The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-07-29

tliaG OF SeymOufS, ana we welcome Its
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| ali SEYMOUR AND BLAIR
From the Rochester Union g.. Advertiser I
The East and the West, the North and
the South, meet upon the common platform
for principles, laid down with such striking
force and unanimity and following the lead
OF Horatio Seymour. we will march to tri
umph at the ballot-box. Yielding to Gen
Grant all that is claimed for him, the PEG.
pie know and feel that for the high civil
station Of Chef Magistrate of this great
country he is as the mole hill To the noun,
tain compared with Governor Seymour
Their interests, their honor, their every,
thing demands statesman in the Presi-
Dental chair-a man who will command the
respect of the world at home and abroad
and who will administer the. Executive OF
fee with an intelligence, with dignity
and with success that restore the once
proud prestige ofthe United States. Such
q man, as Horatio Seymour-the scholar
the statesman, and the Christian gentleman
whose private character is spotless. and
whose public record has withstood the as
saults of every foe, and still defes them.
Is Gen. Grant such man? We put this
question home to our Republican fellow
citizens, whose interests and honor in the
Government are identical with those OF
their Democratic fellow-citizens. AS a
soldier Gen. Grant has been successful and
he has been rewarded. He holds the high
est military command in the world, settled
upon him for life, with an income attached
that renders himself and his family indie
pendent. As civilian he has been fail
ure iii every avocation that he has tried,
and repeatedly he has confessed and by
his acts has given evidence, that he is not
fitted by either education OF taste for po-
Initial station. We cannot doutl the YER
dict Of the people-tbat they viii call Ho-
ratio Seymour to the Presidency, and leave
Gen. Grant, to wear the laureis and enjoy
the emoldtions of the only office fol- Which
he is fitted. ,5t5. ai
No happier choice for the second place
upon the ticket could have been made than
that of Maj. Gen. Frank p. Flair, of Mis-
soul the great soldier OF the West, and a
statesman Of national reputation. He re-
presents the volunteer army which enlisted
to put down the rebellion that peace and
union might be restored, combining the
private in the ranks and the general in
command; as he also represents the anti.
slavery element which warred against the
peculiar institution" of the South, and
which, now that that institution has gone
to its grave with the rubbish OF the past.
demands that we shall have a Union of
States ID fact as we'll as in name, according
to our constitutions system and upon the
basis OF universal freedom. Since the
close OF the rebellion and the dawn OF
peace Gen. Blsir has labored assiduously
to bring the country back to civil, peaceful
and constitutions rule. and in his own
State has been conspicuous in opposing
the odious test oaths which the Radicals
during the absence Of the soldiers in the
field, prescribed for the oppression Of cler-
gymen. teachers, and citizens generally who
are opposed TO the party I'D power.
THE RIGHT CANDIDATES.
From the Boston courier,l
The first statesman in the land is thus
proposed for The Office Of Cliie! Magistrate
of the United States. on the one hand;
merely successful leader OF the army on
the other! We cannot believe the people
will hesitate between them.
There can be no doubt that the nomin.
alton of such gallant officer as Genera