Year: 1868

hon excited alarm by explicitly pro-
claiming themselves the same to-day rs
in 1862. They were faithful to the
Union so long as it subseryed their
ends; when its helm was transferred to
other hands, they did their best to scut-
tie and wreck the ship. Fit is now re.
stored to their guidance, they will sail it
as before; but, if not, then - Not
one of the millions of rebel supporters
Of Seymour and Blair regard their cleo
| ton otherwise than as recovery by
other means of what they lost by their
defeats at Fort DonelsoD, Vicksburg,
( Gettysburg, and Appomatox.


We have conquered the physical force
Of the Rebellion; we have now to lri-
unph over its ideas. We have to
prove that their discontinue on so
many nard-fought fields was the har-
/ biDger ofa bumaner era--an age where
in the reign Of justice to the weakest
and humbiest should supersede the dei-
lication OF mere force. We have now
to prove that Republican ascendancy
/ implies and involves prosperity for all
sections, through the reign of Order,
Industry, and Thrift.


/ AS yet, the South is conyulsed by
the hope of a restoration, in effect, Of
the slaye-holding regime. Her Whites
too generally loathe the thought of ad-
dressing themselves in earnest to man
uel labor They were 50 long comfort
ed and dignifed by assurances from the
/ pulpit, the journal, the stump that God
made Blacks for the field, the kitchen,
/ the shop, and Whites to direct their la
( bors and enjoy the fruits thereof, that
they are slow to be reconcied to a diff
ferent dispeafation They must have
/ the verdict OF the battlefield confirmed
( by that Of the iOt-box, before they
can accept it as final.


( There is no other portion of the
American People to whom the election
OF Grant and Colfax will prove so ben
Efficient as to the Southern Whites.
/ Tney need to dispel their illusions.
They need to be thoroughly convinced
| that Equality of Rights is henceforth the
interchangeable law of American Nation
atty They need to he convinced be-
yond relapse that they are nevermore
to profit by Black labor, unless they
render satisfactory equivalent for it
not to some White owner, but to the
/ laborer himself.


When the Southern Whites shall be
prepared to say to the Blacks, "Your
rights are the same as ours. Hence
forth we prosper or suffer as one peo-
. pie" the prosperity and rapid growth
/ ofthe South will have been assured. The
whole country will flourish, because Of
the new impulse given to Southern pro-
gress in every useful art, and in the
wealth whereof these are the spring.
/ Every good word and work for the
South awaits the election of Grant.
But the devils that have to-day possess
ed her must evince their nature by tear
ing and rending ere they come out of
her. They are causing her to foam at
the mouth to-day. She needs external
aid to insure her complete and prompt
deliyerance.


The Republicans are summoned to
an ordeal more difficult han they can
be made to realize. They are too gen.
orally inclined to fancy the election of
Grant and Colfax already assured. So
far is this from the fact that they are
this hour in peril of defeat. They will
surely be beaten if their steadfast sup
porters are not speedily aroused to gen
eral and intense activity. We must
triumph. The progress of civilization,
the dearest interests of humanity, re-
quire 1t; yet we shall not triumph un-
less we work as the great mass of us
have not yet worked to insure their
election. We have to poll our very last
vote in half the states-many more than
we ever yet polled in the belt of states
beginning with Connecticut and ex-
tending through New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, to Indiana
or Seymour will be our next Presi-
dent.


We shall triumph; but the work
which will insure that triumph is yet to
be done We have some five thousand
Grant clubs organized we must have
thirty thousand. Most Of us take news
papers; we must see that every voter
| who will need it is promptly provided
with some good Republican journal
We have perhaps one million men ac-
lively Jealous in the cause; we must in
crease the number to two millions, and
these must gather and CLEAN half a
million additional votes from those who
are now Indifferent or hostile to our
success. All this implies such can
yass as has never yet been made in our
country, but one that we are able to
make. Our farmers have thus far been
absorbed in the labors OF the season;
they are just beginning to find time to
breathe and think. Between this day
and the hrst of September we should
have a Grant club organized in every
township and ward, with a working
committee for each election district.
This club should have enrolled on its
list of members every voter who is
openly for Grant, and should at once
consider how and whence accessions
may be made to the number. 1t should
not expect to hold more than one meet
inn fnr nnhlic addrasses Whila il should