New-York tribune., 1867-10-05
SEYMOUR as A REVOLUTTONIST.

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in being found in The Heralds company.
| SEYMOUR rs A BEVOL UTTONIST.
! When Gov. Seymour was waited upon by
the committee of the great Union Square meet
ing in April, 1861, and invited to take his stand
with those who would maintain the Union at
all hazards, and at every cost, they returned
with the reply that he regarded the Republic
as already destroyed, and could countenance
no forcible effort to preserve it. Three years
afterward in an hour equally critical, he
united with Mr.. Vallandigham in drawing the
| Chicago Peace Platform for the Democratic
party, declaring the war failure, and thereby
throwing all the power of the Democratic
party into the scales to make it failure II
they could This man fitly presided over, and,
in all except his greater abilities and higher
personal integrity fairly represented the re-
cent Democratic State Convention. The Re-
public is not ended. The war against the
Rebellion was not n failure, But the prophetic
| Seymour still sees visions sSM dreams dreams.
In the future as in the past, he feels compe-
| tent to tell us what is going to become OF the
Republic.
| He now declares that if the u. S. Senate
allows the negro, as it has done, to vote, the
Senate itself must be abolished by revolutionary
force. One could hardly charge an ex-Gov-
ernor OF New-York with proposition so as
| founding did not his words compel tho charge.
| He says
But here after acts like these they solemny declare
they in favor of what they call manhood suffrage BE
hood suffrage must not be used to destroy the right OF the
majority Of the people OF this country lfit the natu
raj right Of the negro In Florida 10 have VOTE 1t IL not
his right to have count forty yfod in the Senate OF
tho United States than that OF man In Now-fork ~ IL "
is also his natural right have count much In the
controlling branch OF the Government as that of man In
TO It's logical Just end IT must not roll the necks of
tho majority OF the American people and stop there but
sham states We npore Senators not to begin revolu-
tion. Your organization ia at war with impartial suf-
frge and impartial representation II you continue your
usurpaon the country may not be content with driving
back within constitutional nits 1t may go further
out and make senate based in truth upon
hood suffrage The country needs peace but II you wi
have revolution cannot stop ut any chalk lines you may
| mark out"
The fundamental idea of the American Con-
stitution is that in the Senate States shall be
equally represented whatever their population;
and that in the House population shall be
equally represented, whatever may be the dis
proportion in the number of members sent
| from the several States. A child can see the
equality and mpartiality of this rule. But MIR.
Seymour cannot. His proposition is, that If
suffrage il granted to black men on the same
terms as to white, then New-York ought to
have thirty Senators, and Florida two; or else,
forsooth, the heel of the Southern negro is on
the head of the Northern Democrat Mr.. Sey-
mour knows that while the Constitution may
be amended in any other respect than this not
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equal representation of States as such in the
Senate he impaired. At this very point Mr..
| Seymour strikes, apparently as If seeking
some pretext for threatening the subversion of
the Constitution itself. He must know that,
while any other conceivable point might pos
sibly be peacefully obtained, this could only
be accomplished by revolution.
After favoring us with the fine ethical theory
worthy of being taught in our colleges. that
Mr. Seward was guilty of the same crime in
aucstiDg traitors as the. assassin Paine COM
mitted in stabbing Mr. Seward, this prophetic,
statesmanlike, and sagacious Seymour proceeds
10 instruct MS upon the National Debt.
IL is to be regretted that Mr.. Hoffman adj
dressed the Convention in advance of Mr.. Sey-
mour. This untoward event deprived the latter
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| Debt was incurred in consequence of q rebellion
of the Republican party against the Govern
ment. The Mayor having stolen the Governors
thunder in this respect, the latter was content
with asserting that the National Debt would
never be honestly paid unless the great party
of reputation were placed in power. This log
ical position, like Mr.. Seymour's speeches in
1862, for vigorous prosecution of the war,
was received by his auditors with n rapture
such as the Artful Dodger manifested in listen
ing to the jew Fagin's exhortations to honesty
the while he taught his interesting pupils to
empty a country gentlemans pocket with the
most approved professional dexterity.
Mr. Seymour satisfied the Democratic Con-
vcntion that the "Democratic party ought to
be restored to power. Mr.. Seymour is very
oily speaker, who needs only integrity and
wisdom to make him very honest and able
man. Without those qualities he remains-a
dcmagogu whose utterances to be interesting
must be spced like his AlbanJ"speech with
revolutionary impudence, which he has neither
| the discretion to conceal nor the courage to
carry out