Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-09-17
what the south Expects.


What the South Expects.
What does the Seymour and Blair
ticket mean? Head of brass, feet of
elay-the parts of no kindred-Presi
dent saying one thing, Vice President
another, platform still another-both
candidates talking one way before the
nomination and another afterward-
platform receiving as many interpreta-
tions as there are interpreters-the real
purposs of and part or parcel of the
rickety composite called the Democrat
ic party seems as hard to determine as
the Enquirer's love for Hendricks, or
the Republican losses in Vermont.
Mr.. Seymour was in favor of Chase
and. n egro suffrage. His party regards
Chase as an abolitionist who ought to
have been hung, and negro as the chief
of his denominations. Mr.. Seymour
denounces Mr.. Pendleton says Mr. Sey-
mour is the first statesman OF his party,
and nominates him for the first Office of
the country. Montgomery Blair differs
slightly from this verdict and observes
that the ticket is wrong end up.
Precisely what it meanse, with either
end up, nobody at the North seems able
to decide. But there is one quarter in
which there is no doubt. The rebels
know exactly how to take it. Here is
the Interpretation of the Mobile Tri-
bune:
Friends fellow citizens of Mobile
comrades ofthe Queen City of the Gulf,
let us make one effort in behalf OF. our
rights and liberties. IF a0e are success
Jutan the approaching contest eCe shall re-
gain all that sOe lost in the Lost Cause
Once more to the breach, then-yet once
more! And when the flaming field, our
fag-the grand old Democratic flag
will be seen in all its glory, and stream
ing like the thunder cloud against the
wind. Let US then rally once more
around the dear old flag which we have
followed so often to honor and victory,
Let us plant our standard in the midst
of the field, and let us once more raise
the a0ar c1y-"he who doubts is damned:
he who dallies is bastard"
Admiral" Semms is equally clear in
his understanding of thematter. In his
speech at ratification meeting, the
Southern papers reported him as saying:
He had always been a Democrat hehad
fought tn ihe a0ar as Democrat; that
he had once dispaired of republican
Government in this country, but now
there was light in the East which bid
noninst he oId fo0 beco,sse 6s so(,a J,
Democrat and il had seased IN oways oT,er
a free and CONSTITUTIONAL conntrv Ha
concluded with tbe ren,ork tbat ybath -
adhesion to that fIay ,,ro,;-yer5 - ao,,IJ
wave over a Government ,,roS;ded 80,
by sucb constitutionaI Ran,ooro+s as
Horatio Seymour and Eonb pio;-
mr. ~, ,..I....-. ,rN
Cni "ie''oii mercury likewise un-
derstood the issue:
If the Radical party is oyerthrown In
November eveyy step taken to set afr, tbeiy.
naonoreZ Governments an the Northern
States auiu be upset and every man who
has identified himself with their or
ganizations will be held to responsibili-
ty. The platform of The Dsnaocrotic
PG<ty IS square upon the letter Of Gen.
Ds9", 1.t! uI'o uefs. De1"S , tette5 Is me Ie-
S,z1tfoy,o If is mora@;t 'i1I'y ;s IN ~ "to ne
the body of the Convention, and it is an
attempted deception of the votere at the
Pons'
MI f'aoert IoomDs also understood 1t.
me one great queselon OF peculiar IN
has taken ~ bv tbe % throat @ o.td.at waS that Paify
tary despotism shall henceforth and for
ever cease; ;thatthe Observation-Disclosures are
null and void, and shall not stand. The
skeletons which had been set
Qp in our midst as LEGISLATORS shall be
0usted By Frank Blair WHOM OUR