The Portland daily press., 1864-10-01
Ths Model Of Comprehend sedition.

BENEDICT ARNOLD, on the 26 day OF DC
tober, 1880, issued the following:
PROCLAMATION to ths citizsns and Soldiers Of the
You are promised liberty BY theleaders OF your af
falrs but there individual ia the eDj yment OF
it. sayi your cppressoss! Who among you oafe
which has robbed you Of your peep riy, imp -isons
your sons drags you to the ed Of Datt O. and dali
Iy 1eiuging your country vita BIZ odg
Your 9 1intry once was happy, aud had the p Of
fered pence been embraced, tue last two years OF
misery had been spsnt ia peace and plenty, aAd re,
p1iring the desoiation OF the quarrel, that would
nave O. th interests of Great Bfitain and America
in rue light. aud Gem snted thei friendships.
/ wi h to cad chosen band of America to the
attachments ofpe liberty and safety, the first OBJ
ject4 in taking the fed.
aud beggarS! Bus wha need OF argument to such
as feel Infinitely misery than t0ugne can teli1
giva my promise of m lst aft ctonate we come to
all who disposed 10 join me In measures n ctssa
nv TO oIoss this scenes affection VIII on must
increase until we are satisfied ~ifh the hberalty OF
the mother country, which still offers US proteStion
y ''''p''' BENEDICT ARNOLD.
Oct. 20. 1850.
The traitor here makes eight points against
the Continental Congress and WASHINGTON,
the Commander-in-Chief:
Fsrst-That freedom Of speech and of the
press has been taken away.
Second-That property has been appropri-
ated.
Thtrd-That illegal imp-lsonments have
been made
Fourth-That odious conscrIptions have
been imposed.
FTfth-That peace, which might have been
had, was refused.
Sirth-That the first objects in taking the
aleld have been abandoned.
Seventh That the country has been delug
ed with blood, and made land of widows anC
and orphans.
Eigath- That 1t is necessary to join him, in
order to close those Affections and return &c
prosperity.
The foregoing points are fairly stated, and
though not precisely in the language OF Ar
mold, yet they give in succinct form, the allie
cations made by him against the Commander.
in-Chief of the Continental army of 1880, then
battling to establish the independence of the
American colonies.
Now we defy any man to make out a more
complete model OF a copperhead harrangue for
1854. II would be a perfect brief for any stan
dard campaign speech of the season, on that
side OF the question. Early in September Ho
ratio Seymour made speech in Milwaukee
going TO that city directly from the Presiden-
tial chair OF the Chicago Convention, and the
points he made in that speech-which was pub.
llshed in the leading Democratic papers
against the administration, have been collect
ed the New York Times, In Coz. Seymour's
olcn scordS, and below we give them in psral-
lei column with the above synopsis of Arnold
proclamation, and we ask the reader to mark
the striking resemblance, and then we thiuk
he will agree with us, either that Seymour
had been reading that proclamation before
making his speech, or else that both the pro-
clamAtion of Benedict Arnold and the speech
OF Horatio Seymour we're inspired by the same
splrit-a spirit of hostility to the Government
and OF sympathy for the most damning treason
that ever disgraced the human heart. Here
they are: