The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-09-25

And this he, too, did-"Jecdase !
had q mind to-
And who does not remember tha
fine piece of political strategy-tha
charmingly pure and honorable bl
of maneuveriHg between LINCOLN an
young Frank Blair, during the wal
when the latter, while holding a ger
erals commission in the army, 90
himself elected to Congress from 81
Louis.
Frank wanted to get into th
uouse and be Speaker. Ifhe couldn'
6e Speaker, he wanted to remain
General. But he could not be
member of the House and Genera
both at the same time.
This had to be managed in som
way. SO, Frank and brother Mont
gomery, and Lincoln, and old ma
Blair, got together and got their wit
at work to devise some way OF gcttini
along with it.
The result was eminently credits
bic TO the purity and ingenuity of tn
parties concerned, and demonstrste'
That the Blair family will not volun
tarily give up a good thing tha
they have in possession, withou
making sure of something better il
exchange. So it was arranged tina
Frank should resign his General
commission and Lincoln should ae
cept it, bat net confer it, HpOn an.
one else, until it was seen whether o
not Frank got the Speakership, ant
if he did not, he was 10 have his com
mission back.
And SO it was carried out, Franl
did not become Speaker, and wal
reinstated i'll the army, furnishing
an eminent example of the purity apt
patriotism that prevailed in thos'
days, and for which the Blair family
has always been SO distinguished.
Thus these younger Blairs, thu
ready tools and CO workers of Lincoln
and the Jacobin party during the
whole process of the destruction q
the grand fabric OF free governmen'
which now lies in RUNS 'arouRd us
counseling the worst and all the
measures which the destruciionist'
in troduced and carried out, and tn,
elder Blair, like spirit of evil, thrust
ing himself into the dark conclaye'
of the conspirators against public
liberty, kissing out his venom agains
the Democratic party, and instigatins
the wasting and destroying of tn
South for grudges of well nigh fort.
years standing, conceived and cher
ished because her leading men
Calhoun, McDuflie, Rowan, Bib
Tazewell, Troup. Davis and others
always scorned him as a mercenar,
adventurer, and refused to recOgniZ,
him in society.
1t is this Blair family, whose his
tory is thus truthfully sketched
which now claims position and .
voice in the Democratic party, ant
even assumes TO dictate its nomina
ton for the Presidency. In fact, i
has the modesty to claim the nomifia
ton for one of its own members
the butcher of st. LOuis--the mic,
young gentleman who so adroitly
balanced between the SpeakershiI
and a Brigadier Generalship, and tc
whom Lincoln SO kindly tossed the
latter when the former was not to bs
caught. - iff "a
Has the Democratic party fallen So
low as To be used 10y such creatures
Is il so craven as TO allow such fellows
TO say what it shall do or what il
shall not do? One of these BIairs
has the impudence to say that the
party cannot be united on any one oil
the candidates already named--some
new man must he taken up-!' Think
of it I.,ank it over! Where is
Train! Send Tor Train! He only
can match him.
The Democratic party cannot be
united On any candidate already
namedi Good! Where did you
learn all that, Montgomery Z BY
going to SilOer Spring and consulting
the old man, or sending out to 81.
Louis and asking brother Frank 7
Then the Blair family stands out
against the nomination of any csndi-
date already named OF course, the
party cannot be united
then on any OF these candidates
The Blair family "goes back" on
these candidates So the party can
not unite on any of them! The
party is not united without the
Blairs In fact it is no party without
the Blairs! Whew What a big
family! To use the expression OF
their late lamented master. " VIA
a long tail oar cat has gOtf'
But all this difficulty could but got
over, if the Convention would unite
the party by nominating Gen Frank.
Then the party would be united, OF
course, for the Blair family would
be satisfied. When they are satisfied
Si.s fssrty is -unIted How simple
Why has not this been thought of
before?
Now, gentlemen, enough of this
The Democratic party is united
united as never before, upon princi-
Dles and a mani You-know this full
well, and all your efforts will avail
nothing 10 defeat the peoples will.
In this great crisis you are of no ac-
have no weight--you
must stand aside, and give place to
.he millions who are going to do the
voting and will have it to suit them,
1r know the reason why
This trifling with the peoples will
must stop The country has had
of it, and its patience is ex-
lausted. The public mind must not
DC provoked further. There is feel
ng growing up most threatening to
certain conspicuous actions in the
interest of the bondholders. Foul
,lay is apprehended.
II it be successfully consummated,
,repare for the consequences. The
,eople's wrath will be terrible. and
hey will take up their own cause,
md battle for it under leaders of their
,wn selection, and in whom they can
rust. We warn all who have enter
.d into the conspiracy of the bond
lolders against the right, to look to
heir safety while they may, and
make harmony where they are threat
ming discord, and secure victory
where they are plotting defeat.
The Democracy carried PeHnsyl-
of a