Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-10-03
From the N Y. Evening Post
Would Mr.. Blair be a Safe PreSident7 ?

From the n. Y. Evening Post
Would Mr.. Blair be Safe President ?
In the canvass preceding the last
Presidential election, the public charac-
ter and opinions of the Democratic can
didate for the Vice Presidency were thor
oughly discussed. Mr.. Pendleton's votes
opinions and political associations be-
came, in the public mind, of great inn
portance and that for tho reason most
men, even among the Democrats, knew
Gen. Mcclellan, the candidate on the
same ticket for the Presidency, to be a
weak man, of no well defined or strongly
held opinious, who would inevitably be
the tool OF stranger men if he were
elected, and over whom man like Pen
dleton would exercise Il controlling intlu-
ence.
No doubt this belief had much to do
with the overwhelming defeat that
befell the ticket. People who believed
Mcclellan TO be harmless and right-miud-
ed, feared Pendleton. Voters, who had
no fault to find with McClcllan's letter
of acceptance, yet saw that the more
positive opinions of Pendleton would
rule the councils of so weak a man as
his principal
1t is not precisely the same danger be-
fore the country now, i'll case of the cleo
ton of Mr.. Seymour? Mr.. Seymour is,
as everybody knows, a plausible and
we'll meaning, but very weak man.
Left alone, it might be said that he would
try, if he were independent, to please ey-
erybody.
But, with Blair behind him, and with
Blair ready to take his place if he should
fall i'll or die, as other Presidents have
died, the case would be different; and
the shrewd Southern polititions, having
constructed a platform directly antago-
nistic to Mr.. Seymour's expressed opin-
ions, did not hesitate to accept him
failing tO. carry Pendleton-when they
were able to put Blair on the ticket with
him, @ ... s.. E@tT 5ssa.
Gen. Blair's notorious letter, which
gained him the nomination, speaks for
itself. 1t means revolution; nothing less.
1t declares that legally and constitution
ally nothing can be done, and boldly
avows the determination to act III vloi-
ton of the laws and Constitution. , ...
Moreover, those who knew Blair best
declare rnhesitat;ngly that he is the
man to carry out his programme. lie
is a very different man from MIR. Sey-
mour. He does not vascilate; there is
about him no hesitation; he has no scru-
ples; he is ambitious, determined, self
willed-precisely the timber from which
reyolutionists are made.
If the Democratic ticket is elected,
Blair will be President Mr. Seymour,
suffers from ill health; he is, also, us ev-
erybodv knows, and as can be shown If
it is necessary, on the best evidence, sub
icct to disabling heredity infrmity; he
is not a man of positive character. Ev-
en- if,he lived and retained his health, he
would inevitably be subjected and con-
trolled by the men who nominated him
-Vallandigham and Pendleton-and by
the man who would stand behind HIM
Blair. . .-.. a'-rr ,s 'f
1t is well to look facts in the face
Those who think the best interests OF
the people would be subserved by an ad
ministration composed of and ruled by
Vallandigham, Pendleton and Blair, will
naturally and rightfully vote the Demo
cratic ticket. 1t will secure their ob
iects. Bat let no one else support thai
ticket under the impression that Mr.
Seymour will control the administration
He is mere fgurehead, just as McClel
Ian was in 1854; n respectable cloak
ready to be thrown off the moment tht
election is gained. f..--. aui-5.
Whoever does not want Pendleton
Vallandigham, and Blair to rule thi
country for the next four yesrs who
ever believes as the great mass of tn
3 people of both parties do believe, tina
these men would work almost irrepara
Bile mischief to the country, would dc
press our crediG derange our industry
make hard times for the workingmer
! and plunge the country into endless col
! fusion; whoever believes that, will fin
it his duty to vote for Grant. Of hin
fortunately, there is no doubt. Hi
whole career shows him to be self-poi'
ed man of independent Judgment. OF pa
riotic instincts, and of determined vii
not likely to be controlled by politition
j.. or to be used by any party for his III
Z has been spent in the service of tn
: whole country, and his great aim is
: secure peace and order, f.ra a..