New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-01

The " Land Of Steady Habits Is being can
vassed as it never was before, and the vote OF
next Monday will doubtless be very full-con-
sidering TINT some Twenty thousand voters
are absent as defenders Of the Union. Thore
are probably from Eight to Ton thousand
fewer voters in the State than last April; yet
the poll will BIO heavier than then. Each side
is doing its best, while the influx OF able and
effective canvassers from other States is far
beyond precedent.
The main elements Of the contest are pecu-
liar. COL Thomas II. Seymour, the Oppo-
sifion candidate for Governor, has deliberately
planted himself on the ground Of unequivocal,
Incorporating hostility to the War for the
Union. Other Democrats for time prolessed
TO acquiesce in tho necessity Of wnging aud
sustaining il: he never did. lie has 10 re-
peated letters deliberately and un'paringy de-
nounced it as gigantic folly and crime, and
refused to give it any countenance whatever.
He il not for Peace because the War has not
hitherto been successful for no dcprecates
the success of the Union arms more than their
failure. He says he is for the Union, like
all his school; but il is not essential TO his
idea Of the Union that its Integrity should
be maintained and its laws enforced. If
Abolitionists defy any law, no matter how
unjust or inhuman, he would have them arrested
and punished, though it we're requisite to that
end that every citizen capable Of bearing arms
be called into the field; but when shareholders
combine to repudiate the Constitution, defy the
laws and destroy the Union, be considers it
madness and crime TO resist them. According
to his idea, when these gentry conspre ana
arm to dissolve the Union, We must so alter
the Constitution aud laws as to overcome their
repugnance to staying in it. The Hon. Isaac
Toucey, his neighbor and bosom friend, who
was Secretary Of the Navy under Mr.. Buchanan,
has set forth tho Seymour view Of our true
National policy in his recent campaign speech
at Hartford as follows:
"0snemou atsr the election Of Mr. Liucolu when
troubles begs became The duty Of President, Buchanan
the preservation Of the Government n a' d'neOimiy
Ssa a: S' hs anS ans sSyT
is G y ss s1s5s:s Of The powsIs Witch i con
collision ard eusn of blood which would only widen tbs
reach and mske IL difficult b. b. closed nsryard-tO
tho ssps would hsvs r.csisd the sanction Of more than
twodl OF the people OF the Free sseto Civ, time for
""oI IL. r.ps. q those act. Of tho Northern Iss.
isture', which were designed, or II not designed to
ob.tldct., ths execution of the Fugitive Slave laws
icy which he determined 70 follow Subsequent events
shown, beyond the reach Of doubt that thsne Of
policy had besD purned our country would have been at
eSo-ption .nd that State might have remained out Tis
tho policy which adopted By the last Democratic
A NJ am tn
POLICY AGAIS.' loreat cboerinsl
Col. SeymOur's election wOnld be an in.
dorsement Of that Buchanan policy which
stripped the Union of its defenses, sent its
cannon and small arms to points at which the
traitors could seize them without peril, dis
patched our ships of war to distant seas in
order that the incoming Administration should
have mono with which to relieve Forts Sumter,
Pickens &C., and allowed forts, arsenals,
armories, navy-yards, sub-treasuries, custom
houses, post-ofices, &C., to DO seized and con-
verted to tho uses of Rebellion without resist
ance or even protest. If that was tho true
policy which forced Gen. Cass Indignantly to
quit the Cabinet, leaving Cobb to dersngs the
Finances, Toucey to dispense tho Navy, and
Floyd to dismantle the defenses and steal the
arms Of the Republic to their hearts content,
then Thomas H. Seymour ought to be chosen
Governor of Connecticut. for no is tho legiti-
mate representative and consistent champion of
that policy. But if it was wrong, pusillani.
nous. treacherous. fatal, then Seymour should
be sgnally defeated, a. conspicuous among tho
iaithess and evil oounselors who have brought
our country 70 the brink Of ruin. The issue