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service. Loss than SOU,OOO died on the
battle-field and in the hospitals. A
over 200,000 perhaps have died Irom
wounds received, or in sickness incurred
in the service, or from the casualties or or
dinary life; leaving 1,500,000 present
voters who ' ought under the liag in the
war for the Union. It is not assuming
too much— no, nor enough —to say that
this Convention represents fully one-hall
of those soldiers. (Voices— I more than
one half, ” “Two-thirds,” “Three
fourths.”) I do not believe one-third of
the persons who served in the Union army
and navy ha\ e this day made up their
minds to vote lor Gen. Grant. (“No,”
“no.”) .But to make the estimate safe, I
say that this Convention represents, at
least one-half of these 1,500,000 soldiers
who are now voters. Os that half, one
half or more, like myself, are of convic
tions so strong that they will vole for any
Democratic candidate who has been named
for the office. [Great applause. ] I refer
to my position of’3B, not from vanity, but
*only to give weight to the further estimate
that the other half, 375,000 voters who
served in the Union army, may be lost or
won to the Democratic cause, as the nomi
nation may prove wise or otherwise. —
1 Jjaughter and applause.] We have as
sembled here in no spirit of dictation, but
animated by a love lor the Union and
Constitution, and a kindness toward al!
who would aid iu securing a harmonious
nomination and in securing a victory.
I cannot permit myself to doubt that
the Democratic Convention assembles
iu the same patriotic spirit, and that they
will present a candidate for the Presi
dency, who, whether, he has served
in our amy or not, incontestably
sustained the war (great applause), and
for whom all the soldiers and sailors can
vote without seeming inconsistent. Gentle
men, the Republican party represent no
principles for which we fought. We fought
not for negro suffrage. (No, no. A voice
—We wouldn’t have given a cent for it.)
Nor did we fight for white disfranchise
ment. (No, no, never!) Nor for forcing
unequal fellowship on any States of the
Union. (Never, never!) Nor for chang
ing the fundamental principles of the
Government. [No, never.] Nor did we
fight for the supremacy *of any party in
the Union. [No, no!] Os the three
thousand Union soldiers who lie in fields
washed by waters oftheAtlantic and Pacific
not one laid down his life for any of these
objects. Os the fifteen hundred thousand
of their surviving comrades, not one will
say he would have risked his life for any
of those objects. These theories of the
Republican party are so prosecuted as to
defeat the accomplishment f ‘ taose pur
poses, and to inflict on the atinn evils as
great as those which the war was waged to
prevent. The Democratic party is now
the only party true to the Constitution and
the Union. If we would accomplish that
for which we fought—if, in short, we would
save the Union and restore to those
States their liberties and their laws, we
must unite with the Democracy. [Ap
plause. j We must not ask of men what
they have been.but what they are —not who
loved and defended the Union, but who
now defends it. [Applause.] In the path
which the Democratic party treads to-day
we see the footsteps of Washington, of
Madison, of Governor Hamilton, and all
the sages and heroes of the Revolution—
of Webster, of Clay, of Andrew Jackson —
[applause]—and of all those giants.of the
generation just gone before us. And while
it keeps that line of march, and bears al
ways in view the Constitution and the
Union, we can follow it with pride and
with unfaltering footsteps.
A Catholic Priest at tiie Democratic
Convention. —On the second day of the
great Convention in New York, at the
opening of business, the Chairman thus
declared himself:
Gentlemen of the Convention, I have
the pleasure of introducing to you Rev.
\\ illiam Quinn, of New York, who will
open our proceedings with prayer.
THE PRAYER.
Rev. Father Quinn, of New York, of
fered the following prayer :
0, Almighty and Eternal God, creator
of heaven and of earth, and of all things
therein, who art infinite wisdom, and by
whom just laws are administered, assist
those in high authority on earth, that
wholesome laws may be enacted, and
that they may be administered with
clemency and mercy, restraining vice, en
couraging the practice of good works.
