Year: 1868

Another False Pretence.


The radical presses in all parts of the
country are trying hard to make political
capital out of the false assumption that the
attitude assumed by the democratic party is
of belligerant and revolutionary character
We have yet to learn that there has been
anything like ambiguity in the platform. of
authorized declarations of our party. Every
thing has been independent straight forward,
Ineligible, and above board. True to its
time honored antecedents and instincts, it
has left no room for doubt, and no occasion
for grabbed interference. The trick of
cowardly concealment is entirely out of its
line of business. The party has declared its
determination to have fair and open contest
with the thieves, carpet>baggers, and usur-
pers at the Presidential election in Novem-
ber, and that determination will be strictly
adhered to come what may. If that is
revolution the Jacobins can make the most
of it. This is the first step towards re-
storatioE of the country to its former con.
dition of honor and prosperity, and this
position will not be abandoned. But the
pretended fear Of the radicals that another
civil war is to be inaugurated arises solely
from the fact that they have, in their extrem-
ity, resolved upon pursuing course so mGn,
strUeSfJ r0<ol~tieuss-y - its des;sn and oh
ject, that unless they can take lessons from
what little discretion they possess it will
inevitably lead to disagreeable consequences.
The following clipped from one of our ex.
changes expresses ideas which are becoming
extensively prevalent:


The 'monstrous proposition as the
Springfield (Mass.,) Republican calls it, to
have no Presidential election in the South
ern States, reconstructed by Congress, but
instead thereof declare the electoral votes of
those States amounting to nearly one fifth of
the whole electoral vote of the United States,
for Grant and Colfax-is Causing no little
alarm at Washington, according to a special
in the Sunday Herald. 1t says: Should
the radicals in those States in their desper-
ate effort to hold on to the reins of power,
really adopt this plan, it is feared that the
people OF those States, and also of many in
the North and West would not quietly sub
NIT to be ruled over by radical President
thus elected in antagonism to the popular
will. However this may be, it is certain that
a deep feeling of indignation prevails here at
the idea that such a plan as that now pro,
posed by the radicals should be really en-.
tertained.


No scheme could be better devised by the
radicals for organizing another civil war than
that OF this " monstrous proposition" In
1861, through divisions of majority of the
people, the republicans elected Abraham
Lincoln to the Presidency, although he was
nearly million of votes in the minority.
| He had - L:
and the people have sacrificed hundreds of
lives and thousands Of millions of dollars
to maintain him in it. Now the party that
thus elected Lincoln in 1860, fearing defeat
before the people, proposes a snap game
to secure nearly sixty electoral votes, the
successful carrying out of which may not
only render the election of President ques-
ton, but may produce civil war in the North
II the people of the Northern States, who
have borne the hrunt of the war, and who
now pay all the taxes for the support of the
Government, fairly elect Seymour and Blair
President and Vice President for four years
from the 4th of March next, they will not
allow the negroes and carpet baggers gath
cred together by virtue of the bayonet as
Legislators Of the Southern States to come
in, and, without even consulting their own
constituents, decide the issue in favor of
Grant and COlfax. We should have a fair
election by the people in every State of the
Union. In the verdict of such an election
all will acquiesce, but in nothing else will
either party or should either party acquesce
And the party which proposes any thing else
merits the severest condemnation of the
popular will : overwhelming defeat at the
ballot box.-Plain Dealer.