Record of the New York Democratic convention. Treason and Democracy "one and indivisable [!]" Who are the leaders?

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nECOBD OF THE NEW lOflK DEMOCBATIC tONVEIIIlO

TREASON AND DEMOCRACY

ONE AND INDIVISABLK"

WHO ARE THE LEADERS ?

PUBLISHED BY THE UNION REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COVMlTTEE, WASHINGTON. D, 0.

PRELUDE.

The character of the Democratic Na-
tional Convention has often been com-
mented on. In the following summary of
the histories of the leading delegates
therein will be found a concentrated ex-
hibit pf their treason and treachery to
American liberty and nationality, which
must convince all who read that out of the
success of their policy no result can come
other than a renewal of civil war, and if
successful, a restoration of slavery, with,
finally, the overthrow of the Republic.

ALABAMA

Had eighteen delegates, among them C.
C. Langdon, of Mobile, member of the
Confederate Congress, editor of one of the
bitterest rebel sheets in the South, who was
chairman of the Committee of Platform.
In a speech, delivered at Mobile, he called
upon "God to pity the Southern man who
should take the test oath." A bitter and
unrepentant rebel, who has done and is i
doing his utmost to provoke another war.

Lewis E. Parsons was another. Parsons
is an original "carpet bagger," from Massa- ,
chusetts. A professed Unionist when the '
rebellion begun, he was soon after a Sen- i
ator in the rebel State legislature, and I
while there introduced and carried bills i
confiscating the property and outlawing
the persons of the Union men of the i
State. After the surrender he was made
Provisional Governor by Mr. .Johnson,
and was one of his faithful henclimen.
Parsons has netted considerable by pardon
brokerage; is a notorious breeder of strife,

and would, if his courage equalled his de-
sire, like to reinaugurate civil war.

Reuben Chapman, an ex-Governor of
Alabama, was an original secessionist; is
still a bitter rebel, and when the late "on-
pleasautness" occurred, declared that he
would himself drink, all the blood to be
shed. He was one of the Convention's
vice-presidents.

John A. Winston commanded a regiment
of rebel inHintry; was an original sup-
porter of Yancey, and went to Arkansas
as commissioner from Alabama, to induce
the former State to join the secession
movement.

J. T. H'^ltzclaw was a brigadier in the
rebel 9-iiny- W. C. Gates was a rebel
colonel. W. A. Barnes was a member of
the Alabama convention and signed the
ordinance of secession. M. J. BuJger was
a rebel colonel.

J. H. Clanton was a rebel general. He
is a leader in the "Young Democracy," as
those rebels arc termed who favor renewed
civil war. He is active, violent, foul-
mouthed, ''.nd has recently declared in a
public speech that he was going "to head
another rebellion."

Samuel Rofiin was a rebel officer. John
J. Jolly was a rebel colonel. William M.
Lowe was a rebel conscript oflicer, and the
bitterest persecutor of the Unionists of
Northern Alabama known to them. He
is known to have made frequent use of
bloodhounds in following lleeing Union
men. James L. Sheffield voted for seces-
sion as a member of the State convention,

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and afterwards fought for it as colonel of a
jebel regiment.

R. O. Picket was a colonel in the rebel
'army, employed in the conscript bureau,
and is now an open advocate of another re-
bellion. He declares that he will "not live
under the United States Government." He
was in charge of conscription in Northern
Alabama, and committed outrageous and
infamous cruelties.

Thomas McClellen was a member of the
Tebel State legislature, and afterward in the
rebel army, losing an arm in the attempt to
destroy the Union.

ARKANSAS

had ten delegates in the convention. A.
H. Garland has been a Representative in
the United States Congress, was a member
of the rebel Congress, and a brigadier gene-
ral in the conf'e-derate army. He was
elected to the United States Senate by John-
son's provisional government.

