The New York herald., 1864-10-26
The British Secession Sympathlsers ana
Governor Seymour.

The British Secession Sympathisers ana
GoveIno Seymour.
One of the most impudent documents that
has ever emauated from any b ody of men il
the address that has been recentl forwarded
to this country from England, calling upon M
to stop the war and recognize the independ-
ence Of the South. It processes to be signed
by a large number Of the British aristocracy.
hierarchy and clergy. Now, when we consider
that it is to this very class of Englishmen We
owe all our troubles, we cannot help wonder
ing at the effrontery which has prompted such
recommendation. For upwards of thirty
years they have zealousy labored 70
break up this Union. By the preachings
and teachings Of their abolition missiona-
ries, their profuse expenditure of money 70
manufacture an anti-slavery sentiment at the
North, and the moral blow which they struck at
the institut ions Of the South in the emancipa-
ton of the slaves Of their West Indian depend
encies. they succeeded in creating that hostile
feeling between the two sections Of this coun-
try which eliminated in the present war; Let
it not be pretended that our difficulties arc
merely the natural result Of what British
fanatics were at one time pleased to term .
great humanitarian movement. The men who
took the lead in it had other objects than the
emancipation Of the negro or the qualification
OF the maudlin sensibilites Of Exeter Hall
audiences. This,we know from the we'll au.
thenticated declaration of Sir Robert Peel,
when the bill for West Indian emancipation
was passed, that "ths measure would prove the
death blow of ne American Union.'
Nor is it in declarations alone that we are
enabled to trace the motive which has all along
actuated the ruling classes Of Great Britain
iu their crusade against slavery. After they
forced US into bloody and protracted war BY
their appeals to the fanaticism of portion a
our people, they turned upon the North, and
not only denounced it for ''its barbarity In
shedding the blood Of their brethren for such
cause" but lent all the aid they could afford
to the Shareholders whom they had been IN
the habit OF so bitterly assailing. Had 1t not
been for the sympathy aud assistance thus rem
dcred, the rebellion would long since have
been crushed out, and some compromise en-
tered into which would have put an end, on
just and equitable terms, to the institution
of which they, at one time, professed such
q horror. This was not their object, however.
1t was not slavery, but the Union and the
growing aseendsncy of republican form sf
government that they sought to destroy. This
they did everything that they could to accom-
plish by unfair and underhand means. They
built privateers and blockade runners for the
rebels, furnished them with vast quantities OF
Gar material and took thsirloans. They acted
in fact as if they themselves were at war with
us, under pretences of neutrality that only
served as fimsy disguise to their hostile pre-
ceedings. Now, finding that all their efforts to
destroy us have proved vain, they have the i'm
pudence to ask us to commit national suicide
by yielding the South all that 1t has ever
demanded.
And through whom comes this modes. re.
quest? Through Horatio Seymour, the Gov
ernor Of the State OF New York, who is made
their agent in this nnal effort to induce the
people or the United States to overthrow their
own government. And yet We, Of New York,
are asked to again elect this same Horatio
Seymour as our Executive. Were we to do 50
we would be endorsing the sentiments Of
his English admirers, and surrendering the
institutions Of our country in compliance with
their audacious demands. This must not be.
Let rs begin to teach our politicians that they
cannot be at once American statesmen and
British tools.