Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-23
The stars and Bars at the Democratic



their speeches are in the same tone. Wade
Hampton, the chief Southern Democratic
leader. 10 his first speech after the nomina-
tions, said, that Seymour and Blair in
certain contingency must be placed in the
White House at the point of the bayonet.
The large and the small cry in chorus.
Captain Rynders announces that,
It. If fraud should be attempted he would
be one Of the multitude who would literally
take up arms against the tyrant, and by the
by the ballot"
Howell Cobb said the other day at At
Ianta, quoting from the Democratic plat
form
The Reconstruction acts are null and
void and shall not stand. !: < The grin
ming skeletons which have been set up in
our midst as legislators shall be ousted by
Frank Blair, whom our party has express
ly appointed for that purpose"
John Forsyth, one of the most arrogant
rebels, says in his Mobile Register, speaking
of the Reconstruction acts
1--WE may as well say that the people of
the South do not intend to submit to that
permanent rule, result as the Presidential
election may. And they have only submit
! ted to its indignities and insults so far be-
cause they have been waiting for the good
sense and justice Of the American people to
relieve them fromit, and restore them to
civil rights in the November election"
I
The Meridian Mercury, in Mississippi,
says:
We must make the negro understand
we are the men we were when we held him
| IN abiect bondage, and make him feel that
when forbearanee ceases to be a virtue, he
has aroused a power that will control him
or destroy him"
Wade Hampton, in speech in Charles
ton, says:
Agree among yourselves, and act firmly
on this agreement that you will not employ
any one who votes the Radical ticket Use
all the means that are in your hands to
control this element"
The Democratic clubs are following
Hampton's advice. One in Columbia re-
Gently resolved:
That no member of the club shall en-
ploy, rent lands to, or patronize any Radi-
cal, after the present contracts have ex-
pired and that from this date we will not
give any employment to any freedmen who
are struggling over the country as day-la.
borers, who cannot show that they are
members of some Democratic association.
J The Republican Banner, Democratic or
gan in Nashville, announces that in IL con.
fict Of races:
SO far as the white native citizens OF
this State may be compelled to take part il
it, they will be very careful, throughout the
carnival which would naturally ensue, tC
remember Fort Pillow in act as well az
word, and
Throughout the bloody conflict
Seek the white man, not the black "
The hero Of the massacre at Fort Pillow
and delegate to the Democratic Conven
ton, General Forrest, said at a recent meet
ing of rebel officers in Memphis, speaking
of the militia bill Of that State
Troops would be called out. They
would be backed by Federal forces Presi
dent Johnson, Notwithstanding all he and
others had done to crafty his pride in the
National Convention, had gone back upon
the Democracy. He did not look for any
help from him; but it mattered not how
many were arrayed against him and his ole
comrades. X 4 He would foot his horn
He knew that his old troops would answer
as they had always done. He babe them
arm themselves and be ready. They were
already drilled, and needed no drilling. !
* He should be IN favor Of giring no quar-
ter r'
Undoubtedly; and Gen. Forrest was o
the same opinion at Fort Pillow.
Mr.. Green Clay Smith, Governor of Mon
tana, in late speech for Seymour and Blail
in Washington, remarked:
+" Virginia, as well as all the Southern
States, is entitled to the same privileges al
before the rebellion. She was CONQUERED
as Virginia, and is still the State of Virgin
ia, and her electoral vote must be counted
Should it be cast for Grant it would b,
counted by this Radical party, and tn,
Democrats would say Amen. Should it b,
cast for Seymour and Blair, by the Eterna
it shall be counted"
The new organ of The Democratic party
in New York, the Democrat, says
" 1t will persistently and unfinchingly
advocate the equality of States or another
war
Gen. Battle, Of the rebel army, advocate,
Seymour and Blair at Mobile in a strain o
which this is an illustration:
The Democratic party indorses princi
Piles for which you battled 4 ! Not only
does it declare in favor of that Constitution
so dear to YOU etc. etc.
The Vicksburg Times says:
1t was this identical letter of Frank
Blair to his friend Col Broadhead, that Sc
cured the Missouri hero the nomination fol
president. We want Just such ammu
milton as Frank Blair uses"
Albert Pike, strenuous for Seymour anC
Blair, exclaims, in the Memphis appeal
a. The South is our land the North is 2
foreign and hostile realm. < ! The day
will come when the South will be indepen
dent"
Mr.. Ramsey, Democratic orator in
Georgia, says:
We are in the midst of a great revoIu
ton which may end peaceably at the bal
lot box; but if not, then the true men o.
the South will rally once more around Their
now folded banner, and will try the issue Al
/ the cartridge box. There are men in the
North who are now truly with YOU. and
who viii in such a conflict, if necessary
lead your battallions."
The Petersburg IRder declare that