pH8^ £ 670 .R385 Copy 1 J Ei.EGANT EXTRACTS Published by the UEion Repablicaa Congrossional Committee, Washingtoa, D. PEACE-DEMOCRAT HATRED OF SOLDIERS. ' "If I coulJ have my way I would place Jeff. Duvis in Congress, where be richly be- j longs. Then J would go to Concord, take I all the miserablQ battle flags from the State House, and make a bonfire of them ia the State IIouso yard. [Great applause.] Then I woubi ^o all through the North and destroy all the monuments and grave- stones erected to the memory of soldiers. In short, I would put out of sight every- thing which reminds us that we ever had a war with our Southern brethren. ''I do not know that I would hang one- icggcd and one-armed soldier.^, but I would pray to God to get them out of the way as soon as possible." — Heiiry Clay Dean, in a speech at Manchester, N. IT., February, 1SG8. Jl'DGF, MILLER OX WAR DEMOCRATS AND SAUS- AGE. - "There is no difference between a "War Democrat and an Abolitionist. They are both links of the same sausage, made from the same dog." — Judge Miller in the Na- tional Democratic Convention of 1864, vjhich nominated McClellan. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BUTCHER FORREST, DELEGATE TO THE N. Y. ln::,IO<.'K.VTlC COX- VENTION OF 1803. "I desire to acknowk,..:. l._ prompt md energetic action of Brigadier General (Jhalmcrs, commandii;g the forces around Fort Pillow. His faithful execution of all movements accessary to the succesoful ac- complishment of the objects of the expe- dition entitles him to special mention, ilc has reason to be proud of the conduct ■ 'f the officers and men of his command for laeir gallantry and courage in assaulting and carrying iho enemy's works without the assistance of artillery or bayonets." — Ex- tract from Gen. N. Ji. Forrc.st'.t Report of fi,,^ //.)•/ ruioio massacre, f'. U. ^'. .' i.iH. SEYMOUR'S SPL-ECn TO THE CHILDREN' MTIKUER ERS A\D ORPHAN ASYLUM BURNERS IX Kr^r YORK CITY, JULY, 1863. '' My Friends : I have come down i.or > from the ciuiet of the country to hoc wha* was the difficulty, to learn 'what all this trouble was concerning the' draft. Let me assure you that I am your friend. [Up- roarioHs cheering.] You have been mv friends— [cries of 'Yes,' 'Yes,' 'That's so.' 'We are, and will be again'] — and now I assure you, my fellow-citizens, that I am here to show you a test of my friend- ship. [Cheers.] I wish to inform yo^ THAT I HAVE SENT MV ADJUTANT GeNERA:, TO WXsniNGTON TO CONFER WITH THE AU- THORITIES THERE, AND TO HAVE THIS DRAFT SUSPEN-DED AND STOPPED. [VocifcrOU? cheers.] I ask you as good citizens ta wait for his returii, and I assure you that I will do all that I can to see that there i^-' no inequality and no wrong done to any one. I wish you to* take good care of all property as good citizens, and see tha'. every person is safe. The safekeeping of property and persons rests with you, acd I charge you to disturb neither. It is your duty to maintain the good order of the cii7. and I know you will do if. I wish you now to- separate as good citizens, and yo'^ can assemble again zoherever you vnsh t-: do so. I ask you to leave all to me no-pt- and 1 will see to your rights. Wait uati. my Adjutant returns from Washington and you shall he satisfied. Listen to me and see that there is no harm done to cither persons or property, but retire peaceably.' DEMOCRATS AFRAID OF L ^ lO-V .SOLDIERS. Ia the Soldiers ail d Sailors' Convention which met jit New York oa the Tth o!' July, 18GS. "General McQuade, of New York, moved that the Secretary be instructed, in racking D!) tho record of the Convention, to omi-t- 2 ,M uiilitary tkle? of the delegates, so that ,,:J might appear there simply as soldiers. •■Private llildreth, of Illinois, opposed ti.e motion, oa the ground that the /radicals would use such action by the ,'onvention as going to show that the Con- .irvaiive soldiers area/raid to let it be know 71 that officers took part 271 the pro- ceedings. At his request Gen. McQnade withdrew his resolution." A. COPPERHEAD OX THE WAR. Sanford E. Church, one of the candi- -tes voted for by the Democratic Conven- ■..,>oii that nominated Seymour and Blair, in i- speech