New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-15
uORATIO SEYMOUR.

| HORATIO SEYMOUR.
Throughout the momentOus controversy which
has conyulsed this country for the last twenty
years--countDg from the inception OF the plot
to give n new preponderance to the Slave
Power by annexing Texas, while still an insur-
GENT province of Mexico, TO our Unon-Hora-
ito Seymour has been consistent and unhesi-
tating tool of that gigantic conspiracy against
the Rights of Man and the Laws of God.
Never has his voice been raised in depreciation
Of any crime perpetrated or as yet only medi-
tated in the interest of aggressive Slavery.
No matter what the demand-that Texas be
annexed at the cost of war with Mexico
that her boundaries DO extended, in defiance
of History and Of decency, so az to cover half
the whole Mexican Valley of the Rio Grande,
aud two-thirds of the department of New
Mexico, where a Texan force had ever been
sure to encounter speedy dispersion and cap
ture-that Slavery be allowed free course over
all the previously free territory wrested from
Mexico in the ensuing war-tbat the Missouri
compact be violated and Slavery allowed free ill.,
gress to vast regions from which it had bar.
gained, for full consideration stipulated and
laid down. 70 be for ever excluded-that Kan
sas should be laid q bleeding sacrifice on
the altar of the Slave Power through
Congressional conservation Of the Infamous
frauds and outrages which eliminated in
the Lecompton ConsttutiOn-that Slavery
should be made the supreme, irrepealable
law of all Federal Territories by the bred
Scot. decision--that we should as a Nation
engraye piracy on our flag, aud threaten
Spain with the seizure by force Of arms of her
most valuable and priced dependency in case
she should refuse 10 sell il 10 us on our own
terms, but especially if she should ever dare to
contemplate the abolition Of IFS Slavery-Hora.
to Seymour has ever been the active or tacit
supporter Of every one Of them. And while he
has thus been conniying at and encouraging
these incessant and naughty encroachments OF
the Slave Power upon the rights and interests
Of Free Labor, to the prejudice of our good
name as n people and TO the dshonor and dam
age of republican liberty throughout the world,
be has persisted, with grave face in inquiring
of US who resisted these intolerable aggressious
-" Why do you MAKE rar on the South
Why not LET Slavery alone Would it not be
better 10 mind your own business 2" &c, &c.
-as if the Slave Power had a chartered right
to drag our country into every crime and infa-
my for it, own aggEandizement. and all resist
ance on our part were sheer impertneuce OF
meddliDg fanaticism
/ In lsGO, Mr.. Seymour did his utmost to de-. !
feat the election of Lincoln by giving the vote
OF this State 10 the Fusion ticket. To effect
this he parAded the specter Of disunion and
civil war constantly before the eyes of our
people. Reduced to plain English his argu.
ment ran thus-"If you Republicans elect |
your President we Democrats, or part of
us, will rebel and destroy the Republic. You
might better cave in and give us the govern. /
ment at once; for if you don't, we shall plunge
the country into untold calamity and wretched- /
ness, aud your triumph will prove barren
one. Why not avoid all these woes by giving |
us the power which We shall not let you enjoy
if you achieve it" The people were not
moved by this appeal to their baseness aud
cowardice; they listened to Mr.. Seymour and
voted for Lincoln.
At once, the Southern traitors, who had dis
organized aud broken up the Democratic /
party to this very end, commenced the game
of Secession. Before the Electoral Votes had
been cast, they had Several States out of the |
Union; by mid-wiDter they had increased the
number to seven. They asked no concessions; /
tI II a..
haste to get out of the Union lost they should /
be embarrassed if not arrested by some new
abascment on the part of the Free States |
They even secuted the idea that the Rcpubl- /
now protest to Europe that it was not
prompted by Slavery or Abolition. "The !
election of Lincoln" said Robert Barnwell /
Rhett in the South Carolina Convention. ais /
not the oGrn Of Secession but It's opportunity" |
Ia fact, they hated Douglas worse than Lin
coin, and would have seeded all the same in
ease Of the election Of either.
la view OF the actual secession OF several |
States and the threatened secession of others, /
Mr.. Seynour's party held State Convention at
hiphny, Juh' "u, iooi, ana Mr.. seymour /
made speech thereat-like all his former
speeches. lilo had but one specific for all our
troubles-m0re concessions more abasement /
on the part Of the North. He had hardly the
iaintest breath of censure for those who were
deiying the laws and aiming to destroy the
Union, but any amount Of abuse for those who |
had refused to be buled into voting against their
own convictions by threats Of rebellion and |