The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-11

General Blair arrived in st. Joseph, Mo-, on
the Lat instant, and being serenaded by the citi-
zens spoke as follows:
Gentlemen Of S. Joseph: In addressing, the
large and enthusiastic audience before me
shall not insult you by calling you 'fellows,
or by advising you to throw man IN the river
who happens to differ in opinion regarding the
sentiments expressed, as I understand has
been done by q distinguished military gentle
man in this place upon recent occasion. l
believe this to be FREQ country, and that the
people will tree. these with respect who respect
the people. Our objection to the principles Of
our adverearies in this great political campaign
Is that they assume loo dictatoqial tone to-
ward the people. They denounce me as rev.
oluuionlst-say that l wish to inaugurate an
other rebellion, because I say it is time for
applause.l The people OF the State Of Mis-
sour and the people Of the whole country
are tired of being bound to obey the die
tates OF their military commanders. We be-
lieye it is time for the will Of the people to be
carried out. This will be done. IA voice:
"Wen fix that. in Noyember:"] Yes, We VIII
psaceably by the ballot. The people are now
fully aroused, and none ofthese men will dare
to defy the will Of the people. Those who at
temptit will come to grief, and 1t is time they
should come to grief. Unless checked they
viii 70 on until they establish negro suffrage
over this State, and the Northern States, as
they already have in ten States OF the Union.
They will extend military despotism over all
the States, and negro supremacy as far as the
people will allow it. This fragmentary Con-
gress, and the carpet-baggers that have got
into the Senate under the auspices Of this
Rump, have already attempted to degrade the
white men Of all the States to condition ofin-
feriority to the negro. This ia the main issue.
The people have decided in all those States
where they have enjoyed the privilege Of free
that the viii Of thepeople shall be carried out In
spite of the designs of these ambitious men who
have trample1 the constitution under their
feet, and republican form Of government
shall be guaranteed to the people Of the South
ern as well as OF the Northern States. But We
are told that even if the Democratic party elect
their President and majority Of the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES. that these oarpet-bsggers who
assume to constitute majority OF the Senate
viii defeat legislation, and will impose this
ignorant and semi-barbarous race OF. negroes
upon the country as the superior Of the white
man. Let them dare to do it, and they will
find that the more than one million majority
Of voters who are opposed to this scheme will
make it impossible fJr them to perpetuate
such continuing outrage upon American citi-
zens. The people have risen in their might
everywhere, from Maine to California, and
have by their votes said they will not have this
negro supremacy kept up in this country.
They will not be shaken in this purpose to turn
aside the bayonet that is still kept pointed at
the throats Of the white men of the South.
Neither will the Radical party, in its hopeless
pie. / feel an abiding confidence in the sue
cess Of the Democratic party OF to-day, be-
Cause it is right. Thanking you, gentlemen,
foc your kind and attentive audience, bid you
farewell.
"THE TERRIBLE coUNTER-REvoLUTIoN AP-
PRoAcHING."
The New York Herald is becoming alarmed
st the drift Of the popular current, and is get
ting ready to abandon Grant. In its issue of
Saturday last it says:
The figures, as they como in from Kentucky,
are mounting up for the Democratic majority.
The !ast returns, which we published yesterday.
set down eighty thousand majority for Steven
son, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
and these returns represent the country dis
tr.cts, from which they come in slowly, and will
probably chow larger gains, according as they
are received. The result Of the June election
IN Oregon was quite as remarkable an evidence
that the people are awake to the multifa-
.iccs mischief which the Radical party has
wrought in its administration of the govern
mect: We cannot, therefore, shut our eyes to
the direction of these straws which show how
the wind blows. The Republican majority in
Oregon in 1866 was 1927; the Democratic ma
jority for member OF Congress (the solitary
one who represents that young state) was, at
the election of the first Monday in June 1868,
1909. Here was a gain of the anti-Radical
party OF ever fifteen hundred votes in a voting
population of about twenty thousand. Taking
these two States as On example, we will find
that the people are not abandoning their hos
tility to the wanton and dangerous policy OF
the ruling faction, which during three years
Of peace has increased the national debt and
Kept up war prices and war taxation. The
Kentucky election has taken place since the
Presidential commissions of both parties we're
made; and yet so far from the nomination Of
the Radical convention strengthening the back
bone of the faction, or the nomination of Sey-
mour and Blair weakening the spinal column
OF the Democracy in that State, they have tun-
ed events the other way These results are
but the early indications (tho skirmish fire as
it were) of the great revolutionary battle which