New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-08
P0LgTECs AND THE UNION.

POLITICS AND TuE UNION
"What do you say nOp about the disloyalt!
of the Seymourites ~ We are triumphantly
asked.
In answer, we soy nothing different from what
We have hitherto said.
We say that every man in our City and
State who sympathzes more or less thoroughly
with the Shareholders Rebellion--and there are
many thousands of such-worked and voted for
Seymour.
We say that Wadsworth was a candidate on
The platform which regards that Rebellion
as causeless, waDton, wicked, inexcusable,
holds that it should, can, and must be put
square down, and halls the Presidents Proc.
lamatlon of Freedom as potent means to that
end.
We say that the platform of Seymour was
very different from this-that it deprecated
alike the end and the means. In no speech or
other utterance Of Seymour or his henchman,
John Van BureD, did we discover an ex-
pectation, purpose, or desire that those now
in fagrant rebellion against the Federal Go
vernment ought to be and must be subdued
and their leaders punished.
la other words: Wadsworth was the caDdi-
date OF those who desire that the Rebels shall
he conquered; Seymour of those who vainly
hope that they may be bought off from their
treason.
OF the hundred or so SeymOurltes we met
at the poll of our district last Tuesday, not
one expressed any solicitude for the overthrow
of the traitors. The only enemies they recog-
nized were " Abolitionists and niggers.'
We say that the election of Seymour will
encourage and stimulate the Rebels to perse-
we're in their treason; aud whoever reads the
letters which have been written since Tuesday
last to The Times CLondon) aud other European
journals in the disunion interest will find that
their Pro-Slayery correspondents here regard
the triumph of Seymour Us securing the ulil-
mate if not speedy triumph of disunon. The
correspondents Of those journals hare no
associations or affiliations with Republicans.
They consort and confer entirely with Sey-
mourtes, and take their cue wholly from them.
ore NLtthcI iuts itruit
favorabls to Union or Disunion
That all Seymourites are di5lOyal, we never
said nor believed. That the disloyal are nearly
or quite oil Seymourites, We do know. We
ere confident that no vote for Wadsworth was
cast from the great hotel which the Secession
lists visiting our City all but uuiforny make
their headquarters.
We do not believe that Seymour or the great
body of his hackers desire the triumph of Dis
union. What they expect and strive ior is
reconciliation Of the Rebel chiefs TO the Union
by new concessions aud abasements TO the
Slave Power. Herein they are woeiully self
deluded. Through every possible channel, the
JEFF. Dayisites say, We will not return to
the Union! You can proaer 10 terms that
would reconcile US to such conclusion Of our
struggle. You may possibly conquer us; you
say this, and they mean it. The restoration
of the South to the Union is to be achieved
through the destruction Of her aristOcratic
caste and the emancipation of her bondmen, or
not at all. Were Slavery annihilated there
would be no motive for, no possibility Of per
sstDg in the Rebellion.
The Rebellion iS Slavery, and Slavery is the
Rebellion. So say the great body Of the South
ern refugees now among us; 50 say the most yea
lous and outspoken Unionsts remaining in the
South. lie who repes aid for the Union cause
from the slaves of traitOn-who says, as Sey.
mour in substance did at Utica, just before the
election of '6l, If the Union can only be
saved by abolshing Slavery, it ought not to be
saved, is a practical ally of jeff Davis, and is
working out the triumph of Disunion. What he
means is of small consequence. in view Of the
certain effect of what ho does.