POLITICAL.
Will the country have Grant and peace, or Seymour and Blair and pieces.
General Grant crushed the rebellion. The present political contest is the endeavor of the rebellion to crush him.
The song of Seymour: “I’m afloat, I’m afloat!” The echo of Blair: “I’m a bloat. I’m a bloat!” — Chicago Post.
A Democratic paper delight to call Gen. Grant a despot. What kind of a pot, pray, is Frank Blair? — Hartford Post.
“The authority of a mob is equal to that of a Government.” –{Horatio Seymour, July, 4, 1863.}
The Law Caws. — the crowing of the copperhead cocks over the Kentucky election.
The Hartford Post perpetrates the following: Frank Blair’s “best hold” — to hold his tongue.
The Democratic papers declare that “Blair says what he means.” What does he mean when he says “er cons-ush’n mus’ be per’-suvd.”
Some of the seditious Southerners declare if Seymour is not elected they will leave the country. That is one of the strongest arguments for the election of Grant.
The World is anxious to discover a whisky meeter. The best whisky meeter we know of is Frank Blair. He meets it many times a day, but never allows it to pass him.
The Hillsdale Standard (Hillsdale, Michigan) Aug 25, 1868
“RED, WHITE AND BLUE.”
BY N.A. GRAY
The bullet and ballot change places,
The vote is our weapon once more,
The grey-coat is gone, but the faces
Are those we encountered before.
Our lines are again put in motion,
By Grant, who is able and true;
We will rally from ocean to ocean,
And stand by the “red, white and blue.”
A thousand torn soldiers at Dayton,
Are robbed of their vote by the foe;
A deed that sends blushes to satan,
And shames all the demons below.
The black man who fights and pays tax, too,
And those who their studies pursue,
Shall stand up by Grant and Colfax, too,
And Honor the “red, white and blue.”
Our Grant, the school-boy of Ravenna,
The Buckeye, we follow with pride,
With Colfax, of proud Indiana,
So worthy to stand by his side,
Warns Seymour and Blair to remember,
The red, white and [red] will not do;
We’ll meet them, the 8d of November,
And give them the “red, white and blue.”
Elyria Independent Democrat (Elyria, Ohio) Sep 9, 1868
Cedar Falls Gazette (Cedar Falls, Iowa) Sep 18, 1868
Who are Democrats?
The President, Vice President, and every member of the rebel Government, was a Democrat.
Every soldier, who, after being educated at the expense of the government basely deserted the flag of his country and took up arms against it was a Democrat.
Every member of both branches of the rebel Congress, was a Democrat.
Every man in the North who sympathized with traitors and treason in the South, during the late civil war was a Democrat.
Every cut-throat and murderer who shot down and starved defenseless Union prisoners of war, was a Democrat.
Every General, Colonel and officer in the Confederate army was a Democrat.
Every person who rejoiced at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.
Every draft rioter, sneak and bounty jumper was a Democrat.
Every person who wrote letters to the army encouraging soldiers to desert their comrades, was a Democrat.
Every person who was sad when the Union army triumphed, was a Democrat.
Every person who assailed the “lawful money” of the country and the national credit was a Democrat.
Every person engaged in the massacre of Union soldiers at Fort Pillow, was a Democrat.
Every person who murdered an enrolling officer was a Democrat.
Every person engaged in the Sons of Liberty conspiracy to murder the Executive and overthrow the Government was a Democrat.
Every person in the North who opposed conferring suffrage upon Union Soldiers in the field, was a Democrat.
Every person who encouraged and protected deserters was a Democrat.
Every person who refused to contribute to the relief of sick and wounded soldiers, was a Democrat.
Every person who declared that he “would like to see all Democrats unite in a bold and open resistance to all attemps to keep our a united people” was a Democrat.
Every person who was in favor of “two republics and a united South” was a Democrat.
Every person who was anxious to know whether the “South had resources enough to keep the Union army at bay” was a Democrat.
Every person who denied the authority of the general government to enforce its laws was a Democrat.
Every person who recognized the rebellion as “legitimate, legal and just,” was a Democrat.
Every man who shouted “not another man nor another dollar to carry on a civil war,” was a Democrat.
Every man who insulted the loyal armies of the Union by declaring “the war a failure” was a Democrat.
Every person who invented dangerous compounds to burn our steamboats and Northern cities was a Democrat.
Every person who contrived hellish schemes to introduce the wasting pestilence of yellow fever into northern cities, was a Democrat.
