The weekly Butte record., 1863-09-19
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Governor Seymour.

Some persons in the Atlantic States,
and the entire Woolley head party and
press Of California have blamed Gov
ernor Seymour for the course he took in
the late New York riots. Many Of the
latter, not content with moderate CEN
sure gave vent to their feelings in heavy
curses. and the usual denanciations cur
rent with the woolley-head party.
Chief among these was the Sacramento
Union. That sheet, bitter and partisan
as it is, did not fail to recognize in
Governor Seymour a statesman of the
old school whogave to the country those
great national blessings, peace, pros
perity and happiness, and knowing that
he had wrested the Excelsior State from
the grasp of its fanatical party, proba-
bly, saw the necessity of creating a
blind prejudice against him, if its own
party was to be saved annihilation by
a people it had so long outraged and
plundered.
To show how ready such men and
papers are to do a small amount of re-
fecting and large amount of talking,
We clip from two New York papers :;
the first an Independent journal, with
reputed Woolley y-head proclivities, the
latter the organ of the Wolley- headed
party in New York. The New York
City Dispatch says:
"We confess we cannot see the just
ness of these criticisms. In his speech
to the mob he pledged himself to see
that the constitutional rights of the
people were maintained, and urged them
to appeal to the courts for a decision of
the constitutionality of the conscription
law. This certainly seems to US to be
the proper course, and until we see some
better evidence of his shortcomings
than has yet been presented, we must
say that we think the Governor ought
to be sustained. If the proper tribunal
should decide that the conscription law
is unconstitutional, no good citizen can
ask the government to enforce it. If,
on the other hand, the courts sustain
the law, it will be the duty of the Gov
ernor Of this State to use alt The power
in his command to4eHf6rce it. This he
is pledg d to do by his proclamation, as
well as his oath of office"
The Albany Evening Journal says ::
Governor Seymour, in so promptly
declaring the city in state of insur-
rection," contributed largely to the
suppression of the mob. 1t gave imme-
diate legal efficiency to the military
arm, and enabled the civil authorities to
use that power with terrible effect. 1t
showed, also, that it was Governor
Seymour's purpose to give ''no quarter"
to the ruffians who seized upon the oc-
casion of popular excitement to rob
and murder. The exercise Of the pow
er thus called into service was effective.
The "insurrection" has been quellcd.
The mob has been overpowered. Law
and order have triumphed, and the ri
otously disposed everywhere have re-
ceived lesson which they will not soon
forget"
THE city of Chicago is Democratic,
but the devotees of Abolitionism are
progressive. They gave the nation the
Republican platform, and now the
witch and ''circle" mania is prevalent
among them. 1t is probable that they
will call national convention to inves-
tigate spiritualism, and abolish the re-
alities of worldly affairs, that an ethe-
real gentleness and sweetness may pre-
vail, as spiritaal ''greenbacks" have
already superseded the real and sub
stantial but base metals. We used to
read with wonder of the continental
currency USED by our patrlotlc forefa-
theirs, and the Abolition policy of gov
erning the country in their spirit, is to
food it with 'Greenbacks."
AN item is going the rounds of the
Atlantic papers to the effect that the
Abolitionists of Millersburg, Ohio,
burnt bonhres over the death of the
Hon. J. J. Crittenden. We should be-
lieve this story false, had not the Ma
rysville Appeal expressed itself as glad
that the Crittenden order of politicians
was passing away.
/ Cantain Provost Marshal Billy Parks