The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-08

lumny, as publicly as he has proclaimed 1t. have taken
requiring me 20 vote for Or against any man, unless I
could do 90 consistently with 9 my duties to myself, my
family family my Y s0 %aaSu,s and ny God" ! hav. never sur.
into the keeping Of any body Of men, and l never shall.
In voting Tor William II. Seward, under the circum.
myself, my family, my country, and my God" Any
man who attempts to misconstrue, and put any other
the right when / am called upon to act to ~construs that
obligation as In my Judgment 1t can only correctly be
construed. And II any one shall claim to force upon me
ance such construction, simply reminding any such that
his steps take strong hold OF ~Jesuitism, unparalleled In
the darkest days Of the Inquisition. Americans must
be liberal, generous, noble in every impulse, and not
tyrannical and proscriptive, claiming to SIS in judgment
upon those quite as pure in motive and honest in pur.
pose as themselves. So much, sir, for the contents of
that article aud its unjust and false imputation as. I
have in my hands another sheet, called the Rochester
Daily Union, issued on Saturday last. l should not
allude to this were it not that 1t sometimes wanders far
away from home az to get into good company, and, uu-
der such circumstances, what 1t says may be believed.
shall not spend much time upon what this scurrilous
beet contains. The editorial to which l desire to allude
TO is rs follows
Tar Know NorH,sas AND THE Know Nora,no OATH
A colsiderao bic number Of the members OF our State Lesisia.
i sSas y sa sa ss 80 e siSssf Know sass' g ssasiss :: .1s ss.s and ID s ssw.r saa b.
a aSst to Vote .sf fSr william 4 iiss IL Ii. Seward seward. 0a anon ~ t 6ns'a ass 'h m9
Speaker Spsl nr idislsi0 q ,h Of 0swsg0 o, and M; ssssbias Of his city,
sst6. hs been very distinctly oppressed IN the dosattss on tbs
treated .. . ,Sllity. An extract from Nj. iLitlisjohns 70:
SO let the ssntieman's sentiments receive tho approval Of
all good citizens With this qualification: he - rather too
mature in years and experience, TO plead that he has been
betrayed into the oaths In an unguArded moment AID 80 Is
Mr.. stcbbins. both knew perfectly well what they wore
about, and what thoy amounted to when they took them;
and doubtless both meant to violate the osthl from ths
start, But, after ali, the sentiment OF Mr.. L., conceived ab.
means 10 be a true American and an honest mau, will treat
these oaths with unqualified contempt.
The charge that ! have ever taken an oath to vote
against w. ii. Seward is totally and un4ualifedly false.
The charge that ! had taken such an oath with inteat TO
violate it, is one of those low, base filings, to which the
grovelling editor Of that sheet is addicted. On behalf OF
our brother and honorable Speaker, and for m, sell, I
pronounce both base ISLANDERS. But let me assure our
worthy Speaker not 10 give himself any uueasiness on
account of them. lhe sheet that contains the n Is un-
derstood where It is knuwp. 1t is a small po,ket edition
of the NEw YORK HsRALp-oniy not half SO well bound.
Another privileged question 1 desire TO raise, and ! am
done. / hold in my hands the NEW YORK HERALD of
yesterday. | should hardly notice this but from the
tact that other papers are copying the article 1t contains,
and thus may be honestly misled. That portion Of the
article to wlpch l desire to refer, is as follows:-
A majority of ,he wings elected to the House Of Assembly
won't TO Albany pledged agains. his election. They yolnl-
tarily made these pledges, previous and during the CANVASS.
Had they not done so, not q soul OF them would now be en-
gagged in the conspiracy to elect Mr.. Seward.
We here insert the names Of those members OF thu House
who, it Is asserted, have violated their pledges, and went
into caucus on Thursday night last, and voted for seward.
They are