Honest Men Who Prefer Peace To War...1868

Honest Men Who Prefer Peace To War...1868

HONEST MEN WHO PREFER PEACE TO WAR....

 

(1868 election) HONEST MEN WHO PREFER PEACE TO WAR, AND THE Union Flag to the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy, Read the following from an Editorial article, published in the Mobile Tribune, whose Editor, Mr. Eggleston, was a delegate in the New York Convention.

Hopes for the Lost Cause - Down with the Radicals.

"If we are successful in the approaching contest we shall regain all that we have lost in the "Lost Cause." We shall be freemen once more. We shall have a country. We shall be able to reverse the iron rule which has been imposed upon us, and turning that iron into brands of fire, hurl them back on the heads of the flagitious wretches who have inflicted so many foul and flagrant wrongs on our bleeding country. Once more to the breach then ---yet once more! And when the cloud shall have cleared away from the flaming field, our flag -- the grand old Confederate flag --- will be seen in all its glory, streaming like the thunderbolt against the wind. Let us then rally once more around dear old flag, which we have followed so often to glory and to victory. Let us plant our standard in the midst of the field, and let us once more raise the war cry, "He who doubts is damned, he who dallies is a dastard."

Read the following from Zebulon B. Vance, who was the rebel Governor of North Carolina during the war:

At a Seymour and Blair ratification meeting, held in the city of Richmond, immediately after the adjournment of the New York Convention, Vance boasted that "What the Confederacy fought for would not be won by the election of Seymour and Blair."

This same man, during the war, was accustomed to advise the rebel soldiers "to fill hell so full of Yankees, that their feet would stick out of the third story window."

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Robert Ould was a delegate in the New York Convention from Virginia. He was the rebel Commissioner for Exchange of Prisoners during the war, and wrote to Winder, his subordinate, who was then starving our prisoners at Andersonville: "The arrangement I have made works largely in our favor. We get rid of a set of miserable wretches and receive some to the best materials I ever saw."

Nd. c. 1868. 6" x 9" broadside, usual folds minor wear, overall a vg copy of a rare broadside with the emphasis being that of warning Union voters that the 1869 Democratic ticket of Seymour and Blair intends to give the South the victory that it lost on the battlefield. Not located in Sabin, Eberstadt or on OCLC.

 

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