The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-05
Southern Democratic Leaders in New YORK

Southern Democratic Leaders in New York.
from lhe ~ T. Herald
Some time since 1t was announced with con-
siderable flourish Of trumpets tha. a number
of Southern DemocI att leaders would visit
the North for the purpose OF taking the stump
in favor Of Seymour and Blair. We have
seen the announcement of the arrival of save
lal OF those distinguished gentlemen in our
city, including that OF Howell Cobb, Ben Hli,
Governor Vance, General Gordon, aud several
others, and IL ia not impossible that Briga tirr
Bob Toonbs is lodged somewhere among us,
as when last heard from in Georgia he was
packing his carpet. bsg for a trio North These
Southern leaders have been Hospitality treated
by our Democratic and other symplthzing
msgpates. They have had the entr6e to the
society of our Democratic naO0bs and million
aires. They have been diued and wined,
lionized and laoqueyized, Msnhattanized aud
Tammauyized, and been made the recipieut5
OF genuine welcome at the hands of our
most venerated and opulent and aristocratic
Kpickerbocker families, to say nothing OF the
''shent- persistent" Democratic aristooracy of
later growth.
All this is very we'll so far as 1t goes. 1t is
well for the city Of New York to maintain her
reputation as the most hospitable, as it is fast
becoming the most magnificent and prosper
Gus, city in the world. 1t ia well that any of
our unfortunate fellow -couutrymen of the
ard gorgeous sociality. But what did these
Southern gentlemen come here forH Was it
only TO be feasted and toasted, oourted aud
smirked upon or was it to lay before the
people of the North, in their own burning
Southern tongue, descriptions of the wrongs
and outrages the South is at this moment
laEoripg under, and to appeal to the justice,
the honor, the magnanimity of the great peo-
pie of the North Tor relief therefroml We
believe they came here to adopt the latter
course, and that they have not followed it is
because they have been advised to the con-
trary by the week-kneed, sordid, and selfish
managers of the Democratic party here. Are
they afraid to make speeches To be so would
be mean and cowardly, entirely unworthy the
chivalIio reputation of every born Southern
gentleman. That General Graut will be
the next President every Southerner who
has examined the question must admit. All
they can say, then, will not alter the final re-
suit; and it is higher, nobler, purer, more
honorable and dignfed for these Southern
leaders to boldly proclaim their principles and
views, than to surrender them without an
effort and allow them to be covered forever,
perhaps, with the shroud of oblivion.
We tell them, then, that they should talk
to our Northern people, proclaim their senti-
ments, and within eight years, now that
slavery has gone up forever, we venture to
predict they will see them prevail and them
selves the managers of the Government.
Southern leaders like Wade Hampton, Forrest,
Vance, Ben Hill, Howell Cobb, TOombs, A. II.
Stephens, General Gordon, and a host of
others, must have settled in their own minds
that they cannot expect to be victorious the
present campaign. They should be and no
doubt are now making arrangements for the
future, shaping their coming policy, healing
ruptures, oementing friendships, re-establish-
ing their credit at home and abroad, organizing
victory, making success duty, and otherwise
preparing for a grand constitutional trium ph
let these leaders come out and state what they
mean. Every man has a right to attempt
to revolutionize government in a consti-
tutional way. In our Government, at the
present time, the oficehplders, bondhoders,
place-seekers, and contract plunderers and
jobbers manage things pretty much their own
way. They elect man to secure the spoils.
But in this age of progress, with the vast
changes in the commercial social, moral, po-
litical, and material condition of our country
constantly occurring, it is the part of wisdom
for all parties, both North and South, to help
along the work of constitutional improvement
and make the greatness of the nation keep pace
with the grandeur of passing events. WHAT
ever changes in the Government may be neces-
sary to accomplish this end can be secured in
q constitutional and, we believe peaceful
way. The South can lead off in this splendid
movement. They can unfurl their banners
| even now, and with the intense opposition that
exists in the North to one hideous radical idea
the policy of negro supremacy, which is an
outrage alike upon the laws of God and man
they can open a campaign which must meet a
hearty cooperation among the masses of the
people Of the North, and eventuate in their
triumphant and constitutional restoration to
the reins of the government of the nation.