E. C. Boudinot is a Ciierokee Indian.
Outlawed with his fiimily by tbat nation on
account of murder and treachery to their
interest, he became a citizen of Arkansas;
was secretary of tlie secession convention,
and was afterward a delegate in the con-
federate Congress from the rebel Cherokees.

J. S. Dunham was an active secessionist,
and Robert A. Howard is a Northern "car-
pet-bagger," who claims to have been a cap-
tain in'^the regular army, but is charged
with never having reported to his regiment
for duty.

DELAWAllE'S

Senator James A. Biiyajd, was a member
-of the Committee onTlatform, and claims
•to have urged the declaration that the re-
construction acts are "unconstitutional,
revolutionary, and void." He left his seat
in the Senate rather than take the test-
oath. On the 30th of March, 1861, Mr.
Bayard offered the following:

Rewlved by the Senate of the United States,
That the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, has full power and
authority to accept the declaration of the
seceding States that they constitute hereafter
an alien people, and to negotiate and conclude
a treaty with the confederate States of America
acknowledging their independence as a sepa-
rate nation.

Before that, on the ICth of January, 1861,
Mr. Bayard voted against a resolution de-
claring that any hopes of constructing a new
government were "dangerous, illusory, and
destructive," and that "to the maintenance
of the existing Union and Constitution
should be directed all the energies of all
the departments of the Government and
and the eiTorts of all good citizens." To j
prove that he was not such a one he voted
no. On the 17th of July, 1863, he voted
against an important war measure, and
continued in the same spirit while he re-
mained in the Senate. Re has returned to
the Senate, having taken the test oath; but

is as bitterly pro-rebel in sentiment as ever.

FLORIDA

sent as delegates, among others, A. J.
Peeler, who was a captain in the rebel
army; F. R. Cotton, a rebel commissary;
Wilkinson McCall, rebel adjutant general;
J. P. Sanderson, author of Florida seces-
sion ordinance, and always a prominent
fire-eater.

C. E. Dyke, rebel captain, in command
of garrison at Andersonville. He gave his
soldiers thirty days' furlough for every pris-
oner shot. Under him the guards were per-
mitted to fire into the stockade upon our
defenceless men. He allowed his men to
rob the prisoners when brought in. He
stole the provisions and supplies sent from
the North by the Sanitary and Christian
Commissions and the friends of prisoners.

He was also the proprietor of a Florida
paper, and wrote to it after the evacuation
of Rome, Georgia, by our troops, on seeing
some captured Union soldiers hung, that
"it did a patrioVs heart good to see their
stinkinrj carcasses' hanging to the limbs of
trees.'" He is a friend of Seymour and
Blair.

W. L. Barnes, a rebel major. R. H.
Smith, a captain of rebel cavalry. The
balance of the delegation were all in the
rebel army. One surgeon, W. H. Robinson,
is noted for refusing to let wounded Union
soldiers be cared for. One, E. C. Love,
was a rebel circuit judge, and a relentless
persecutor of the Florida Unionists.

GEORGIA'S

delegation was abodyof pronounced rebels
and reactionaries. Their leading man was
Judge Benjamin H. Hill, a former membei
of Congress, and of the confederate house
of representatives. Of all the prominent
leaders of the Rubel Democracy, Hilt is the
most intolerant, bitter, proscriptive, denun-
ciatory, and violent. He is more responsi-
ble than any other man in Georgia for the
the spirit now displayed there. J. B. Gor-
don was a rebel major general. He was
the Democratic candidate for Governor re-
cently. A. R. Wright was a member of
the rebel congress.

KENTUCKY

had a delegation of bold and defiant advo-
cates of a new rebellion. W. B. Machen
claimed to be a member of the rebel con-
gress, having first voted for an ordinance
of secession at a peripatetic convention
which tried to take Kentucky out ot the
Union. William Preston was a rebel gen-
eral, and also in the civil service of the
confederacy. He enthusiastically seconded
the nomination of Frank P. Blair, Jr , for
the second Democratic nomination, B. F.
Buck-ner, a rebel major general, captured
at Fort Donelson, by U. S. Grant and the
Federal troops under him, now editor of
the Louisville Courier, and a violent reac-

lionary. Lucius Desha was a rebel briga-
dier.

