New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-11-02
srYMOUR,s LAST CARD.


BY Lee, and the Rebels and their sympathizers
thought the Federal Government on its last
legs. In that hour Of supreme agony, Mr.. Sey-
mour came to this city to pour out in q care
fully studied grafton, the gall and bitterness of
disloyal politician on the heads Of the constitu'
tional rulers of our fearfully imperiled country.
Every word Of that Grafton was a stab at the
heart of the Republic. 1t was venomous pet
tifogger's indictment of almost every act done
or word spokenby the President in his absorbing
effort to save the Union rom the deadly assaults
Of treason. If JEFF. Davis had guided his pen
throughout, he could not have made that Grafton
moro damaging to the National cause or more
favorable to the success Of his Rebellion. 1t
was wholly on attempt to prove the rule Of
Abraham Lincoln as bad as any by which 1t
could be supplanted. We defy any honest
man to read that Grafton and say that it was not
written with the expectation that Lee would
soon dictate peace to us or that the Union
Government would be submerged by an anti
War insurrection in theNorth.
A few days passed, and Monsieur Tonson came
again. He now appeared on the City Hall
steps, and thence harangued his friends" who
had. on hearing of his arrival, rushed from the
sonare before The TRIBUNE Office, which they
had broken into, Iavagcd and sci on fire the
might before, and which they had all the morn
ing been threatening 10 storm and sack again
Their rin geader oaiciated a. one of Seym9Hr's
more immediate hackers. And what he said to
them amounted in substance to this: You are
night in resisting the Draft but little Wild in
the way you SET about it; am doing it as 1t
should be done; have sent my Adjutant to
Washington to have the Drail stopped rely
on mo, and il shall all be o you wish.
These were not the words, but this was
their sum total There was no stern rebuhe for
the robberes. the burglaries, the wholesale burn
ings already pcpetrated or their authors
there was no regret expressed for The hundreds
Of helpless orphans whom the miscnan's had
burned out Of the asylum provided cor them by
individual charity; no reproach for the ficndish
ferocity, the unspeakable cowardicc Of two or
three hundred stout men hunting one poor black
boy from street TO street To MAIN ard Nil HIM.
II presume you are all my friends" said the
complacen, Governor TO the assembled rioters,
and they eagerly responded 'Ali All
Again the Governor comes among NJ. and
again his dulcet tones are audible. He comes
to revarnish his AIDED loyalty, and tell the PEG.
pie how TO help their coun,g in her sore dis
tress by voting exactly as her bloodthirsty as
sailaats would have them. lie comes 10 show
them the way to strengthen their imperiled
Government in its sore extremity by weakening
| il Hear him.
"One OF the ends and object. n this mus; be TO
II axe this Government sirtngcr 20 ccnifn!isr power
am willing that oar Saionl Government should be
made as ssrong as human art humsn sh!l and human
wisdom CAR make IL bu, deny 'ha TN. Government
10 be made stronger by giving nr,aeison TINT J,
the strength Of this Government depends not alone upon
the powers which have been given u BY the Cohsii-
tuition but lie strength above al depends Upon The pow
crs that Withheld from Il b. The Constitution ZAP
psnst.
THAT explains, you see, the singular con-
due, Of certain innciionares last summer. Sey-
mour. on the principle above set forth, held
that the Union armies would be- more strength
ened by Withholding recruits than by sending
them so he does his utmos, TO stop the draft,
while McCunn went 70 dscharging from ser
vice on habeas oorPu, as many o. he could,
gravely adjndging The draft law unconstitu-
tional Now we see night through il
Seymour persists in his preicnse that there
was something unfair aud unequal about the
Draft If la,, summer H. know 4 great deal
better than this The law Of Congress makes
all citizens between 81 and % years Of age, with
bachelors up to a., liable TO the first draft
There is no room for pretense that this IL un.
fair or Unequal. The Government called for
one;Gfh Of the whole number enrolled. Was
not that fart Why, says Seymour. There are
more called for from certain City Districts than
from certain rural Districts in this State and
New-England. IL could not be otherwise when
oNe-hai( The young men Of those Di,irits either
come to The cities or migrate 10 the B,d That il
the whole case. Go into any rural township in
this State or New-England aud ask for the sons
of this or that old friend, and the answer ut
least half the time will be, "IIe Is in business
in the city" or "IIe has gone TO tho West"
This is 30 notorious that We need not dwell on
liz. Were it otherwise, 1t could make no possible
difference to the enrolled, as their chance to DO
drafted in any case is just one in five. Sup.
pose, then, City District has every man, wo-
man and child enrolled, while rural District
has those liable to draft and no more, IT would
make no shadow OF difference to any human be-
ing. Those enrolled improperly would, when