during the McOlellan campaign said: •'It is an unlawful and unconstitutional war, it is a wicked war, it is a crime against God and humanity. They have no more Right to call upon the white men of the North or the treasury of the North to fight ■ich battles, any more than they have a -Ight, without cause, to make v/ar upon Brazil and Cuba because the institutions of tiiose countries do not please their Puritani- .a! KOtions."' rHE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORII. AVAS^I^•GTo^', June 30, ISi'h'i. Colonel James 0. Broadhead: Dear Coloxel: In reply to your inquir- es I beg leave to say that I leave to you to .leterminQ. ou consultation with my friends rom Missouri, whether my name shall be p-resented to the Democratic Convention, and to submit the following, as what I con- siderthe real and only issue in this contest: •'The reconstruction policy of the Kadi- i ds will be complete before the next elec- tion; the States so long excluded will have been admitted; negro suffrage established and the carpet-baggers installed in their Beats in both branches of Congress. There is no possibility of changing the political -'haractcr of the Senate, even if the Demo- .rat« should elect their President and ma- ovity of the popular branch of Congress. ^Ve cannot, therelbre, undo the Radical ■j!an of reconstruction by Congressional ac- 'lun; the Senate will continue a, bar to its ■epeal. Must we submit to it? IIow can ^ be ©verthrowu ? It can only be over- itirown by the authority of the Executive, ■vho is sworn in to maintain the Constitu- :on, and who v/ill fail to do hJs duty if he iillows the Oouslitutiou to perish under a series of Congres»ional enactments which are in palpable violation i>f ii« fundai;i<-nt;-tl principles. If the President elected by the Demo- cracy enforces or permits others to enlbrce these reconstruction acts, the Iladicals, by the accession of twenty spurious Senators and fifty Ptepresentativei-, will control both branches of Congress, and his Administra- tion will be as powerless as the. present one of Mr. Johnson. There is but one way to restore the Gov- ernm.ent and the Constitution, and that is for 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, allow the white people to reorganize their own gov- ernments, and elect Senators and Kepre- sentatives. The House of Representatives will contain a majorit})- of Democrats from the North, and they v.nll admit tho Repre- sentatives elected by the white people of the South, and with the co-operation of the President it will not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit once more to the obli- gations of the Gonstitntion. It will not be able to withstand the public judgment, if distinctly invoked and clearly expressed on this fundamental issue, and it is the sure way k) avoid all future strife to put the issue plainly to the country. I repeat that this- is the real and only question which we should allow to control us : Shall we submit to tlw usurpations by which the Government has been over- thrown, or shall we exert ourselves for its full and complete restoration ? It is idle to talk of bonds, greenbacks, gold, the public faith, and the public credit. What can a Democratic President do in regard to any of these, with a Congress in both branches controlled by the carpet-baggers and their allies"? He will bo powerless to stop the supplies by w"hich idle negroes are organised into political clubs — by which an army is maintained to protect these vaga- bonds in their outrages upon the ballot. These, and things like these, eat up the revenue and resources of the Government and destroy its credit — make the difference between gold and greenlAcks. We must restore the Constitution before v/e can re- store the finances, and to do this we must have a President who will execute the will of the people by trampling into dust the usuo'pation of Congress, known as the re coastrnction acts. I wish to stand before the Convention upon this issue, but it is one which embraces everything eise that is of value in its lurgo and comprehensive re- sults. It is the one thing that includes all that !^ v.