Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-18
Democracy of the Day,

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Commercial -4drertiw5, writing of the Demo
cratic Convention thus speaks of some of the
more prominent members of that body:
From South Carolina, we have Gen. Wade
Hampton, Gov. Perry, James Chestnut, A. 2.
Aldrich, Gen. NJ. l.. Bonham, Inglis, Robt. B.
Rhett Gen. Gary, G. ID. Trenholm and seven
Others. Do not these names remind one of pa
triotisp, of hOnor-yirtues that haye been SO
blunderingly extolled from time immemorialg ?
Aldrich il was who suggested the secession of
5. Carolina. Hampton it was who caused the
destruction of the beautiful city of Columbia,
and who set fire to his own house rather than
have it fall into the hands of the "'cursed Yam
KEGS" Rhett-well, the least said about him
| the better Perry is the only redeeming name
among them. He is Il man not known by the
oompHny he keeps.
From Alabama we have Winston, Colonel
of a rebel regiment; Langdon, the man of
b!ack-tiag notoIiety; Pafsons.t in bad company,
| like Perry; General Glanton a sort of guerilla
chiettain; Chapman and Pickett, distinguished
Tor their love of freedom, whisky and the old
flag; Eggleston, the editor. of the Mobile Ira-
6uHe, WHO not long since, boosted in his patri-
| Otic paper .that-'Ee was cruising among the
| West Indies Cne month after Booth Killed
| Lincoln" and who declared that the South
ern editors are all hypocrites who do not
| openly declare that the assassination of Lin
/ Southernor rolls under his tongue.
From Mississippi comes the Hon" E. NJ.
| Icrgcr, who declares he will raise a modern
| CheOps of bones rather than submit to be crush
] ed by the heels he once owned; it is useless to
mention other delegates from this state, as they
will be controlled by this hot-headed lover Of
his country.
| From Georgia come Ben. Hill and Gen. Cor
don, names which at once suggest that the
country will soon be. out of al danger. Seri-
| ously there is no man iTall the South more
| dangerous than B. ii. Hill, for he has a tongue
revolving upon pivot, and both ends are con-
stanty i'll motion, railing ont the most bitter
! denunciations against the Country My expo
rienCe proves that some men can do thousand
times more mischief with their tongues than
others can with the sword, and am some
| times at loss to account. for the fact that a
man is allowed with his infamous tongue and
pen to cause the slaughter of thousands with
impunity, while the more humble instruments
| by which his objects are accomplished are
| made to suffer for his crimes. Who shall give
| q good reason for the punishment of W irZ,
while those who goaded him on. to his wicked
deeds are now i'll the Democratic Convention
| of this city? Who shall satisfy himself that
Booth suffered most miserable death, while
parties are here in New York today who
| openly, freely and tauntingly boast that the
4 day will come when Booth will BE ranked in
history as Il Brutus or Charlotte Cofday.
From Florida we have Major Poole
and Maj. w. w. Van Ness, of the once
rebel army. 49,:
From Kentucky We have B. f. Buck
ner, and il mistake not, Gen. 5. G. Buck
ner, now editor of the Louisville Couri-
er, paper which travelled all over the
south during the war, to keep out of the
way of the Yankee army. The tyrannic
al government at Washington has recent
lv allowed Gen. Buckner to take posses
sion of his property in Louisville, and, as
editor of the Courier, he is preparing the
coming generation, perhaps the present,
to renew the struggle from which the;
country has jastfemerged All the ma
bobs Of Kentucky are also here, to secure
platform by which they will yet get
| $500 apiece for their slaves. -.--.
Missouri sends the rebel Gen. T. L.
Price, name which sufficiently indi--
Gates the patriotism of the Democracy
of that State.
f. ON Arkansas the Demacracy is rein
te Ecad by sueii able men as the febel
| Gen A. II. Garland, whom our tyrannlcal
Government allows to practice law IN
that State.
From Ohio and Indiana como with a
| veil as piercing as that great Sachem
| ftynders, Dan VoIhccs and Y allandrS-
| ham. t.-
| Need l specify further? From Texas
! louisiana, Florida, North Carolina IT.
| ginia, Delaware and Tennessee we nave !
the very men who figured extensively IN /
the campaign of 1860, and who fought
or preached fight al the way through
the war. men 7yi4o represent every grade
of rebel service from Drum Major to the
fnIl General.
Gen. Beauregard is here, aad also the /
man who claims the infamous name of
Forrest, the latter a full delegate from
Tennessee, the former on business COLI
nected with which our tyrannical govern
ment allows him to receive $4,000
This I believe is his salary as President
of the New Orleans 81 Jackson r. Il.
Company
| tell yoa again that the Southern del
egates don't care what is done here
provided they receive sufficient courage
to go home and disperse the LegIsla-
tures, by violence, Unnecessary, that have
been elected under the Reconstruction
laws; and just so sure as the military
now in the South is Withdrawn, the
work will be quickly entered upon,
and and : as quickly finished. This is the a
vowed purpose of the Southern Demo |
crafts; and it Is sure that such men as
Rynders who .hqmorously talked to
this effeot--Scymnar, Vallandigham,
"BricIk." Voorhees-pho boldly declares
this to be the platform on which he
wishes his name to go;before the Con
yention, in a letter published in the Her
aid, and even Pendleton, do but desire
to bring the country into this conflict