Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-07-24
Political.
: Facts for the People-Col-fax

S - Facts for the People-Col-faX
I = Daniel S. Dickinson used always {
8 say that he knew when Horatio Seymour
! most desired to be candidate for office
by the pertinacity with which he declines
, it.
- The fact that the soldiers in 1876.
gave 12l ,041 votes for Abraham Lincoln
and only $4,000 for Mcclellan, may Civ
some idea of how the same soldiers vii
be likely to vote this year.
- A western democrat has discovered
that the nominations at New York are
the most popular ever made in the coun,
try, because they please all the repub-
licans and nearly half of the democrats. u
At the Democratic ratification
meeting in Louisville, KY, there were
three portraits borne in the procession,
and these were the portraits of Stone
wall Jackson, General Robert L. Lee
and Jefferson Davis.
- Hon. John A. Griswold the Re-
publican nominee for Governor of New
York, was the first man who urged upon
the Government the building of the first
Monitor which turned the tide of war at
Fortress Monroe.
= AT Grant ratification meeting in
Watertown, recently, Gen. John l.. Swift
asked to be taken back into the bosom of
the republican party, and said that he
meant to stick this time. His promises
are no indication that he will.
= semmes, the pirate, supports Sey-
mour and Blair, of course, and has made
a speech urging their election. 1t is sug-
gested that if they should happen to be
elected, he would make good Minister
to England to settle the alabama claims.
= An old soldier who has lost an arm
says " | am waiting to see if the peo-
pie of this country are going to elect
Horatio Seymour, and if they do 1 will
swear that | lost my arm in threshing-
and not in defense of nv coun-
try"
- AT recent dinner party in Boston
several conservative gentlemen announced
their intention to vote for MI. Chase,
whose nomination was momentarily ex-
oected. On learning that Seymour was
all agreed that nothing was
eft for them to do but to vote for Grant.
- Pollard, the Rebel author of "The
Lost Cause" publishes another book,
The Lost Cause Regained," in which
lie says he is now convinced that the
rue cause fought for in the late war has
lot been lost, UNNECESSARILY or irrevoca-
by, bnt is yet in condition to be re-
sarded by the South an ultimate issue of
he political contest"
- Last week a mob broke into the
'ffice Of The Illiad, a Republican news
'aper published by j. w. Blackburn, at
Homer, La, and destroyed the press and
ype. Mr.. Blackburn, is a member of
Congress elect. His paper was mobbed
because it was Republican. If Seymour
md Blair should be elected every Re-
press in the South will be mob
BED.
When the news of the nomination
If Seymour and Blair reached Wooster,
Ohio, the unterrifed thereabout fred a.
'alute in honor of the event. and pointed
he cannon toward the North, whereat a
| Grant man standing near quitely OBJ
served that they were firing the same
way they did during the war;"
AS a crowd of the unterrifed Of
Merrimack county, N. H., were lounginp
IN a hotel piazza, recently, dirty and
iilapldated traveller staggered up, and on
'elng asked ifhe was "Seymour man.
eplied: " From my present appearance
'ou would probably judge I was a DEM
'crat, but l amt. 1 learnt my politics
before | took to drink"
- Hereisanother of Dean Richmond's
opinions of Seymour: AT the democratic
lational convention of 1860 at Charles
on, the committees were employed and
he members wanted to fill up the time. it
vas determined to have speech from
'lutf old Dean Richmond. A MESSENGER
anne to him with the message that he was
leSired to come in and speak. Dean
nouthed huge exceration, and then
efused :: \" If l speak / shall say some
hing which will come up again. Call
n Seymour; he can talk without saving
Is Mr., Stephens frontispiece to the
august Riverside" a sly hit at the bill
lg and cooling which goes on among the