Year: 1868

driven from the Legislature until the ois-
patch announcing the commencement OF war
was laid upon our table, we have been con-
ctontly looking for this "logic OF events"
We did not publish the dispatch, nor will
we publish any dispatch so plainly manufac-
+urcd by the Associated Press for rebel pas
sions and prejudices. The moment, however,
the actual state of affairs is ascertained, we
sbal. lay it before our readers. That the
colorcd man was the aggressor we will not
for one moment believe. By nature he Is
not beligcrent, and it is only when he
has been stung to madness that he can be
brought to fight, and then he fights with the
ferocity of wild beast, and woe be to the
CITY, the town OF the section that becomes
the scene of the conflict


War we have predicted in almost every
issue of the STANDARD since the nomination
of Seymour and Blair, and nothing but the
election of Grant and Coltax will ward it off.
Having nothing to lose, the Democratic party
in its desperation thinks it has everything to
cain bv renewing the strife. The loyal whites
and the colored masses will dcplore the re-
nrWal of the contest, but will not shrink from
it. They conquered Peace once, and so sure
as there is a God of justice in Heaven, and a
people who love Him on earth, they will
conquer it again. General Grant goes
before the country with Peace upon his
banners Seymour throws out to the
breeze the red flag of war. The first knows
by bitter experience what war is and de-
plOres it, and will bring the weight of his
great name and influence to prevent it. The
second, never having seen battlefield, or
heard the dying groans of butchered thou
sands, is willing to plunge the nation into
mourning, see her sons laid low in the grave,
witness with delight the ascending flames of
burning cities and the destruction of prop
erty that century of Peace can hardly re-
place. Rather than have the negro exercise
the right of suffrage he is willing that the
negro should disappear from the country
through general massacre. Rather than have
the present Constitutions of the reconstruc-
ted States become again law for all the peo-
pie he is willing that the loyal whites should
be put to flight at the point Of the bayonet
and hunted like wild beasts throughout the
swamps and mountains of the South. Rather
than not be elected President of the United
States he is willing that the whole nation
shall become battle field and the horrors of
war be known in every village from the Gulf
to the St. Lawrence. Horatio Seymour never
has expressed one word of disapproval of
the policy Of Frank Blair. In his Mephisto-
philean way he undoubtedly inspired it. 1t
is notorious that he pretended to desire the
nomination of Chief Justice Chase and at
the same time was secretly intriguing to de-
feat it. 1t is also notorious that he at last
sold himself to Vallandigham, the brains of
the rebel wing of the Democratic party at
the North 1t is also well known that
Vallandigham was closeted with Forrest and
Wade Hampton during the entire conven-
ton, and that the whole programme was the
result of the combined brains of these cmi-
nently loyal and righteous patriots. There
was some talent displayed in the con-
struction of the platform, for the little
Ohio rebel displays talent in all he
does, and there would have been some diff
Guilty in making kindling wood of some of
its planks if the process of manufacture had
not come to light But the treason of Hamp-
ton, the barbarity of Forrest, the skill of
Vallandigham and the duplicity of Seymour,
being discovered in its framework, it has been
the easiest work in the world to chop it up
for fire wood and feed the flame of loyalty
all over the country. In Vermont and
Maine it has made bonfire that has lit the
whole heavens and revealed to the nation
the actual state and drift of affairs The
great PEOPLE now see what is before them
and are determined that we shall not have
War-that the angel of Peace shall hover over
this goodly land for generations to come; that
the South shall become a garden and not
a Wilderness; that the post boy shall
be changed for the stage coach, the
stage coach for the express, the express for
the railroad, the railroad for the tele-
graph, and that a traveller starting from
Montreal shall go to New Orleans through
country as prosperous, as happy, as culti-
Eated, as virtuous and as God-fearing as the
most highly enlightened States of the North.
NO sane man will deny that the South is in
great need of all these blessings, and to us
1t seems that no sane man ought to deny
mat with the election of Grant and ColfaX
lhelr reign will be inaugurated. Who be-
neVes that there would have been the least
trouble in Georgia if Frank Blair had never
written his letter? And we ask the Sen
''"e to tell us what Georgia Bonds are
worth in New York to-day? what her rail
ROAD stocks? what chance she has for
government? appropriations for internal
improvements what probability there


that most of the surplus capital
iSihg idle in New York will ever touch
neF D'rders how her free schools flourish


Inc number Of her converts to christianity?
,iie status OF her colleges and institutions of
learning? tell us in truth, whether Georgia


III uie estimation ofmcn of common sense.
% ABOVE or below par on account of the late
"c'lon OF her legislature and the kilograms
VI Nonday evening. We think she would


aOl sell In Wall street to-day for half as much