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 GRANT AND COLFAX. 
 
 Comrades, Veterans of the Late 
 Union Army and Navy : You ■who for 
 four loDg years endured the hardships of 
 the battle-field, aud by your bullets saved 
 the nation from destruction — it is for you 
 to decide whether the war was fought in 
 vain, and whether Rebels and Copper- 
 heads shall rule, and yourselves be despised 
 and insulted. In order that you may un- 
 derstand the spirit now actuating the Dem- 
 ocratic party, your attention is called to 
 the following extracts from speeches of 
 "Drmocratic" orators, and editorials of 
 their papers. 
 
 The rebel general, Wade Hampton, one 
 of the delegates to the convention that 
 nominated Seymour and Blair, at a ratifi- 
 cation meeting recently held in South Caro- 
 lina, said : "J yield to none in devotion to 
 that lost cause for which we fought. Never 
 shall I admit that the cause itself failed, and 
 that the principles which gave it life were 
 
 therefore wrong. Never shall I brand the 
 men who upheld it so nobly as rebels or 
 traitors.''^ 
 
 Ex-GovERNOR Vance, of North Caro- 
 lina, also a delegate to the convention, 
 said in the course of his remarks at a ratifi- 
 cation meeting in Richmond, Va., a few 
 nights after the nomination, '■^ That what 
 the confederacy fought for would he won by 
 the election of Seymour and Blair. ' ' 
 
 The rebel General Toombs, of Georgia, 
 one of the retiring Senators at the outbreak 
 of the rebellion, declared, in a speech, made 
 at Atlanta, Georgia, ratifying the nomina- 
 tions of /Se^mowr and Blair, '■'■That as the 
 war was produced by the defeated Democratic 
 party in 1860, so they would never have 
 peace until it is restored to power in 1868. 
 * * * I say by God, that neither des- 
 potism, nor tyranny, nor injustice meets 
 with peace in this world, or the next. We 
 went no peace in chains; peace worthy of 
 
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 freecloni wc want ; and as we have now no 
 possibility of fighting icitli tlie sword, lei us 
 figlit with the ballot box.'' ^ 
 
 Again we have the letter of General 
 Frank P. Blair, Jr., the "■Deynocraiic''' 
 candidate for Vice President, in which he de- 
 clares for revolution in the following lan- 
 guage: "There is but one way to restore the 
 Government and Constitution, and that is 
 for the President elect to declare these acts null 
 and void, compel the army to undo its usur- 
 pations at the South, disperse the carpet-bag 
 governments, and allow the white people to 
 reorganize their own governments and elect 
 Senators and Representatives. ' ' The Memphis 
 {Tenn.) Avalanche, {rebel,) in alluding to 
 Blair's letter says: "7i icas the publication 
 of this letter that secured Mr. Blair his nomi- 
 nation for the Vice Presidency. Thus it 
 loill be seen that the North is far ahead of 
 the South. They are rife for revolution.'''' 
 
 The Charlestown {Va.) Chronicle says: 
 "General Blair was an Abolitionist and a 
 war man, but those are dead issues, and, if 
 he was sincere in his recent letter, he loill 
 answer our purpose.'''' 
 
 This purpose, as declared by Humphrey 
 
 Marshall, another rebel, in a speech at 
 
 Louisville but a few days since, was to 
 
 '•'■wipe ouV all that has been done in the 
 
 way of reconstruction, and the fourteenth i 
 
 amendment to the Constitution. According j 
 
 to General Tom Ewing, Jr., it is no more | 
 
 nor less than revolution, as will be seen by 
 
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 the following extract from his speech de- I 
 
 livered at the Washington ratification I 
 
 meeting: "On the third of November next i 
 
 the American people will endeavor to re- j 
 
 store those States to their constitutional I 
 
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 rights. Should this by a possibility ftiil, 
 
 the white population of those States may 
 
 succeed in placing themselves in possession 
 
 of their governments: oihencise, as sure as 
 
 the Anglo-Saxon blood runs in the veins of 
 
 Southern men, there xcill be an upheaval of 
 
 civil war, and then, should Congress sus- i 
 
 tain the blacks, ashes will cover the ruins 
 of the whole Eepublic." 
 
 This man Ewing has gone over body 
 and soul to the rebel Democracy, and now 
 threatens an '■'■upheaval of civil war'''' if by 
 any possibility Seymour and Blair should 
 /ail to be elected; and, according toothers, 
 it will be war if they are elected. See, for 
 instance, the speech of the rebel General 
 Lawton, delivered at Savannah, Ga., a 
 few weeks since, in which he says of the 
 Democratic platform, ^'there teas nothing 
 that the South wanted that was not there.'''' 
 » * * * * 
 
 "For the first time we have a platform 
 we can adhere to. We have leaders (Sey- 
 mour and Blair) to represent those prin- 
 ciples who will carry us out of the 'slough 
 of despond.' Peace has its victories as 
 well as war; those great principles for which 
 we fought and which we feared were lost 
 may yet be achieved.''^ 
 
 Read what the Mobile (Alabama) Daily 
 Register says: 
 
 "If by any species of chicanery or fraud 
 the legitimate voices of a- majority of the 
 ichole people of the United States are con- 
 temned and the Radical candidates are pro- 
 nounced elected by the Radical Congress, 
 the Democracy of the country will not 
 submit to it, and will take arms to sustain 
 the decrees of the ballot-box." - * * 
 "Now, if civil war comes out of this con- 
 flict of political forces, the white men of 
 the South cannot be worsted; for war and 
 its terrors in their deadliest form are not 
 comparable to the evils they will have to 
 endure under a perpetuation of scalawag 
 and carpet-bag rule. And here 'loe may as 
 well say that the people of the South do not 
 intend to submit to that permanent rule, re- 
 sult as the Presidential election may.'''' 
 
 At the late Georgia "Democratic" 
 Convention one of the delegates addressed 
 the convention as follows: 
 
 •^ * * ^'^ We are in the michl of a great 
 
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 ^ revolution, wJiicJi may end peacefully at the 
 
 '^ ballot-box; but if not, then the trtie men of 
 
 the South will rally once more around their 
 
 now folded banner, and tcill try the issue at 
 
 '"'the cartridge-box.'''' [Loud and enthusiastic 
 
 <i3? applause. ] * * * '■'■There are men in 
 
 the North who are noio trttly with you, and 
 
 who will in such a conflict, if necessary, 
 
 lead your battalions.'''' 
 
 But to come nearer home and see the 
 spirit cf the ^'•Northern Democracy,^'' Sena- 
 tor Thurman, in his speech before the 
 "■Democratic''' Convention of West Vir- 
 ginia, speaking of the Radical soldiers, 
 when the "i)<?mocra^s"get into power, said: 
 " And then I believe these gentlemen, 
 (meaning you, soldiers,)who say they -will 
 fight rather than submit to the will of the 
 people, will be a very amiable set of fel- 
 lows, and will want to know on what terms 
 we will allow them to surrender. [Cheers.] 
 And that will be a matter for you to con- 
 sider — whether you will require an uncon- 
 ditional surrender or allow them to march 
 out with the honors of war. [Cries of 
 '■'Unconditional!'''' "Shoot every last one of 
 ^hem!'''' '■'Let them hang!'''' "Hang them 
 &bery one!'^] 
 
 Remember, fellow-soldiers, that these re- 
 marks and cries were In reference to your- 
 selves — that this man Thurman is a Demo- 
 crat, and that the airaience he addressed, 
 and who responded in the language just 
 quoted, were Democrats. Hemember that 
 the extracts here publi shed are all from 
 speeches and writings of Democrats. Re- 
 member that nearly all these men were in 
 the rebel army. Remember that all. or 
 nearly all, of them were delegates to the 
 convention that nominated Seymour and 
 Blair. Remember that Howell Cobb, rebel 
 
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 general, who commanded the Andersonville 
 stockade, is now advocating the election of 
 the ^^ Democratic''^ candidates. Remember 
 that General N. B. Forrest, the butcher of 
 Fort Pillow, cast the vote of Tennessee in 
 the nominating conven'ion for Frank 
 Blair, the "Democratic'''' nominee for Vice 
 President. Remember that these are the 
 men who inaugurated the war; they are 
 slill actuated by the same spirit of secession 
 and rebellion as in '61, as shown by their 
 late speeches. Remember that should 
 these men get into power the debt hon- 
 estly and justly contracted by the Govern- 
 ment to feed and clothe you while in the 
 field; to pay your bounties and pensions, 
 will be repudiated; that rebel &o\6\qvs, would 
 be pensioned and placed upon an equal 
 footing with yourselves. 
 
 Comrades, do you doubt for a moment 
 your duty in this campaign ? No ! Let 
 us resolve that we will never give up the 
 fight until the country is reconstructed 
 upon the basis of equal and exact justice to 
 all men. Let us swear, by the memory of 
 our three hundred thousand slain com- 
 rades, that we will not prove recreant to 
 the cause for which they died, and that 
 their widows and orphans shall not be 
 left to the tender mercies of the Democratic 
 rebel party. Let a million of Boys in 
 Blue carry the Stars and Stripes they 
 have saved high over the head of our 
 brave leader, and place him in the seat, 
 where he will be enabled to prove his 
 patriotism and his wisdom by maintaining 
 the Government he was so largely instru- 
 mental in rescuing from the bloody grasp 
 of treason and war. Bovs in Blue, close 
 up the ranks, and let us march on to 
 victory ! 
 
 Published by the Soldiers' and Sailors' National Republican Executive Committee, 
 4'46 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 State and County Committees supplied upon application to the Secretary of the 
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