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WE begin to understand why it is that
the Democracy devote so much of their
attention to General Butler. Grant said,
in one of his reports, that Butler was
"bottled up," and the Democracy will
"go for" anything that is bottled up.
THE rebels, who controlled the Con
vention, defeated Hancock because he
fought on the Union side at Gettysburg,
and nominated Seymour, who led a rebel
mob in New York at the same time, and
for these reasons only I
THOSE who filled the nation with wid
ows and orphans, now seek to rule the
republic by electing Horatio Seymour to
tits Presidency.
Atisrtilanteus.
Hall to the Chief' who in. Silence
A dt•fi 'ices
BY STANLEY WATERLOO
Hail to the who in silence advances,
The cliampititi of freedom the chosen of
Nine,
Wherel er the Slllll Wain Of llherty glances,
A theme are his actions, a watchword Ins
name,
From the Pacific's sand,
To the Atlantic's strand,
The heart e if each patriot beats in his cause,
lie Nebo with ready steel,
Struck tivr the natioi Cs weal,
Mandan her rights and upholding her laws.
The stream that can wrest with the three of a
giant,
The rock irom its lied, rushes silently on;
The man with his iron will, fearless, reliant,
IhNdeth not Iu vain boasts ere his tabor is
done,
no malicious tongue,
Working the muntry wrong,
Dividing o:n• efforts, supporting our toes;
Ilk was on middle course,
from bad to worse,
Refusing to aid whene he dare not oppose.
When Nvar tier: all spread its tiarkening pinions.
Anil thousands vivre our country
to save •
When one ;lag was deltas:4l by the traitorous
Anil the land was eir,itilpheil in the terrible
wave:
Firm as the in: month) rock.
!Told to the tempt-in; shot*,
ht' stood tcith hi, resolute host.
Vailify the battle's brunt
Dashed on his iron front.
l'he traitors Nerc broken, their victory lost.
Though the strife with the bayonet and bullet.
is ended
Yet again to triumph he's leading us on,
To uphold the cause he so nobly defended.
And by wisdom preserve what by valor be
won.
Peace" is our battle cry
" Peaee and equality :"
While from each Southern bill, valley, am
plain,
Filling the silent air
Soldiers who perished there,
Arising exhort us to conquest again.
When Autumn's arrayed in the robes of No
vember,
And the struggle fbi justice and liberty done
Then shall the traitors have cause to remember
The battle they lost and the battle we won
Telling the people's will,
Proving them total still.
Then shall the spirit of Freedom arise;
Say with a mighty voice,
Grant is the nation's choice!"
Eing the glad ti Hugs aloud to the skies!
The: Tomb of Li 'team,.
t is now three years and four months
since our President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
was brought to sudden death by the as
sassin's bullet. His death was the oc
casion of universal grief. his funeral
pn,cessien from Washington to Spring
field was the march of a conqueror, whose
;;rand victory had been won He was
buried on a beautiful spring-day in May,
186.'t, in the cemetery at Oak Ridge,
Springfield. On our first page we give
au illustration of the tenth which has
been erected to his memorv.
Is we stand in the presence of' this
tenth we remember the first months of
the secession movement—the violent
threats of war uttered by the Southern
branch of the Democratic party of these
days—the peaceful declarations of the
newly inaugurated President. which said
to Southern Democrats, "If war must
come, not we but you arc to be the lig
gressois:" We remember the terrible
struggle- of four years. and how, when it
was over, and the people were uniting in
antheMS of praise to God for a Union re
stored,:the cloud busrt upon us, and we
heard that our President had been mur
dered.
We do not forget that the violence of
the Democratic press, which held up
Lincoln as a tyrant and a usurper, led to
this tragedy. And if the assassin was
urged on to his work by this partisan
violence, it is now pretty clearly evident
that Southern revolutionists have fully
learned the lesson in which Booth had
been instructed. They have conic to un
derstand what is meant by terrorism—to
appreciate the use of the assassin's
weapons. The investigation recently
made as to Ashburn's assassination, fully
sustains the charges made by Repub
licans, h th as to the motives and the
agents concerned in the murder. From
every portion of the South we hear daily
of the murder of 'Union men. There are
special organizations to carry on this
bloody work. And these murderers are
the allies of the Democratic party. A
Mobile Democratic sheet explicitly de
clares that the Congressional plan of re
storation shall be defeated, even if it
should be necessary to resort to the dag
ger of a Brutus in order to accomplish
that result. Is it not time that this
violence should be suppressed by the. up
rising of the people in their majesty, and
by their repudiation of the party which
threatens revolution in the event of its
success, and war in the event of its failure,
and which courts the alliance of assas
sins ?—llarper'.l Weekly.
LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1868.
THAT the Republican party deserves
the support of the nation, because in all
its millions of men, not one of them was
ever known to lift a hand against the flag
of his country. Every dictate of patri
otism prompts its continued support.
1)o NOT FORGET, whenever you see a
crippled soldier, that he was crippled by
the "Democratic'' rebels, who made the
war, and who are now shouting lustily for
Seymour and Blair. For every soldier
slain, for every hero crippled, for every
war widow, and for every soldier's or
phan, the "Democratic" party is alone
responsible.
Do NOT FORGET that the men who
cursed our dying heroes at Andersonville
are now shouting for Seymour and Blair.
DO NOT FORGET, when you go to the
polls, that the Democratic party forced
the nation into war, and ig thus responsi
ble for the national debt, the slaughter
and bloodshed, and for a million weeping
widows and mourning orphans,our friends,
neighbors, and relatives.
Do NoT FORGET that the Thirty-ninth
and Fort ieth Republican Congresses have
removed $191,000,000 of taxes that but
for this action the people' would now be
called upon to pay.
Do NOT FORGET that Grant fought
speculators and camp followers all through
the war. lie saved many millions while
Secretary of War. As President, he
would make the whole Administration a
model of integrity and economy.
DO Nov Foitoor that the Republican
party is the party that saved the nation's
life, that it is the only party pledged to
the support of' "All Rights rim All"—the
poor as well as the rich, the ignorant as
well as the learned; that it is the party
that protects labor, that imposes the bur
dens of taxation, for the support of gov
ernment, upon the wealthy man and upon
on the luxuries of life, and thus lifts the
burden from the shoulders of the farmer
and laboring men.
Do NOT FORGET that the Democrats
called the soldiers " Lineflu hirelings,"
"mercenaries," "janizaries, ' "blue-back
ed butchers," and said that they "were
tight4ng to destroy the Union." how is
it soldiers, will you vote the Democratic
ticket?
Rebuke to One of the ASeyinour CON
spirators.
Major General Edward M. M'Cook, of
Ohio, a brave and gallant officer during
the war, and now United States Minister
to the Sandwich Islands, in a letter dated
Honolulu, Aug. 29, to Senator Conness,
writes as follows :
"The news of the Democratic nomina
tions has arrived, and I think they are
radically weak—the very weakest com
bination that could have been made—the
War Democrats won't vote for Seymour,
because he was a Copperhead, and the
Copperheads won't vote for Blair, be
cause he wore a blue instead of a gray
uniform. Much to my disgust I saw that
a cousin of mine, Geo. W. M'Cook, had
proposed the name of Seymour to the
Convention, as the man who would drive
the Radical cabal, at Washington, from
power, &c.
" I am sorry that I cannot be at home
this fall, on George's account ; he is some
what powerful on the stump in Ohio, and
I would like to follow hint around and
neutralize the effect of his rhetoric, by
stating the fact that he is the only one of
all his name who supports Seymour and
Blair, and the only male member of the
family who was not in the army during
the war. I should think the spirits of his
dead father and brothers, who laid down
their lives in defence of the Union, would
haunt him with continual reproaches. I
think this a pretty good illustration of the
way things will go at the election ; the
soldiers will vote as they shot—against
the rebels—and Copperheads will be
Democrats still, as they always have
been."
A party, like a man, is known by the
company he keeps. What a company
There is Forrest with the blood of Fort
Pillow still dripping from his hands.
Semmes, fresh from his piracies onr our
commerce. Wade Hampton, the South
Carolina slave master and cavalry officer
of the rebellion. Beauregard, the rebel
general who telegraphed for the execu
tion of abolition prisoners. Stephens,
Toombs and Cobb, a triumvirate of
rebels, and at the head of this troupe is
none other than Horatio Seymour, of
New York, who, without actually enlist
ing in the rebellion, dallied with it, and
addressed its fiendish representatives in
New York as "Friends." - A party with
such leaders and such a chief is the rebel
party. Such a party, so filled and per
meated by treason, cannot alter any shib
boleth of loyalty. Every loyal word
must stick in its throat, as "amen" stuck
in the throat of Macbeth after the mur
der of his royal guests.