We pray Thee, also, Almighty God, that
our brethren and fellow-citizens throughout
the United States may be blessed in the
knowledge and sanctified in the observ
ance of Thy Iloly Law; that they may be
united together more and more in union
and in the enjoyment of that peace which
the world cannot give ; and that, after
enjoying the things of this life, they may
become partakers of joys that are eternal.
We pray Thee, also, oh God, for those
who are here assembled in convention
from the different and most remote parts
of our country, that their deliberations
may be conducted in the spirit of harmony,
of peace, of charity, and may have refer
ence chiefly to the public good and well
being of society —to the peace and happi
ness and prosperity of our beloved land.
W e pray Thee, also, Almighty God, that
these, Thy children, who are now assem
bled, whilst devoting their best faculties
to these great and exalted interests, may
not be unmindful of Thy presence or of
the high responsibilities that they owe
Thee. These, oh Almighty God, and
other precious gifts and blessings, we
prny Thee to shower down upon us, this
day, and always, through the merits of
Thy beloved Son. our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ, who reigneth with Thee in
the unity of the Holy Ghost, world with
out end.
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IRISH RADICALS,
We have received a communication
from Mr. Patrick Ahern, of Richmond.
Va., in which ho says that our recent
article on Irish Radicals did him and
Messrs. Doherty, Delaney, and Miller, of
that city, gross injustice, as they are not
Radicals, and have never been. In that
article we disclaimed any intention to do
any of (the parties named any injustice,
and now hasten to make the proper cor
rection. We do so with incalculable
satisfaction, as we could scarcely believe
it it possible that a genuine Irishman, or
true Catholic, could give himself, or sell
himself, to the Radical party. It is also
a pleasure to us to learn from Mr. Ahern
that “there are no Irish Radicals in Rich
mond, except two or three imported from
the North.”
Having apologised in advance for any
misrepresentation contained in that article
we can only regret our animadversions
upon the gentlemen named, and extend
to them our congratulations and gratifi
cation that they are not amenable to the
disreputable charges preferred against
them.
PERIODICALS-
The Catholic World, for August,
1868.—This staunch and valuable publi
cation, whose pages bear the impress of
Father Ilecker’s ivonderful genius, is out
for August. Father Ilecker is one of
the most gifted men in this country, and
his name and fame will some day rank
with those of Bossuet, Fenelon, Wiseman,
and Newman. Ilis zeal and energy are
boundless, and he works unceasingly and
untiringly for the cause of his holy Faith
and the salvation of souls. With such an
Editor and Manager, the World must be
a publication of the highest value, as it is;
and not only is it valued by Catholics, but
even by our dissenting brethren, for its
mild, dignified, conservative, but firm,
zealous, and unyielding course.
The high reputation of the periodical is
well sustained by the number before us,
its contents embracing a great variety of
useful, interesting, and instructive papers.
The price is $5 per annum, and all re
mittances and business communications
should be addressed to Lawrence Kehoe,
General Agent, Catholic Publication So
ciety, No. 126 Nassau Street, New York.
Godey’s Ladies’ Book.— This old
established and popular Magazine, for
August, has been received by Mr. Quinn,
of the Literary Depot. It is a very in
teresting number, and will be well re.
ceived by the ladies.
Demorest’s Ladies’ Magazine and
Young America. — Friend Quinn has
favored us with copies of these two pub
lications for August. The former is
published in the interest of the ladies, and
the latter for children. They are hand
somely printed and well filled with sub
jects of interest.
Clark Institute. — We take the fol
lowing extract from a letter received at
this office from Winchester, Ky., where
this Institute is situated :
‘‘The Commencement Exercises of
Clark Institute took place 10th to 12th
of June, inclusive. The pupils acquitted
themselves with credit, especially the
members of the Agatheridan Society.
‘The Conquered Banner' was sung with
wuch expression.”
It affords us pleasure to hear of the
progress and success of Southern Institu-
tions, and we congratulate the young
ladies of Clark on the favorable report
made of them.
