Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-08-20

Three cheers for Grant!
They cannot him defeat
For countless thousands meet
with one accord to greet
Ulysses Grant
ss AT the Point of the BayOnet."
Every day makes it palmer that the
policy which the Democratic party
has chosen to submit to the public
judgement in this campaign is not
one of administration merely, but OF
absolute and forcible revolution. 1t
proposes to reverse all the national
legislation Of the three last years, to
subvert the reconstruction which the
county has approved, to disperse or
ganized State governments by the
bayOnet; by the same means to rein
state those who for the highest crime
against the Commonwealth have been
temporarily disfranchised; to deprive
hundreds Of thousands of new citizens
of the ballot, and thrust them back
into a semi-enslaved cOndition-aprO-
iect which can not be accomplished
but by the most sanguinary measures.
Proclaiming wholly arbitrary tests of
citizenship in color--a test involving
caste and inconceivable injustice,
which embraces the entire disaffected
class, and excludes a large body of the
loyal peOple-it announces that If its
claim is disregarded it will appeal to
physical force" and place its can
didatein the White HOUSE at the point
of the bayonet.
1t will not be forgotten that the
party which thus enters into politi-
cal compaign with loud threat Of
civil war is the one that has previous
ly made the same threat and fulfilled
it to the letter. In 1860 the Democrat
orators said that the South y could
not be expected to submit to the elec-
ton, of Mr.. LINCOLN. In 1856 Mr..
FILLMORE, absurdly calling Conser-
vative, had said the same thing in
view of the election of Mr.. FREMONT.
It was not bTavadO merely. What
ever the Northern portion of the party
may have thought or intended, the
Southern portion was sincere and
and it was that portion
which has entirely controlled the par
ty and dictated its policy, because it
was the positive element.
This history repeats itself. In 1854,
the positive element was the Copper
head majority represented by Mr..
Mr.. Vallandigham
made the Democratic platform of that,
year, which was merely proposal to
succOr the rebellion and secure its sue
cess. In any event it was revolution;
and revolution in the interest of the
oligarchy. International
and sagacity, however, were
too strong: the Union and progressive
free society were saved. In 1868 the
same spectacle is repeated. The
war is over. But the passion and
purposes fits chiefinstigatOrs remain.
Defeat in the effort to destroy the
Union has not taught them love of the
Union. Profound hostility to the
of society which have pre-
vailed, and to an Interpretation of the
character of the government which
has triumphed, does not sink intol
without further struggle.
FOiled in the field, what chance is
there in political intrigue? Oppressed
with debt, strained bylong and severe
eXertiOn of every kind, vexed by the
delay of complete pacification, is not
the country and army fatigued after it's
victory, sleeping upon the field, and
fatally exposed to one daring, desper-
ate assault? This was the question
with which the old, positive, ruling
element of the Democratic party en-
tered its Convention. Part of the
Northern wing, which that element
despises, had suggested in advance
some acknowledgements ofactual events.
The war, it said, cautiously, may have
been a mistake, but it must be honest
y paid for. Reconstruction may be
unconstitutional, but-it is accomplish
ed, and can be reversed only in the
way itself provides. The party Justly
1r unjustly, has became such a stencil
IN the national nOstrils that it may be
better to take a candidate from without
It's lines. Indeed, said this wing of the
party, with an air of valoT, on the very
lay before the Convention met, if the |
Southern delegates take part in the |
action of the Convention they must |
lbide by it.
1t may be imagined with what dis
lain the Southern delegations read |
ihese words in a paper which their |
mere distant frOwn had forced to |
'en0unce its candidate. They came |
% the Convention led by Wade HAM
)ton, a relentless South Carolinarebel |
Who declared upon his way to take |
lis seat that the cause OF the rebellion |
vas not yet lost. Wade Hampton the |
'ebel, and Vallandigham the Cop
combined, and ruled the
Convention. Instead of recognizing
.etual events, their effort was to undo
he result of seven years. The spirit
II the two men made the platform. |
fallandigham put into it reputation
which is national disgrace; and Wade
hampton the reversal of reconstruc-
ION, which is rebel revenge. Then |
1oratlo Seymour was made candidate
or President, who had declared that
ne success of the war would be the /
uIn of the Union; and Frank Blair
or Nlce-President, who had insisted |
nat reconstruction should be subver-
ed by force, and who said that he /
Wished to be nominated upon that /
ieclaration only. After eight years
he spirit Of the old slaveholders-ar-
ogant, inhUman, un-AmeFican, bar
,arous-which had been labOring to
lestroy the Government by force, and |
My because it promised peacefully
progressive liberty, returned to its
amlliar arena, a Democratic National
jonVentionand Immediately resumed
ontroI of its old machine-the Demo-
ratio party-to secure its old purpose
Exclusive political power.
Could any misfortune be so disastr-
'us to civilization as the restoration of
uch spirit and such party to power
this Government, which is truly [
Of equal constitutional lib I
.erty? Think of Wade Hampton, of
tobert TOOmbs, of Howell Cobb, of +
fallandigham, Of PeHdleton, of Sey-
nour, of Forrest, of Fernado Wood, +
Nth q policy founded upon their
leciarations and principles succeeding
Abraham Lincoln and the policy of
be Union! Is that by any possibility
r sophisticatioil a policy of peace or
u era of anu fbf7,ot b11f tho most a-.-osse