The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-08-15
Showing the CIOyen Foot.

Ever since the rebel convention of New
York, which eliminated in the nomination
of Seymour and Blair, the more prudent and
timid managers of the rebel Democracy have
been cautioning their honest, out-spoken
leaders to be more guarded in their expires
sions in public, lest the well-meaning and
honest dupcs in their party become alarmed,
if the intentions and real sentiments of the
leading rebels become known. But the
Wade llamptons of the party, who are its
real leaders, refuse to be gagged altogether,
and will blurt out the hatred which burns in
their rebel souls for uttcrance. The ball
started by Frank Blair in his letter to the
convention, which declared war upon the
acts of Congress and the forciblc overthrow
of the governments of the reconstructed
States, and which gained him the nomina,
ton by the rebel generals, was pushed on by
Wade Hampton, in his harangues, after re,
turning home. These open declarations, on
the part Of the leading rebels, who are the
spokesman Of the Copperhead party, have
been followed up by the same class of men
notwithstanding the cautions they have re-
ceived from the rebel press, North and
South, that such an open confession of this
intention was likely to prove prejudicial to
their chances for imposing Seymour and
Blair on the people. Howell Cobb, one of
their acknowledged leaders, in a recent
speech, says
The grinning skeletons which have been
set up in our midst as legislators shall be
ousted by Frank Blair, whom our party has
expressly appointed for that purpose. y = =
Come, one and all, and let us snatch the old
banner from the dust, give it again to the
breeze, and, if needs be, to the God of bat
ties and strike one more honest blow for
constitutional liberty. x = :; The doors
are wide opcn--wide enough, broad enough
to receive every white man in Georgia, un-
less yon should discover him coming to you
creeping and crawling under the Chicago
Platform. Upon them there should be no
mercy. They have dishonored themselves
and sought to dishonor you. Anathematize
them. Drive them from the pale of social
and political society,"
Another leader Of the same party, Albert
Pike, Of Arkansas, who led the Indians in
the rebel army to scalp and murder Union
men, women and children, and who has,
since the collapse of the rebellion, assumed
his natural position as a leader of the Dem
ocratic party, gives the following advice to
his Kuklux brethren:
Young men, it is for you to bring back
these golden days. The South is our land :;
the North is foreign and hostile realm
Stand at the altar Of your country. Swear
eternal hatred of its oppressors. Swear that
the day shall come, if these oppressors shall
continue, when the Susquehanna and Ohio
shall be like rivers Of fire, as they are now
rivers OF blood, between your native land
and that of the Northern Huns, which no
man shall attempt to cross, and live"
Let the people ponder these things, and
learn that the most bloodthirsty and savage
among the rebel leaders, who being beaten
on the field of battle, and magnanimously
forgiven, refuse to accept the situation, but
breathing vengeance, threaten to commence
new rebellion the moment they can COM
mand the means through the success of the
Democratic party to do so, are the acknowl.
edged leaders of that party. They leave
their position at the head of the beaten and
broken rebel columns of the battle field,
and taking the position as leaders of the
Copperhead party Of the North threaten to
restore the "lost cause through the triumph
of that party at the polls.