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General Grant's PEACE pledge is based
on the resolutions of the Republican
National Convention, adopted at Chicago,
on the 21st of May, and by the letter
of General Grant accepting the Republi
can nomination, in which he says, among
other things :
• • • " I endorse their
resolutions, and, if elected to the office of
President of the United .States, it will be my
eipiettmr to administer all the laws in good
faith, with economy and with the view of giv,
My PEACE, quiet and protection everywhere."
• • • • "Peace and tt/versa/
proNwrify, ifs Requence, with economy of ad
ministration, will lighten the burden of taxa
tion, while it constantly reduces the national
'debt. Let us have PEACE."
Mr. Colfax, the Republican candidate
for Vice-President, accepted the platform
and nomination in a letter which closed
thus:
• • • • " I cannot doubt that
our labors will be crowned with success; and it
will be a succe which shall bring restored
hope, confidence, prosperity, and progress
South as well as North, West as well as East,
and, above all, the blessings under Providence
of national concord and PEACE."
To this pledge of peace to all the sec
tions, and happiness and prosperity to
the South, the whole body of the Repub
lican delegates, more than six hundred
strong, and the soldiers and sailors at the
same me and place in council, number
ing a still larger force, gave their solemn
I unanimous sanction.
And their endorsement has been fol
lowed by the whole Republican press,
including all the divisions and interests
of the party, and the advocates of every
other Republican aspirant for Prepident,
and the great religious and secular jour
nals which sustained the republic during
the war.
And these again have been followed
by the Republican members in both
houses of Congress, without a solitary ex
ception.
Such is the attitude of the Republican
party and its candidates.
Now for that of the rebel Democracy.
The following is the declaration of the
convention which nominated Horatio
Seymour for President, and Francis P.
Blair for Vice-President:
"That we regard the reconstruction acts
(8o called) of Congress, as such, 'as usurpa
tions, and unconstitutio nal, revolutionary, and
void."
How this doctrine is to be carried into
effect, Francis P. Blair (two days after
wards nominated for Vice-President by
the same convention) boldly proclaimed
in his letter of the 30th of June, 1868 :
• • • • There is but one
way to restore the Government and the Con
stitution, and that i.s.tor the President elect to
declare these acts null and void, compel the
army to undo its usurpations at the South,
disperse the carpet-bag State governments, and
allow the white people to reorganize their own
atisceilantous.
Grant, Colfa,r, and Sa!ration.
Salvation to the nation carne
When Grant—unknown in story
Without the prestige of a ilalne,
Led firth the hosts to glory;
'Unfurl your Banners to the lireeze,
Ye men who love the nation,
Inscribe thereon such nantes as these,
(;rant, Colfax, and Salvation.
Democracy is eagle-eyed,
Discovers new wonders,
Grant's victories they have descried
To be so many blunders;
They're sore at heart, and pale, and wan,
No motto for their banner,
They hoarsely shouted " black and tan,"
Ltut do not like the Tanner.
lie tanned the reps too many times
To meet their approbation,
Successes then, are now the crimes
Demanding immolation.
Powelllll for all, still must they rant
Like some besotted bummer,
Forgetful that our leader, Grant,
Fi_•hts on this line all summer."
Then rally to his standard boys,
Inaugurate the shouting,
Novembers, ides will swell the noise
Of victory and routing;
He saved Our country from the shame
(if her disintegration,
Firxf on your hauliers write his name,
Then Colfax ;mil Salvation.
7'ltE ONE GREAT ISSUE
PEACE WITH GRANT OR WAR WITH
SEYMOUR.
Forney's Press is doing yeoman service
in the campaign. Some of the very best
articles on the issue before the people are
published originally in that paper. An
article with the• above caption appeared
in the Press a few days ago, which is too
long for our columns, and we therefore
use the assistant Editor—the scissors—
and publish the following extracts:
The issue between the two great par
tics in the pending canvass is, in brief—
A restored Union with pxAcE, or
A broken Union with WAR.
General Grant leads the column under
the first ; Horatio Seymour leads the col
umn under the second alternative.
LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1868.
(101' , e9iti , (ls 4 (II?? ( 1, 0 Siqigi ors rtp,l
.11 ( po ,
tut/yr:4.-
4•I r,pt - lit that this is ibr rwl o w ? t-, 0 11 /
(17,:tstion tt•hirh ?C( should taboo
is i,ile to tali.. of hood::• orPtroiatoks, gold, tht.
public foith, oni . l the public erc,li/•" •
W . e must restore the Cons'itution bet . ore
can restore the finances a!ul to du this ice
nnta haVc. a PreSid , ':lt 1 1 ..179 1 , ';17 the
Of fitc ',topic by rumpliny into , lust fl u o
rsui•jutt ion.. o,f ConyiYss known us the le,cou
structiov tints. I wish fn sboul Inf o ;y ,
Coueolt ion upon this ;vow, us i 1 ;. 5 bi t
o u h f ue‘s t , eprylltifig clse /lg of rutuc in its
Hey( mol confluTh(fusir(' resubf 8. It is the me
which htehules all that is worth:, contest,
anal without it there is nothing tacit gives tli!r
nity, honor, or value to the struggle."
