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AT a great Republican meeting in
Meadville, Pa., on last Saturday, there
was one transparency in the procession
which was pleasant to Democratic eyes.
R was a picture of Blair asleep with. an
African, and the motto, "I weald rather
sleep with a nigger than with a Democrat."
Blair made use of this expression in his
speech in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1860, and
hundreds of the best citizens of that place
will testify that they heard him make it.
He denies it now when he is drunk, but
when he is sober he doesn't dare to deny
it.
DM
itsceitantaus.
The Carpet-Baggers.
BY GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND
-Who he you 'uns that pitch your camp
Beside the brown Savannah?
We think not, by your nervous tramp,
Ye native to the manor.
What number, say! your regiment?
What battle field you camped on!—
With infantry of Howell Cobb,
(h• troopers of Wade Hampton ?"
We camped upon the Coosa's tide
With Thomas and with Sherman!
This florid couple at my side,
Are of Wisconsin's German;
These three with Banks were fever-flayed,
Long marched along the bayoux ;
1 lost my arm on Grierson's raid,
A soldier of Ohio!"
Then with their ancient battle-yell,
The hospitable yoeman
Rushed from threshold, to fell
Their unprotected foemen:
Go back! ye crippled myrmidons,
Ye Yankees and yagers!
Our Georgia's chivalric sons,
Admit no carpet-baggers!"
" Nay brethercn, not as soldiers conic,
With knapsacks and with sabres,
Behind the widow-mocking drum,
We meet you, friends and neighbors :
Our spear it is the pruning hook,
For War to make repayment;
Our knapsack is the carpet sack
To bear our gold and raiment."
Therein a thw good hooks we bring
To feed our higher natures,
The Psalms, the Pilgrims used to sing,
The testaments, their teachers,
The arts which dignify our fate,
And make our toil inviting,
The charters of our common State
Crowned by our fathers' fighting."
Between us lies our holy truce,
Above us God's religeon,
To bid us turn to purer use
This army trampled region.
The softness of the land we saw
When violences wrung you,
And in this better time of law
We seek a home among you!"
Still menaced the Georgia braves,
With rifles and with daggers:
" Your peace we hate! We curse the State;
Go back ye carpet baggers !
Your books and Gospels we contemn!
Our sires they were but baggers!
As for our truce it was a ruse—
Go back ye carpet baggers!"
Forth drove they then these peaceful men
Across their fields of story;
The children mock them as they go,
In scorn the women glory.
But reverent the negroes come
To say, " Our freedom faded
Since died the dear roll of your drum;
Oh, stay ye travel-jaded!
"Stay till the ballot we have found,
Or ye and we may perish;
Right neighborly the gratehtl ground
Together we will cherish;
And deeper then our ploughshares go,
Than treason's threats and daggers.
'fill peace and freedom stalwart glow
To hail all carpet-baggers!"
AU Right!
Hip Hip-Hurrah!
It is all right!
Pennsylvania is all right !
Ohio is all right!
Indiana is all right!
Nebraska is all right!
Boyle is beat!
Vallandigham is beat!
Hendricks is beat!
Seymour and Blair are dead beat !
Cake is elected !
Cessna is elected !
Schenck is elected!
Bingham is elected!
Hartranft is elected!
Campbell is elected!
Seymour and Blair are nowhere!
We'll rally round the flag boys!
Rally once again!
Shouting the battle cry of tivedom !
Where now is the "Deerfield farmer,"
Where now lathe "Deerfield farmer,"
Where now Is the "Deerfield farmer,"
Seymour of the horny band?
He is planting a patch of melons!
He is planting a patch of melons!
He la planting a patch of melons!
Plowing up the Salty Land!
Where now is Blaiiing Francis,
Where now is Mailing Francis,
Where now is Blahing Francis,
With his sword anti tiery brand ( y! )
He's got tickets on the steamer Kuklux,
• lie's got tickets on the steamer Kuklux,
He's got tickets on the steamer Kuklux,
A light-draft, fast sailing, low-pres
sure, side-wheel boat, due November 4, in
the Salt River Land
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Mx Laming (Mich.) Repubßoan says :
We have the most cheering news from
every portion of the State. The work
goes bravely on. We predict 30,000 ma
jority for Grant. The masses are alive
to the real issues of the day. Grant and
Colfax and Tanner's Clubs have been
formed in the cities and large villages,
and are getting into good working order.
LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, OCT
WE appeal to our Irish fellow country
men to pause before they cast a ballot
that will endorse murder in the South
and riot bi the North—anarchy every
where.—L•islt Republic.
WE, who were equally persecuted with
the same despotism, but who escaped
the fate of the Irish soldiers in the En
glish army by coming to this Republic,
have been doing, and are doing to-day,
what the Irish soldier is doing in her
army, supporting British power by join
ing hands with her allies of the South
and the North, and fighting their battles.
—.lrish Republic.
COUNTRYMEN, you who have been
nursed by Irish mothers, who have sung
you to sleep by lullabies of liberty, will
you in this terrible hour when Republi
canism is on its trial, and the despots of
Europe are plotting its destruction, cast
yourselves into the ranks of England's
friends, or will you side with the men
who have written liberty on their ban
ners?--Irish Republic.
WITo can hesitate between Grant and
Seymour? None but those who hate
human liberty in their hearts or are blind
ed by partisan madness. Grant saved
the Republic ; Seymour, if he did not
actively help to destroy it, sympathized
with those who attempted its destruction.
Above all, it would please England to
see the Democrats in power again. We
cannot afford to please her.--Irish Repub
lic.
WIIAT is Democracy to us ? What is
the South to us, that we should carry
them on our shoulders with England
cracking her whip as master of ceremo
nies? Why will we lend ourselves to
destroy this Republic, to destroy the
hopes of the struggling people of Europe,
by marching in the ranks of treason and
conservatism, while Liberty is spreading
her banner abroad through the land and
calling on all men to rally to her support.
—lrish Republic.
CATCH a man in a disgraceful act, and
he hates you as though you were to blame
for his disgrace. In like manner, when
a party has failed in fighting a lie into
truth, and when it has been brought to
bay, and wickedness flung into its teeth,
it growls and howls and cries for blood.
This is the position of the Democratic
party to-day. It has been brought to
bay. The blood and the tears and trea
sures of the rebellion are flung into its
teeth, and instead of repenting of its
crimes and its errors, it seeks to escape
from the terrible accusation by a great
show of indignation.—lrish Republic.
WILY are we to-day, as we have been
in the past, worshipping at the Southern
shrine of slavery ? What did the South
do for us or for humanity that we should
shoulder her crimes and make them our
own? Out of the live millions of. the
Irish race who have found homes in this
Republic how many have turned their
faces to the South? Not one per cent.!
If our people were so infatuated with
the South how came they to settle in the
black North? We will tell them. There
was no room for them in the South, for
slavery spread its malaria through the
land, eating up the labor and the energy
of the people. The Irishmen aright
work in swamps and morasses—might
act as roustabouts on river boats, where
the negroes would not be sent, for the
slaves were worth a thousand dollars
each to their masters and the Irishman
was worth nothing. The South was only
two classes, master and slave. The 1
Irishman could not be the master and
would not be the slave, consequently.
he had no place in the South.—lrish Re
public.
The Copperheads and Rebels, in order
to secure the foreign vote for Seymour
and Blair, as against Grant-and Colfax,
have charged the latter gentleman, Mr.
Colfax, with having been a "Know-No
thing." He refuted this slander in a
public speech at his home in South Bend,
Indiana, early in the campaign. More
over, we subjoin the Know-Nothing
oaths of the first and second degrees, in
which their candidate, FRANK P. BLAin,
had graduated so early and with such
high honor. They are to day a part of
his record :
In the presence of Almighty God and
these witnesses you do solemnly promise
and sware that * * * you will not vote
nor give your influence for any man, for
any office in the gift of the .Amer ivan
people, unless he be au American-born
citizen, in favor of Americans ruling
America, nor if he be a Roman Catholic.
In the presence of Almighty God and
these witnesses, you do solemnly and
sincerely swear * * * if it may be elegally
done, you will, when elected or appoint
ed to any official station conferring on
you the power to do so, remove all
foreigners aliens, or Roman Catholics
from office or place ,• and that you will in
no case appoint Richt() any o ffi ce or place
in your et.
