, 1863-01-09
Chicago Urtbu1tt.


FRIDAY. JANUARY 8, 1868.
"A WORD FOR NE W YORK. -;
Wc:havc read Governor Seymour's Mes
sage to the Legislature Of New York, with
sorrow and indignation It is not. its
tone and temper, as bad as might hare been
expected, the character Of the authors
political associations being allowed its
proper weight in tue anticipatory estimate
Of value; but in spite ofits specious profess
sions and simulated moderations, there is
enough in it to challenge the fear Of every
loyal man in the Union. We have neither
the time nor the inclination to enter into
statement of facts nor elaborate argument
1oprore how glaringly false many Of his u.s.
sertions, and how really weak the bitter as
saults that he makes upon the President
and the party in power are His errors Of
omission and commission, rs well US his
unjust deductions, form admitted premises,
and his faulty logic, will be thoroughly cx:
posed BY the local press. To it we leave
this task. -.
But on one point, NC have word to
say: the Governor compliments the West,
while he has falschood and sneer for
New England. We understand the real
purpose Of the conjunction Of the sections
Hereaway, We meet, every day, the spirit
that dictated to the Governor when he
wrote; and we know just what treason and
ma1eyo1ence lie behind the words that he
uses Weknow the concealed purpose-thc
real object-of his artful statement, and we
tell the Governor and all New York, that
if the plan which the CopperAeads have
elaborated, and upon which they are here
openly working, to compromise with the
South by d secession Of the Middle and
Western States from the Union, leaving
New England alone as the representa-
tive of>the old nationality, and then. in
partnership with the now rebellious
States, to organize new Union from
which New England shall be excluded
ever approaches consammatlon, the En-
nire City and the Empire Statc will have
ouick OCCASION to regret that they were
partics to that political revolution that put
Horatio Seymour into the gubernatorial
chair and made him an agent for
working out this plot. We assure
them that the ties of the Northwest
to New England are not indissoluble:
but they are stronger than the bonds
which unite us to New York; and, if in
The changes and reorganizations that are
possible as the consequence of the present
revolt, it is necessary for the West to make
an:election where she will go, she will be-
come IN appendage Of neither the Middle
States nor Of the South. She will declare
hcr independence Of both, and right here
in the heart Of the continent, the possessor
OF the finest soil and the best climate in
the hemisphere, with more than ten mil
lions Of people, and the prospect Of 8 rapid
increase, will organize IN empire that will
dominate over all other fractions Of the
Republic, and which will have the power
to compel the opening Of half dozen
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