE WE TO HAVE ANOTHER REyO.
LUTYON?

We may hubWtN tnlb VuebuOu
by declaring, that II Seymour and Blair are
elected, we need expect nothing less than the
Inauguration Of another bloody civil war. II
there was ever q set of revolutionists, who
were bent upon the commission Of bloody and
Infamous deeds, the present leaders of the
Democracy, North and South, constitute Just
that sort of faction.
This may appear to be 4 severe charge, and
not warranted by the facts In the case We
will let these people speak for themselves, and
then our readers can judge whether we are an
alarmist and are making statements not veri-
fed by existing facts.
There was a ratification meeting in Mobile
the other night, at which meeting several OF
tho most distinguished rebels spoke. The
first speaker was Admiral Semmes.
He said:
~ have been Democrat all my life-before
the war, during the war, and since the war
and fought the war y, on the principles Of Dem
ton which embodied these principles was
about to be destroyed. drew my sword against
the old hag-the old tag which no longer rep.
resented these principles; 1t was not the flag
Of l.70 against which drew my sword, but
the flag which had become "a haunting iie,'
socalled by prominent politicians Of the North.
But now, In spite of the efforts Of those politi.
clans, who endeavored to straugle the old
new Conservative party-a sort Of conglomer.
ated party-which was to comprise politicians
OF every shade of opinion, the grand old Dem
ocratic party has risen from the long slumber
In which 1t had indulged and now gives signs
NEW life and vitality, and have come here
to-hight from the country to ratify and rejoice
Blair " '"' ''"'H u ''' "0uf anu
This is the man who during the war we were
wont to call pirate, the man who DESTROYED
our merchant marine. Further on in his speech,
Semmes says that q" The election Of Seymour
and Blair will reduce the negro to a subordi-
nate position as of the inferior race"
The next speaker was a Colonel Herndon,
and these are his words:
1.-THE resolutions, under the circumst nces
were good; but IL there were any omissions In
the platform, 'the brave and magnanimous
sPescess 81 seyRRS s and Biais supplied them
but brave, true, generous heart could utter
such sentiment as thist Can we not strike
hands with him, and swear with him for our
die"
A Judge Jones next took the stand, anf de-
livered himself as follows: He told his audi
tors that he preferred Pendleton to Seymour,
or what would have been better nominatio ion,
General Robert L. Lee. But he said, never
theIess, the Blair letter was q good enough
platform for him. He said;
"On the issue Of the contest before them
depended their all. Before the war the
Southern people believed in State Rights;
Rights. Unfortunately for them, and perhaps
for the whole country, the result Of the war
was q permanent extinguishment of State
Rights, unless, under Gods Providence, the
democratic party, under the leadership OF
seymour and Blair, re-establish the time-hon.
pred principle"
There was also a speech delivered In that
meeting by rebel, whose name 10 Percy Wal
ker. This man said:
This was the first time since the day when
Robert L. Lee, the great commander of armies,
was compelled to give up the contest gal.
Ian lN uga nnIN nr lnttr and and al q.
ssemy sft swoa whch d
ously over SO many battle.felds, that he saw
the termination OF that contest mighty wrongS
hard expressions, bitter notifications anu
humiliations have been our lot At last the
struck and the Great National Democratic party
has taken up our cause. 1t seemed to the speak.
er that the ith of July, 1858, was as full OF
south as the ith of July, l776. was to their
''Horatio Seymour says the negro cannot rule
this country. Blair says that the reconstruct
ton Of the South is unconstitutional and tn at
the white mans government should be re.
plause To put an end to the carpet baggers
and scallawags, he believes In calling in the
aid OF the army Of the United States. 1t is tho
duty ofeVery white nan to give his aid to our
friends in the North"
So much for what was done and said at the
Democratic ratification meeting in Mobile
Let Us now turn our attention to another
meeting which was held some days since at
st. Louis. 1t was a large gathering, and con-
yened to ratify the nomination OF Seymour
and Blair, We give a single extract from the
speech of one Charles Gibson, who said:
"Mr. Blair, in this letter, tells us that II he
be elected President of the United States, or
become President, Ia voice, Vice Presi-
dentr'l-well, If he be elected Vice President
lie may become President-he tells you that
IL he becomes President OF the United States
that he expects these unconstitutional gov
IN nth the south beg9tten 6y the sword
tells you that II, In the exercise OF his consti.
tutional powers, 1t becomes necessary, he ciH
use The necessary measures 10 remoUe them out of
those halls. A voice, He Is right and cheers
1t is position that Is entirely constitutional
and peaeeable, because II the majority of the
people of the loyal states say that these gov
eInments shall be put down, and Seymour and
Blair are elected, this minority, y hey attempt
10 resist II, become mere dtSorgdni=erS, a horde, a
iaIciess mob, By ptOnsoerer they may be headed"
IGreat cheering.l
Now, do not these extracts show the animus
and purpose Of these eopperheadsi Do they
not distinctly declare their object to be revo-
lutionl
There cannot be any danger that the people
will elect such ticket; but It is we'll, never
theless, to show our people to what an enter
tainment and carnival of blood they are in
vted by the Democracy.
Let us now turn our attention to another
ratification meeting nearer home, even In our
sister city of Baltimore. Col. Thomas f.
Bowie, a leading Maryland Democrat, spoke
at this meeting, aud said that the "war be-
gan with the purest patriotism, and though 1t
was not successful, it was to sustain the Con
stitution Of the United States. with the fall
of the South fell the Constitution, and 1t Ia
now crushed under foot. The miserable tral.
tors and conspiTators, the radical faction, had
egislated unconstitutionAlly all the time"
In the same speech he advocated the taxing
the bOndholders, and declared that "they gdue
their money 10 PrOSecme he most uRhOly rcdr spcr
kHOon on earth"
Wade Hampton was at this meeting, and
these are his words, He said
81 remember that when Twas soldier In
the glorious army Of Northern Virginia, the
sons OF Maryland swept across the borders
and again stood side by side with South Caro-
lima In great contest for liberty"
These are but small portion of the ovt-
denoe which can be furnished to prove our
statement, that the leaders Of the Democracy
are In conspiracy with the rebels, and that
both mean revolution and the overthrow OF
theGoveInment,