Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21
Z Palifical Items.

An exchange says: s'When Wade
Hampton left Columbia, at the approach
| of Shermali's army, he announced that he
was bound to Texas or hell. He didn't
90 to Texas, but to the Democratic party.
Hasn't he kept his word
"A vermont Volunteer writes The Trib-
une: 81 have great respect for carpet
baggers, having been one myself during
part of the time during the late unpleas-
antness' MY carpet-bag was marked u.
| s."
Said a well known democrat to us YES
terday, az have about made up my mind to
vote for Grant. 1 cent stand the rebel
crew which Seymour is gathering about
him. Such observations are very COM
mon just now.
Ex-Governor G.. A. Miller, of Georgia,
an original Union man, who when the war
broke out, left his fine plantation in Ca,
came north entered the army, and rose to
the rank of Brigadier General before its
close, has taken the stump for Grant and
Colfax.
The New York Times says that, with
the republican party united, New York
State will give Grant republican majority
of at least SO, 900. Among the business
classes of New York city, thousands who
do not ordinarily vote the republican tick
ct are now sustaining General Grant
1t is Wade Hanptons boast that he
| did not surrender, was neither beaten nor
captured, and is under no obligations to
observe the terms of parole. He is as big
rebel as ever, and consequently good
democrat and anxious for the election of
I Seymour and Blair,
Judge Underwood, of Virginia. saws
Chief Justice Chase is a supporter of Grant
and Colfax. His personal friend DR. Snod-
\ grass, of New York, repudiates the sug-
/ gestion that the Chief Justice will support
! Seymour, and indorses the statement of
| Judge Underwood.
4 The Philadelphia Press says the Demo-
\ Gratis have taken care to nominate candi-
date for President who is in favor of the
| late rebellion against the government, and
! candidate for Vice-President who has
pledged himself in favor of the next rebel
/ lion against the Government
The Boston Post, the leading demo-
cratic newspaper of New England, said of
] Schuyler Colfax in 1868: "He is an intel
iigent, active working man, a good printer.
good editor, good citizen, and has dis
charged his duty conscientiously, we have
no doubt, as public man"
1t is rumored that two of the most
/ prominent Major Generals who took part
in the soldss. and sailors gathering held
in New Y9ak during the democratic con-
vention, are ''kicking in the traces" and
are only held back by very powerful infiu-
ences from declaring for Grant and Colfax.
Soldiers don't feel good in copperhead fell
lowship.
Although Gen. Blair has passed
through Indiana twice nee the New York
convention, and in each case it was gener-
ally known that he was on board the train,
no democratic committee bid him welcome,
nor was any invitation given him to speak.
This was not the reception that was ae-
/ corded to Mr.. Colfax in Ohio and Illinois.
The Richmond Enquirer and Examiner
renews the cry against the Yankee peda-
| gogues," SO familiar before the war. 1t
says they have always been a pest in the
south, and it expresses its JOY that the war,
whatever harm it did, brought the south
relief from their presence, so that the
minds of the children were no longer poi
soned with the accursed doctrines of Pu-
ritanism and Abolitionism. 1t says quiet
| ly that sit was only few years before the
war that their tracks were discovered, and
their number sensibly diminished in the south"