Irish men, head:
" Know-Nothinglam."
FIRST DEGREE
SECOND DEGREE
OBER 23, 1868.
Let Every Void
REMEMBER that the approaching election
will decide whether loyal men shall rule
this land.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
is now governed and controled by those
who sought to destroy the Government.
REMEMBER, that every unrepentant
rebel is an ardent Democrat.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
brought on the rebellion because it could
not rule the Government.
REMEMBER that our immense debt is a
Democratic institution, created because
that party brought on the rebellion.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
opposed the government in its efforts to
overthrow the rebellion.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
granted the black man the right to vote
in Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylva
nia, New York, Maryland, North Caro
lina, and other States.
REMEMBER that Dick Johnson, elected
by the Democratic party to the Vice-
Presidency, had a black woman for his
wife.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
is in favor of a direct tax for the benefit
of the Government, burdening the poor
farmers and mechanics with increased
taxation and making them pay the rev
enue of the government now paid by the
rich.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
desire power for the purpose of again es
tablishing slavery.
REMEMBER that the Democratic party
has practiced the severest proscription,
and while crying freedom it has mobbed
and murdered its opponents.
ItEmEmnEn that a Democratic! rebellion
has loaded the country with debt and
taxes. If you want the debt enlarged
and the taxes increased vote the Demo
cratic ticket.
These are filets in regard to the Demo
cratic party which we ask every voter to
remember. We might state many more
facts to prove the inconsistency and cor
ruption of the Democratic party, hut the
above are more than enough to convince
every candid and honest man that the
Democratic party is unworthy of support.
Grant's Policy and Practice.
The Army and Nary Journal has an
article about General Grant, as President,
from which we make an extract. It
says :
We may safely predict that the great
word of the hour, the great feature to
strike all observers, so soon as General
Grant has been a month in power, will
be the confidence inspired in people of all
parties and all political creeds.
Grant, as a soldier, understands well
the bounds of co-ordinate and subordi
nate authority. Congress will not be
suffered to encroach upon his prerogative
as the Executive nor will he attempt to
encroach upon Congress as the legisla
lative department—distinction simple
enough, it should seem to be. A soldier
is both used to command and obey—an
admirable training, say what civillians
will, for any administrative officer, from
Poundkeeper up to President.
We shall make bold to predict that he
will realize, more than any man who has
set in the Chief Magistrate's chair since
Andrew Jackson, the executive idea,
which should be the central idea con
nected with the Presidency. The truth
is, that of late we seem to have got into
a wrong notion of the Presidential office.
Men like Buchanan and Johnson have so
perverted the public mind, that what
General Grant quietly announced that,
if elected, he would have no political
policy of his own to follow out, even his
supporters were a little confused, and his
enemies broke out in a storm of rage.
What? no policy ! What does the man
mean ? Never was such a thing heard of.
But General Grant was right. The
country has twice been nearly ruined by
its President's devotion' to sonic pet
political theory. A man with a theory is
a dangerous le 110 w—hun c tic &mane carets.
Buchanan had a political doctrine that if
the Union should be smitten by a South
ern State on the cheek, its constitutional
duty was to turn and beg a Northern
State to smite it on the other. Bather
than give up that theory, he saw the
United States disunite under his own
eyes, though he was the guardian of the
Union. General Grant has ~rot tired of
the prate about " policy," and proposes
to introduce us to a 'little practice.''
His past is a guarantee of his future.
Stilt They Come.
A powerful defection in the Democratic
ranks occurred in New York, on Monday
evening last, on the occasion of the great
meeting over which General McClellan
would not preside. While the procession
was marching
. the Seymour and Blair
Canal Association, numbering Ave hun
dred members, threw down their torches
and transparencies, and in a body re
turned to head-quarters, and taking Mown
the names of Seymour and Blair, hoisted
those of Grant and Colfax. We're glad
to see men falling out with their sins, and
in with the friends of Liberty and Union.
elftress of the Republican. Stole
Ceot rot Committee.