St. \ incent de Paul Society—
Election of Officers.—At the Annual
Meeting of the Literary and Benevolent
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, held at
their Meeting Room, on Sunday evening,
I9th inst., the following gentlemen were
elected officers of the Society for the en
suing year;
J. D. Kavanagh, President.
G. E. Boulineau, Ist V. P.
John McAdam, 2d V. P.
Wm. McCabe, Recording Secretary.
E. F. Samuels, Corresponding Scc’y.
E. O'Donnell Treasurer.
Tnos. Flanigan, Librarian.
P. J. Quinn, Assistant Librarian.
Trustees David Graham, L. Cos
grove. John Cleary.
Library Committee—Dan’l Galvan,
E. Cosgrove, L. Mahoney.
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) C9RRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Modern Wonder Workings Aladdin
Eclipsed—Doubtful Stability — Pro
jected Jollification —The Presidency
to he Attained only Through a Sea of
Blood—The Republic Destroyed and
Not Easily Be-Established—Slavery
of the Southern Slates—Little Pros
pect for a Favorable Change—A Day
of Wrath in Store for Bigoted Mis
ci'eants—Hope for Repentance.
New Orleans, July 19, 1868.
Banner of the South:
All are rapidly reconstructing! Oh,
yes. “The Union”—whatever that is—
after being dead, destroyed, and out of
existence, for seven or eight years, has,
within the past few weeks, been recalled
into existence, formed anew, and made
alive again ! Why talk of the wonder
working lamp of old fog)’ Alladin, when
we progressive Yanks can perform such
miracles of omnipotence with more non
chalance than we witness the stage tricks
of a mimic Harlequin ? In this dazzling
sky of national greatness, however, there
rises a little shadowy cloud of doubt as to
the permanence of such rapid develop
ments. Thoughtful minds, reflecting on
the natural history of mushrooms and
other ephemera, draw inferences not the
most favorable as to the stability of all
similar creations. The sky-rocket goes
up very fast, very high, very brilliantly,
and very noisily. Pop ! It’s gone for
ever. Mayn’t it be the same with fungus
Constitutions, State Governments, Unions,
Ac.?
The honest, patriotic people of this
city have projected for to-morrow night
a grand jollification, illumination, glorifi
cation and speechification, with music,
banners, procession, Ac., Ac., at the pros
pective election triumph of November.
This may be all very well, as far as
the election of the people’s candidate;
but, unless I be mistaken in my judgment
of perverted human nature, their Presi
dent can never reach his seat, unless
through a shower of blood. And, then,
he will not be a President; but, from the
force of circumstances, he must exercise
the prerogatives of a Kaiser of some
sort; for, a Republic, destroyed by the
people (as the late United States’ Repub
lic was destroyed by the masses of the
Northern and Western people), will never
be so quickly re-established by the same
masses. The late Republic was built up
and sustained mainly through the wisdom,
patriotism, courage, and eloquence, of
the men of the South; and when the
mob of Northern Puritans and fanatics
grew jealous and discarded these, the
natural result was, national confusion,
usurpation, and destruction. The De
structives, after reducing us of the South
to slavery, have finished their work by
enslaving every State in the Union !
for, to-day, there exists not a single
independent State of the once glorious
A f to
galaxy. All of them are now obedient
slaves to their late common servant, the
Government at Washington !
No man on earth was prouder of, or
more attached to, the once glorious Con
federation of the United States of America
than the writer, and no one can be more
desirous than he to live once more under
so grand a Constitution; but, candidly,
I see no way to enjoy such a consumma
tion, except through a radical conversion
of the masses to a pristine sense of honor,
right, and justice ; and this conversion
seems to me to be very far oft’ in view of
the wide-spread immorality, profligacy,
and intemperance of all sorts that now
flood the land. These social ulcers, I fear,
can only be cured by the scalpel of Revo
lution, a sharp application of which may
restore a healthy circulation iu the veins
of the body politic, after which we may
look for national health, not before.
