The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-08-18

VIZ TAKE the following from the Buffalo
Commercial: "The Charleston Courier recon-
mends the rebel officers of the South to use
little more strategy In their efforts to beat
General Grant. 1t desires them to moderate
their political speeches, for fear that their
,extraragance of statement will inlure the
Democratic cause in the North. We shall
probably have Hampton, Cobb. and Toombs
for the balance Of the campaign as quiet as
cooling doves. But they cannot escape the
ever the rebels in the South and the Copper
heads In the North may say, that they mean
but one thing, In case they gain power, and
this issue, and no amount Of easy rhetoric can
deceive the American people. There is but
one question.,peace or war General Grant
the other. We have but two parties in tho
country, and both are in earnest"
GEN. THOMAS EWING, JR., of Kansas, was
among the candidates for the New York nomi-
nation as Vice President; and come Democrats
holding more moderate views than Gen. Blair.
But the following paragraph from one OF Ew-
ing's recent speeches shows that he is even
Ideas than Blair himself "on the Sd OF No.
yember next the American people will en-
deavor to restore those States to their eonsti-
tutional rights. SHOULD this by possibility
succeed In placing themselves In possession OF
their governmentsj otherwise as sure as the
Anglo-Saxon blood runs in the viens OF South
ern men, there will be an upheAval Of civil
war, and then should Congress sustain the
blacks, ashes will cover the ruins Of the whole
Republic"
THE World has now taken to denouncing all
the Union Generals. Gen. Sheridan and Gen.
dinate mem" Ord tan inflated popinjay,'
Meade, the hero of Gettysburg, with Mellow
ell and CANDY, are pronounced "wooden liter
alistsi" Pope and Sickles are berated rs "politi.
cal courtesansy' but "butcher" Forrest and
renegade Preston are "brave men, and Wade
Hampton "does honor to tho name OF Ameri.
can citizen"
THE noble declarations OF Wade Hampton
and Vance, following the keynote OF General
Blair, which sounds the true Issue Of this con-
test, we cordially indorse. II we are not to be
relieved Of negro domination and carpet-bag-
ger representation by the success Of Seymour
and Blair, what account will a Democratic
victory be to usP'
The Richmond Whig says "We can, per
haps, do more for the election of Seymour and
Blair By q discreet silence than by any other
course OF action. Our own interests will GER
time and energies than by wasting that time
ridges"
IT IS reported that Senator Dooiittle is to
be rewarded for his desertion OF the Republi-
can party by the Democratic nomination for
Congress In tho First Wisconsin district. Two
years ago the Republicans carried this district
by four thousand three hundred and eighty.
for an election will not be very good.
RoIERT TooMBs said In his speech at At
lanta, Ca, the other day: ~ will tell you an
other fact, which 10 enough for this time, that
as the late war was produced by the defeated
Democratic party In isGO, we shall never have
peace until It Is returned In 1865"
One OF the delegates to the Democratic
county convention, which met at Napoleon,
Ohio, few days since, said he had "voted the
Democratic ticket ever since he was seventeen
years old" There are good many Of that
sort
Tue Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading Demo.
mour could not have been nominated at New
York but for his known and hearty concur.
renee with Pendleton and others In regard to
the payment Of the public debt.