Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-09-03

~ n "Iribna' Oh seymour anu BiAirs
MKssRs. EpIToRs when number of Turks
were executed by Napoleon Bonaparte at Jaffa in
1888 for breaking the laws of war, in violating
their paroles and beheadlng messenger under q
flag Of truth,-all Europe denounced him as
monster OF cruelty.
Gen. Haynau, of the Austrian Army, during the
Hungarian Rebellion, put to death thirteen Hun
garian officers, in cold blood. In 1850 he went
London, and while visiting the celebrated brew
cries of Barclay g. Perkins, his name became
known to the workmen, who turned out Ten
mnsse," offered him al the indgnities In their
power, and cart-whipped him out Of the works
Indeed, SO excited became the mob Of honest
Englshmen that the interference of the police
alone saved the life Of " Butcher Haynau," who
Gas might have been expected) soon after left
London and England 10 disgust.
When tue Austrian Minister asked for an cx-
PLANTATION, at the hands of the British Govern
ment, he was very cOOlly assured lhat they would
take no trouble about tho matter.
In the year Of our Lord 1868, there appeared in
New York man far more bood-thirsty than
either of these and ny-shades-deeper-dyed In
infamy-0ne who, as REBEL had violated the
sacredness of flag of truce by stealing under Its
folds into National fort; one who then had shot
down In cold blood. unarmed men, women and
little children; who had, Scpoy-ike cut and mu-
tiated woundedeodcrs who had, Indnn-ike,
plandered and burned his prisoners who had,
Devilike gloated over, and b0asted of these uii-
examplcd brutalities 10 civilized warfare; and,
strange ns IL may seem, when this monster OF In
equity appeared In the metropolis OF our land, he
was, Instead of being received like Butcher
Haynau" by the London brewers, welcomed by
modern Democrats with open arms hailed
with uproarious applause, granted the freedom of
| their most exclusive Club house. and his bloody
hands clasped with delight by those who delight
| to honor the most brutal murderer of this age,
Napoleon Bonaparte Forrest, On whose soul rests
the blood of fire hundred American citizens MUIR
| dered, butchcred, mastered Ut Fort Pillow.
He has never denied the facts Of the case nei.l-
| er has any person or party attempted to deny Or
disprove them, or even to extenuate the crime, a
| crime almost without u name. He has mover pro-
fessed any repentance for It, or, let us ask, would
he not have been hailed by those who welcomed
him to their arms, Ms they welcome the names OF
Brown and L0ngstrcel. He has never pleaded
| any provocatiDn, nor his he, or any one claimed
in cxlenuatiun that the slaughtered troops had
violated nny of the rules Of war, or had executed
any OF his men when taken prisoner
lie cannot plead the excitement of battle tn
palllale his guilt, for 1t has always been known
that many OF his prisoners were shot on the day
after the battle and that the commanding officer
of the Union troops was put To death on the af-
ternoon Of that next day; neither can the poor
(and wursr) excuse bc offered that only negroes
suffered, iur evidence show thnt blnck aud white
soldiers aud officers were bayonet,d shot, aye
burned, with the slrictest imptrtnlity, and thi.
not by soldiers against the commands Of their Of
fcers, but by the Confederate ttccrs themselves
In person.
| On this military achievement TESTS the lame o.
N. b. Forrest. Other Confederate Generals wert
In New York, and the convention, distinguished
In honorable and open warfare, but they received
no such hUnors from the Democratic party, fol
he was chosen To name the man they vainly hnp'
to place in the NEST dignifcd position, the Vic'
Preside nlial chair of the United States, for th
, only rc,isOn TINT there was no one thought NOR
worthy by the rphan-asyium-burning, negr'
killing, woman rayishing, theatre storming, bo.
J shooting "frirnds" Of H0ratio Seymour, place
and to distinguish as the exponent of his owl
ideas In placing, beside Seymours nalne on thei
! ticket, the name of the man whom Wade Lamp
ton and N. b. Forrest, and Albert Pike and Hum
phrcy Marshall say will make it the work of hi
administration, ii he should be elected, to plac
them above all who fought for Union, In the rl
: ling 0t this land
, Citizuns Of the United States, can you, remen
bering that 81 man is known by the company b
keeps" DO any thing less than talk, work an
vote nguinst Frank Blair, the man who says, an
was nominated Us Democratic candidate for Vic
President for saying that the States should agai
4 | be dis Unlted2