Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-02

blair snail receive a majority OF the iChtt
votes, they shall be installed in power il
spite of all the bayonets that shall b,
brought against them
The World dares not utter such sentiments
in New York, for fear of losing the State
next November
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, said at
Richmond:
"What the Confederacy fought for would
be won by the election of Seymour and
Blair"
The World has not the pluck to repeat
these words, lest it should push respectable
Democrats into the Republican party.
Gov. Wise, in his latest speech at Rich
mond, Indignantly denounced the first res
olution of the Democratic platform which
characterizes secession as dead, and insisted
that secession was moro alive than ever.
The World lacks the nerve to say as brave
thing as that
The Democratic journals Of Louisville
mention that, at the ratification meeting in
that city, portraits Of JEFF. Davis, Lee and
Stonewall Jackson were suspended over the
platform, and afterward carried in torch
light procession and that the stars and
stripes uere nouhere to be seem" The World
is too much Of time-server 10 recommend
such proceedings in New York.
Semmes said in Mobile
g. drew my sword against the old flag
the old flag which no longer represented
these principles; il was not the nag. OF
1875 against which ! drew my sword, put
the flag which had become Haunting he,
so called by prominent politicians OF the
North. But now, in spite of the efforts OF
those politicians who endeavored TO strangle
the old Democratic party, by erecting IN Its
stead new Conservative party-a sort OF
conglomeTated party-which was to com
prise politicians Of every shade OF opinion,
the grand old Democratic party has risen
from the long slumber in which 1t has in
dulged, and now gives signs of life and vi
tally and have come here tonight from
the country TO ratify and rejoice with you
in tho nomination of Seymour and Blair.
The World is of too thin blood to main
tain that the flag which conquered the re
bellion was not the ancient and time-honor-
ed flag of the country.
Ben. H. Hill, at Atlanta, proposed pub
lic burning Of the reconstruction acts in
dulging himself in the following strain
"When liberty shall return, when the law
shall be again respected, and good men
shall be again our rulers we must gather
all the journals, and constitutions, and en-
actment of every character, Of the conven-
tons and assemblies thus forced upon us by
force, and fraud, and usurpation, and, catch
ing fire from heaven, burn them up for
everl And right here, my countrymen, l
want you TO understand that | am a candi-
date for but one Office on earth. Several
voices Name it, and you shall have ito
When the glorious day shall come, and the
free women, and the free men, and the
proud youth Of Georgia shall gather TO-
gether to fire the miserble, hideous record
Of infamy, let the Office be mine to kindle
the flames" Tremendous cheers, lasting
several minutes.
The World knows that, if it were TO print
dozen editorials in this vein, it might as
well give up New York State without a
struggle.
Here then is one Of the striking signs of
the times the Democratic leaders are go
ing forward so fast that the World cannot
keep pace with them; the Democratic pol
icy is becoming so revolutionary that the
World tremblcs at committing itself to it !;
and the Democratic orators are so fiery that
the World cannot afford to print their
speeches. What is the consequence? The
World pouts, sucks its thumb, and goes sui
lonly to the foot of the class while Brick
Pomeroy marches TO the head of the Dem
ocratic press of the country.
Calamity have the rebels captured the
Democratic party The South, not the
North, animated the Tammany Convention.
The South, not the North, dictated the one
essential feature of the platform, The au-
thor OF its chief plank was none other than
Wade Hampton. He says:
when the resolution offered by the SEN
ator from Maryland, which declared that
the rights of suffrage belonged TO the polit-
ical powers Of a State, were being, cOnsid-
GltAf btEHNl W duu u low biuUit WOINbs
They agreed and | took the resolutions
which you will find embodied in the plat.
form, and added to them, and we declare
that the reconstruction acts of Congress are
unconstitutional, revolutionary and void.
[Cheors. That lCdS my plank IN the platform.
] wanted nothing else; for when the great
Democratic party had pledged themselves
TO that, when they had declared that these
acts were unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void was willing to wait in patience
until that party wonld be triumphant, and
apply the remedy in their own good time"
When one of The most notorious rebels Of
the South-one of the hottest bloods of
South Carolina-ean come to Tammany
Hall, and who with his own pen write null
LITIGATION of the laws of the United States.
and when-amid great applause Forrest
can rise and name the most available fill
buster TO the Democratic nominee for Vice
President; when the World is compelled to
scrapo its unwilling strings in a second I'D.
ding TO Brick Pomeroy; when the La
Crosse Democrat is imported into New York
city TO be the visible and 3 -s1ic head of
the National Democratic press, when all
this can be successfully and brilliantly ac-
complished, it is lamentably true that " the
Lost Cause is regaincd," and that what
the COnfederacy fought for would be won
by the election Of Seymour and Blair"
1t has become as plain as a pikestaff that
the War Democrats of three or four years
ago have no longer any control over the
Democratic party that Northern Demo
cratic iournals-exeept of tho Brick Pnmn-