The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-07-25
POLITICAL.

TUE Richmond Wig closes an article on
negro suffrage In this wise! "Abhorring negro
sastins enormity-and Determined to struggle
q question in conn ection with Il which will bear
4 careful eonsideraticn: That question =
the tactics which were so suceessfiIly fol-
lowed in Mississippit There the white peo-
pie used persuasion and conclusion with, the
neutralizing others, were enabled to defeat the
mongrel Constitution. They captured the
Radical battery and turned II against the
yotcs were made TO defeat negro suffrage. The
hair OF the dog was applied to the bite. The
bane and the antidote went together"
THE New York Herald says: "The propo.
sition Of President johnson to amend the Con-
stitution so a. to throw the field wide open for
an independent scrub race for the Presidency
comes too late. But It IL not too late for Mi.
Johnson to come forward on an independent
ticket IL DESTROYS to have a crack at the Tam.
many Convention. We think, however, II
would be the best on his part nc longer to
insist upon things As he would have them,
God bies. the giver, nor look the gift horse Ia
the mouth.'r Nj .n. FHa,
TuH Buffalo Commercial says: at 10 not long
since the World published = long, singing ar
ticle on yallandlgham which called down the
out the country. The World WINGED under the
castigatlon, and made many wry faces. That
eastigation or some .gentieI appliance has
bles, and the World and yallandigham are mu-
tual admirers. So II seems there are infiu.
cnces capable OF moving even a heart OF Mar.
ble.r
A NEW ORLEANS Republican paper says
1.-THE Democracy OF Louisiana have opened
the campaign for Sey mour and Blair 10 truly
characteristic manner by destroying the press
will i'm inc diatcly address the ruffians who have
accomplished this feat as his friends" and
Mr.. Blair will hail this act as the opening Of
III: EFsft mss. e, sy
be preserved from the domination OF a bar
barous people"
A CONVENTION OF colorcd men WAS held al
st. Louis on Friday last, at which delegates
were appointed to attend the Border State
Convention, to be held at baltimore August 4
Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky, to grant
lions were adopted indorsing the negro
suffrage plank In tho Missouri State plat
form.
A REPUBLICAN correspondent who attended
per: I am no simirer OF Seymour, Yet believe
In giving the devil his due, and In doing SO, I,
is but fair to say that Seymour did not desire
the nomination; and took no steps whatever
prompted by fear OF certain defeat, is an en-
tirely different matter"
A DEALER in Augusta, Georgia, pubiishc,
this card in the city papers: "No native seal
awags' or their money are wanted In my store
from this date. Negroes and Eastern men ar,
excusable, even II they are In some cases Ia
| opposition to the people Of the South; but a
| native that turns traitor TO his country ought
| not to be tolerated by lsw-abiding people"
HORACE GREELEY said in a speech In New
York the other night: They say Grant cam
make speech. Well, Il Horatio Seymour
had never made speech he would get a goot
| many more votes than he will get In all Sey
| mour's speeches where did he ever make a re
mark that the rebel army would not hav,
cheered from beginning to endI never heard
| oft
TOXINS made speech at a Seymour
| Blair ratification meeting at Atlanta OF
| Thursday night, In which he euiogized Sey.
mour as one "who had been true to them
| True In peace, and true In war" So he was.
GENERAL J. N. PALMER, Republican candi
| date for Governor OF Illinois, will enter al
once on an active canvass OF the State.
TnE MONTGOMERY tAls.l Seniinei styles the
Tammany Declaration OF Principles, "Tht
Platform Of the Second Rebellion"