The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-10-18
SrEECH Oh HORATIO SEYMOUR
Delivered at the New York Democratic
State Convention, Oct 8, 1857.

LIS di'fedidpce on the platform was
greeted with rounds of applause, the dele
gates standing as they cheered.
Order being restored Mr.. Seymour SAID
Gentlemen Of the Conreatioa
We are startled by the cry of the leaders
OF the party holding political power that our
country Is In great peril After wadng
through the bloodshed of civil war that
peace which we hailed with joy, and which
they told US was to give strength and pros
penty to our land, brings new danger to
tie republic We cannot if we would, es-
cape from confronting the problems of the
day Neither safety, honor nor patriotism
VIII suffer us to stand dumb or inactive in
the dark hour of danger We have put
down rebciiion, we arc now struggling with
revolution. The first was sectional; the last
IS universal. The first sought 10 divide our
country; the last threatens to destroy it
At the national capital we see that the
party which placed in power the present
chief magistrate, now charges him with
treason, and many Of its leaders have in
stIlled into the public mind the horrible sus-
nlcion that he was in league with the muir
derers who struck down the life which stood
between him and the executive chair The
world Is aehast while it hears so foul an ac-
cusatlon uttered in the halls Of the legisIa
ture without rcbuke. In the house Of rep,
resentativcs, members make against each
other charges Of judicial murder, robbery,
hett and corruption a military member
alleges his legal associate plotted the death
and carried to the galiows an innocent wo-
man for partisan purposes The accuser is
charged in return with the fact of going to
the wara poor man and coming back poor
general and rich man laden, not with
the spoIls of victory, but plumber, stolen
from those placed under his projections
! he congressman who stands up as the ar
| cnser of the President is confronted by his
| own letter showing his utterrottenncss. We
are saved from the hateful task Of laying
bare the frauds and crimes Of those who are
administering our Government Gods law
! for Furnishing the guilty makes them become
mutual accusers In the hate and rage
which ever springs up among criminals all
arc ANXIOUS TO turn upon and convict their
| fellow.
| While the Senate has done less to shock
/ tic wolf1 and bring orr Government into
contempt it has been the forum whore prin-
| cip'es have been asserted and policy pur-
sacd revolutionary in tendency and far
reaching in their Influences to Keep alive
|
| blindness it is striking suicidal blows
against its own existence. It's members
have become the ruling power in our Gov
"rnment-vestei with equal rights of law
NJ king with the popular branch They
can also decide upon all treaties which
within their scope, rise above the statutes
They control the appointing power; for
| the vast patronage of Government can enly
/ ho ~
as judicial body depose the President or
vice President, elected by the people, and
| put one of their own members into the ex-
"cutive chair They hold their places by
| terms longer than those of any other elect
tive branch of Government. yet they do
not in the nature of their organization rep
resent the people in form and fact. They
are chosen 10y legislatures not by the pe0-
pie. States having by the census IF 1860
less than one quarter of the population of
our country appoint a majority of its mem
hers. Nine States whose citizens are more
than one half of the people. are represent
ed by only one fourth of its members. =
Thus made up and welding power over
topping that of all other branches, they
should pause and ponder well before
onenine the food gates Of revolution. =
Yet if these members sought to have the
Senate rubbed out OF the constitutional
scheme. they could not do acts more hate
FIJI to the people or give reasons more pow
erful for its overthrow than their own
teaching with regard to the rights Of i'm
partial suffrage and by their action in the
face of their teachings. Colorado, which
may be overrun by hostile Indians before
the year passes. which cannot by force of
its numbers, uphold the rudiments Of a
State, to-day balances in the scale the four
millions of people of New York. 1t was
admitted merely to gain two votes in
struggle with the executive. But holder
act is in view unless this dangerous game
to get power over the majority by rotten
borough system is stopped. Twenty Sena-
tors are to be admitted from ten States
lately in rebellion, not as a representa-
tivcs of the white people. for they are
di~franchiscd; not of the blacks, for it is
indiScrete to claim that race who
are declared by Congress to be unable
to take care of themselves, and are
placed under the guardianship of the freed
as body. know oftho existence of snch rep
rcscutatives but they are to be admitted
because they hold the views Of the majority
to Washington by their agents. These Sen
ators mean to be their own constituents. to
become a close corporation and to have
more representatives IF their own selection
than the majority Of the people ofthe conn
try living in niue States. About sixty Re
publican Senators will, beyond their own
votes, have in the twenty members sent by
the freedmen bureau more representatives
than sixteen million of American people
living in New York, PENNSYLVANIA, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Wis
cousin. Ohio and Missouri. Not content
with holding in suEiecton the people of
the South they mean to extend in the
name Of the nergo their domination over
the North and South alike l. would seem
that this madness was enough to make their
destruction sure. But here after acts like
these they solcmnly declare they are in fa
vor Of what they call manhood suffrage. =
Be it so, but with it must go manhood rep.
reservations Manhood suffrage must not
be used to destroy the right ofthe majority
Of the people of this country. If it is the
natural right Of negro in Florida to have
vote. it is not his right to have it count