The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1863-08-25
Original.
Clark'S Letters to Gov, Seymour,
NUMBER FOUR.

ST. LOUIS 1863.
To HOratiO Seymour, GoDernOr Of NelO York:
SR.-I cheerfuIly accord to you one patriot
ic utterance in your speech of September 10Th
1862. You truly say, "He who would renC
our National Standard By dividing our Union, is
traitOr-he who would put out one glittering
4 star from its azure field is a traitor too" But
when we consider the mode YOU take to serve
! your country; to uphold its National Standard
and keep unfurled its glorious ensign-When,
say, we listen to your elimination of the Ma
tenal Legislature, imputing to it a craven spirit
Of terror, and a peTfdy which would dishonor a
highwayman; your manner of uphOlding the
honor and dignity of your country, and Of sus-
tanning its moral power is most remarkable.
fear you fall within the scope Of your own con
demnatiOn, for know of no more efectual way
of "rending our National Standard; and divid-
ing our Union; and of blotting out from the
azure field Of our noble flag each glittering
star" than thus, in the face of a defiant, per-
jured and traitorous foe, malign the cOnstitu-
tionsl authorities of the nation.
Your deep concern for the cause of the Union
while you thus reprOach the Government, is so
gauze-like, that it resembles the kind solicitude
Of Joab for Amases' welfare, who, while holding
him by the beard and kissing him, uttering
those bland words: cart thou in health, nv
brother2'' with his left hand smOte him under the
fifth rib, that he died.
Believe me sir, your cOuntrymen will be very
apt to place the same estimate upon your patri-
Otism IN the present fearful emergency, that
David did in the case referred to upon the
friendship of Joab
To give a semblance Of candor to your
charges against your Government, you make
certain extracts from leading journals of the
Union then regarded as friendly to the admins
tratiOn, which, under the depressing influence Of
the disastrous campaigns of the PENN
sula and General Pope, we're somewhat de
spondent in tone. 1t needs but a mere super
fetal knowledge of the case, however, to show
that the use you make of these extracts, is dis
ingenious and wanting in truthfulness and can
dor They were designed to rouse the admins
tration to a more vigorous prosecution of the
war, while your efforts we're designed 70 bring
the administration into popular contempt, and
secure the triumph of the Democratic party, in
the then pending election. The patriotic robe
so gracefully flying around your own standard is
quite too short to hide the cloven deformity
which protrudes below.
SchOoled as you have been for half your life
time, in the worst and most corrupting maxims
of partisan politics; no one who knows your his
tory could expect that in a political canvass,
you would deviate one jOt or title from the es-
tabished principles of your party, that call was
fair in politics." and that ''tO the victOrs belong
the spoils." N o manly sentiment, like the almost
dying words of Douglass was ever expected to
proceed from your lips. Even in the hour of
your country's greatest peril, your "jaundiced
eye" could see nothing in your political horizon
but the organization Of the Democratic party
When the integrity of the Union was men
aced, and treason, like a VAMPIRE. was sucking
the ife-blOod of the country, the nobl0 Doug
las, rising above all party considerations, ex-
claimed:
Let rs lay aside all examinations and recrimins-
tiong as 10 the origin Of these difficulties; when we
have again country with the United states Flag
floating over It, and respected on svery tnth or
american SOIL it will then be time enough TO ask
who and what brought all this upon rs.
Contrast this language Of the dying patriot,
with your wholesale slander and abuse of the
administration on the eve of your State cleo
ton; you, yourself beng the gubernatorial can
didate Listen further to the words of Doug
las to the people Of Chicago. commencing them
that they had ''laid aside party strife" and then
remember your partisan speech, stirring up
the angry waters Of political strife, and
urging the thorough Organization of the Dem
ocratic party" Have YOU forgottenthe conduct
of Clay and Webster when the demon of Slave
~ under the garb Of Notification, lifted its vile
head to menace the Union, where they laid
aside party issues, and gave all their giant
oLlcltll IL huHpolt " udCASOu
to crush by prompt and vigorous measures that
infamous attempt of treason and rebellion
Did those great leaders raise the stale CRY of
violated State Rights, and sing doleful charges
upon the dangers to Constitutional liberties be-
cause of the bold and noble efforts of General
Jackson to smite the hydra headed monster Of
notification? If you can extend your vision be-
yOnd the limited horizon of party plots and
Counterplots and learn a lesson from this ex-
ample of those great champions Of the Wing
party; if you can possibly behold patriotism and
craftsmanship elsewhere than in the pro-slavery
portion Of the Democratic party, of which you
seem ambitious of being the acknowledged
leader; you would never have given utterance !
to these miserable ISLANDERS Of the preseut ad- !
ministration. Go, sir, and learn lesson from |
the nobleness Of the Buffers, the Burnsides the /.
Dickinsons, the Logans and other prominent
members Of the loyal Democratic party, who |
are now silent on party issues except to con- !
denim them, and are exerting all their power and /
influence to sustain the honor and integrity of .
the Republic, instead of vilifying the Federal /
administration! Look on this picture and then
on that
Yours truly, P. CLARK.