The New York herald., 1864-10-10
vantaiss lsf b feI9e.s q sas,{!ar in IA:
s'sn'e Seapai$ A tss* tbq are trSvI1e in,
msGsely rich. We trpss, hotevsr, that this
policy WIN be ct onOe abandoned.

1 rMAtouOAPnle bpeoc0s
Governor Seymour has been stumping 1t for
the Chicago ticket IN Pennsylvania. A cam
paign speech of his, delivered the other even
ing at Philadelphia, has been published full
length in soms Of the democratic papers, and
the Governor Is man Of words. This speech,
1t follows of course, is . long-winded and tire
some rlgmarole Of electioueering claptrap; but
still there are several prominent points pre-
sented in 1t worthy Of a passing notice. Lot US
| briefly consider them.
First, the speech is . bill Of indictments
against the administration. 1t has proved
bad administration; II has nismansged The
war; 1t has pursued policy Of savage cruelty
towards the non-combatants Of the South and
especially the people Of the border slave
| arbitrary arrests Of individuals, in Its sup
preston Of obnoxious newspapers, and built
up oppressive tsxations and mountain Of
debt; It has prohibited the people Of Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois from buying weapons Of war
and ammunition; it has suspended at its dis
cretion the habccs corpus, and 60 forth-a
budget Of specifications in connection with
WAtCA VIC uAnAA0ASti6tiUh uuS COumittCu many
blunders. Especially have Mr.. Lincoln and
the party In power blundcred in their expert
ments Of con6scation, emancipation and recon
struotion. Yet all these things together are
but as dust in the balance weighed against this
paramount, oil absorbing ana all important
question-shall the rebellious States bc made
to submit to the government of the Union, or
tho ~ hail
This is the great controlling question, and it
cannot be covered up'in the side issues raised
by Governor Seymour. The administration
has certainly been lahoring to put down the
rebellion, and its declared policy is to eight
it out on this line" What is the policy Of the
democratic partys According to the Chicago
platform it is peace-at-any-price, iDasmuch as
the war is declared in that platform failure
a complete failure. With regard to the war
Governor Seymour makes a nice distinction;
our army and navy have been successful but
the administration has failed. The Chicago
platform, in effect, denounces the war and all
concerned in it as wrong from the beginning
and as failure throughout, while Governor
Seymour does not denounce the war. On the
contrary he accepts it. and recognizes our vic
tories, but thinks that we have had war and
victories enough; that just as we stand, With
the democratic party in power we can and
shall have peace.
But just here the Governor is lost in fog.
What sort OF peaces JEFF Davis mas repeat
edly said of late that 1t must be the peace Of
Southern independence or Southern sublaga-
ton. In his late Macon speech in which, he
virtually confesses that his cause is lost, be
makes no sign Of submission. Governor Scy-
mour treats him and his rebelgous coniedersAe
conspirators very tenderly. Hc iorgets that
the Organization Of a hostile coIfederacy with
In the Union, attempting by arms to destroy
the Union, was the beginning OF the war; and
that, after all, had there been no rebellion
against the government the taxes, expenses,
debts, corruptions, &C., OF Lincoln's admins
tration would probably have been no greater
than under Bushanan's, and probably much
less. How is it, then, that. IN the estimation of
Governor Seymour Linoolp's administration is
the embodiment of all the crimes Of a crue,
despotism, while Jea. Davis is a model OF in
jured innocence
In this connection the peace promised By
Mr.. Seymour, as an oracle of the Chicago Con-
vention though not exactly Of the Chicago
platform, becomes vesy cloudy sort o; peace
What is it TO be : In his closing remarks Of
this Philadelphia speech the Governor thus
appeals to the :" God OF cur fathers -
MAY the God Of our fathers, He who gave
the wisdom to frame our constitution aud
establish our Union, grant Us the wisdom to
retYace the steps which we have trod, to renew
this Union, restore the supremacy of the con-
stitution,r &c. Now what steps are here to be
rotraced to restore the constitution Accord
ing to leading democratic expoundcrs,
we have no constitutional right 70
coerce seeding State Under this con-
struction VIC must retrace our steps,
first, by stopping this war of coercion; aud
secondly, by cou'essing to the rebe.lious States
that we have been wrong in prosecuting this war
against them; that secession is constitutional
right, and that the conssderacy which, regard
full of this doctrine, you were peaceably allowed
to organize aud set in motion under tie demo:
cratic administration Of Buchanan, will again
be recognized as your right by the democratic
party OF the North If restored to power; and
tina! if you cannot come back to US we will con-
| trive to come over to you II this is what
Governor Seymour means, his appeal to the
"God Of our fathers is the cream Of his speech.
What does he mean? What is the peace which
he proposes or expects by stopping the war?
| This is question In the presence Of which all
the blunders and foliies Of Lnoolns admins
| tration may be dismissed and will be over
looked by the1peoplc.
A PUZZLE ron THE FUTURE HISTORIAN.
the future historian Of this rebellion sits down
to his task, nothing will appear to him more