Litchfield enquirer., 1863-02-26
IGhe,nlltspee.. The history of that affair has,

that Col RANSOM, at the head of his regiment
 while gallaptly leading on. the chargeand while just within reach of the heights, fell from his horse, pierced by bullet from the enemy Seymour vas next in ncommaiid we don't learn that he fell from his horse, pierced, as distin- guished copper-head brother in-arms ofshis vas, then from New Hampshire, and by an in- scrutable Providence afterwards made Tresi- dent of the United States-but the story is more probable that he was pushed on by his regiment from behind, when 1t would have been certain death to have turned backward, and that rather than be shot is the back, he did push forward and plant that flag or. the. rocky ramparts of chepultepec and from that time to this, denocratic tilroats have hallooed themselves koarse, shouting and preclaiming the heroic deed of that ga-lorious day For it, if the story.s true, let us give him all the glory, for it's the oneaonly thing T. s. ever did that we know of, to account for his ''inlmense military pro wess." si % *.'t
 Ever since, he as Leen "hail fellows we'll met" with everybody, just the man fer a review or parade, just the man for bar-roos circle. just tie man for boon companion, just the man to be toasted and feted and honored and hoisted upward by his friends, and the demo- cratic party just the man to run for office, just the man to be sent to Siberia, but, good Heav- ems is he just the man to be Governor of the State of Connecticut in times like these? That's ,C.o he is. sa
 II. Now WHAT is he? We might answer, truthfully in these words: an unmitigated humbug and if that were all we might well rest there. But T. H. Seymour is something more than this, or he woHldn be to day the copper-head candidate for Governor of Con necticut He is, in the first place, besides, a dyed-in the wool politician, without the first spark of mental or moral greatness, or of idsas which are the attributes of true States man. In the next place he is a plastic and plant tool in the hands of others, who are bis superiors in intellect and compeersin principle. He goes and cones at their bidding, speaks or keeps silence at their beck, is the scape- goat or the lead r of the leaders as the force of cir cumstances or the exigencies of the moment require it of him. He is willing to be run for Governor, an indefinite number of times, i. there is any sort of chance to share the public spells, and is willing to sacrifice his good name and fame for the purpose of lowering himself sufficiently to roost on the present fanatical, reasonable, diabolcal eorper-head platform. Why, otherwise, didn't She copper head leaders select JAMES T. Looats, or CHAs. CHAPMAN, or ORIGIN s. SEYMOUR. or LOREN P. WALDO, all honorable, upright. zoyez men. as the standard bsa,er of the democracy at the coming election instead of this puerile, hulnbug, rabid disun
 ionist? Why, but because they had pre- de- termined their infamous platform, and must find man low enough to stand upon it, and small and despicabls enough to stand by it.
 and weak enough to be led by the nose, or hoisted by the toes of the men who composed it? And that's what Messrs Loomis and
 Chapman and Seymour and Waldo are nst, and precisely what Tom Seymour, the humbug, and charlatan, ,and politician and copperhead is | III. WHAT IS HIS RECORD? And here we
 havo the documents. We won't go further
 back than last summer; time when all loyal
 men were lifting heart and hand to help along the Government, by raising troops for it, in it's hour of peril Early in July grand Union Mass Meeting was held in the city of Hartford, at which WM. JAS. HAaMERsLY, Mayor of the city, and democrat. presided, and at which democrats vied with Republicans in afording every aid and encouragement in their power towards helping along the glorious cause Let us hear what Tom Seymour thought and did there. His name was placed on the list of Vice Presidents of this meeting, though his body was absent. of course. and, it seems, also his spirit-what here may be of it. A few days subsequent. the following letter appeared in the Hartford Times, an appropriate nest for such foul egg to be matched into type. Our readers have had a chance to read it before, but it won't hurt them-especially if they be democratsso read it again. We might call it the "copperhead platform" were it not that some subsequent utterances of the distinguished author out-copperheads even this, and the
 copperhead resolutions upon which be presents
 himself for Governor this Spring, out copper.
 heads all. But here follows the letter:
 l HARTFORD, July 1lth. 1862.
 1 Mir. Burr-Dear Sir :-I find by reference
 to your paper of Friday, containing the pro-
 ceedings of the war meeting at Allyn Hall on
 the evening of the 10th inst, that my name
 has been nsed as one of the Vice, Presidents
 upon that occasion The meeting having oo-
 cured during my absence from the city, the
 fact that my name has been used in this way
 has only just come to my knowledge, and
 improve the first opportunity after my return,
 to make known through the medium of your journal, that this has been done without my
 knowledge or consent. No one had the right
 to use nsy name for any sacA purpose, and can I not but consider it an unwarrantable piece of I freedom that it has been used thus. The
 matter is oflittle consequence, perhaps, to the
 ssiS, outitis cf some consequencs to me that
 neither the public nor my neighbors and friends
 should De deeeiued5y seeing my name in the list of officers of thdt meeting. Not only has my