New-York daily tribune., 1865-07-17


handy thing to have about the house when Rob
els are abundant and obstreperous.
GOV. sEYMOUR-DEANR RICHnOND.
The Neto- York Leader announces o reorganiz.
ation-or rather reinspiration-Of the Demo-
cratic party of our State, under the lead of Dean
Richmond & Co.. in opposition to tho pro-
Rebel policy which swept it on TO its late defeat
under the lead of Gov. Seymour. Says The
Leader:
"Therc has been significant meeting OF leading poll
toians which orebodes important action. The gather
ing was held at the st Nicholas Hotel one day last
week. and was presided over by Dean Richmond. IN
cipent understood to have been adopted
toward grand political demonstration In this state
The details Of information come to US in conhden
tal form and we not AT liberty 10 use them but
We can say the War Democracy that the signs oil the
times are most proptious for thorough anu Po"erui
organization, which will carry this State In ths hoVem
ber election by an overwhelming majority.
Continuing the subject, The Leader gives
the following grave reasons for the new attitude
which has been resolved on by the Western
chiefs of the Democratic organization:
ain this State there ha, been irepre"ib eorfc' in
the Democratic organization for some tine rh'h nt"
Sandiord l.. Church. and others who have earnestly
and unaterngy sustained the War for the Union have
not borne submissiyey the rule OF Gov seymour ana
his friends, by which the party was carr'eu '"'o
minority in the State and country. ,,,
"Gov. Seymour for a long time sincerely oeuoveu
that the War a failure. and would Only result IN
general well as Sv br t ami see 40 many lives
risced ard so many homes desolated ia hopeless
cause The burden Of his speeches and tho measures
of his administration therefore against the con
a. nf A hnp, W
secure peace and stop the further cusion OF blood on
the best terms that could DO obtained AS GoveIhor
be has been the master spirit OF the party; az. ns %
dictated its principles and platforms according 10 MS
convictions. The result has proved that he WAS ms
taken in his reading OF the future and now we hnd s
the result. that the country ssayei by tho N" anu
the party is lost by Its opposition to H.
The Sunday Mercury controverts the foregoing
arraignment, in tho interest of Gov. Seymour
and his friends, saying Of the former;
"Ho did not oppose the war though his enemies pro
claimed that he did On the contrary he welded the
gigantic energies of the State 10 aid IN strengthening
by both and money, the armies OF the Unioh ana
the hands OF the Government but be ad tae
War should be carried on In aConstutiond manner hH
il should not be made tho preteIt for irampng on inc
rights Of the loyal North and insune that system OF
dcspot.m which now threatens 10 become permanent
and give u.s. in the place OF the Constitution and the
laws the machinery Of cour.smartiai ard military
commissions. He stood up maniuliv for Tue
rights Of the Press. for Free Speech and Habeas
Corpus, while the oowardly and treacherous hc'
gency were as their exponent now truly says. on
the same platform with Fenton Dit. Dickinson. ahd
the rest the renegades who were urging on the uov
eminent to rampe on the press TO crowd the
of Fort Lafayette with political prisoners and az IN
the Of Dix sending squads OF troops 70 sup
press Newly newspapers for publsmhs oogus
proclamation. whose author both before ana since ns
been favorie. supporte< and al empoye, oil tue Al
minisration. Seymour. too sndeayored u avert the
horrors OF the Dra and raise soldiers by volunteering
Instead Of dragging the whose body Of the working
In all this, he differed from the who now
assa him. aud who eacherousy defeated his election.
not for the political advanced bat bccauo
they could not him for the corrupt railroad and
other legislative swindles they Irojec'ed 80 readily a.
his successor. Gov. Fenon. who Is consequently iauded
as vehcmently as Seymour is vii!ihed.'
The issue here made up is one not of
opinion but Of fact; and we call the people OF
our State generally 10 witness that, on this
issue, The Leader is entirely right aud The Mr-
curp hagranty wrong. Resistance 10 the
Draft, wherein Gov. Seymour was conspicuous,
was resistance to the War. Had tho decision
Of McCunn here and of the Copperhead majority
(until changed by vote of the People) of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, that the
Federal Conscrption act was unconstitutional
and void, been sustained the War would have
ended with the triumph Of jeff Davis and the
firm establishment of the Southern Confederacy.
The soldiers necessary to bring the war to
a victorious issue could not have
been raised had not the efforts to
procure enlistments been stimulated by the
pendency of the Draft, which made even the
Supervisors of Queens, Richmond, Rockland
Schoharie, and such intensely Copperhead Coun-
ties offer liberal bounties and do whatever else
was necessary to fill their respective quotas, and
thus avert the else inevitable conscripton Of their
own brethren and sons. The Conscrption and
Legal.Tender acts saved the Republic, which
could not have been saved without, as IIoratio
Seymour well knew: hence his deadly and i'm
placable opposition to them. His 4th of July
advancing into Pennsylvania
and expecting to crush the Army of the
Potomac on his way-will ever stand monu-
ment of his reasonable sympathy with the
Southern Coniederacy, which he had urged, in
the Spring Of 1861, that New. York ought to join
And his speech at the City Hail. ten days later, to
the Draft rioters then intent on tearing down and
sacking The TRIBUNE establishment and his
whole conduct throughout those riots, implied
that resistance to the Draft, however mistaken
in manner, was right in spirit and in purpose.
The record he then made can never be effaced.
So of his speech on assuming the Presidency of
the last Chicago Convention.
Having been made (no matter how candi-
date for reelection Gov. Seymour traversed and