New-York tribune., 1868-08-29
HAZE THE REBEL CHIEFS BEEN MISREP-
RESENTEDf

Having justified, by specifications aDd citations
which his organs dare not face, every charge
we have made against HOratio Seymour, we
propose now to consider the pretense that we
have misrepresented the strains of exultation
wherewth the leading champions of "The Lost
cause hailed the nomination of Seymour and
Blair, with the vals Of wrath which they there
upon emptied upon the heads of the Southern
Republicans
The World INDUCES in a ferocious TRADE
against "forgeries," "scOuRdrelism," &c, &c,
with which it couples the name of THE TRIB-
UNE. In the course of this splurge, it says:
al" very possible that the forgeres which have been
sent broadcast through the North as the words OF South
Vance were perpetrsted at the South, and have only
been picked up and repeated by Northern partisans
distinctly declared TO be fogees To repeat them
forth is to be guilty OF deliberate rime-a crime
cusabe neither by party necessity nor by partisan pas
sion," &C. 30.
To which thus responds THR TRIBUNE:
l. The two points in Gen. Wade Hampton's
Seymour and Blair speeches in South Caro-
lima to which we have called attention are
these; !. Gen. Hampton i'll his first speech
claimed that so much of the new Democratic
Platform as pronsunces the Reconstruction
cary, and void" was inserted at his instance,
and after due warning from his Northern allies
that the Southrons must draw it md.n lest
they should alarm and ALLEVIATE the North 2.
Gen. Hampton urged his Rebel Democratic
brethren to employ no negro that would not
agree to vote for Seymour and Blair.
Are these statements pronounced falsehoods,
and the passages which justify them branded
as forgeries by The WOrld2 If they are, we
will undertake to prove their authenticity.
III. AS to Howell Cobb, we had his speech at
the Seymour Ratification meeting at Atlanta
reported especially for THE TRIBUNE, and we
printed the report in full in these columns.
In that speech, Cobb exhorted his Rebel Dem
ocratic hearers to shun and spurn the White
Republicans of their State, saying:
"You owe it to the living and you owe 1t to your own
children and you IL to their children. Wr1te down
in their memories this day and all days, and for al
time to come ne feeling and grit & Of a0hCrenes ,cn
for some bllserins words that may write nfamy upon
the foTeheads Of these men, that they may travel
through earth desped OF all men and rejected OF heaven
scorned by the devil himself"
Does The World deny the accuracy of this
reporti Does it deny that Howell Cobb fur
ther said:
"The doors are wide epen-wde enough broad enough,
TO receive every white in Georgia. unless you should
discopor him coming 10 yo creeping aud cdpn0 under
the Chicago platform Upon them there Should be no
mercy. They have dshOnOred themselves and sought
10 dishOnor you. AndfheDdtise he1. Drice them from
the pale Of social and political soeiey Leave them TO
wallOw in their mire and filth. Nobody win envy
fAhI anu they taken out OF the gully until
reach forth MY hEnd ~ take yhem up they will die IN
their natural element" Laughter and applause
Does The World deny that Howell Cobb
so spOke9
Does it deny that the Hon. b. Ii. Hill mot