The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-08-06

ABOUT pOlicy. IL Will O6 time |
enough to rid ourselves Of the lep-
rous army which has been fatten.
ing upon the wealth of the South.
1t will be time enough to settle the
question Of currency. 1t will be
time enough to destroy the tariff |
and taxation under which the ma.
tion has been groaning. And now,
fellow citizens, ! have come here
to declare that l. have given in my
allegiance, heart and soul, to the
flag, prorided VIC can restore the
old flag again to be the represent
alive of the Constitution, which we
will be able to effect by tho elec.
ton Of Seymour and Blair.
A rebel Colonel, Herndon, also
spoke. He said the resolutions,
under the circumstaoc were good;
but if there were omissions p the
platform, 1.-The brave and magnan,
;mous speeches of Seymour and
Blair supplied them ALL" Quoting
Blair's letter, he said
"Who but'a brave, true, gcner-
Gus heart could utter such senti-
ment as this? Can We not strike
hands with him, and swear with
him for our country's rights to live,
and with our country 10 dic2'
A rebel Judge Jones also spoke
on the same occasion, and stated
that
"He would have preferred Pen
dleton, but still more Massa Bob
Lee. lie asked for no better plat.
form than the letter Of Gen. Blair"
Tho southern rebel press is
equally outspoken. 1t theratens
the expulsion of all Union men
from the South after their antici-
patod triumph in November. AS
specimen, VIC cut the following
from a copy of the Memphis Aval.
dnche sent us by a friend in the
South:
"Ayo, tho people 80 long out
ragged. wronged and insulted are
dreaming of deliverance and ven
geancel They are crouching among
the flowers, the hills and wales OF
their own native South, like the
tiger, glittering eye and vonge-
ful heart, awaiting ihe happy mo-
ment for the deadly spring upon
tho thisvcs and despots who have
plundercd thom of thoiY property,
and robbed them OF their liberties.
That time will come carly in No.
vember, when tho Northern people
will give tranquility and fraternity
to tho country-when they will
strike the chains from the South.
ern people, and take back to their
bosom the infam ous hoard OF knaves
that tho passions OF the unfortu,
nate civil war spewed upon a dis.
armed and dcfenscless people"
The people by which term the
Avalanche means that portion Of
the cx Confederate soldicry and the
rufiian class generally of the South,
banded together in the form of
Ku-Klux and other secret murder
Gus clans, are even anticipating No
vcmber in their high hopes of tri-
umph. Old Union men dragged
from their beds, beaten with hun
dreds Of stripes, and ordered from
their homes on pain of death;
school teachers OF both sexes OK.
pelled from their charges under
similar threats because engaged in
lnstructing the poor freedmen and
their children; the colorcd people
driven off from whole precincts,
and shot down if they lag in their
flight; these and multiplied mur.
ders and outrages perpetrated up
on the Union people all through
the South, are tho direct fruits OF
tho Democratic nominations and
platform, which will ripen into a
perfect hell Of anarchy and bloody
massacre, if the people of the Uni
tod States prove SO infatuated as
TO place tho party of rebellion in
power at the November election.
Upon the Union people of the
North again depends the salvation
of the Republic; and wo to liberty,
justice, and true national progress
if they come short in the perform
anco OF their whole duty.