MAKYLAND

liad amoDg her delegates Iliram McCul-
lougli, Representative in Congress On
the 19lh of December, 1865, he voted "no"
on a proposed amendment prohibiting the
laying of a tax or impost by any State or
by the General Government for the pay-
ment of liabilities incurred in any rebel-
lion against the Union, On the 30th of
April, 18GG, he voted against a similar
proposition, and on the 11th of June, 18G0,
against a resolution directing the retention
in custody of Jefferson Davis.

Stevenson Archer, a rebel sympathizer,
was a delegate. Ho is a member of Con-
gress, and has always voted in the pro-
rebel interest.

MJSSISSIPPI

sent a delegation intensely disloyal in
character. Every member of it was in
the rebellion. All are actively employed
• in the service of the one led by Blair,
Wade Hampton & Co.

W. S. Featherstone, always a prominent
Southern States rights advocate, was rebel
commissioner to Kentucky in 1861 for the
purpose ot urging secession upon that State.

E. M. Yerger was a colonel in the rebel
army ; is now editor of the Jackson
Clarion, the leading Seymour and Blair
organ in Mississippi. Yerger was a mem-
ber of the secession convention, and is
altogether a good representative of the
Southern politician. He was a promi-
nent member of the Johnson-Doolittle
Philadelphia Convention of 1860, and was
equally so at Tammany Hall. In a ratifi-
cation at New York this rebel colonel
said : " We fought you four years on the
battle-field, and were honest ; but, when
we tendered you the hand of friendship, it
was not grasped in that spirit. On the
contrary, I am now under the most dam-
nable despotism ever borne by men, and,
as for your Union of blood and plunder , of
oppression and tyranny, a Union headed hy
the nsurpimj cabal called Congress, why I
hate it! I spit upon it! ^'' The best evidence
of the tyranny he denounced so savagely
being lound in his ability to do it unmo-
lested, and in the fact that the unhung
traitor lives to plot new treason.

Edward Barksdale is a former and fore-
sworn member of Congress, a rebel general
and member of the confederate Congress,
and is still a violent opponent of the peace-
ful reconstruction of a Union he for a life-
time labored to destroy.

LOUISIANA

had a full delegation of rebels. Durant
Duponte was a rebel officer on the staff
of Magruder. He is a lawyer by pro-
fession, and a shining light in the radical
Democracy of that State. Louis St. Martin
is one of the original secessionists. The

remaining delegates were all active seces-
sionists, and most of them served the rebel-
lion in the field.

KORTH CAROLINA

had a full delegation of rebels. Z. B. Vance
is the most virulent and best known. He
was formerly in Congress, left his seat to
go into the rebellion, and was the first
rebel governor. Under his administration
the Union men were pursued with bitterest
malignity; hundreds were imprisoned and
many killed; the conscription was merci-
less. He is known as the most vindictive
"rabble rouser" in the South. In a speech
to rebel soldiers he told them to "ram hell
so full of Yankees that their feet would
stick out of the windows," an infernal
sentiment, most appropriately expressed.
After the Democratic nominations, Vanoe
said, at a ratification meeting in Richmond,
Virginia, that "lohat the confederacy fought
for xoould be won by the election o) Sey-
mour and Blair.'''' As it appears that the
real object was to "ram hell full of Yan-
kees," according to Vance, at least, so
the triumph of Seymour and Blair must
necessarily result in an indefinite prolonga-
tion of that nouthern pastime.

W. H. N. Smith was a member of Con-
gress when rebellion begun, and left his
seat to support treason. M. W. Ransom
and W. L. Cox were rebel major generals.
The first resigned the attorney generalship
of the State to enter the rebel army.

D. M. Carter was a rebel colonel and a
military judge. Under his direction scores
of Union men were hung. After reconstruc-
tion begun he iavored it, but having been
unable to win the confidence of the loyal
voters, like other dogs, he returned to his
disloyal vomit.

Delegates P. H. Winston, R. II. Smith,
Robert Strange, W. A. Wright, John F.
Hoke, W. J. Green, R. B. Haywood, I. M,
Leach, Thomas L. Clingman, were all olfi-
cers in the rebel army, and most of them
prominent. J. F. lloke was a major gen-
eral. He captured four hundred Union
soldiers belonging to a North Carolina regi-
ment, and ordered most of them shot as
deserters. The orders were carried out.

Clingman was United States Senator,
and left the capital to precipitate his State
into rebellion. Before doing so he had the
impudence to offer, on the 20th of March,
1861, a resolution declaring it to be expe-
dient for the President to withdraw ail
troops from the seceding States, and to re-
frain from all attempts to collect revenue
in their midst. Leech, meutioi.ed above,
was a rebel colonel, dismissed from the
service on account of cowardice.

SOUTH CAROLINA— WADE HAMPTON DIC-
TATES THE UEMOCKATIC POLICY

led, in Tammany Hall, and leads in the
new as she did in the former rebellion.
Wade Hampton, author of the chief plank

in the Democratic platform, was an active
and prominent reljel soldier from the first
Bull Run battle until after the surrender.
He was a dashing cavalry general, but is
best known for his infamous violation of
the laws of war in hanging captured forag-
ers of Sherman's army during the march
through South Carolina. He refused to
give his parole until long after other rebel
commanders retired from the field. When
Hampton and his colleagues were on their
way to New York a visit was made to Lee,
at his college. At a banquet given them,
the South Carolinian said : " The cause for
which Stonewall Jackson fell cannot be in
vain, but will yet in some form triumph."
At New York he served on the Committee
on Platform, and introduced and carried
the declaration, "That we (the Demo-
cracy) regard the reconstruction acts (so
called) of Congress as usurpations and un-
constitutional, revolutionary, and void."
At a ratification mee'.ing in the metropolis,
he urged his hearers to declare "that these
votes (meaning those of the rebels alone)
shall be counted, and if there is a majority
of white votes that you will place Seymour
and Blair in the White House in spite of all
the bayonets that shall be brought against
them." Since he returned to South Caro-
lina, this Hotspur has been engaged in mak-
ing moderate (?) speeches, of which the fol-
lowing, with reference to colored voters)
is a fair specimen :

Try to convince the negro that we are his
real friends; but, if he will not be convinced,
and is still joined to his idols, convince him at
least that he must look to those idols whom
he serves as his gods to feed and clothe him.
Agree among yourselves, and act firmly on
this belief, that you will not employ any one
who votes the Radical ticket.

How like old times that sounds ! when
Governor Pickens, of the same State, de-
clared, in the House of Representatives,
that " all society settles down into capital-
ists and laborers. The former will own
the latter, either collectively through the
government or individually through a state
of domestic servitude;" when Governor
McDuffie declared that "the four recurring
subdivisions," into which he said free
.society branched, consisted of "the hire-
ling, the beggar, the thief, and the prosti-
tute,"—classes which had no existence
"unless there had been a commencement
of emancipation. " Wade Hampton's ad-
vice is a piece of the same insolence that
made Governor Hammond declare our
Northern mechanics to be but the "mud-
sills of society," and allowed Keilt to
affirm, in the Plouse of Representatives,
that "free society was a failure." Work-
ing men will not fail to see that Wade
Hampton's mode of advocating Seymour
and Blair is in direct and legitimate suc-
cession to the bold declaration that "capi-
tal should own labor," made by the oli-
garchy when in their zenith.

