The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-19
WASHINGTON CITY, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 49, 1858.
TWO CENTS.
SPEECH or GOV SEYMOUR, or NEW YORK,

SPEECH or GOV SEYMOUR, or NEW YORK,
On bang eondaeeI % ls chair as ts Presiding 0cer Of he
Democraie Convention q, Syracuse, Sl3 10, 1858
thank you, gentlemen, for the honor you have con-
ferred upon We the Representatives of conf
ding and hopeful constituency who have sent here to
nominate State ticket for their support at the coming
election and who expect that proceedings will be
marked by such evidences OF trotsm and unity of pur
pose will not only inspire the democracy of this State
with confidence of success but win also give assurance
TO friends throughout the Union that New York has
resumed IFS true position leading democratic State.
The qualification that feel in being called upon to
preside your deliberations Is increased when con-
tast this convention with those which assembled in this
city few days since. One represented party based
upon hatred of portion OF countrymen the
other organization founded upon prescription of those
born in other lands The put forth phanthropic
system, made up of abuse denunciation and sectional
warfare the other religious purposes which proposed to
tampe under foot the primary principles of charity and
forbeaance without which religion is worthless 1t
expected that these kindred bodies would melt into one
The conference committees announced that there
differences Of views to keep them apart that they
actuaed by common hostility to the liberal and patri
otic sentiments of the democratic party and its disn-
gushed head, Mr. buchanan. Fusion prevented not
by division of opinions but by the division of the Of
fees When contrast the democratic party with these
local and bigoed organizations, have right to be
proud Of its patriotism which embraces whole
try in its affections and includes all nationaes in its
sympathes.
1t is not necessary to waste any words upon that par
ty which proposes TO train men for the duties of citizen
ship by denying them the exercise of its rights. We
object to the republican party because is unpatiotc
unjust and cowardy in actions for its in
uence is put forth to destroy the sentiments of fatenal
affection which called into existence by the revo-
lutionary struggle and which have been SO carefully
cultivated by all the good and great men Of country
1t has melted hostility in many minds against
brethren of the South than they have felt against the
enemies Of the country. 1t nduges in constant abuse
the habits character of the
portion Of confedelacy Unjust, for in its discus
sons of the slavery question it has withheld from the
public in the history of that institution the fact that the
people of the North were most active in bringing slaves
to the country that the votes of Massachusetts, and
other northern States prolonged the slave trade and
the States opposed and still oppose the tide of emil
grafton from Europe which has swept slavery of the
North while the South has always favored the policy of
inviting the European to our shores, although it has
given the North its preponderance of political power
While constant efforts made to excite the northern
mind about human suffering in other States no aten
ton is pd to the condition of the negro here Insult
ing attacks made upon others, while the African is
dying out in New York from neglect and under the in
iuencc OF popular prejudice Our census returns show
their numbers have diminished since sectional excitement
has diverted the attention of people from their own
duties Of charity and sympathy tD denuncaons of 9TH
There more free negroes in the small border
State of Maryland than to be found in New York
all New England. Although they have every facility for
coming here, they prefer to keep away from that phan
tropy which deals in abuse and etraction and not in
acts of charity and kindness There are more free ne
groes who avoid the States controlled by republicans than
there slaves who eyade their masters. The policy of
the republican party is not only unpatotc and unjust
but it is marked with cowardice Their cherished leader
has said the floor OF the Senate tha i'm the beginning
there twelve slave and only free State twenty
four senator's of the slave States and only two of the free
Now majority of the senators and representatives are
from tho free States. At the outset of government
the slave States had tyseven representatives and the
free but eight Now the latter have one hundred and
while the slave States have only and
he adds 81 hese changes have happened in period
during which the slave States have almost uninterrupted
y exercised paramount influence in the government and
he might have added that those who compose the repub
lcan party while the South powerful had no con-
scentious souples in supporting Shareholders Office and
in cooperating with them politically their conscences
to have been carefully graduated to their census returns As
the North has gained under the patriotic policy of
hegovernment pursued during this period when according
to the senator tho South has exercised paramount in
fuence those who have opposed that policy, thus bene
fetal to U.S. have not hesitaed to excite the growing
power of the North against those who have thus patriot
ically contributed to our progress While the repub
point out exutngy increasing strength in the
general government, il is not to appeal to the magma
nimty and patriotism Of people to receive it with
justice and honor but with stern mockery they declare
that they combating against the assaults of those
who have gained it gaining it, too while it is said they
control the action of our common government
. contrast with pride the of the democratic
party in defending the rights of all sections of
try with the policy of party which finds for
tional organization in disparity Of political power and it
10 just for patriotic congraation that the pres
ent Chief Magistrate of country has boldly and nobIy
upheld the rights of the several States of this concder
acy, without regard TO the measure of their representa-
tive strength uniniuenced by considerations growing
out of the destruction of political power based upon each
returning census i congratulate you, gentlemen that
you belong to party whose patriotism is ample enough
to embrace the whole of broad land, whose liberal
and comprehensive spirit can tolerate oil crccds and well
shores those from every nation who seek
asylum beneath liberal institutions and home upon
our rich and fertile fields.