- platform thus foreshadowed by Blair
was made under the auspices of Boratio
Seymour, nine days afterwards nominated
as the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent. On the Pith of July he accepted
that honor as follows :
" pioNiding
Qifierr of MO eonuoll ion, I ron fronilio; with
PIO ir seOpe ond import ; uv ooe ref ilx me/ober:4,
lam a party to their terms. They oc co rq
with my Views, and I shoul ?Ton them in the
eontest vpon which we are now Mond roitcring.
I shall strive to carry them out in full wherever
I may he placed, 1n public or private life."
On the same evening General Blair,
the author of the letter above quoted,
having been nominated for Vice-Presi
dent, accepted the platform and nomina
tion, as follows :
"I accept the platform of resolutions passed
by the late Democratic Convention ; I accept
their nomination with feelings of most pro
found gratitude. What civilized people on
earth ieould refuse to associate with them
selves in all the rights and honors and dig
nities of their country such 11101 a s Lee and
Johnson [ Voices, "None, unite."' II
civilized country would fail to do honor to
those who, fighting for an emu - toms em , se,
yet distinguished themselres by gallon try never
surpassed [applause] in that etmtest,for which
they are Nollyht to be di.vcronehliwa and exiled
from their homes? In that contest they prov e d
themselves our peers."
This formal tribute to the valor, integ
rity, and patriotism of the rebel traitors,
preceded by a double pledge to restore
the Government to them by force o f arms,
has been appropriately responded to by
the rebel delegates.
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina,
while on his way to the convention, at a
supper at General Lee's college, in Vir
ginia, declared that the rebel soldiers
" had not fallen in vain—the cause for
which Stuart and Jackson fell could not
be vain, but in some
.form would triumph';"
and after the nomination of Seymour and
Blair by the New York Convention, in
spired by the platform and the speeches
of the nominees, proclaimed at a Demo
cratic meeting in New York, on the even
ing of the nominations, that—
"We have no relief unless the Democratic
party will come out and pledge itself that we
shall have a fair election; that the white people
of the South shall rote. I leant you all to
register on oath that when they do role that
their rote shall be counted, and if' there is a
majority of white rotes, that you will place
Seymour and Blair in the While House in
spite of all the bayonets that, shall be brought
against thew."
The same evening Vance, of North
Carolina, another rebel delegate, de
clared—
" That they (the rebels) had bowed to the
yoke tong eamigh, and it was now t ime that
they should arise and assert their manhood un
der the Constitution. This great country
must be restored to its original position of gran
deur and greatness (that means slavery and
artistotracy), or else constitutional liberty is
gone forever."
Last Saturday night Vance spoke at
Richmond (Va.) to a mass meeting, at
which all the other speakers were rebels,
and one of them, Governor Wise, de
dared that the resolution of the Demo
cratic National Convention declaring
" secession a failure " was a falsehood;
and added that " secession was more than
ever living."
Everywhere the venomous serpents of
the rebellion are coming out in support
of Seymour and Blair. When the news
of their nomination reached Atlanta,
Georgia, Howell Cobb and Robert
Tombs, two of the most guilty of these
traitors, addressed a Democratic meeting,
and their speeches are thus noticed by
the rebel organ, the Atlanta Constitution,
of the 11th :
" When the popular favorites entered the
hall, they found at least two thousand white
men already there to greet the old champions
who led them in the past. And they were
greeted with a shout that had in it the' ring of
the old metal." When Mr. Toombs lose IA)
address the assemblage, we can compare the
scene to nothing less than a stupendous camp
meeting, where everybody is converted, and
vieing with each other to see who can shout time
loudest. Mr. Toombs rose, majestic as of yore,
and entered at once upon the great subject
which had brought the party together—the rati
fication of the New York nominees.
Mr. Cobb's speech was more lengthy. He
made one of his happiest efforts, and addressed
himself more particularly to the political issues
now presented to the people of Georgia. Grant
and the Chicago platform were seared with
the fires of his indignation. The election of
such a man upon such a set of principles
would be the greatest calamity that could pos
sibly befall the whole country."
These are only the firstling's of the re
sponse to the Democratic platform and
candidates. Taken in connection with
the fact that nearly every speech made
at the Democratic meethc , s since the ad
journment of the convention has been
personally abusive of Grant and person
ally laudatory of the rebel soldiers, we
have the issue inure boldly stated be
tween Peace and Union and War and
Disunion than at any period during the
rebellion itself.
This is. in fact, as Gen. 'Blair, on the
30th of June, expressed it: " The real
and only question." It is idle," he
said," to talk of bonds, greenbacks, gold,
the public faith, and the public credit."
'' The President elect Seymour mast de
clare the reconstruction acts null and void,
compel the army to undo it:; vsnrpation.s , at
the South, and disperse the State govern
ments."
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OLD MISTA
We have a class of Republicans who
would have tried the patience of Joh.
Whenever the current sets against us—
as it did last fall—they will do nothing ;
arguing that success is hopeless and
etThrt fruitless; and, when the current is
with us, they will do next to nothing,
arguing that effort is needless—that we
can't help WillId112:. Hence, in our good
times, they are worth exactly their own
votes ; while in other times, they do not
even vote, hut, by their dismal croaking,
demoralize those who otherwise would.
Just now, this class have taken up the
cry that the adversary has ruined his
prospects by his preposterous nomina
tions at Tammany Hall. It is impossible,
they argue, that Seymour's War record
and Blair's Jacobin letter, with the Re
pudiation proposed in the Tammany
Platform, should not utterly swamp the
concern. To try to beat the General
who took Vicksburg with the Governor
who, at the very hour of its surrender,
was chuckling, in this city, to a crowd of
shouting copperheads, that it had not
been taken, they hold so preposterous
that they regard the Democratic nomina
tion as a joke, and are quietly settling
down in the comforting delusion that
there will be no contest—that Grant and
Colfax will walk over the course. And
now, should the October Elections
go against us, these very men will insist
that we are beaten beyond hope, and
will he as torpid from despair as they
now are from undue confidence.
They are wrong every way. Grant
and Colfax will he elected ; but only by
hard, steady work. If Republican oilort
should henceforth be relaxed, under the
presumption that it was needless, we
should be badly beaten. Fraudulent votes
alone would beat Grant, as they beat
Henry Clay in '44. Systematic prepara
tion, persistent vigilance. can alone pre
serve the ballot-boxes from wholesale
pollution.
The recent judicial nullification of the
Registry Act of Pennsylvania gives us
timely warning what to expect. In the
words of the old song :
"There's none ever ktred the truth would be
tohl,
But they whom the truth - would i n dict ;"
and a party that makes systematic war
on the registration of legal voters does
not mean to have honest elections. Yet
the late Democratic Legislature of New
Jersey repealed the Registry Act of the
preceding Republican Legislature, and
thus opened the wide floodgates of Fraud.
Mind that they had absolute power to
amend and improve, to their hearts' con
tent ; but no registry at all, with the bal
lot-box a common spit-box, is exactly
what suits the Sham Democracy of our
day. So the act requiring the polls to be
closed at sunset was in like manner sub
verted.
We do not know what the Pennsylva
nia authorities propose to do ; but we
cannot doubt that they will act. They
know that the Democratic wire-workers
have cheated heavily for years; they
know that the heavy majorities returned
from Luzerne and other Democratic
strongholds are the fruits of villainy ;
they know that counterfeit Naturaliza
tion certificates, stained with cotibe to
make them look old, are plentiful as rev
enue stamps ; and they surely will not
tamely surrender to the apostles of for
gery and perjury. We shall doubtless
hear front them in good time.
Alr. Lincoln had over 400,000 plurality,
with nearly all the Electoral votes, in
1864 : yet mark how small a chan!Ye in
the popular vote would have defeated
han lie carried
Connecticut by.... 2,406 majority. 6
Indiana by 24),N) majcrity 13
Maryland by 7,414 majority. 7
Nevada by :3,•232 majority :3
New Hampshire by. 441,529 majority... ... 5
New York by 6,740 majority
Oregon by 1,431 majority. :3
Pennsylvania by... 20,075 majority 26
Rhode Island by... 5,631 majority 4
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Total,9States.... 70,656 majority. .100
Add these to the votes of New Jersey,
Delaware and Kentucky-21—and he
would have had 131; leaving to Mr. Lin
coln but 114.
Thus a change of less than 36,000 in
over 4,000,000 votes would have elected
McClellan over Lincoln, and changed
our whole subsequent history.
IVe have not a doubt that a large ma-
jority of the American peoliN prefer the
election of Giant and Colfax to that of
Seymour and Blair. We confidently ex
pect that majority to vindicate itself in
the result of , the canvass. Yet, were the
Republicans to forbear effort, on the pre
sumption that alba was needless, they
would be defeated. We shall carry the
election, because we shall deserve suc
cess by solid, steady work ; arid they who
imply that such work is not needed, are
the most dangerous enemies of our can
didates and our cause.—N. Y . . Tribune.