B. F. Perry was chairman of the Pal-
metto State delegation. He is more no-
torious for his latter day advocacy of trea-
son than for his support of the rebellion,
though he has boasted of having given
son, horse, and fifty dollars to the confed-
erate cause. He served as a rebel judge
and chief of the rebel impressment bureau,
but was made, by Andrew Johnson, Pro-
visional Governor of South Carolina. He
has been a prominent pardon broker, as
well as constant mouther of sedition.
Perry, more than any other man in the
South, except B. F. Hill, of Georgia, is re-
sponsible for the rebel revival there.

James Chesnutt was United States Sena-
tor when secession begun. He was also
a confederate senator. J. A. Inglis framed
the ordinance of secession. W. L. Bon-
ham, an original secessionist, was a rebel
general. J. S. Preston was a rebel general,
and took an early and active part in bring-
ing on hostilities. He was also chief of the
confederate conscription bureau. At the
Lee banquet, before referred to, Preston
said, "that Virginia depended upon her
son's to avenge the wrongs of their fathers;"
referring, doubtless, to the deaths they met
in defending the slaveholders rebellion.

Wiliam A. Burt is one of Johnson's "un-
reconstructed" satellites. He was chair-
man of the South Carolina House Ju-
diciary Committee, who under the pro-
visional government framed the infamous
"Black Code," designed to carry out, with
the sanction of the President, the doctrine
enunciated by Governor Pickens, that labor
should be owned "collectively by the Gov-
ernment" when the laborer was not in a
state of individual servitude. Onr bayonets
having rent asunder the fetters of the slave,
Mr. Burt attempted, with his colleagues, to
frame laws by which the freedman would
be practically made the slave of society.

The code which this Democrat framed
provided, among other things, that no col-
ored person should not be allowed to trade
in any farm produce if working on a
plantation, without a permit from his
employer. It provided that they should not
be part of the militia of the State, nor be
allowed to own fire-arms or other weapon
without a magistrate's permit, the penalty
being a fine, and if that is not paid, a public
whipping. Persons of color were not to be
allowed to buy, sell, or trade in spirituous
liquor under penalty of hard labor, fine, or
whipping. They were not to be allowed to
live or migrate into the State, except bonds
for good behavior to the amount of $1,000
were given. A system of compulsory ap-
prenticeship was a leading feature, and a
heavy and distinct license was required of
a colored person, not required of the
whites, before they were to be allowed to
practise "any art, trade, or business,"

Congress, representing the loyal masses,
having wiped tbis code out of existence by

making the freedman a citizen, "Mr Burt
and his allies are now endeavoring to or-
ganize a new rebellion, hoping thereby to
undo what the bayonet, the bullet, and the
law has accomplished.

John Fluncle, J. B. Bonham, A. L. Man-
ning, and W. L. Simpson were all promi-
nent rebel officers. The last -was also a
member of the confederave congress. All
of them were active Democrats and seces-
sionists, and were prominent in the move-
ments that precipitated war. S. B. Camp-
bell was one of the peace commissioners
that were sent to Washington to bully
Buchanan into acciuiescence.

TENNESSEE

had the glory, as it would appear to be from
the reception he met with, of including
that representative Democrat, N. B. For-
rest, in its delegation. It also had a colored
delegate, one Williams, who, having been
drummed out of the Union army, has now
taken refuge with the Kuklux Klan. For-
rest was a rebel lieutenant general. Before
the war a slave trader, and during the war
he made himself infamous as the murderer
of the people in whose flesh aad blood he
could no longer trade. Under his com-
mand the Union garrison at Fort PiUow,
Memphis, was massacred after surrender.
Over three hundred men were thus butch-
ered, nearly all after capture, and many
after being removed from the fort itself.
Many other acts of cruelty are charged and
proved against this butcher, who, instead
of having been shot by order of a drum-
head court-martial, as he should have been,
is now engaged in threatening the over-
throw of the State government of Ten-
nessee by means of the Kuklux, of which
organization of rebel assassins in that State
there can be little doubt he is the chief.

