Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-09-24
From the N. Y. Independent.
The Lost Cause Regained.

The Democratic party is once
again under its old leaders. People
who now vote its ticket must stand
under the banner of Semmes, Hamp-
ton, Toombs, Vance, and Vallandig-
ham. The figure head is Seymour,
but the helmsman is Jefferson Da-
Wis, .......t .r....--.,,
The World has been showed aside
from its position of leadership. -
That Journal has not sufficient au-
dacity of opinion or courage of
statement to please the temper of the
fire eating Southerners who now, as
OF old, are uppermost and control
ling. The World either refrains
from publishing the speeches of its
Southern masters, or else, if it al
ludes to them at all, it so ices their
fire as to incur complaint of ill
treatment from their authors Thus
The Danville Register, of Kentucky,
aHaMpsdh, Mp 5het says sha rhs s4kf& 4kf&sg'sier, "de
mands that the people of the South
shall all vote, whether recognized
by Congress as reconstructed through
the farce now going on, or not; and
that he demanded further that, if by
these States so voting Seymour and
Blair shall receive majority Of the
white votes, they shall be installed in
power in spite of all the bayonets
that shall be brought against them"
The World dares not utter such
sentiments in New York, for fear of
losing the State next November.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina,
said at Richmond:
"What the Confederacy fought for
would be won by the election OF
Seymour and Blair" .... 1o u3i ~
The World has not the pluck to re
peat these words, lest it should push
respectable Democrats into the Re-
publican party. .''o' o.
Gov. Wise, in his latest speech at
Richmond, Indignantly denounced
the first resolution of the Democratic
platform which characterlzes seces-
sion as dead, and insisted that " Sc
cession was more alive than ever"
The World lacks the nerve to say as
brave thing as that. ., ..
The Democratic journals of Louis
vile mention that, at the ratification
meeting in that city, "portraits Of
jeff Davis, Lee, and Stenewall Jack
son were suspended over the plat
form, and afterward carried in a
terchlight procession; and that Me
stars and stripes acre noghere to be
seen. The World is too much of a
time server to recommend such pro-
ceedings In New York. saT FL,
Semmes said in Mobile;
81 drew my sword against the old
fag-tne old flag which no longer
represented the principles; it was
not the flag of 1776 against which ! |
drew my sword, but flag which had
become "a Haunting lie,' so called by
the prominent politicians OF the
North. But now, in spite of the ef-
forts of those politicians, who en-
deavored to strangle the old Demo.
cratic party, by erecting in its stead
a new Conservative party--a sort OF
conglomerated party-which was to
compromise politicians OF every
shade of opinion, the grand old
Democratic party has risen from the
long slumber in which it has IN
dulged, and now gives signs OF new
life and vitality; and l have come
here to- night from the country te
ratify and rejoice with you in ths I
nomination of Seymour and Blair.
The World is of too thin biooc
to maintain that the flag which con
uuered the rebellion was not the an
cient and time-honored flag OF th'
country. asali. ..as.l YaA ~
Il Benz. Fl. Hill, at Atlanta, proposee
a public burning Of the reconstruc
ton acts, indulging himself IN tn
following strain: ssh 2 y,
"When liberty shall return, whel
4 the law shall be again respected
and good men shall be again ou
rulers. we must gather ALL tn
journals, and constitutions, andcen
actments of every character, of th
conventions and assemblies thu
: forced upon us by force, and fraud
and ustlrpation, and, catching fir
from heaven, burn them up forever
) And right here, my countrymen,
want you to understand that ! am
candidate but for one Office 9
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