Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-09-24

| "Shs anu euc Tree men, ana tl(
proud youth of Georgia shall gather
together to fire the miserable, hide
GUS record of infamy, let the Office
be mine to kindle the flames. Tire
mendous cheering, lasting several
minutes. |"
The World knows that, if it were
to print half q dozen editorials in
this vein, it might as well give NJ
New York State without strug.
gle.
Here then, is one of the striking
signs of the times: the Democratic
leaders are going forward so fast that
the World cannot keep pace with
them; the Democratic policy is be-
coming SO revolutionary that the
World trembles at committing itself
to it; and the Democratic orators are
SO fiery that the World cannot af-
ford to print their speeches. What
is the consequence? The World
peuts, sucks its thumb, aud goes sui
ieniy to the foot of the class; while
Brick Pomeroy marches to the head
OF the Democratic press of the
country.
Calamity have the rebels captured
the Democratic party. The South,
not the North, animated the Tam.
many Convention. The South, not
the North, dictated the one essential
feature of the platform. The author
of its chief plank was none other
than Wade Hampton. He says:
''When the resolution offered by
the Senator from Maryland, which
declared that the rights of suffrage
belonged to the political powers of q
State, were being considered, 1
begged to add few simple words.
They agreed; and | took the resolu-
tions, which you will find embodied
in the platform, and added to them.
'and we declare that the reconstruc
tion acts of Congress are uneonsti
tutional, revolutionary and void.'-
Cheers That aOas my plank in tie
platform. l wanted nothing else: for
when the great Democratic party
had pledged themselves to that, when
they had declared that these acts
were unconstitutional, revolution
ary, and void l was willing to wait
in patience until that party would be
triumphant, and apply the remedy in
their own good time.'
When one of the most notorious
rebels of the Sou u.h-one of the hot
test bloods OF South Carolina--can
come to Tammany Hall, and with his
own pen write notification upon the
avs of the United States; when a
butcher like Gen. Forrest can rise,
and, amid great applause, name the
most available of filibusters to be the
Democratic nominee for Vice Presi-
lent; when the World is cnuunalle6 |
when the La Crosse Democrat is i'm
ported into New York City to be the
'isible and satanic head of the Ma
ional Democratic press; when all
his can be successfully and brilliant
y accomplished, it is lamentably |
rue that ''the Lost Cause is re-
and that "what the Con-
'ederacy fought for would be won by
he election of Seymour and Blair"
1t has become as plain as a pike
staff that the War Democrats of three
,r four years ago have no longer
my control over the Democratic
party; that Northern Democratic
ournals, except of the Brick Pome-
'oy school, no longer influence the
policy of party whose leaders now
,eside altogether in the rebel States;
md that the Democracy of the whole
country are now under the active
of Jefferson Davis's ia
yorite lieuten ants. ."
Accordingly, the Seymour party is
, worse enemy to the country in
1868 than it was in 1864. For then
t existed only in the North, and was
by Northern Copperheads;
put now it exists throughout the
country, and is controlled by South
srn rebels. Its uniform is Confede-
rate gray, its spirit is treason, and its
purpose is revolution.
Down with its Black Flag! a