The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-06

Northern immigrants, with all manner OF
opprobrious epithets, taken up and expanded
by Northern hunkies, and see what Is the
burden of it all. 1t is that Northern men who
have come among them to live have ass umed
the same political rights as natives, and have
dared to have q voice in political agitation,
and vote in elections, and even to be voted
for and that that voice and that vote and that
official position is loyal to the National Gov
eminent; which is to say, in their understand
ing, that it is hostile to the South.
In the Southern press or public speeches
there can be found no recognition OF the right
ef settlers who come from the North to eXer-
else the rights of citizens, or to have any
political ideas; but, on the other hand, these
organs of public expression pour forth decla-
rations Of hate and vengeance toward them II
they exercise any political rights in fidelity to
the National Government. They may vote, If
they vote the Rebel class into power, in
avowed hostility to the nation. They may be
political serfs to the old slaveholding and still
Rebel class; but if they exercise the rights of
citizens, they are made subjects for present
hate and secret outrage, and for that reign OF
vengeance which the Rebel class expect to
realize when Seymour and Blair shall be
elected.
And, as in the hacyon days of the Demo-
cratic party, when the name of Abolitionist
tion for the Southern murder and robbery of
a Northern citizen; and as in the early days
of secession, the charge of Unionism was in
the mind of the Northern Democrat full justi-
fication for the massacre of Southern citizens,
so we see the Democratic journals aud stump
speakers taking up the epithets which their
old Rebel masters apply to emigrants from the
North, and adding their yell of vituperation
and contumely to intensity and justify the
Southern hatred.
We even see Vallandigham, the notorious
carpet bagger of the Rebellion, piling vile
epithets ON brave soldiers who earned ma
tional citizenship by five years of military
duty and who gained residence in the South
by the highest right, that Of rescuing it from
Rebellion, while he was boasting of the pro-
teotion of his infamy under the British lion.
And we see George Z. Pugh, whose Demo
cratic ferocity has found no abatement in re-
tirement, in his Sixth street speech gloating
over the anticipation that the election of Sey-
mour and the fulflment of the Blair declara-
tion Of war will put to flight all these Northern
emigrants who have dared to carry into the
South the rights of manhood and citizenship.
1t is true, this Rebel class in the South offer
to be magnanimous, and to permit Northern
men to come there and live If they will not
attempt to exercise any political rights, or if
they will act in subserviency to them. They
may be tolerated so long as they abide by these
conditions, and do not fall under suspicion.
But the evidenceoof all the organs of expires
sion Of Southern feeling is that Northern
emigrant who adheres to the party which put
down the Rebellion and saved the Republic is
regarded by the ruling class of whites in the
| South as an enemy, upon whom the only re-
straint of their just vengeance is the army OF
the United States. u....
And the evidence of the organs of the De-
| mocratic party in the North is equally unani-
| hnt hat
upon such terms only shall Northern men be
permitted to live in the South. This is the
peace which they desire. And would it be
reasonable to suppose that party which in
| cites and applauds this warfare in the South
| upon Northern men because they are not of
the Democratic party, would not carry the
| same war into the North if they could, and
would not also make it dangerous there for
any man to be opposed to the Democratic
party Why should they desire men to have
rights in the North which they would deprive
| them of in the South
| Democratic politics always meant state of
warfare. That party could never tolerate free
| dem Of opinion. 1t was always truculent and
full of hate. While the party ruled the coun-
try, it supported bloody barbarism in more
than one half of the country, and tried to
spread it over the rest. Its principle always
was, be Democrat or die! Allegiance to the De-
| mocratic party allows no love OF country. The
real Democrat is an enemy to the Government
as soon as his party ceases to possess it. He
| turns Immediately to treason. When the party
| was turned out of the administration by the
popular elections, it naturally turned to des
troy the republic 1t now seeks to restore
a state of warfare in the South, in which
every man who is not Democrat shall be
deprived of all protection OF law for his per-
son or property. And it has for its leading
declaimers, North and South, the men who
were humiliated by the triumph OF our arms
and whose ruling passion is desire for ven
geance upon the loyal men who defeated
them. They have been 20 unwise as to pro-
claim in advance this regime of vengeance
upon the Union soldiers and other Union men
who have settled in the South. But all this
savage enjoyment will end with anticipation.
If there had been possibility of the election
of Seymour and Blair, the help which it has
had from blatant Rebels, North and South,
would have been fatal.