-orth a contest, and without it there is nothing that gives dignity, honor, or viilue to the struggle. Your friend, Frank P. Blair. THE FEROCITY OF A REBEL PARSON. " It is now victory or unconditional sub- nxssion ; submission, not to the Conserva- xivo and Christian people of the North, but to a party of infidel fanatics, with an army of needy and greedy soldiers at their backs. Who shall be able to restrain them in their hour of victory? When that moment ap- proaches, when the danger seems to be over and the spoils are ready to be divided, every outlaw will rush to fill their ranks, every adventurer will rush to swell their legions, and they will sweep down upon the South like the hosts of Attila. And shall you find in defeat that mercy you did not fiad in victory ? You may slumber now ; you may lie upon your beds of ease and dream that, w^heu it is all over, you will be welcomed back to all the privi- leges and immunities of greasy citizens, but how terrible will be your disappoint- ment ! You will have an ignoble home, overrun by hordes of insolent slaves and rapacious soldiers. You will wear the badge of a conquered race, Pariahs among your fellow-creatures, yourbclves degraded, your delicate wives and gentle children thrust down to menial service, insulted, perhaps dishonored. Think you that these victorious hordes, made up in the large pari of the sweepings of Europe, will leave you anything? As well might the lamb expect mercy from the wolf." — Bishop El- liot's sermon, preached at Savannah, Ga., November 1863. R. R.S,p.5. REBEL RELIGIOX. " ThcBC can be no question that Southern vroojjs are unsurpassed in valor and patri- otism by any body of soldiers in the world. They have everything to make them so. Your enemies strive for conquest and plunder. Your cause is the cause of right, of justice, oi" great principles. Your ene- mies are grasping at shadows, pursuing phantoms, urged on by the wildest fanati- cism." — Pderfihurg, Va., Evan. Tract So- cieiy, Tract No. 214. R. R. 8, _p. 2G. •tout" BEAUREGARD WAXTS WAR TO THE KNIFE. •' "We will yet have to come to proclaim- ing this war * a war to the knife,' when no quarter will be asked or granted. I be- lieve it is the only thing which will prevent recruiting at the Nortli." — General Beau- regard's Iqtter to General Martin., August 3,"18G2, R. R. 8, p. 3G. JUDGE WOODWARD FOR REVOLUTION. "If I were the President's counselor, which 1 am not, I would advise him, ff you prefer articles of impeachment, to demur both to your jurisdiction and that of the Senate, and to issue a proclamation giving you and all the world notice that while he held himself impeachable for misdemean- ors in office before the constitutional tri^ bunal, he never would subject the ofScc he' holds in trust for the people to the irregu- lar, unconstitutional, fragmentary bodies who proposed to strip him of it. Such a proclamation, with the army and navy in hand to sustain it, would uieet a popular response that would make an end of im- peachment and impcachers." — Speech of Judge O. W. Woodward in the nouse of Representatives, February 24, 1868. FERNANDO WOOD'.S PATRIOTISM. "No more victims for slaughter pens— not a man — not a dollar." — Pcrnatulo Wood, at Syracuse, August 17, 1864. THE RADICAL KILLERS. ''Let clubsbc composed of Democrats and as I'eady tofight as to vote; let them* be drilled in the manual of arms; be as conver- sant with the service of military tactics as with Democratic principles. They may be required to display that knowledge, and if NIGQER OR RADICAL KILLING SnOULD BR IN ORDER, TIIEY WILL BE AS READY FOR THAT BUSINESS AS TO LISTEN TO THE INAUGURAL OF A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT ON THE 4Tn OF MARCH 1869." — -^'■^ Pomeroy in the La Crosse Democrat, Dec., 1SG7. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS. "Southern brethern ! If I thought I had a twenty-fifth cousin v/h« was as white- livered as you are, I would kill him and set him up in my barn-yard to make sheep own their lambs." — Gen. Jenkitis to a Peace Democrat at Hagerstovra, July, 1863. BLOODHOUNDS FO^l UNION MEN. " We, the undersigned, will pay five dollars per pair for fifty pair.s of wcH-bred hounds, and fifty dollars for one pair of thorough-bred bloodhounds that will take the track of a man. The purpose fo : which these dogs arc wanted is to chase the infer- nal, cowardly Lincoln bush-whackers of East Tennessee and Kentucky to their d-.nis and capture them. The said hounds must be delivered at Capt. Ilamner's livery stable by the l(fih of December next, where a LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 013 786 523 3 cnustering officer will be present to master ind inspect them. "F. N. McNaibv-, "H. H. Harris, "Camp Crinfort, Campbell Co., Teun." NasliviiU Courier, November, 1861. an enemy he will do good service, if the men have no shot guns, let them take axes and spadesandobstruct the roads and rivers, under the direction of their ofBcers. Bo of good heart, and let, our righteous cause make us strong." — Gen. A. G. Blanchard's order of Feb. 19, 1862. R. 4, p. 52. STATE UIGHTS FOR REBELS. " I do claim to be one of the ' true men of Virginia.' During the war I have tried to do my duty in &eeking the real interests of Virginia, and since the surrender I have not bowed the knee to Baal. I never mean to acknowledge higher allegiance than I owe to my State. " — Gen. James A. Walker scoundrclsUio welcome they will 1 f the Alumni stopper at Washington Col- Southern soil-death, death io\lege, JunelS, I8b8. BLACK FLAG. " We are for displaying the black flag. Wc should ask no quarter at the hand of •,he Yankee invaders, and our motto should )c an entire extermination of every one l-ho lias set' foot on our sacred soil. Let Ihat flag, then, float over every hill-top and ralley throughout the whole South, and as the breeze fans its folds, let it tell to the Hessian liave on Southern soi each, one and aW'—Lj/nchhurg Kepuhh- can. January, 1862. R. R. 4. p. 10. RETURN TO SLAVERY. " The time must come when the party in pow-i5r«c7c Pomeroy, in the La GrossG Democrat September, 1867. THE "lost cause" to TRIUMPH. • 'Our fallen heroes. 1 do not believe thoy have fallen in vain. The cause for which Jackson and Stuart fall cannot be in but in some form will yet triumph. 1 the 'Lost Cause,' for which our heroes kU." ~ Wade 'Hampton at the Alumni supper at Washington College, June 18, ISiJH. REBEL CHIVALRY. ■ ..'o drill is needed for a hunter lo get behind a treoimd hit his mark, and if every man v»'ill slioot only when he is sure to kill vain, propose THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCK TRAM- PLED UNDER FOOT. " The difficulty and the remedy — it is not in the election of Republican Presidents. No. Not in the non-exemption of the Fu- gitive Slave bill. No. But it lies back of all these. It is found in that Atheistic Black Republican doctrine oi" the Dec- laration OF Independence! Until that IS trampled UNDER FOOT THERE CAN BE NO I'EACE. " ^-Address of I). Smyth, of South Carolivia. SOUTHERN '"DESPLSe"' GENERALLY. "Words are too weak, too feeble to con- vey even the slightest idea of feeling which our refined, elegant, high-toned, chivalrous people feel or lock upon such an offcast, de- generate set. It would be some solace to us when we lose our husbands, fathers, sons, and friends, to kuow they were fight- ing an enemy civilized or refined to anyde- gi'ee. But, ch! the thought is killing, is' too painful to see our men, the choicest, most refined specimens of God's work, de- stroyed and even forced to take up arms against the offscourings, outcast dregs of creation ; for every man the North loses ia a blessing, a God-send to humaniiy and so- • ciety. Yet, I pray to live just to raise my son and daughter to despise the whole race, and our boy must shoot them down as he would the most ferocious wild beast when- ever they cross his path. So extreme is my disgust, that if I once thought my children would ever countenance, not a Yankee, but a Northerner, for they are the same, I could and would plunge a dagger into their hearts and laugh to see their life's blood oozing. They must notice them only to miirdei- end poison." — Ijettcr from Mississippi, R. f'. 7, p. 57. PRINTED AT THE GREAT REPUBLIC OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. LIBRARV OF CONGRESS 013 786 523 3 ^