Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-11-07
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BELLOWS FALLS, NOV. 7, 1862.
,rhe E,ection of scYmour.

The Election OF Seymour.
II is announced this "wednesday morn
aug that Seymour is elected Governor Of
New York by $1,000 majority, This is
small in so large vote, and viii doubtless
be reduced by the full returns, and indeed,
II would not be strange il II should prove
that he was not elected at all, as such IN
stances have happened more than once in
that State within the last twelve years.
Concede his election. lie comes into Office,
we believe, on the FIRST of January next.
Now what will he do? He must DO one Of
two things: Go straight over to the rebel
interest, and for the acknowledgements Of
their independence, or stand by the Gov
ernment ia its efforts TO subdue the traitors.
There can be no half way place, for the
rebels utterly refuse any compromise, short
of dissolution of the Union, same as they
did during the last months of Buchanan's
administration.
The Richmond Whig of the 30ih ult., in
Messrs Seymour and Van Buren,, in which
they held out the hope that the rebel States
could be brought back to the Union it the
people would support their submission
ticket, thus spurns and rejects their propo-
sition:
"No, the people of all shades of opinion
Al, lal In nm
their minds that the separation that has
taken place was necessary and Is final.
We are as wide apart as the zenith and ma
dir. We are as different as white from black |
----as antagonistic as fire and water. They /
can never conquer, nor coax, nor cheat US
5nto reunion. The sooner they surrender |
the hope and abandon the effort the better
for them. We think no better of the propo- |
sition when coming from conservatives
than when coming from radicals
That Seymour and his party in New
York, have more sympathy with the demo-
cratic governors of the States in rebellion
than with any governor of the loyal States
there is no doubt; bat the course of the
rebels will soon drive this SO called demo-
cratic party, the moment they get power,
to either come out in open revolt with the
traitors of the South, or stand by the Union.
The Richmond Hhig drives them to the
wall, NEST emphaiically, and it no doubt
utters the prevailing feeling among all the
leading southern traitors. When Seymour
comes to meet these rebels, and finds he
can patch up no humiliating compromise,
sven be may be brought to realizing sense
# the uttertfolly of temporzing with those
n arms to destroy the Government.
We may well look upon the result in
New York as q great disaster to the Union
;aase, and It is now a dark day for our
country, but the elections in the other States
ire more favorable, and we may yet avert !
he calamity Of the dissolution Of the Union.
Many Of the leading democrats are paving
the way for the destruction of the Govern
ment, and the recognition Of the southern
confederacy. They don't say administra-
tion, but openly avow it to be the Federal
witness Ingersolls speech at Philadelphia,
and the two Woods and John Van Buren, /
in New York
The great crisis is now upon us, but let
mone despair. Let us still do battle for the
glorious Stars and Stripes, while there is
ray Of hope left. All remember how the
brave young Holland, on the Inflated AT
iantic, fired minute guns, in hope of aid
from passing ships, till that doomed ship
went down. So let as stand by the inner
stance Of our fathers. We shall soon see
our country saved or 'hesun will shine upon
a shattered Republic. II the former, then
will Joy 90 to the world that free iastitu-
aions and free government can stand the
shock before which all other governments
have fallen. If the latter, then are the
hopes III republican government crushed
forever.