The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-09-24

/ OF the times are pregnant Win reSlSUahct'
to Radical tyranny, and the dagger OF
Brutus may aid in accomplishing our re-
demption from Radical rule. ruin, and
usurpation." aal ,y,aeg IL
| Does this mean that they viii murder
Seymour, if elected, that Blair may rule !?
At the Democratic convention held in
| Atlanta, Ga, one of the speakers, Clarke
| by name, epledged himself before God to
| fight to the last the new governments that
had been set up in the South"
The Memphis Tenn. J. sAvazanche, in
alluding to Blair's letter, says
''For uttering similar sentiments to thssss
ABOVE, We nave been denounced anu cdIIet4
impudent. Had the above extract ap-
peared in this paper as editorial, the polit-
ical fossils would have raised their hands
in holy horror and stigmatized us as rev.
olutionist. We would have been taunted
with the worn-out, stereotyped complaint
that such imprudent expressions injure
the Northern Democracy and the Southern
people in the North. But, strange to say,
it was the publication of the letter from
which we take the above extracts that Sc
cured Mr. Blair his nomination for the
Vice Presidency Thus it will be seen
that the North is far ahead of the South.
They are rife for revolution"
The Charlottesville (Va) Chronicle
says:
General Blair was an abolltlonlst and
war man /; but those are dead issues, and,
if he was sincere in his recent letter, he
will answer our purpose"
Humphrey Marshall asserted, in his
Louisville speech, that if the Democratic
ticket was elected, his party would ''wipe
OUT all that had been done in the way of
reconstruction, and the fourteenth amend
ment to the Constitution.
John Forsythe proclaims through the
| columns of the Mobile Ad0ertiser
'sMississippi must vote, and the Democ-
racy will see to Its being counted. Texas
and Virginia cannot go through with the
forms of the Radical programme in time
to be admitted before the election, as Con-
gress will adjourn beforehand. But they
/ must vote" s-
/ We summon these rebel witnesses first.
because they have the control of the Dem
ocratic party, and second, because they
are franker and honester men than the
Copperheads.
Lest this may be disputed, We place
upon the stand ex-rebel General Wade
Hampton.
/ In his speech at Charleston, after his
return from the Democratic Convention
Mr.. Hampton told the people that, being
on the committee on resolutions in the
Tammany Convention, when ii was propo-
sed to insert the clause declaring that The
fright of suffrage iQngs to the States, ,
he shrewdly asked what was to be under.
stood by States = agreed to the prop
ositions," he said .'but at the same time
said that it seemed to me that they had
omitted one very vital point, which was
to declare to wh2: States the doctrine ap-
piled. | though it was necessary to guard
and limit that declaration, and to the end
that We might know at what time we could
go back and say who were the citizens of
the States, L asked that they would declare
that these questions belonged to the States
under their Constitutions up to the year
! 1868"
The Northern and Western men in the
| Convention objected to this as imprudent.
! "Gentemen were there from the North,
! South, East, and West" continued the
speaker, t'and by all we were met with ex-
treme cordiality. They said they were
willing to give us everything desired but
we of the South must remember that they
had great fight to make, and it would
not be policy to place upon that platform
that which would engender prejudice at
the North. They, however, pledged them
/ selves to do all in their power to relieve
the Southern States, and to restore to us
the constitution as it had existed AS we
were met in such kindly spirit, I could
not but reciprocate it. l knew that I was
representing the feelings of my people
when / did so, and | told them that /
would withdraw all the resolutions | had
| offered, and no doubt other Southern del
] egates would do the same, and would ac-
cept the resolutions offered by Hon. Mr..
| Bayard, the Senator from Delaware, which
declared that the right Of suffrage belonged
| to the States. / said I would take the
resolutions if they would allow me to add
but three words, which you will find en-
bodied in the platform. / added this -
'And we declare that the Reconstruction
acts are revolutionary, unconstitutional,
and void When [ proposed that, every
single member of the committee-and the
warmest men in it were from the North
came forward and said they would carry
it out to the end Having thus pledged
| tllOHicOlNOC, L ICCA d>ouISO ChdI HIiOH GuS
| Democratic party come to triumph, they
will show us a remedy for our misfortunes
in their own good time, for which [ am
perfectly willing to wait. Such is the
history of our platform, and such were the
motives which governed the committee In
its formation"
To clinch the nail, the men of Hamp-
tons mind secured the nomination of f.
p. Blair, who had already declared pub
licly that the State governments in the