Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-30
NO. 81.

sion, whether the negro was reaIl,
born to be slave or not.o
THE LOST CAUSE RECLAIMED TBRoUoH
| GREELEY-DIRECT PLEDGES TO REsToR
| THE REBELS TO POWER
| From the speech General Hodge, Greeley STUN
orator, at Louisville, KY, Aug. 2.
"I have devoted a lifetime to th,
principles of the Democratic party.
have grown gray in the advocacy o
those principles, and each year tn,
conviction has grown deeper that it,
fundamental principles are the tru,
foundation-stone of this Government
[ have seen upon the battle-f
thousands throw away their lives il
defense of these principles. The grave,
of the gallant Southern dead who sleet
upon every hillside in the South, ovel
whose graves the night winds Sigh, are
reminders to me of the love for these
principles which still fingers in my
heart. The second passage IN Mr..
Greeley's letter means that JOHN G.
BRECKENRIDGE AND OTHER CHIvALRoUs
SONS OF THE SOUTH, SHALL BE RESTORED
TO THEIR FORMER POSITIONS OF POWER
AND INFLUENCE.
Looking back upon the once shatter
ed and fruitless hopes of the South, L
now see that the equal rights and SOW
ereignty of States shall be restored, and
my comrades of the lost cause have not
died in vain. This aOill be q Uactory for
that for a0hjch they fought Mr.. Gree
ley promised to do all he could to aid
us when we get majority in Congress-
| object to Grant because he is Re-
publican: because he IS q member of
that party which waged successfully the
contest against my brethren of the
South, whose orators kept the fires
burning that filed the Federal ranks
with soldiers. l have heard it said by
some that the Democratic party shall
have no part with Mr.. Greeley in the
conquest; but I feel that thev will not
be neglected. Not only aoiU Greeley
not forget aUho has helped him to has
position, but pledges-direct pledges
haze been given as by him that WE
SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN IN CASE OF sue
CESS"
GREELEY THE STEPPING STONE TO THE ES-
TABLIsHMENT OF REBELS IN POWER.
From the speech of Colonel q. G. P Breckenridge
at the above named meeting.
.'Our part of this bargain is to give
the Liberal Republicans our votes, IN
order to enable them to succeed in the
undertaking. Their part of the bargain
is to restore to power the now disfran
chised sons of the South, to drive out
of the temple these vandals and thieves,
and to restore you, Democrats, to their
positions. They are to give you, men
of the South, those places which the
men of the dominant party now hold
/ don't care picayune for Horace
Greeley, or what he has said. He re-
presents the dawn of a new era to us
an era that will restore us to power
Will not that be victory enough for us
It may be in the words of friend from
Woodford, Bla kburn, that Greeley
is purgatory, but Grant is hell. ~
From the n Y Heralds interview with Governor
Whyte of Maryland, Aug. 1.
Reporter-How Go you take, Cover
nor, that passage of Senator Summers
letter where he says that the Demo-
Gratis have been converted to Repub-
llcanismS
Governor-sSo far from the Demo-
Gratis abandoning their principles, or,
indeed, abandoning their party name,
l consider that as a party in its solldar.
ity-to use Kossuth's EXPRESSION 1t
has taken Greeley and the Cincinnati
platform for temporary purposes.
Having changed the present Admins
tration, and embarking upon a new one
with principles i'll SO great a degree
similar to the Liberal Republicans, the
Democratic party, with its 100000 of
voters, aUiU be the 2ooaOeq' IN the land
hereafter.
"THE LAST REBEL YELL.
From the F rmer of Chappaqua songster.
Whoo-hoop for Horacel''
Pm a rale cd Reb, with but one leg left,
And Pm afraid [ cannot raise as loud yell
As when followed Jackson through the Blue
Ridge cleft
Or stormed in the ruins Of Fort He'll.
But the old yell cames,
Though silent are the drums;
Whoo-hoop
(Gray column lii the van y
For toe first of the Yauks
Who after we broke ranks,
Behaved like ali uncle and d man.
DON'T HOWL ANDERsoNvILLE.
From Lyman Trumbull's Speech at Dixon, Ill.
"We should forgive the South, and
NOT 60 FowLIEG ROUND ABOUT THE HoR-
RoRs OF ANDERsoNvILLE.