Henry - Word Beecher's Opinion of
Under (late of July 18th, Rev. 11. W.
Beecher writes the following to the Bos
ton Daily Advertiser:
-I left Ilri , oklyn on Monday, .July t;, but
not before the Wort , / had publislwil that I had,
msmkklay mm 1,11111.11: a political sermon, come
out for Chase au. the Presidency, and against
(;rant: mid I have seen the story every day
since raenig till'on: , 11 the papers. There is not,
a word of truth in it. The sermon was not po
litical, it made no allusions either to Grant or
to Chase. The application of some of its para
graphs, in either ion, was the work of the
reporter of the 1rk,,k1,/, n,,t mine.
, k I have never morn a Chase Man. I have
thr years. as a loader in public a Hairs, deemed
him, like his greenbacks, as in . tintising more On
the Paco than they are worth its gold. While
th e New York l n ,/, i kcaa(kif was latuling hint
as a demigod, and the - New York Tribuo , was
using his name 1,1016(11re the prospects of Grant.
I heartily and openly disagreed ivith both of
them, for I tholoughly liked Giant, and
thoroughly distrusted Chase. Ilk , is a splendid
man to look upon, hut a poor man to lean
upon. Ambit ion lifts some nwn t 'wards things
noble and good: makes them largo and gener
ous. Other men's ambition blurs the sharp
lines and distinctious between ri;lit and wren;:,
anti leaves them, in the eagerness of over-soltish
desires, to Leconte a prey of had men. 1 have
for years jilt that Mr. Chase's ambition was
consuming - the better elements of his nature.
" I have liked Grant from the first. Solid. un
pretentious, straightthrward, apt to succeed,
and not spoiled by success ; wise hi discerning,
men. skilful in using tliem, with the rate gift
(which Washington had in an eminent degree)
of wisdom in ratting wisdom from other men's
anticipate that, great as
his military success has been, he will hereafter
lw known (-von more favorably COr the wisdom
of his civil administration.
t (Inflations and recantations
through which Chase was required to go for a
Democratic nomination only to see the smiling
Seyimair hooking benignly down upon his lost,
estate, has no parallel except in the immortal
history of Roinekei , h.sehs. There will now be
no third candidate bet wee') Grant and Seymour.
It will be a fair tight bittwcon rugged honesty
and Ida usil It trait."
The Empty Cradle.
There is a whole volume of poetry in
the following little sketch, which we find
in the last ,
number of Miss Barber's
Weekly :
We met John on the stairs. lie was
carrying an old cradle to be stowed
away among what lie termed plunder
in the lumber room. One rocker was
tone, and the wicker work of the sides
broken ; it was an old willow affair, but
we could not refrain from casting a sad
look into its empty depths.
Gone !" we said dreamily. "all gone !”
What golden heads were once pillowed
here I heads on which the curls grew
moist in slumber, and the cheeks and
lips flushed to the hue of rose leaves.
When sleep broke, the silken fringed
lids opened heavily from the slumberous
eyes ; smiles flitted like sunbeams over
the face ; the white list was thrust into
the mouth, and while mamma lifted the
muslin and peeped to see if baby was
sleeping, cooing and crowing were beard !
The little feet began to kick, out of pure
delight, and kicked on until both of the
tiny red shoes were landed at the foot of
the cradle. Where arc those hands now
Some that were embowered by vigorous
manhood are sleeping on battle-fields,
some are bleached with time and cares;
and they have grown sore and weary on
the rough paths of life.
Perhaps some little one, once tenderly
rocked here, is sleeping in the coffin.
Over it grows heartsease, and vigorous
box and white candy-tuft, and the sturdy
. jessamine. The blue-bird flutters its
bright wings through the willow bough ;
and the cool summer wind whispers to
the. green leaves and grass blades on the
grave. 'What of? Perhaps of its immor
tality. Sleep on, little dreamless one.
Of such is the kingdom of Ileayrii."
El( • < ,
DURING the session of the Democratic
Convention, two loyal soldiers, who had
experienced the horrors of captivity in
Richmond during the %%Aar, met the keeper
of the Libby Prison wearing a delegate's
badge ! They fell upon him and gave
him a dreadful beating, which was not
hospitable, certainly, but not unnatural
either.
WADE TlAltrTorT and such men are
the favorite orators of the Democrats;
and the deeper a man has been plunged
in the crime of the rebellion, the more
" celebrated" he seems to be, in the
opinion of these partisans, and the more
available his services to Seymour and
Blair. We do not consider this to be
inconsistent.
NO. S.
Chase.