New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-05


easily lure them on. to rebellion. Especially
shonid we know this when we see tho mots
yiolent and untamed traitor i'll the whole
Sonth actually pressing into the Democratic plat
form n clause providing for new rebellion.
Nine-tenths of the weak-kneed Northern
doughfaces would prudently have left 1t
out had they dared dispute the dictation
Of so eminent Rebel as Wade Ham
pton. The Rebel emissaries in Canada,
during the lsessiOn of the Democratic Con-
venton in Chicago in 1864, telegraphed that
the Vice-President and platform were salts
factory, speeches gerry satisfactory" Why the
speeches were satisfactory may be Judged from
the sample speech of Dean Richmond. "By
cd we must put stop to this ID war"
The Democratic Convention were deter
mined to make their platform and nominations
satisfactory to the most ultra Rebels in 1861
They evnced the same desire, and met with
equal success, i'll 1868. The more vlrulent the
Rebel, the more completely and rapturously Is
he delighted. Seymour, he knows, will be wax
in the presence of the Rebels, putty in the hands
of all public thieves, sharpencd steel toward
all black men, and stencil in the nOstrils OF
every man not Blair, who ever voted or
fought for the Union. Blair's recklessness
is well known to be fully equal to his courage.
Under such leaders they not only hope Tor
revolution, but glory in its confident expecta-
ton. The startling difference between their
case now and in 1860 is, that then they
promised peace in the event of their sue
cess, and rebellion and civil war only if they
were defeated. Wemight doubtless have avoided
-. Al. ;InTnu Ilntn nN
make no threat of revolution in case OF Grants
election. They manifest no desire to confront
the hero of DOnelsOn, Vicksburgh, Chatta-
nooga and AppomattOx in battle. If Grant De
elected they will be dumb as blind nice. III Is
only in the event of the election OF their own
candidate (Seymour) that they threaten to lnall-
ougurate their drama of fire aud blood, assassin
alton and Slavery. What an inducement Is this
to offer to the candid voter, to the business man.
to those whose slaughtered sons and brothers
now sleep OH the battle-plains OF the Great
! Shareholders Rebellion, to all who have any
interest in the welfare and peace OF the country
| If Grant is elected, who threatens war; Does
Wade Hampton, Vance, Lee, Forrest, Wise, or
any other rebel, venture to utter such an auda-
cious intent9 No, nor to think of it. The cleo
confess this Men of the Hampton stripe may
call it subjugation. But it is such subjugatlon
as the wolf suffers when the fold inteTposes
| between him and the lamb. 1t is such subju-
! cation as the pirate feels when fOiled by the
rescue of the captivcs whose enslavement would
have satiated his cupidity and lust. 1t is
the subiugation of the BOurbons to make way
for the liberties of the people. 1t is the
subiugation which is inevitable to despots
when their subjects are discnthralled and
transformed from the minions of tyranny into
free citizens. Emblems of the so-called snbJu-
CATION of the Southern Aristocracy will be the
school house, where before there was the slave
pen; the newspaper will reach the jungles OF
| the clay eaters The mean white trash will be
sent for by modern civilization. and through
the dark clouds of bigotry ignorance, and bru-
tality which have rested over the South the
! light will break, and the truth will make them
free The Reconstruction policy of Congress
! fully carried ont will raise up many friends OF
/ freedom among the ex-Rebels. The election OF
Seymour might well disgust even the Southern
| Republicans and sour them into traitors. Shall
we pursue that policy which will carry into
the South the greatly needed boon of Northern
capital, enterprise, manufactures, education,
industry, emigration, wealth, independence,
loyalty, or shall we pursue further the miscr-
able blunder of converting nine-tenths of the
Southern lands into jungle that the other tenth
may sustain an aristocrat, and make four-lfths
of the Southern people slaves, that the fifth
man may be a-Wade Hampton