Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-04-14
From the Cleveland Herald.
VVHATpS IN A NAnIEs

| Had we not known loyal, true, men by the
name of Seymour, we should almost, he inclin-
ed to think that there was something in that
name which makes men sympathizers with Sc
cession. But reverence for the memory of a
true man of that name, and respect for a brave
General of that name now fighting his country 5
battles, saves the Seymour name from such inn
| puttaiou. Connecticut grows the worst Sey-
mours. There is Thomas H. Seymour, of Hart
| ford, who has been repudiated by the people of
his State, and there is Origen S. Seymour, of
Litchfield, who was disposed of finally, by the
people yesterday Monday }, and now the name
of D. NJ. Seymour, of Hartford, has been dug up
among the rebel files seized at Columbia by
our troops. Among the documents connected
with this rebellion, found by Sherman on his
march through Georgia and semitic Washington,
was letter from d. NJ Seymour dated Hart
ford, Nov. 80, 1860, directed 10 VIM H. Ghist,
Governor of South Carolina, enclosing check
on New FORK tor one thousand dollars as con-
tributon for the defense of her constitutional
rights This traitor Seymour after declaring
that South Carolina asks for nothing save what
is clearly her right adds:
= = Ifafter the separation, the cringing N orth
shall make amends and give her stronger guar
antces such as may not be hereafter miscon-
~trued, Chat the rights oi the sovereign States,
shall not be again invaded, may not hope to
see MS again more firmly reunited than ever?
Alter stating that such demagogues as Sew
ard, Sumner, Douglas, Lincoln, and the like, are
about played cut, he says they will soon find
New England even too hot to hold them"
Gov. Gist acknowledged the substantial SYM
pathy thus afforded the State, and said:
Be assured that the neral influence of your
patriotic acts is worth infinitely more To us
than ten times the amount given in any other
way. 1t will commend itself to every citizen
of our State, and after this no one will have the
b0ldneSS if he has the mea1lReSS to refuse to con-
tribute to the defense OF his native State.
The rebel Governor assures this sympathetic
Sey ymour that he will never lose dollar by the
act.and offers as ultimate security the following:
If we should be overcome by superior num-
bers, and become a conquered province, some
patriot will be left to conceal enough gold in our
mountain recesses, to refund the amount due
you with interest.
The Hartford Courier in commenting upon
the act of it's townsman, says:
When Mr.. Seymour penncd his letter to Gov
ernor Gist call had been issued by the Legis-
latHrc of South Carolina for secession coDven-
ton; ten Thousand volunteers had been ordered
out for resistance to the authority of the general
government; one million dollars had been appro-
priated TO arm and equip the State; treason was
rampant throughout the borders of this hot bed
of traitors, and Southern States Were moving to
plunge into revolution. Mr. Seymour, looking
an approvingly, as one of the faithful sentinels
ON the citadel of State rights" and believing
South Corolina "asked for nothing but what
was clearly her right, put his hand in his pock-
ct and drew forth one thousand dollars "to raise
funds for the defense other Constitutional rights"
The infamy of this act must rest upon him for
ever.