Judge T. A. R. Nelson is best known as
the eulogizer of Andrew Johnson on the
impeachment trial. lie was a McClellan
elector in ISHi, und a violent opponent of
Mr. Lincoln's emancipation policy. He
was one of those Union men who were for
the Union with slavery, but against it
without it. W. B. Bates was a rebel gen-
eral. So, also, was John F. House. A.
W. Campbell was another rebel general. A
majority of the delegates were in the mili-
tary or civil service of the confederacy.

J. W. Lcftwick was a Representative in
the Thirty-Ninth Congress. He recently
made a speech at Memphis, urging the
Democracy "to forbear with Ratiical rule
— at least until after the election — and thm,
if need be, settle old scores with interest."

TEXAS

was well represented — we mean by rebels.
Colonel Ashbel Smith was colonel of the
2d Texas, (rebel.) F. S. Stockdalc was
rebel lieutenant governor, and an extreme
secessionist. lie was one of the signers of
the Lee-Rosecrans letter — a new outburst

of the "Let us alone" demand which
characterized the early hours of the rebel-
lion. John Hancock is a Johnson Unionist,
who traded his reputation for a brigadier
gcneralcy, without ever having a com-
mand. Since the war, on the question of
enfranchisement he joined the party which,
in Texas, have murdered in cold blood
2,900 Union men. George H. Giddings
was a confederate colonel. So also was
James M. Burroughs. George H, Sweet,
a Yankee "carpet-bagger," raised a con-
federate regiment, but took care to do but
little service.

VIRGINIA

sent a delegation of old-style "F. F. V.'s,"
men yet not forgetful of their ancient arro-
gance, now rendered more distasteful to the
loyal people by the memory of their un-
provoked treason. T. L. Bacock was a
member of the rebel congress; so also was
Thomas Goode, F. McMullen, and James
H. Barbour.

Robert Ould was a rebel brigadier
and commissioner of exchange for priso-
ners of war. He has recently exhibited
a peculiar rebel disregard for the
truth, l)y a statement that General Grant
was responsible for the delays in exchang-
ing prisoners, and couseciuently for the
terrible sufferings at Andersonville. Quid
is the author of a letter widely circ.rdated,
writ<;en to his subordinate, the rebel Winder,
in which he closed with the following atro-
cious sentence: "jT/ie arranqcment I liaise
made toorks largely in ortr favor. We get-
rid of a set of miseraMe wrefcJies, and
receive some of the best material I ever
saic.'" Robert Y. Conrad, J. B. Baldwin,
and others, were in the Virginia rebel legis-
lature. All were early and persistent
rebels. They remain of the same opinions
still. A Virginia Democrat is the best
representative of the Bourbons known to
our times.

THEIR COPPERHEAD ALLIES.

The detailed record of the Southern de!
cgates closes here. The facts given show
what manner of men controlled the Tam-
many Convention. The rebel leaders dic-
tated the second nomination — that of Gen-
eral Blair — avowedly basing their support
of him on his announced revolutionary
policy. They dictated the platform, at
least all that is of vital importance therein.
Over one hundred of the Southern Demo-
crats present served with prominence in
the rebel army, and twenty at least were in
the Confederate Congress, wkilo others
were in the State governments.

Their Northern allies dicta'e>l the first
nomination, and the Copperhead leader,
most notorious for his avowed sympathy
with the rebellion, engineered the nomina-
tion of Horatio Seymour, a man best
known for his friendly collusion with the
New York draft rioters and murderers, who

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formed the reserve of Lee's array when
invading Pennsylvania in 1863.

THE NORTHERN REBI5L LEADER.

Clement L. Vallandigham is a known
and acknowledged traitor. So notoriously
seditious was he that Mr. Lincoln sent him
South, whence he returned as the agent of
the confederate government to incite riots,
&c., in the Northern States. Vallandig-
ham was a delegate from Ohio, and was
the leading spirit among Northern mem-
bers in that convention. As a Represen-
tative .'n Congress he steadily voted against
all war measures.

