New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-21
GOV. SEYMOUR AND TIE UNION.
The World sees fit to say that


The World sees tit TO say that
TUX TmBrss day afc day charges that Gov Seymour Il.
At heart favorable the Of the Rebels and doing
wha, he can aid them Yet II the Rebels succeed In e''ab
fishing separate Concderacy according to Ing TRinusrs
own showing Gov Seymour and The Democratic party Nj"
Ia future political contests The powerful support % ih'
former Southern associate. II selfish reasons alone "ayed
the Democrats they would The separation Of
the Union"
The above has in substance ,oen repeatedly
uttered and as often exposed and rciutcd; but
our patience is invincible. and We will try to
make the truth 80 plain that no future sophst-
cation can render It's rcsta,emcnt necessary.
/. That Gov. Seymour and the political ad-
yenturcrs and asprants Of whom he Is the ma
tural head desire, or ever did desire, the per-
man,n dissolution of the Union we have never
charged. Tho "selish reasons" indicated by
The World for desiring reunion arc very obvious
and imperative. We have never doubted their
existence or their efficacy.
ii. But this does not gainsay the truth that
Gov. Seymour has from the first eyinced an
overriding anxiety that sub rern,o~ should b
sGeotod, not through the d,feaf aud humiliation" Of
the Southern traitors, but through he,r rirssi
triumph. He cvinccd this desire throughout the
canvass of I-GO. wherein he used their mcnaces
of rebellion and scces-iona argumen'sior alJcct
submission TO their imperous demands. lie
cvinced it in the Twcddle Hall Convention.
Feb. Ist, 1861 wherein he assumed the unan-
unity Of the Slave States in such Secession aud
Rebellion, argued that they could not possibly
be overcome. and insisted that the only prac-
teal alternative to Disunon was pusllani-
nous surrender Of theirprlnciplcs and their con-
vic,ions by the People Of the Free States. We
are well assured that he, during the agi'atons
Of the two following months, repeatedly insisted
that the Confederate Constitution was decided
Improvement on the Federal, and that our State
ought 10 lead off in cutting loose from The DID,
rotten hulk and uniting with the Jeii. DAVIS
Confederacy. On the night before the sta"
Election of 1861, he made a speech in Utica,
wherein be maintained that, should II become
necessary to the salvation Of the Unon to
decree the downfall Of Slavery, the Union
ought 10 be given up In his canvass of last
ycar-beforc AZ well a. after the President
premonitory Proclamation of Frecdom-hc
tainted the supporters Of the Union War with
their defeats and dsappontmcnis, regarding
these disasters 10 the Union arms with thlnly-
disguised exul,ation. He evidently felt that
they were so much grist to his mill. His cleo
ton was won, iii the absence Of 80 many thous-
ands OF our bravcst and best in the Union
armies by imbung a small majority Of the
residue with his own disbelief in the possibility
Of subduing the Rcbellion-a disbelief based, IN
his case on his manifest anxiety that il should
not be subducd.
Ill. The "selfsh reasons which impc Sey-
mour & Co. TO desire sort Of RECONSTRUCT
ton" impel them further to desire tina, it shall
be effected through complete sacrifice Of The
Southern Uni0nisfS 10 Their naitorous and rmpia-
oabie enemies. la former years, Gov. Seymour
regarded such men as Andrew Johnson of Ten
ncsscc, Francis Thomas Of Maryland, Andrew
j. Hamilton Of Texas, cx.Goy Robert NJ. Stew
art of Missouri, with Daniel s. Dickinson
George Bancroft, Francis Is. Cutting, &c, &c.
Of our own State, "a his political brethren
Now, he distrusts and shuns them, while his
dogs bark at them, though they have given the
noblcst proofs Of loyalty and devoted patriotism
Dare The World say why
| ". The "selfsh reasons" which lead Gov
Seymour to desire reconstruction Of the
Union lead him further to desire that il shall DO
reconstructed nth The feet Of The Rebd Oiigarfhy
on the neeks Of the Interchangeable Unionisfs Of the
South The Slave Powcr-which term dcsg-
mates those who, whether personally hold
ing slaves or not, look to the strengthen
ing and perpetnation Of Slavery as the
basis of their own consequence, the main
spring of their ambition-does desire Dis
union; has made desperate struggle for it,
and will henceforth intensely hate and cruelty
persecute those SOutherners who opposed and
aided to defeat it.. Baked in its grander am it
will know how to revenge itself by systematic
prescription, by untiring malevolence, by out
rage and assassination on those whom it oonld