Every person who robbed the school fund and used the money for gold gambling operations, was a Democrat.
Every person who engaged in shooting down negroes in the streets, and burning negro school-houses, was a Democrat.
Every person who burned up negro children in Orphan Asylums, was a Democrat.
Every officer in the army who was dismissed for cowardice and disloyalty was a Democrat.
Every man who denounced Union soldiers as “Lincoln hirelings,” was a Democrat.
Every man who denounced greenbacks as “Lincoln skins,” was a Democrat.
Every person who asserted that “Lincoln bayonets were shouldered for cold blooded murder,” was a Democrat.
Every man, who during the war asserted that the republic was “dying! dying!! dying!!!” was a Democrat.
Every person who conspired to release rebel prisoners and burn northern cities, was a Democrat.
Every member of the Ku-Klux-Klan is a Democrat.
Booth, the assassin, was a Democrat.
Seymour, who addressed a murderous mob as “my friends,” is a Democrat.
General Forrest, the Fort Pillow butcher, is a Democrat.
Wirz, the murderer of Union Soldiers, was a Democrat.
Dr. Blackburn is a Democrat.
Dr. Mudd, Payne, Alzerott and Mrs. Surratt were Democrats.
Wade Hampton, Jeff. Thompson and Beauregard, are Democrats.
Fernando Wood, his brother Ben, the gambler, and John Morrissey, are Democrats.
Renegade Doolittle is a Democrat.
Bowles, Milligan, Horsey, Heffron and Humphries, are Democrats.
John C. Walker and Dick Dodd, are Democrats.
Old “grandmother Welles” is a Democrat.
Clement L. Vallandigham is a Democrat.
Jeff. Davis, Brick Pomeroy, and the Devil are Democrats.
— Indianapolis Journal.
Elyria Independent Democrat (Elyria, Ohio) Sep 30, 1868
Grand Traverse Herald (Traverse City, Michigan) Sep 6, 1868
Address Extraordinary.
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
(After the manner of Wallace.)
Hdqurs.State Central Kuklux,}
Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 2, 1868.}
DEMOCRATS — Did you hear the reveille rolling in Vermont, on Tuesday?
Awake! Arise! or be forever fallen!
The Green Mountain boys kept quiet and noiseless, but they were lying in their trenches, and when we struck them, we felt their deadly musketry.
Danger threatens! The tyrant Grant will succeed the tyrant Lincoln. The mud sills, hirelings, carpet-baggers, minions, are rising in their strength as they rose in 1861.
Unless we carry Pennsylvania now, by foul means or fair, hope is gone.
The lost cause will be lost again.
The stars and bars will be folded forever.
Peace will reign.
The national debt will be paid.
The soldiers’ bounties will be paid.
The widows’ pensions will be paid.
The soldiers’ orphans’ schools will be endowed.
Gold will go down, credit will go up.
Prosperity and plenty will abound.
DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA!
HOLD YOUR WAVERING LINES!
STEADY! STEADY! STEADY!
Defend nothing, for you cannot defend yourselves.
More money! More money! More money!
Advance the price of votes.
More coffee-stained naturalization papers.
More Father Tracys.
More murdered John Caseys, if the Irishmen ‘peach.
More John S. Kelleys, if they get frightened.
More Schuykill-county prothonetaries.
More “active Democrats.”
More railroad colonies.
Work! Work! Work! Direct your appeals to the passions, prejudices, and ignorance of the worse classes! Stir up the just-landed Irish against the nagurs!
Rally the White Boys of Bedford street! Bespatter the enemy with filth! Revel in profanity, and excel in abuse that distinguished Democrat, our illustrious leader in New York, Brick Pomeroy! Out-Pollard Pollard.
ABUSE THE PEOPLE!
Out with your wood-cuts, your roosters, your cannon! Magnify the national debt! Multiply your witticisms on Grant’s initials!
PURSUE THE ENEMY!
as you never did in war times. “Our grand old State moves slowly.” In very slow districts I have suggested a special contract with active men, thus: In 1865, the district polled 100 Democratic votes; 1866, 120 Democratic votes; now, for every Democratic vote over 110 polled, we will pay a fixed sum, the day after election.
LET US HAVE WAR!
By order:
W.A. VOXETRPR.ETERTANIHIL*
[Philadelphia Press.
The Grand Traverse Herald (Traverse City, Michigan) Oct 8, 1868
*I have no idea what that is supposed to say. That is what the spelling looked like on the digital newspaper image.
YesterYear Once More 