ROO3IS OF THE UNION REPUBLICAN
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, PIIILA
DELPHIA, Oct - . 14, 1811--Republicans
Pennsylvania : Yesterday you achieved a
triumph at the polls scarcely less impor
tant in its results than the victory of
arms on the field of Gettysburg. The in
tegrity of the Union and the perpetuity
of the Republic were secured by the ono,
its permanent peace and future glory are
insured by the other.
Your verdict thus pronounced will be
recorded by the American people in No
vember next in a most emphatic condem
nation of the party false to the country
in the hour of its peril,false to liberty and
1 the rights of man. Every lover of peace
and good order congratulates you on yo-.lr
achievements in stripping such an organ
ization of all power to inflict future injury
on the country. Henceforth it must sink
under the same obloquy that rests upon
the Tories of the Revolution and the
Federalists of the war of 1812. Entrusted
with power, it wielded it for the dismem
berment of the Republic. Confided in
by its devotees as the guardian of liberty,
it eNerted all its energies for the perpetu
ity of human bondage. Professing rev
erence for free speech and freedom of the
press, it silenced both with the bowie
knife and revolver wherever it had su
preme control. Assuming to be the
guardian of the rights of man, it became
the champion of human bondage and
stood sentinel with baying bloodhounds
to seize and return the fleeing fugitive:
and at last, dissatisfied with the result of
a fair election, it raised its hand against
the life of the Republic, and, samson-like,
would have buried itself in the ruins
of the grandest temple of liberty ever
reared by human hands.
It is bet - it - ling that a party, scarred by
such a record, should die at, the hands of
the people whose sense of justice it has
outraged, and whose dearest rights it has
trampled in the dust.
Republicans of the Keystone! Your
brethren throughout the Union have
watched the struggle through which we
have just passed with intense interest,
and its result gladdens every patriot,
heart. Let not your victory dampen your
ardor or relax your energy, but march on
with closed ranks and solid columns to
complete your victory in November.
GALUSHA A. GROW,
Chairman state Republican Committee
To the Soldiers ((►(,(l &MOP:4 of
_Pennsylvania.
HEADtr A RTERS SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS .
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
PHILADELPHIA. OCT. 16, 186$.
COMRADES: You have turned the flank
of your old enemy, and he is in full re
, treat; lint you must not pause for an in
stant in your pursuit. Follow him up
and press him upon all sides, until he
is politically annihilated, and Forrest and
Wade Hampton have surrendered in the
last ditch. By the wayside you will find
many heretofore in isguided men, who will
gladly join your victorious column. To
all such you should extend the hand of
welcome, and forget the past.
Be not blinded by the declaration that
the Opposition have given up the right.
Place no reliance in rumors of a change
of candidates. These things are simply
weak inventions of the enemy, intended
to induce you to halt in your forward
movement. Keep upyour organizations
of " Boys in Blue." Let them, in fact,
be permanent institutions in this genera
tion. Let them continue, glorious monu
ments of a noble tight, for which your
children's children will bless you.
Let your etlbrts be solely devoted to
increasing the vote of last Tuesday, and
by this means demonstrate how over
whelming would have been your triumph
had the gang of rebel vagabonds who in
vaded the city of Philadelphia been re
quired by their allies at their own homes.
By order of the Committee,
CliAnLEs IL T. COLLIS, Chairman.
A. L. Rus.sEr.r., Secretary,
Grant in 1866.
In the winter of 1866 General Grant
was appealed to by Governor Orr, of
South Carolina, and others, to advise
them concerning the political situation.
The following is an abstract from his re
ply
" Have nothing whatever to do with North
erners who opposed the war. They will never
again be entrusted with power. When you
get home urge your people to accept negro
suffrage. If you had promptly adopted the
Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery,
or the one making negroes citizens, and guar
anteeingg•the public debt, Congress would un
doubtedly have admitted you before this.
Now it will insist upon adding impartial suf
frage. The sooner you accept that the better
for all concerned."
Am.
Tau most prominent supporters of Ho
ratio Seymour are Brick Pomeroy and
Pirate Semmes, C. L. Vallandigham and
the "butcher" Forrest, Geo. H. Pendle
ton and Robert Ould, Franklin Pierce and
Robert Toombs, Fernando Wood and
Howell Cobb, John Morriasy and the
double traitor Robert B. Lee.
NO. 21.