In a speech at Cooper Institute, New
York, November 2, 1860, a short time
before South Carolina seceded, he said:

"If any one or more of the States of this
Union should at any time secede — for rea-
sons of the sufficiency and justice of which,
before God and the great tribunal of his-
tory, they alone may judge — much as I
should deplore it, I never would, as a
Representative in the Congress of the
United States, vote one dollar of money
whereby one drop of American blood
should be shed in a civil war."

Soon afterward he declared, in presence
of several of his colleagues in Congress,
"that the troops of Ohio, before they should
march through his district to coerce the
South, would have to march over his dead
body."

In a letter dated May 13, 18G1, addressed
to Richard H. Hendrickson, and others, of
Middletown, Ohio, speaking of the Presi-
dent's proclamation calling out 75,000
volunteers to put down the rebellion, Val-
landigham said:

"The audacious usurpations of President
Lincoln, for which he deserves impeach-
ment, in daring, against every letter of the
Constitution, and without a shadow of law,
'to raise and support armies,' and 'to pro-
vide and maintain a navy,' for three or five
years, by mere Executive proclamation,
I will not vote to sustain or ratify — Never!
Millions for defence, not a dollar or a man
for aggressive or ofFdnsive civil war."

In a speech at Dayton, August 3, 18G1,
giving an account of his stewardship in
Congress, Mr. Vallandigham said :

" I have not voted for any army bill, or
any navy bill, or army or navy appropria-
tion bill since the meeting of Congress on
the 4th of July, 1861."

Alter his sentence of banishment he left
the South and went to Canada to stir up
riots in the North. At Niagara Falls, July
15, 1863, he issued an address, in which he
declared that the South would never yield,
and that, if subdued by force, we should
never see the end of the struggle that
would ensue. As recently as August 27,
1868, in a speech in Ohio, he declared :

"I would not alter anything I have
done, or any vote I ever cast. No, gen-

tlemen, each and every one shall stand
emblazoned on the pages of history, to
await the judgment of posterity, if those
things shall interest posterity."

This is the man who nominated Horatio
Seymour. He was a traitor during the
war, and is so still, as his own avowal
shows. He is a representative man, and
as such is now running for Congress in
Ohio.

NORTHERN REBELS.

Among the prominent rebel sympa-
thizers in Congress were George H.
Pendleton, Daniel W. Voorhees, James
A. Craven, and Henry W. Harring-
ton, delegates from Ohio and Indr
ana at Tammany Hall. Pendleton was
the Copperhead favorite for President.
Bayard, of Delaware; Bigler, of Pennsyl-
vania; and J. D. Fitch, of Indiana, were
members of the convention. When in the
United States Senate they voted against all
war measures, beginning on the 16th ot
January, 1861, when they voted "no" oa
a resolution opposing secession. On the
9th of January, 1861, the House passod
resolutions of inquiry, asking Mr. Bu-
chanan to inform them if any Federal offi-
cers were aiding in or colluding with the
secession leaders, then actively engaged in
robbing the mints, arsenals, custom-houses,
and post offices of the United States,
Among those voting no, who were promi-
nent at New York, were Niblack, of Indi-
ana; Vallandigham, Ohio; and Pendleton,
their first choice. On the 28th of January
the House adopted a form of oath to be
administered to the militia of the District
of Columbia. This oath set forth the para-
mount nature of the allegiance due ^ the
Union. Among the negatives is the name
of -Gerge II. Pendleton.