A LOVE-LETTER.—"Deer—I send u
bi the buoy a bucket of flowers—They
is like mi luv for u. The niteshaid menes
kepe dark. The dog fetal menes lam
we slaty.
"Rosis red and pods pail
My luv for u shal never }kale."
Do Not Forget
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The Democratic Leaders
I=l
Nor and
Though, learning wisdom from the re
sult of the recent elections, sonic of the
Democratic sheets have ceased their
abuse of General Grant, many of the
Seymour mouthpieces continue their ef
forts to rob him of his military laurels,
and make him appear as one of the worst
men in the country. The following are
some of the terms (culled from Demo
cratic sheets) which were applied to the
Lieutenant General before and after the
avowal of his political sentiments :
BEFORE.
"A great soldier."
"An example of magnanimity."
"A great captain."
"The stuff of which statesmen are
made."
"A leader of rare endowments."
"A man whose valor saved the country."
"The conqueror of the rebellion."
"The hero of many victories."
"The saviour of our institutions."
k} rER
"Doubtful in his policy."
"Well enough but for his associations."
The prospective tool of the Radicals."
"A general whose victories were too
costiv to be valnaltie."
"The lucky Mall to whom Lee surrend
ered, when he ought to have surrendered
to Lee."
"The military blunderer."
"The butcher oC the national army "
"The brainless tanner who aspired to
military honors."
"A man who needlessly sacrificed one
hundred thousand lives in his Potomac
campaign."
"Notoriously a disregarder of the
truth."
"The willing tool of Stanton and the
Radical Congress."
"The sworn enemy of his country's
liberties."
"The liar."
"A Poor tool in Radical hands."
"Drunkard!" "Liar!" "Sot !" "Fool !"
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Young Men !
Who are about casting your first votes,
do you ever read History ? If you do,
how can you vote for Seymour and Blair
Their sentiments are precisely the same
as those held by the father of the late
rebellion, John C. Calhoun. Conse
quently had you lived in the days of Gen
eral Jackson, you would have been a nuli
fier. Had you lived in the days of the
revolution what would you have been ?
To be a Democrat, you must advocate
democratic principles. The first of these
' principles is that a majority of the peo
ple shall rule ; and second, that Congress
represents the people. In neither of
these doctrines do the present leaders of
the party, which styles itself democratic,
believe. Seymour,for the sake of slavery,
was willing that the Union should be de
stroyed. Blair, more unscrupulous still,
talks of playing the despot and tyrant,
and destroying Congressby the aid of an
tinny. There is, besides, other food for
reflection. Ask yourself how it comes
that nearly every rebel now calls himself
a Democrat. Alexander If. Stephens, in
his late work, justified secession, and
makes no acknowledgment of having
done wrong. The rebel General Lee but
three weeks ago, talked of the " just
rights" of the South, and has never ac
knowledged to have done wrong, although
he, with thousands of others, not only
perjured himself in law, but became a
murdering traitor to the Union Ise, too,
calls himself a Democrat. Do you want
to be one of the number? Seymour does
believe in coercion. Restore the rebels
to power, and if they again secede, what
will Seymour clop Remember what Bu
chanan did and you have the answer. So
fir as arias are concerned, the rebellion
is at present over, bat give them courage •
and hope by electing copperheads to
office, and ere ten years go round there
will he another disastrous war, or the
great North and West will have to ac
knowledge that their people are but mud
sills and small-fisted farmers when com
pared with the leading nigger-breeding
Southern gentlemen.
"Democracy" and the Working
Classes.
The Democrats have a very peculiar
way of helping the working classes. By
sympathizing with the rebels during the
war they managed to raise the price of
gold to 280, and when we fancied we
were returning to peace and prosperity
again they began to talk revolution, op
posed the Government and raised gold
from 126 up to 145. It is a very fortunate
thing for the country that they do not
hold two conventions in one year, since
one convention has given such an ugly
twist to our financial affairs. Much more
help of this kind will be the death of the
poor people.
AMP
A DE3IOCRAT in the • interior of Ohio,
says the Government is in debt fifteen
hundred dollars, the most of which was
expended in bureaus and other useless
furniture for the negroes, and <'d—d if
he'll vote with a party that lays out
money in that way."
