Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-07-24
INToLERAnLE-TnE BLAIRs.

INToLEBABLE--THE BLAIRs. a
"It is reported that Montgomery Blair
says that one ofthe candidates now prom
inently named will receive the Democrat
10 nomination at New York, and that the
party can only be united by bringing for
ward a new man, Exchange.
Such stuff Us the above is more than
Democratic nature can bear To have
one Of that pestilent Blair family talking
thus oracularly about the affairs Of the
Democratic party is the most impudent
thing of the day.
What have fho Biairs in common With
the Democratic pasty2 Old Blair has been
virulently working against It, and doing
il all the harm in his power, for more
than twenty years, and during all this
time---enlbracing the whole OF their po-
lilical liyes-the young Blairs have been
ready and active co-workers with their
father ia feeding his hate and minister
ing to his thirst Of vengeance against the
Democratic party.
They all contributed, TO tho extent Of
their ability, to widen the gulf aud IN
crease the bitterness between tho North
and the South, which led TO the late tre-
mendous commissions. They were in ey-
cry movement for the promotion Of Sec
tional division and hostility, from the free
soil detection, under the Van Burens, in
lS46-7 S-mainly instigated and engin-
eercd by old Blair-until the election Of
Lincoln, aud the Inauguration of aboli-
ton diabolism in the capitol Of the Uu-
ion.
One of the young Blairs member Of
Lincoln's Cabinet, the other one of his
military tools-the civilian damning him
self forever, as a public man, and placing
an impossible barrier between himself and
ali true democratic fellowship, by a bold
violation Of law, an audacious defiance of
the Constitution, in excluding from the
mails all Democratic papers which con-
spiciously differed in opinion from the
policy and measures of the Lincoln ad-
ministration, and whom respectfully asked
by the parties aggreyed why, and by what
authority, such action was taken against
them, insolently answered, rs would u
petuent boy, when questioned why he
had been guilty Of certain misconduct
II did it because | had n mind to!"-and
the military member of The Blair family
M akipg his first demonstration ia the
/ dald, by leading his regiment OF brutal
rufiaus against tie unarmed populsee OF
81. Louis, indiscriminately shooting down,
in the crowded streets, men, women, aud
children. murdetiog BY wholesale an ua.
offending population, and committing a
deed of cruelty blacker and more unpor-
douabIo than any of which the infamous
Suwarrow was ever guilty, and, IN con.
trast with which. the acts Of woman whip
piag ilaynau, whom the sturdy and in.
dignant brewers Of London SO merciless-
ly hooie1 aud peitcd, appear decent and
humane.
| Aud this he, too, did-"beeauso he had
a mind tol
And who does not remember that Gne
picco Of political strategy that charm-
ingly pure and honorable bit of manucy
ering between Lincoln and young Frank
Blair during the war, when tho latter,
while holding a Generals commission in
the army, got himself elected to Congress
from 81 Louis?
Frank wanted to get into tho House
and be Speaker. Il ho couldn't be
Speaker he wanted to remain Goneral.
But be could not be a member Of the
House and General both at tho same
time.
This had to be managed Ia somo way.
So Frank, ard brother Montgomery. mud
Lincoln, and old man Blair, got together
and set their wits at work 10 devise some
wav 81 oafftn.. a1.pt. ..tft "a
Tho result was eminontly creii,ablo to
tho purity and ingenuity Of the parties
concerned, aud demonstrated that the
Blair faulty will not voluntarily give up
a good thing that they have in possession,
without making sure OF something better
in exchange. So il was arranged that
Frank should resign his Generals COM
mission, and Lincoln should accept it,
but not confer il upon any one elsc, un-
til II was seen whether or not Frank got
tho Speakership, and il hc did not ho wa
to have his commission back.
Aud so it was carried out. Frank did
not become Speaker, and was reinstated
in the army, furnishing an eminent ox-
ample Of tho purity aud patriotism thai
prevailed in those days, and Tor which th'
Blair family has always been 80 distin
guished.
Thus were these younger Blairs the
ready tools and co-workcrs of Lincoln
and the Jacobin party during the Who'll,
process of the destruction Of the grand
fabric of free government which now lies
in ruins around Us, counseliug the worst
and all tho measures which the destruo
tionists introduced and carried out; ant
} the elder Blair, like a spirit Of evil, thrust
ing himself into the dark eonclaves OF Oh,
conspirators against public liberty, hiss.
J ing out his venom against the Democrat,
party, and instigating the wasting and do
stroying Of the South for grudges Of wei
nigh forty years standing, conceived ant
cherished because her leading mcn--Cal-
houn, leDuille, Rowan, Bibb, Tazewel
: Troup, Davis and others-always seorneC
him as mercenary adyenturer, aud re
fused to recognize him in society.
: 1t is this Blair family, whose history i
; thus truthfully skeiched, which now claims
position aud voice in the Democrat,
party, and even assumes to dictate il
. nomination for the Presidency. In fact
IL has the nodesty TO claim the nomina-
) ton for one Of its own members-th,
butcher OF St. Louis-the nice young geu
teman who so adroitly balanced between
the Speakorship and Brigadier General
ship, and TO whom Lincoln so kindly toss
ed the latter when the former was not L
. be caught.
Has the Democratic party fallen so low