On the 7th of January, 1864, the House
of Representatives passed resolutions de-
claring their determination not to treat with
representatives, as such, of the rebel gov-
ernment, or in any way to recognize their
validity. Among the negatives are Henry
W. Harrington, Indiana; "W. H. Miller,
Pennsylvania ; W. R. Morrison, Illi-
nois, (the latter was connected with
the rebel movement known as the "North-
west conspiracy,") and George H. Pendle-
ton. The first three were delegates at
New York. Daniel W. Voorhees was also
charged with complicity with the aforesaid
conspiracy. He is a notorious Copperhead,
and, as a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, voted against all war measures,
and since his votes have been in favor of
destroying the national credit and other-
wise treading the Republic down. So with
others. Another Indiana delegate, J. A.
Craven, voted "no" in the House of Rep-
resentatives, December 17, 1864, on resolu-
tions declaring for a vigorous prosecu-
tion of the war and returning thanks to the
soldiers. So also did F. C. Le Blond, of

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Ohio; Francis Kernan, of New York, James
F. McDowell, of Ohio, and D. W. Voor-
hees, of Indiana. Representatives Boyer,
of Pennsj'lvania, and W. E. Niblack, of
Indiana, voted "no" to resolutions amend-
ing the Constitution so that no State or the
United St es should ever provide for the
payment of debts incurred to sustain the re-
bellion. This was offered June 11, 18G6.
On the 13th the same men voted against
another amendment afflrming the validity
of the national debt. So also did Repre-
sentative J. L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania,
a delegate to New York.

One of the bitterest Copperheads in Con-
gress was Judge Woodward, of Pennsyl-
vania. He was a delegate. In the House
of Representatives, February 24, 1868, he
said :

"If I were the President's counsellor,
which I am not, I would advise him, if
you prefer articles of impeachment, to de-
mur, 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 mis-
demeanors in office before the constitu-
tional tribunal, he never would subject the
office he held in trust for the people to the
irrerjular, unconstitutional^ fragmentanj bo-
dies who propose to strip ?iim of it. Such a
proclamation, with Uhe army and navy in
hand to sustain it, icould meet a popular re-
sponse that would malce an end of impeach-
merit and impeachers.''''

CONCLTJSION— Wn.A.T IT MEANS.

These are but gleamngs from the records
of the sympathy with and participation in
rebellion of all the leading members and
most of the rank and file of the New York
Democratic Convention. They prove that
treason and hatred of the Republic was the
controlling force among them. They show
that sympathy with slavery, oligarchy,
and imperialism controls tlie Democratic
party. The Union means liberty. The
Republic sustains equal rights. Tne Dem-
ocratic party, under its rebel and Copper-
liead leaders, are the enemies of these -

Therefore, they are the enemies of the na.
tlon, and can only succeed by destroy-
ing its credit, its power, distract-
ing its counsels, and dividing its
territory. To do this and to maintain
slavery the rebel Democracy inaugurated,
after thirty years' conspiracy, a formidable
rebellion, controlling eleven States and
continuing four years, during which a
million of lives were sacrificed on both
sides, a national debt incurred amounting
to three thousand million dollars, besides
causiog the destruction of property to a
much greater amount. They were de-
feated, thanks to the patriotism of the peo-
ple, the valor of our volunteers, the faith-
fulness of the administration of Mr. Lin-
coln, and the generalship of Ulysses S.
Grant, General of the Army and Republi-
can cindidate for the Presidency. Now
they muster for a new etFort. This time
the purpose is to divide the Government,
to make the contest really internecine, and
not sectional alone.

In the convention where this new rebel-
lion obtained its first direct impetus there
Avere, among the Southern delegates, over
one hundred leading rebel soldiers and
twenty members of the rebel congress.

The people know these men; they know
their allies in the adhering States; they
know what their treason and sympathy-
cost, and they will not give them the op-
portunity, through possession of the Exu
ecrjilive office, to first nuUily laws, the
destroy the national credit by repudiation
of its debt, and thus pave tliC way for a
disintegration of the Union and a destruc-
tion of the Republic. The people will not
do it Vermont's Green Mountains thun-
dered forth the first denial, Maine reechoes
it from pine forest and rocky shore, Colo-
rado and New Mexico replies from the
Snowy Ranges of the Rocky mountains,
the valleys of West Virginia will next take
up the indignant negative, and Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, and Indiana wait to tell how
they resist treason and despise is sup
porters.

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