New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-18

Inc men VINO cursed our QyluB heroes at
Andersonville are now shouting for Sey-
mour and Blair.
General Grant crushed the rebellion.
The present political contest is the endeavor
OF the rebellion to crush him.
The hands which cut down the boys in
blue on the battle field will all deposit
Democratic ballots next November.
In 1860 the Southern Gre-eaters threaten
ed rebellion if they failed. They now
threaten revolution if they succeed.
The trouble with Wade Hampton is that
Grant gave him his parole, but IN doing so
took from him his payroll.
Frank Blair to the crowd at Omaha:
"Fel'r ci'zens! five dom any thin It
displease yer, 'raign me fore Ter b-b-bar!''
The,Nashville Gazette with terrible irony
says; "When they employ colored porter
in Savannah, the only stipulation is that he
shall not run for Congress-"
Governor Seymour says be has been
"caught up by the whirling tide" That
was what allied Early when Sheridan got
after him and sent him "whirling through
Winchester"
The Boston Post says Mr.. Seymour's the
only man who grasps the whole situation.
He is pretty good grasper. General
Hancock says SO, and adds the Choctaw
word "Dammim."
When Seymour feels the cold wind of
the third of November blowing upon him
he will exclaim as he exclaimed to Lin
coin during the war stop the draft y
A Southern editor thus describes the
rebel General Cleburne He was as
ferocious as tiger, and yet as cold-blooded
as fish, and as impossible as an owl" That
is boiling down to atomicity," as our
Swans say,
The Republicans of New York are form
ing " Monitor Clubs 10 honor of their can
didate for Governor, who supplied the
means to build the first Monitor, which did
such glorious work at Fortress Monroe,
The Richmond Enquirer says that those
who have used the bullet can use it again.
Perhaps it fergets that they have given
parole not to do so until regularly exchang
ed.
Son The rebel who deprived you of a
father will vote for Seymour and Blair.
Father The rebel who deprived you of
son will vote fer Seymour and Blair. viii
you vote for them?
The miscreant whose bullet sought the
brain of Abraham Lincoln, were he alive,
would vote for Seymour and Blair, Friends
Of the martyred President. will you vote
for the same disloyal men?
Mr.. Chase lately informed some of his
legal friends that If the Supreme Court had
been allowed by Congress to pass upon the
reconstruction laws last winter they would
have been pronounced constitutional.
The Presidency has "no attractions" for
Horatio Seymour. Oh. no. He says it
don't. He also said the nomination didn't.
He's first-class decliner, Heratio is. Ar
temus Ward said mot a drop of good
liquor has passed my lips in fifteen years. |
Cause why? l reached out and nipped it |
before it got by"
The envious Copperheads, impecunious
ragged, dirty wretches, have good deal to |
say against "carpet baggers," but only give |
them chance to steal carpetbag aud its |
contents, and they have nothing more to
say.
The Democratic outcry against putting
arms in the hands Of the Governors of the |
reconstructed States, for the use of the peo- |
pie in case of necessity, has its origin in |
the apprehension that this arrangement |
plans in those States. That's what's the |
matter.
The Rochester Express says; eve have
hid a suspicion that Blair knows the effect
of his letters, and it would be in strict har-
mony with the impudence of the Blairs TO
have him asking Cabinet appointment or
a foreign mission from President Grant for
services in promoting his election"
Coming down to st. Louis on the steamer
Lucy Bertran, Copperbead learned of
the death of Thaddeus Stevens, and was so
much rejOiCed that he ordered the bar
keeper to treat all on board. Both the ma
lignant hatred and the mode of testifying
it were eminently characteristic.
The Memphis Avalanche says the Demo-
cratic nomination Of Blair proves that "the
people of the North are rife for revolution"
How is it, boys who fought with Grant aud
Sherman, Thomas and Sheridan? Are you
ready to become rebels, and change places
with the men you whipped
Howell Cobb is making speeches at the
South to sir up the old rebel fire, and he
3ustains Seymour by appeals OF this sort:
"Come one and all, and let us snatch the
Did banner from the dust, give it again
10 the breeze, and if needs be, to the God
81 battles, and strike one more honest blow
for constitutional liberty prolonged
and enthusiastic applause.)
Our Democratic exchanges are publish
ing list of fifteen Union Generals who
support Seymour and Blair Two Of the
number have already pronounced for the
Republican ticket. Five more were re-
tired in disgrace during the war. One of
The number has been court-martialed and
punished since the close of the war. Two
we're never in any engagements; one is
lead, and of the remaining four the country
never heard, unless it be SlOcum.
The difference between the Seymour
party and the Grant party is this-when,
IN 1864, the latter said, Garry on the war;"
the former said, "Stop p' Now, in 1868,
when the latter says, "Let us have peace"
the Seymour Blair party calls out "Let US
have war" The people who were for war
in 1854 are for peace in 1868, and uice versa.
While Pendleton was making a speech
to Democratic crowd at Lafayette, In
diana, he said: IF Congress has the right
10 regulate suffrage in South Carolina,
where did it get it? Where did it get il I
pause for a reply, If any gentleman
wishes to reply" To which voice re-
'ponded, "There's no gentleman in this
crowd"
Enormous taxes!r Well, who caused
hem? Who piled up, high upon the heav-
ng breast of labor, the great debt which
rot only cuts of from the luxuries of the
itch but shortens the loaf of the poor
they were caused by those who now en-
leavor to make them the means of return.
ng to power the very men that made them