Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-10-28
The Democratic Panic.

III lhC hL3lOl1 VI AAnEIACdh JULIUS
there has never been so utter a failure
as that of Seymour aud Blair. On
the Fourth of July the New York
Convention met; on the tenth the
platform was adopted and Seymour
and Blair were nominated, and after
ninety days of discussion before the
people, and a preliminary contest in
four Stat, there was sent up from all
part 4 the land a wall of terror, and
a demand that these two men be
stricken from the ticket, and two
Old
be named in their place! The wretch
ed weakness of the semi-secession
| convention in New York; the
damaging effects of Blair's letters to
BrOdhead the ~rOttenDess of the sup
port of the hero of the Fort Pillow
massacre, and of the brave man who,
at Bulls Run, "amused'' his men by
his deXterity in shooting impudent
Yankee officers; and the repulsive-
ness of Reputation Enthusiastically
included in its greenback platform,
were all confessed in the universal
panic of Wednesday last. The De-
mOeracy of New Orleans and of
Cincinnati, of New York, Chicago,
San Francisco and Pittsburg, through
their papers, were unanimous in the
demandthattheset two candidates, Sey-
mour and Blair, should retire from
the ticket, and that the author of the
Republican plan of taxation and rev.
enue, and of the National Banks, and
of gold redemption of the bonds, and
the lifelong advocate of negro suffrage
and negro equality. should lead the
Democratic party to victory or to the
hope of it. The incompetency and
offensiveness of Seymour and Blair
admitted of no denial they had been
proclaimed in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Nebraska and Indiana in such terms
that left no doubt of a similar result
in all the other States. Panic-stricken,
the men who, ninety days previously,
had avowed their purpose to trample
into the dust the laws of Congress;
to coerce the Senate by bayonets to
overturn the State. Governments at
the South, and to compel the army to
undo all that had been done by au-
thOrity of law, now shouted for the
deposition of the revolutionary brag-
CART who proposed to lead the new
rebellion.
But disgraceful, dishonorable and
hUmiliating as was the universal con-
fession of the utter failure of Seymour
and Blair, and of their incompetency
as candidates, the party was doomed
to a still greater humiliation. Nj.
Chase, the old Abolitionst, refused to
become the Democratic candidate
refused to disgrace his name and
character; refused to 90 down in
history as the candidate of such a
party and such a platform The most
he would consent to do would be to
run as an independent candidate,
provided Seymour and Blair were
withdrawn and their platform hidden
from public sight.
+ The party which, until 1860, had
controlled and directed the govern
ment with the exception of two short
terms of four years each, was reduced
by its own criminal folly to the pitia-
BILE necessity of asking an Old Line
Abolitionist to be its candidate, and
was then repulsed with insult. The
party of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
jackson, Crawford, Calhoun, Van
Buren,. fancy, Wright, Buchanan,
Benton, Douglas, Cass, Marcy. Pierce,
to be imploring in vain for some
member of the old Liberty and Free
soil party, to become its candidate for
PRESIDENT Belmont and Pendleton,
Hendricks and Tilden, Vallandigham
and Voorhees-all beseeching the
! man who exempted bonds from taxa
ton and made them payable in gold,
to save the Democracy by becoming
its candidate, and to have the prayer
answered by an insulting REFUSAL
nI,- - n1-,-,Aor,
Tilden, that they were not panic
stricken, is supremely ridiculous in
the light of the revelations of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, that the whole
party was engaged in an effort to
accept, and did not abandon the pur-
pose to throw off Seymour and Blair
until Chase peremptorily refused to
run other than as an Independent
candidate.
The effect of this panic is already
felt by the party. Blair has the
effrontery which enables him to face
the party that but a week ago clamor-
ed for his dismissal; but Seymour
sinks into melancholy. He cannot
ind relief in spiritual comforts like
his more youthful associate. But the
party at large is consigned to hopeless
disaster. There are some eighty or
more Democratic candidates for Con-
gress at the election which comes off
in November-and the once promising
hopes of nearly all of these have been
destroyed by the failure of Seymour
and Blair, and by the breaking down
of the rotten and d~isgraceful platform
adopted at New York. The mass of
the Democratic voters are bewildered
by the confessed incompetency and
attempted retirement of their candi-
dates, and the most of them are
quietly settling down into a purpose
to vote, if they vote at all, for Grant
and Colfax, and peace, and the pres
ervation of the national credit.-Chi-
cGgO Tribune,
R~ Hon. Schuyler Colfax is to be
married on tho 9th inst IN n niece Of