These remarks apply chiefly to the
North and its scalawag offshoots in thi..
latitude ; for my faith is, that we of the
South have undergone our hottest fire of
purification during and since the war, bu‘
that the day of wrath is still in store for
the bigoted miscreants of other latitude^
According to the Catholic doctrine,
that repentance may avert merited pun
ishment, we can at least pray that such
may be the course in regard to tho
aforementioned sinners, and that they
may yet repent in time to avoid their
impending doom.
Southern Radical.
IRELAND AND THE CONFEDERATE
STATES.
The editorials of the Irish papers, in
reference to the wrongs of Ireland, apply
with almost equal appropriateness to those
of the South. As an instance of this,
we take tho following from the Dublin
Irishman , of July 4th. It reads very
much like a Southern newspaper article,
with the exception of the reference to the
Irish Church Establishment, and at the
same time gives the reader some idea of
what our Irish brethren have to endure
at the hands of the British Government:
THE ENSANGUINED SFEAR.
A bloody lance must be shaken over
the people, at the coming elections. That
poor mockery of free election shall not
be allowed to be even like the reality;
the mockery of it must be plain, visible!
unmistakable. The free electors of
Ireland advance to choose their represen
tatives at the point of the spear.
Over their head, like the eword of
Damocles suspended by a thread, hangs
the ensanguined Lance, red with the
blood of their brothers, ready to fall.
Thus has the British Parliament or
dained it.
“Ye shall go, ye Helots,” we seem to
hear it say, “ye shall elect men to repre
sent you—you shall elect them freely, as
our Constitution directs—and if you
shall dare to let your free choice light
upon another man than your landlord’s
nominee, he shall tear down your home
tree, and our minions shall support him ,
he shall drive you guarded to the poll, and
our soldiery shall shake their red gleam
ing lances round about you on every
side! Choose now”—
“Yea, more ! Bear in mind, that of
those who shake those spears in your
eyes, there are some who hurled them
into the heart of your kindred—peaceful
on their own very threshold—there are
some whom a Jury has branded as guilty
of manslaughter —as guilty of murder !
There, behold, they are amongst the
armed men around you !—see you them 1
Your kinsman is dead, ho lies iu hi
bloody grave; they ride around you
armed, undetected, unsought for, unpun
ished—unpunished for manslaughter—
unpunished for murder ! Now, tbei.
lances gleam by the side of your neighbor:
now they glitter beside your heart
Choose freely your representative.”
By ninety-six to fifty-five—by an exco
almost as great as the total number of
those who proposed the abolition of mil
tary terrorism at elections, the motion
was rejected ! The British Parliament
will not agree to lay down the Blood
Lance. It must still hang over th.
heads of the Irish people.
And how could it have been expect
to act otherwise ?
Have they not been incessantly pratii■_
against exceptional measures for Ireland
This was an occasion to test the honesty c
their outcry. Military arc not so eu:
ployed at elections in England; to pa
the bill would have been to equalize th
laws of Ireland and England ; to pass th
bill would have been to annul an act o
exceptional legislation. Wherefore, it w
rejected, instantly, unhesitatingly, by
sweeping majority. For their pratii:.
was false, and their principle a lie.
Ye hypocrites! ye have stolen th
keys of the temple of power, and tl.
rightful owners ye lock out, and coy
with derision and contumely.
Why has the Bloody Spear been '[
lifted again into prominence at tl
juncture of affairs ?
To save that Plunderer of tho Poor
the Church Establishment !
For the British Parliament has n
cast it down—the British Parliament
not razed the abomination they brondo
its injustice they admit, its atrocity th
avow; they see that it is a horror—■
vampire, which sucks the blood of t
living—a, ghoul which feasts upon tn
flesh of the dead—and, looking upon
with conscious glance, they decree : I-
Perpetua !
Perpetual existence to this alxmiinatio:
thisscandal of the world, has been doer
by tiie British Parliament—has been *
creed by the House of Peers by a mig’; ; .
of one hundred and nuiety-tco