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Show 98 'f.IIE GOLDEN HOUR. Varnpyrc with a throb of life. That par~y is prcpar~ing to o·o before the p oplc in the forLhcon11ng carnpmgn. Th~y will take the Van "\\ ycl ... Report in one hand, and the Washburne Report in the oth r, (for they know how to rnakc the truth lie like the Devil!) and t110y will f . every stn1np in the conn try : " F cllcr-ci ti~ say, rorn . . . zens ,. vVhat did you bait by lcavtng the old DrmocratJC ·t ? Fust you aot a civil war, plunging into fra~ par y . , b . tcrnal fratricide the country that under Frank Ptercc and Jim Buckhannon ·was peaceful, united, gellorions, and happy. Second, you got untold n1illions of debt. Third, you got corruption enough in all the branche of the aov-crnn1ent to fill the C bore 2,000 pages of inves~ tigatbi ng reports. Tllac t 's what you abot by this Rer1ubli-can freak of yours ! Fcller-ci tizcns, do you want to sec the bloody clouds of civil war roll a\vay before the rising sun of harmony and union, one and in eparable now and forever ? J e t vote for the regular no1ninees of the Dirnocratic party ! Now·, boys, three cheers for )\fcClcllan ! " I fear the appeal will be successful ; and if so, the little finger of the rnan so elected \Vill be heavier than Buchanan's loins. The other day I was reading in the Satanic Press the prograrnmc of the Democracy, of which the above is a free translation, and its editorial concluded with saying,-" To this appeal the n1as cs will be sure to respond." By a typographical error, or the correction of some shrewd printer, the rn got off of mctsses, A PO 'JBLE BADYLO~. 99 and on to the prcccu·t ng wore1 ; and. so it read " them asses will be snre to re:ponf1 " It 1, · ·was very uad gram-mar, bnt I think I ne\-er read 0 e '"I . 11 lu c a ·cntcnce 111 that paper before. It is not the 111a 0 b t tl ~.- ' n 10m asses that 1ve have to fear. ' Let us. not trust the s.l lain D enlocracy of this country becau. se rt now profe es to SU})})Ort tile \Var, . · Tl1 c other evening, when, at a Dcrnocratic l11eet' . c· . . Ing 111 lllClll-nati, the corp c of the Vam})yre was stu· ,r cd , tl 1e a sem-bly gave vent to the natural di~·Oa' U · t by sr· n1n It aneou 1y ejaculating, Pugh .' 1Iuch to our urprise, an individual wllose 11a1ne I.S SO pronounced, uppo ing hi1nself ca' llecl upon, rna d c a speech. The lion. George E. Pugh is the ablest Demo-crat in the West, and would so stand w · tl 1 · • • 1 1 ns party If he were not a tnfle too ra ·h. When traitors in the We t propose to aid the rebellion, they first inquire if Lawyer Pugh is in good health ; and in so many ca es of this kind has he appeared, that it is not stran()'e if b he should be in party lirnbo. But since Garrett Davis menaced the government with rc istancc from Kentucky, the sham Democracy of the West has cotnc far enough out to lay hold upon Pugh. At the assembly of Re urrectionists to which I have referred, this ex -Senator said these words: - "The Democracy has Yo ted n1en and 1noney to sup~ port this government during the war; and the reason why they have done so is, that they have intended to have that government in their own hands at the next |