Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-10-17


has not been before such forcing process
since the rape of the Sabine and the sack
Ing of lsmal. (Greet laughter.) 1t is true
that Mr.. Seymour began to Decline early,
Rnd mentioned the circumstance to friends
six months since, as conclusive evidence that
he expected TO be candidate. ] learned
openly, he was on the scent Of nomina-
ton. (Laughter.) cannot Of course be
expected to speak of the ineonsolable grief
the partial friends would have experienced
if he had persisten'ly and perseveringly de-
clined, but so far as the country is concern
ed, as Mr.. Weller, senior, would have said,
| think it would have "managed to sur
wiye," if he had not been forced to an ac-
eeptance. 1t is not probable, however, that
the self-sacrifce will be serious, or that the
nomination will occasion him any perma-
nent Inconvenience beyond the casualties Of
the race, for the popular mind will do much
in his case to relieve uncertainties, 10 dimin-
ish friction, and thereby save the necessity
of extensive repairs. 1t is by no means
unlikely that the loyal masses desire him TO
run, but they would doubtless prefer that
he should again enter the track TO which he
is accustomed, on the Wisconsin course,
here could do little harm, instead OF run
ming for the executive chair Of the Empire
State, as the representative of questionable
patriotism. (Laughter)
He eulogizes the convocatiou of polti-
cal schemers, Of which he was one, and be-
moans that compromises were not seasonal
bly, offered the south, when all know, and
none better than he, that such compromises
were offered and urged, and were defeated
only because a portion of the southern mem.
bers engaged in the reasonable conspiracy
of disunion, but without courage TO vote
against them, withdrew to avoid a vote up.
on them, and others by preeoncerted arrang'
meut, remained and voted against them
with those known TO be opposed to all com
promise, and thus secured their defeat.
He shows us that he has been an expe
rieneed traveller, scarcely less than the re
nowned Mungo Park. Though it seem:
not to have occurred to him, in the hurry
OF bis address, to give us the result of hi
wanderings and researches, it is notorious
that while he may not have found the source
of the Mic or the mouth of the Niger il
the east, he knows all the crooks aud tnrns
I. il the Fox river, in Wisconsin, name no
unsuited to the occasion of his visit TO the
west. loud laughter.) He permits US t.
: know that he visited Washington, doubles
after his long run in the west, and that h'
went to the camp of the soldiers, who mus
: have been giatihed at his safe raturn, es
: pecially the Wisconsin volunteers, VIII
+ could inquire for their friendsi that ther
> he. naturally enough, found sick and bleed
ing aud languishing men, but l venture h
. found no runaways, no political schemers 0
}, balauce-masters-- apologists for the re
Q bellion of the whole or the half-blood, an,
: none who spend their time in denouncin!
: the government for prosecuting what
spiracy, treason, rebellion, robbery, pirac
= and murder. From thence he was please
u to visit the capitol, and in language rivalin
; the hifalutins of the Milford Bard at Ba
S bee aud Palmyra, he describes that he trav
g ersed The mosaic pavements and gazed up
II on the ceilings (Which no sensible man Ca
d look at without condemning the execrabl
s taste of the arceitect,) and was impresse
Is with the strange contrast between its elat
III crate finish (of Italian gingerbread) an
OF the rude structure of the camp; and bein
e. sentimentally inclined, it is not unlikely,
'n comparing it with the broad prairies of Il
as west, which he had recently seen, he invo
y unfairly exclaimed with Byron -
Id "God made the country and man made the town.
al But his perseverance did not termina
r. here. He visited the congressional ha
iy where it is evident he did not aspire to
r) seat, or he would long before this have d
rs clined it. He listened to the stirring d
b. bates, the strife and conflicts Of which co
he lrasted SO strangely with the quiet of Il
n "woods aud wids" TO which he had becon
'r- accustomed, that he was filed with appr
n hension and alarm, and he prescribes rel
I'M edies. The whole burden of his speech
rs to that end, and TO prove the justice al
he necessity of party organization. He co
ir- demns the party action of the republica
ID and then proposes 10 cure the action of o.
IRE party by the action of another, upon {
A true homeopathic principle-sinilia s'R''
la bus curanter. He serves up TO the pub
nr- a rehash of newspaper criticisms upon {
th- conduct of the war, with their exposure
lb- disgraceful pecGlalion, as though these {
for guments proved the proprieiy of substit'
he ing politics for pairiotism-ihe separate {
be ton of part for the united action Of I
'as whole--a party for the people. He ratt
the dry bones of taxation TO frighten
lde masses from their purpose and family VIII
led ners renudiation to alarm the public ere