The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-29

have been set up in their midst as legislator,
shall be ousted by Frank Blair, whom our
party has expressly appointed for that pur-
pose" Said Howell CODb: -''In war we drew
the sword, and bade them defiance; in peace
We gather up thu manhood of the south, aud
raising the banner OF constituti NAL equality,
and gathering around it the good men of
the North, as well as the south, we huI into
their teeth the same d,fiau ~, and bid The N
come on to the struggle. We are ready for
it, if you are.n Albert Pike calls upon the
Young nan of the South to swear that the
Susquehanna and Ohio shall be like rivers of
fire, which no Northern Hun shall attempt to
cross and live. "Spoesslon is not dead" says
Governor Wise; ''it is more alive to-day than
ever. support Blair because he promises re-
vOluton." j. NJ. Ramsey of Georgia declares
that the true men OF the South are ready to
rally once more under the Rebel flag "and try
the issue at the oartridge.box," " and promises
that there are men in the North who will lead
their battalions. "1f are successful in the ap-
preaching contest" says the Mobile Tribune,
1--WE shall gain all that we lost in
the Lost Cause.'" "The country is by far
too large to remain very long under one
Government" says the Memphis appeal,
''and the day will come when the South will
be independent" "By the election of Ssy-
mour and Blair" says Governor Vance, of
North Carolina, call that the Confed 4racy
fought for will be won." The Mobile Tribune
declares that "the great Democratic party will
rise in its might, and the dagger of Brutus
may aid in accomplishing our redemption
from radical rule, ruin, and usurpation."
"There are many Democrats at the North who
believe" asserts the Mobile RegiSter "that
the cOunter-revol will not be- complete
without more blood-lettiDg" and the
Richmond Enquirer adds, "The white
men of the Southern States have seen
the day when they could use the bullet,
and, if God in his anger permit the
necessity to arise, they will use it again"
"With the skull and cross bones of the Lost
'Canse' before US, cries the Meridian (Miss.)
lercuTy "we will swear that this is white
mans Government. We must make the negro
understand we are the men we were when we
held him in abject bondage" General Blair
at the head OF the militia will be a match for
General Grant at the head of the regular
army" boasts General Ewing. The Georgia
Democratic Convention declared: - There
might once have been a necessity for the Rebels
of Georgia to submit to the military authori-
ties, but there is none now. The Democratic
chivalry of the North are marching to our
rescue"
This is enough. We might fill columns
with such shriells and yells of Rebellion, the
echoes of 1861, but every day swells the evil
dence that the Southern leaders repudate the
surrender of Lee, and repay with plans of a
new war the generosity which saved them
from the gallows. Whether it b9 right or
wrong that treason deserves death, it is GER
tain that the people OF the North did not per
NIT that question to be raised; in their magma
nimity they put it aside, and required of
traitors no indemnity for the past, imposed no
punishment for their crimes, but dem auded
only security for the future. 1t was peace for
which we longed, and are we now to learn that
we We're wrong in seeking to establish peace in
the spirit of mercy rather than in that which
demands an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth We must believe so, if we can believe
Frank Blair, Wade Hampton, Howell Cobb,
the leaders of the Democratic party North and
South, and the unanimous voice of the Rebel
press. In 1850 and 1861 these identical threats
were made by the same men, but the patriotic
masses could not credit their sincerity, till the
attack upon Sumter proved that the South
was III deadly earnest. 1t is the duty of the
American people to profit by that terrible ex-
perience. We are warned by the Democratic
party itself that its triumph means war; that
it intends that Blair aud Seymour shall esta-
blish the principles of the Confsderacy. That
warning it would be criminal folly to des pise.
1t is Grant who represents in this contest the
great cause which he represented In the war,
and only by his election can peace aud order
he preserved and permanently established.