New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-25

hammock last November in the train that car
rod the news Of SeymOur's election in our
State, with some corresponding results from
other States, aud that he at every station pro-
claimed it us pro-Rebel triumph, aud called
for cheers on account of it, which were given
with a will. He babe New-Hlampsbirc man,
whom no captured and paroled about that
time, 60 home and vote the Democratic ticket,
and the war would soon be over. Lord Lyons,
who was in this city in constant and confden'
tial intercourse with our leading Democrats,
wrote home to his Government TO the same
effect, regarding the Democratic triumph here
as n vote for q Disunion Peace. And a Mo-
bile pilot, captured soon after on blockade
runner, declared that the Rebels were just
about to give up the contest when the triumph
of the Northern Democrats inspired the Rebels
with new hore, and induced them to persist in
the War.
The movement to subrert the Draft and en-
deayor to return to Volunteering is in the
same spirit 1t ID a device to gain time for
the Rebels and cradle them to recover from
the stunning blows they have just received.
Thus Mr.. John p. IIaskin, in the Wcstcbestcr
Board of Supervisors, says:
III the County OF we.che,icr, through its posrd OF
Supe v.ors Will pass suitable resolutions IN favor ~ ans
guept here and giving large and liberal bounre' TO IN
ducs General Government should uai
uad the lH Il Sspt,mt DO not hesitse to say a. ez.n
without Iesong the enforcement Of the o1n01iSSs Con-
schption act"
To await until the lst of September" is to
ssy that our new lcvies shall not be available
this year, so that the suppression OF the Re-
belion shall, at cost of several hundreds OF
millions, be thrown over into the Presidential
contest of 1864. What this means. our readers
need not be told.
Mr.. Haskin declares that the Democrats Of
his part of the county are opposed to u Con.
scription, but are ready to do their part under
system of Volunteering. Ii this be so, the
Improvement on their last years course is very
great and gratifying. Ten they did not do
their part, as tho records will testify. Nearly
every Republican township in tho Comfy
raised the full quota required OF 1t by the Mil
itary Committee; but the Democratic towns
generally did not-Mr. Haskin's nnd those ad.
joining it being consPicuously deficient. And
of the men hitherto sent from that strong
Democratic County we are confident that not
less than two.thrds are Republicans. We
know that, in our own little rural township
! (Newcasile), Of 81 men sent to the War, but
4 were known as Democrats, while at least
/ 80 were decided Republicans And it ID very
much like this throughout tho Republican por-
ton of the County. And it is thus tina, the
majority of ] $40 against Lincoln in lsJO was
pushed up to 2,3ll against Wordsworth In
Is62 Newcastle township gave l2l majority
for Lincoln, but only II Tor Wadsworth--the
difference being almost entirely made BY the
prepondcrance Of Republicans WHO lad gone
10 tho War.
From the beginning Of tho struggle, the
Democrats have io,isted, knowing better, tAat
us many OF their men as Of Republicans had
volunteered for the War. The Draft dis
covers, no, The manifest; truth that they were
wrong, but the less obvious one that they
knew il. Had this States quota for the Ma
tional defense been obtained by draft, Wsds.
worth would have beaten Seymour by ut least
LinconS majority.
Mr. Haskin cites a letter Of oI-Goy. John
Jay to prove that he was hostile to the Con.
scrip,ion enacted by Congress in loli. There
10 20 doubt Of tie TACT. That was the act OF
Democratic Congre" in support of a Demo
cratic War Gov. Jay was Fedsralis:, hos
tie to the War, aud OF course to tho Con.
scription. Now if Mr. IInskin will be--only
for the moment-as honest as John Jay was,
and proclaim himself hostile ~ the War for the
Union, he will have some right to invoke the
authority Of John jay; yet we do not believe
Gov. Jay or any other eminent Federalist ever
questioned the right Of the Federal Govern
Inent to call out the National Militia TO sup.
press an instruction that threatened its very
existence. Calling them out to wage an
offensive foreign War is quite another matter.
But Mr.. Haskin can't imagine why Ma.
tionai Conscription act should have been
psssed-why the Federal Government should
not have relied on the State authorities to fur.
nish the men required. We will cnlsbten
him on this point:
When the President called for Militia in
April, 1861, to defend the Federal Metropolis
from imminent peril of capture, not one DEM
Oerdtie Governor complied nth the reqHisition.
On the contrary, nearly every one Of them re-
sponded with obloquy and insult, though sew
eral Of them were Governors Of preponderantIy
loyal States And, from that hour to this, no
Democratic Governor has given q hearty, zeal
Gus, unqualified support to the prosecution of
the War for the Union.
Gov Seymour succecded Last Fall IN fbe