Dem ocra tie" Principles.
(From the N. Y. Record and Vindicator,
Sept. 26.)
A free Vote, or a Free Fight?
DOWN WITH TEST OATHS AND REGIS
TRATION!
We believe in the Constitution and
the Rights of the States—Protection to
all ; License for me
" DOWN WITH THE HIGHER LAW
We believe •that this is a WHITE
MAN'S Government, made by WHITE
MEN, for WHITE MEN and their posteri
ty FOREVER I
DOWN WITH THE NIGGER
We believe in Payment of the Nation
al Debt—if it is paid—in Greenbacks.
A currency that is good enough for
Workingmen, Farmers, Mechanics, Arti
sans, Soldiers' Widows, and Editors, is
good enough for blood-coining Yankee
Sin Oilverats !
DOWN WITH THE I3ONDHOLDEE!
We believe in the subordination of the
:Military to the Civil Authorities!
MOWN WITII TILE SATRAPS
twelieve iu Equal Taxation awl (he
lelf/hlfi, RC p
reBe. f ill o . f all the Buries,
I.NOTIIEiI REBELLION!
We believe that Revolution must be
met by counter Revolution—FoNe by
Force—Violence by Violence—and that
usurp.o ion should be overthrown, if needs
be, by the Bayonet!
sie Bempee lyeauHiN!
tiro la Republique:
To Be Remembered.
Let it be remembered that nobody but
"Democrats" instigated the Rebellion.
"'Democrats" alone forced the South-
States into secession.
" Democrats" alone were in arms fight
ing to destroy the Government, and
shooting down you• loyal sons and
brothers.
"‘ Democrats" alone in the North, gave
their sympathy, aid and encouragement
to the Rebels.
" Democrats" alone are responsible for
the enormous debt we have upon us—
both State and National.
" Democrats" planned and carried out
the scheme to assassinate a President,
regularly and constitutionally elected by
the people.
A " Democrat" fired the bullet that
killed him; and Democrats North and
South rejoiced at the consummation of the
foul deed.
" Democrats" alone are resisting the
measures adopted by the Constitutional
representatives of a majority of the peo
fle, to provide loyal, stable Governments
or the Rebel States, and restore them to
their places in the Union. and peace and
prosperity again to the Whole country.
Remember all this, aural then vote
against the same Democratic Party.
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Equal Taxation !"
Equal taxation of every species of
property, according to its real value " is
me of the planks of the Seymour Copper
mad platform.
The sum of the whole matter is that
he Democratic party " Demand that the
mor man's cottage shall be subject to
` equal taxation" with the rich man's
nansion.
That the washer-woman's implements
of labor shad pay " equal tax," with the
rich man's gol,l watch, silver plate, sevres
ware, and " inlaid" furniture.
That the poor man's solitary cow shall
be taxed equal to the rich man's blood
ed horses.
That the poor man's 850 bond, bought
on the pledged faith of the nation that it
should not be taxed, shall be taxed equal
to the rich man's bank and railroad
stocks.
That the poor needle-woman's sewing
machine or wicker baby cart, shall be
" taxed equal" to the elegant lady's $l,-
500 or $2,500 piano.
That the poor woman's rag-carpet,
made at night after a day's washing, shall
be taxed equal to the elegant lady's
luxurious imported tapestry or Wilton.
This is the modern Democracy, this is
Seymour and Blair and Rebel Democracy,
and this is the Democracy of the party
who claim to be the exclusive champions
of the people's rights, and the sole
defenders of the poor and the weak and
oppressed!
Free voter can you endorse the doc
trine? If so, vote for Seymour and
Blair; if not, vote for Grant and Colfax.
"W hite .Boys in Blue."
Here are a few names of prominent
military supporters of SEYMOUR and
BLAIR. Loyal Democrats will not for
get their names :
Gea. N.M. Forrest, Gen. Wade Hampton,
Gen. Henry A. Wise, (len. S. B. Buckner,
Gen. Jabal Earle, Gen. J. C. Breeklurldge,
Gen. Robert R. Lee, Gen. P. T. Beauregrard,
Gen. Robert Toombs. Oen. Magruder,
Gen. Mimby, Gen. Albert Pike.
Gea. Eirity Smit ti
NO. 20.