New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-17

duty requires him to vote Tor Grant; Nho'
apart from these threats, thinks Repupiican
administration demanded by the cXlgencles OF
the TTnion: whose conscience and intellect upon
tlis noiut coincide, is to revise his decislon'
and abdicate his manhood, and surrender his
richt of miyate Judgment, aud, crawling
trembling craven to the poils' ~
beo that his voice and vote may be
registered for one man whose poiil'ca
integrity he doubts and for another man whose
personal character he despises III Mr. ZEN
dleton, who has lately been experimenting upon
the terrors OF the East, fancies that the nc
publicans of Maine and Connecticut are such
white liycrcd animals as this. he thinks more
unustly of them than they think justly ana
Indignantly of him. This Chinese warfare
the horrible mask and the resounding howl
makes the Understandings and the midnight
burnings of the Ku-Klux Khan appear mildly
respectable and comparatively manly.
Two things the missionary from the west 10
tbe East is certain will follow the election OF
Grant-universal boodshed and general bank
ruptcy. We pass over for the present his Imam
cial forebodngs; but did Mr.. Pendleton think to
scare the stout hearts of the Maine backwoods-
men, who know the rotten lumber or
platform when they see it, by crying
out that Republican victory would be the
destruction and deSolaton OF the land1 Din
he so underestimate the shrewd common sense
of the Connecticut Republicans, as to dream
that they could be turned from their purpose
10y his prophetic and yOciferous clocutionT by
his rhetoric of ruin and his defamation OF des-
pair "Do You believe cried Mr. Pendleton,
" that it is possible to maintain peace and Union
" if Won subiugate in these ten States this Cau-
"casan race of ours to lbs ruled by these
"brutsh slavesr Now, in the first place
these voting bugbears of Mr. Pcndleton are
not slaves" but as free as he is himself; and
in the second place, all the Blair-and- Seymour
orators IN the South are s0lemnly and passion
ately invoking these british slaves" to vote
for the candidates of the New York Convention,
and declaring that the votes OF the Freedmen
will be aud should be so'cast. If these confident
predictions are fulfilled, we suppose that Mr..
Pendetonis beasts will all be changed into
perfect beauties This thought probably aud
providcntially occurred to most OF the gentle
mans Hartford auditors and prevented theh'
from swOoning with apprehension upon The
SPOT, without waiting for the yerifcation of
the wizards awful words So he went at Them
again with something n little more moving
and melancholy still. "Thc Southern men,
he said, "are self-posscssed, self-rcliant,
4" and a brave people. Tread upon thcnl and
/" they will watch their opportunity and
"srRIKE your Now, treading upon them
in this speech, cannot possiby mean anything
except voting for Grant and Colfax. The
figure suggests the raitlesuake. and 1t also
suggests the Comprehend. Walk lightly. men of
Connecticut Step gingery or the reptile OF
Secession will have yon in his venomous coil !!
Vote for Blair aud Seymour, OF. Rebellion VIII
| return with seventy times seven thousand devils
| 10 drink the life-blood aud To increase the
taxes of Connecticut Perhaps there were those
who heard the wuils of tina Western Jercminh
who remembered the blood Of Connecticut
already spilled, and the taxes already levied
which Connecticut has paid or is still paying
They might have laughed mt Mr.. Pendlcton'S
depression of spirits; and at any rate they
would be pretty sure to laugh nj the texts
Of Scripture and the theological illustrations
with which the pious gentleman Thought II
! necessary TO garnisli speech made 10 Connect
! icut Puritlns the despised of Southern Chiv-
! allyl They might have answered: III the
election Of Grant aud CollaX Is to bring
o new Rebellion, let it Gomez