The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-10-29
TREASONABLE DESIGNS OF THE DE-
1A-1~ - MOURlCY. EJEAE ~ ID
The Issue before the peOple--An0ther
Civil War--The Proof from their
own record.
We propose to prove by Copperhead

We propose to prove by Oopperbead
and rebel authority ..;,,,e ,sse- -., ia.
| First. That the late rebellion, which
! was the Immediate cause of the present
national debt, and It's burden of taxst ton,
was inaugarated under andy a Demo-
cratic administration. and carried on by the
democratic party, under the democratic
leaders
Second That the copperhead leaders
and their rebel allies are influenced by
the same relentless hostility to the prin-
! cirles of Republican Liberty now as dur
lug the rebellion. and are acting IN con-
cert. through the same reasonable agen-
| ces, to the control of the Government. q
Third. That their settled policy is to
annul all the laws of Congress inconsis-
! tent with their interests, ignore the
reconstructed state governments, and
repudiate the national debt, even at the
expense of another civil war.
The first evidence we III produce that
the rebellion was begun under, and car
ried on by a Democratic Administration
is the admission Of the NY. World, lead
ing paper Of the party. In June, 1868
1t thus fastens the crime upon its own
party
I'm the dark day of 1860 we had the
| imbecile and false hearted Buchanan as
President the incompetent and perfd-
lous Cobb was running the public credit
the thief, Floyd was transferring the
public arms to Southern States that
thorough paced rascal, Thompson, was
the active co-adjutor of the before men
toned worthless the Senate was presd-
ed over by the traitor Breckenridge, and
both Houses of Congress swarmed with
secesionists.
In a speech delivered at meeting of
the rebels in Georgia, held at Atlanta,
July Sth to ratity the nomination of Sev-
mour and Blair, speech was delivered
by ex- United States Senator and ex- Con
tederate Secretary of State, Robert
Toombs. In this speech he boldly ayows
that the late war was begun by the Dem
eracy. He says: atoY
General Grant tells you he wants
| peace What sort of peace Tic
peace of the tyrant of Russi;, when he
sent the poor poles in chains to Siberia.
and after having disposed OF them in that
manner. issued his proclamation that ''Or
der reigns in WarsawI' (LaughterIand
cheers. That is the the peace Of Gc:er-
al Grant wants. will tell you another
fact which is enough for this time, tina.
as the late war produced by the defeated
Democratic party in 1860, we shall never
have peace until it is restored in 1868. #
General Grant wants peace, let him ioin
the Democratic party Cheers I say
by God, that neither despotism nor tyr
amy, nor injustice, meets with peace ia
this world or the next 49,
Alta meeting of leading rebels, headed
by Beverly Tucker, held in New York in
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er things: lssca- .r.-,.-.
eve regard the failure of the rebellion
temporary. The spirit that originated
lt.still lives, and by the assistance of our
friends in the North can be successful in
another way
That ''other way has been pointed out
by Frank Blair, adopted by the Copper
head and rebel Convention which nomi,
mated Seymour, by the the President
and is receiving the assistance" of the
united Copperhead and rebel Democracy.
But we have furnished sufficient proof
that the Comprehend Democracy North
and the rebel Democracy South are infu-
enced by the same principles, governed
by the same motives, and striving for the
same object. In the evidence we have
produced to sustain this proposition there
is necessasily much which bears upon oar
corrupt, wicked opponents who are coon
Grating together for the overthrow Of al
the reconstruction laws of Congress-. and
the utter humiliation of the Southern
States. But we will now proceed to fur
nish the o6fciul proof of this reasonable
conspiracy to inaugerate another civil
war on the part of the Democratic lea,l.
erS. -f.rE p -.-..T
The deliberate and very explicit decla-
ration of Gen. Blair, the Copperhead and
rebel candidate for Vice President. leave
no room to doubt what their purpose is.
. 1t consists of his letter to member n
the New Y ork convention putting in his
bid for the nomination which he holds
1t was the lowest bid and therefore secur
ed the nomination. But the convention
did not rest satisfied with the approval OF
his revolutionary sentiments In this
letter, under date of Washington, June
80, he thus lays down the creed and
p:oclaims the purpose of the Conner
head and rebel Democracy
There is but one way to restore Gov.
eminent and the Constitution and that is
for the President elect to declare these
acts null and void. compel the army to
undo It's usurpations at the South dis
perse the carpet bag State governments
and elect Senators and Representatives.
The House of Representatives will
contain a majority of Democrats from
the North, and they will admit the
Representatives elected by the white
people of the South, and, with the CO.
operation of the President it will not
be difficult to compel the Senate to sub
NIT once more to the obligations of the
Of the Constitution. It will not be able
to Withstand the public judgement if
distinctly invoked and clearly expressed
in this fundamental issue, and it is the
sure way to avoid all future strife to put
this issue plainly to the country. -,
| Americsnst if want another civil war
inaugurated, vote the Blair ticket HE
tells you just how he will set it going,
Mark himl
This is treason in its naked form,
avowod first by the democratic candidate
for Vice President, then by the Demo-
cratic National Convention and finally
by the President of the United States
But it is not confined to these exponepts
of Democratic principles and purposes.
General Wade Hampton, one of the
most ferocious Of the rebel Generals. and
the man who nominated Blair on ehaIf
of the South Carolina rebels, at a recent
speech at dinner ofthe Alumni of General
Lees College that the rebel cause will
triumph in the success of the Democratic
| ticket and at a meeting of Baltimore
rebels onithe evening of the July 20, he
declared with euual emphasis that The