Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-10-08
Next Tuesday s 80 Day.

next Tuesday Is election Day
the North who sympathized with ths
rebelliOn-whO secretely aided it-whC
cried s'peace, peace when peace
as they advocated it was success Il
treason and a permanent disruption Ol
the Union, that is not for Seymour
and Blair
\ Fifth. That there is not a public
( journal ia the North which was
against the war and on the rebel side
of it that is not denOuncing Grant and
4 maligning every officer who sustains
him, while, if they speak at all of reb-
el officers, which they frequently do,
7 it is in terms Of praise. When YOU
4 were in the war and for the war these
y same papers called you everything but
a decent man. They did all they could
/ to render the name Of Frank Blair
Il svaOnym0us with infamy. Not one
+ did YOU reverence. Now they are la
boring to place you by the side Of the
great and pure men of the country /!
4 And why? Simply because YOU have
I gone over to the Confederate cause,
taken up your pOntOOns, burnt your
boats, and they know there is no
4 chance for you ever to get away from
them. Like Cortez, in Mexico, you
must conquer or perish. Like COrtez,
you must displace those who defended
the country, and letitbe controlled by
usuTpers, as that would be your only
safety. But, sir, have asked You this
1 question, if you thought you would
make a good President. i have asked
the public the same question they
are deeply interested IN the answer. j
have shown what you have been
/ heretofore. 1t is important that /
should show what you are non. You
have two letters on recOrd-One adj
/ dressed to Mr.. BrOadhead, the other
! your letter of Ofaeceptauce-tOj judge YOU
/ by. You commenced speaking after
your nomination, but your friends,
wisely for themselves, silenced you.
If they had only permitted you tOgOOn,
you would have treated US to some in
teresting revelations. As it is / must
cOnfine myself to
YOUR LETTERS.
These are a fair index of yesIr char
aeter and purpose. The first, which
shall now proceed to anaIyZe, has the
merit of boldness and hOnesty-Quali-
ties / admire. 1t also contains evil
dence of having been gotten up with
some logic and a reasonably fair liter
aTy taste, which your second does not;
for it is a weak, rambling, incOherent
production; many of its sentences be-
ing absolutely nOnsensicaI I do not,
however, propose to cavil with you
about mere forms of expression. 1t is
the substance, and not the shadow, I
am following. If you have the Tequi-
site capacity and honesty to serve the
State-if your principles should be
carried into its administartiOn-it viii
appear ali the more manifest as I pro-
ceed to demonstrate you. That you
are endowed with all hequalificatiOns
necessary to serve the late insurgents
aeceptably, no one viii question. One
of them-Mr. David O.. CrOly-has
written your life, and spread it
through the South, in which he
makes yOu out very demi-gOd. The
following is a fair specimen of the
public enthusiasm in your favor. / clip
it from the New Orleans Crescent Of
September 18th:
blair KNIGHTS - HONORARY
MEMBERS MEETING.-In response to
call published in the Democratic
journals, some fifty gentlemen, homo
rary members Of that sterling Organi-
ZatiOn, the Blair Knights, assembled
last evening at Hawkins club rooms.
Gen. BraXtOn Bragg was called to the
chair, and 8Ir. L. II. Joseph was re-
quested to act as secretary. Mr.. Dol
hOnde then explained the occasion of
the assemblage, it being the compile
tiOn of the necessary arrangements for
thereceptiOn Of the delegation bearing
the banner presented the knights by
citizens of St. Louis. The following
gentlemen were then appointed to act
as escorts to the married ladies on the
reception committee"
Gen. Bragg was, Of course, the prop /
er man to head a demonstration in |
your favor. Whether the knights I
are the knights of the Golden Cir /
cle,n or the knights of Rebellion, /
or the knights y of AndersOnvilIe |
I do not pretend to know. But I do |
not know they are not the knights"
of the Union, or the knights of Pa
triOtism.
1t is surprising what enthusiasm
your nomination has created among
the Southern rebels. There is nothing
y
You are a plain man, with fair ability, [
and have rendered no signal service TO (
the country. The only stock you ev-
er invested in the Democratic cause, /
is your BTOadhead letter under /
examination now. 1t appears that /
the Missouri delegation to the New /
York convention, Everybody knows |
what sort of men they are politically /
4
presenting YOU to that body as a can
didate for Vice-PTesident, and you
addressed a communication to Mr..
James G. Broadhead, one of them, /
stating on what conditions YOU would
accept the nomination. You say, I'm
reply to your inquiries, / beg leave to
say that leave it to YOU to determine
on consultation with my friends from
Missouri; whether my name shall be
presented to the Democratic cOnyen- /
ton, and to submit the following, as
what / consider the real and only issue /
in this contest.
You then 90 on and give your views |
of the real and only issue in the con- /
test, +" as you insist, and conclude by 1
saying, - I irish TO stand before TIE /
c0nUeHtiOR upon this issue. +" SO 1t IS /
clear, with this letter before It, the /
by adopting your adopt
ingyour Issue as the only one OF any
interest, as you alleged it to be. You
are either a good tactician, or made q
fortunate strike. The controlling eIe-
ment in the convention was revolution
You doubtless played for it, and Ger
tafnlv won it. The convention took
ron and ..your issue" 1t was the
Z. ISSUE you so boldly presented that i
induced them to take YOU; that was
the only recommendation you had. /
In to a short time, and until it was
necessary to make a change, in order
to keen in Office you had no afIiliatiOn /
with the Democratic party. When 1
Won started in that direction, YOU
at Mr.. JohnsOn's halfway
house and rested there, until you saw /
it would afford YOU no permanent /
shelter, and then you logged along to /
new quarters. With al your dement's Z
il is something to your credit that you /
forced the convention to adopt your
- issue, " and present It as the vital one /
in the election, as I shall show.
What is that issue2" The over /
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